Posts by BawkinOnTheBench

Quote:Originally Posted by warhorse I read somewhere that the "egg laying song" derrived from when jungle ranging jungle fowl would wander off to lay an egg and the flock had moved to a different area in the meantime......

We cut a piece of carboard from the 2 sides of a box, keeping the corner.  It fit perfectly across the openings of our 3-seater nest box - part rested on top and part fell completely across the openings.  We would put this over...

State: UTBreed - White Leghorn - 3 of themHatched - approx May 6, 2008First eggs - 10/31/08 and 11/1/08They were eating starter/grower at the timeBegan laying less than 10 days after implementing artificial light - not full 14 hours,...

How much did it weigh?

Well, our leghorns aren't docile, but they aren't aggressive either.  Pushy and bossy (we call them the Thugs) but they've never been mean (to us people, anyway).  But you can't beat them for laying.  We have 3 and we get...

Quote:Originally Posted by debiraymond   They will start laying any minute now....  You can pet the hens down their back and give a light squeeze at the base of their tails, where their hips are and if they squat down, it...

What about dipping the eggs briefly in a 10% bleach solution?  Tim_tx's reply about how common the bacteria is in chickens made me feel better; I've been concerned because it seems there is an outbreak in a wild bird species that's...

This looks exactly like my NHR, Peckachu.  She also lays light pinkish brown eggs.I got her from MPC - they sold her as NHR.

I ordered from MPC last August.  Very good service.  I got exactly what I ordered, no packing peanuts, and the sexing was 100%.  All alive and healthy, all laying now.  I would DEFINITELY recommend them to anyone...

We've noticed some Pine Siskins around our property acting sick, and I've taken away 3 dead ones from my chickens that they probably caught - the sick birds fly so poorly that you can catch them.  I've googled this and it turns out...