Posts by happycountryhens

Me Too TMD.  Great idea!

Quote:Originally Posted by fatbassetvineyards Does anyone do solar?  I was just thinking that might work if there is no electricity near the coop.You must live where it is sunny.  We live mostly under cloud cover. ...

Not sure the exact degrees but when it got down to 12 degrees Saturday night, there were 3 frozen and cracked eggs in the coop in the morning.  The rest of the eggs were fine.  The frozen ones were laid outside the nest...

I have no electric in my coop.  I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark in the mid winter. What we do is fresh water in the morning.  We hang the waterers by chains from the ceiling of the coop. We put flat feed...

Oh, I see....using reverse psychology on the weather.....ok.  Let it snow so I can crawl up on the roof and shovel it right after shoveling paths to everything and cleaning up the long, long driveway.  Oh, and then I can drive...

Quote:Originally Posted by rtroxel I still have one Partridge hen laying and her pen barely has any access to sunlight at all. I just built a barn in front of her only window and she's still going at it. I'm sure she'll give up...

Greymane:  Congratulations on your new chickies.  Tabs:  Congratulations on the Coockoo Orps!

They just showed Turkey semen and insemination on the last Dirty Jobs episode I watched.  It doesn't look difficult, but ewwwwwwwww.Have fun!

Laying eggs now. Amazing since we have no electric to the barn and are down to about 9 hours of light per day or so.

Quote:Originally Posted by featherz I've had a few bigger eggs than this one  but got a pic of this one.. from a leghorn, naturally. Not sure how those tiny birds do it. oh and there's about 28g in an ounce....