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Thanks. I have them in tractors so they do get some grass and insects. I have 2 more hens laying now, a wyandotte and black sex link. The eggs are different shades of brown among the three with BSLs nearly pink, and the RIRs the darkest brown. Only the RIR uses the nest box. ??

Well, I can't tell a lot of difference from the store eggs. They are a little richer and a little darker yellow. I don't taste any gamey flavor at all. I think it is likely psychological as one poster suggested. Is there anything one can feed to improve flavor?

Gamy or gamey refers to a taste associated with wild game like deer, rabbit, squirrel, etc.

This is what I got from some visiting kinfolks. These were eggs from my RIR pullet that has been laying for about 3 weeks. Personally I don't taste any gamy flavor,, they are a little richer and a bit more orange-yolked than store eggs;. I am only feeding 16% layer feed from Orscelins. ??

Only happened twice in two weeks. The black sex link is only 10 wks old. The bslw is about 12 and the jg is 14wks. In the first instance the RIR was only penned with the JG.

I have four hens, RIR, BSL, JG, and BSLW. The RIR is the oldest about 20 wks and started laying about 2 wks ago. She lays an egg a day and sometimes 2 a day - I feed twice a day and pick up the egg at evening feed. They are about a third the size of a store bought large egg. How long till...

Wow, 36! You must live in the deep south? Actually, we haven't seen any lately. Neighbor got a pyrenees dog and he might have run them off. I need to find a LGD for 4-footed (and 2- footed) critters.

The raccoons around here are active at night. Would the guineas alert us at night or are they blind like chickens at night?

Thanks much. Have you found it makes a difference whether the dog is male or female if they are spayed/neutered? Which dog breed would you pick for a fairly hot climate (Northeast central Texas/OK area) and lowest food cost?

Quote: Our property is fenced with 4-strand cattle type fence. How are they trained to do this? All the dogs we've had would leave the property at times. Thanks

Thanks TK. Great story you posted. I'm not familiar with the New Foundland. I didn't know they would eat vegetables! It does get pretty hot here also if that would be a factor. I will look into them. I did have a Great Pyr mix that didn't work out - turned on my DW and we had to get rid of...

Zootopia: what kind of dogs and how did you "boundary" train them? I'd like to let my chickens free-range so I need a good guard dog (that doesn't eat multiple pounds of dog food a day or chickens). We have lots of predators here, as well as dumped dogs and cats.

The only thing I've been able to get them to eat other than crumbles is spaghetti w/o sauce. I guess it looks like worms :) They ignore bread, crackers, fruit and greens. Age ranges from 4 to 9 weeks. It appears, out of 7 birds I have 2 roosters, a BO and Black Star. The BS is the oldest...

Interesting. The only breed of white that I've found that is based on dominant white is the white leghorn. There are a few breeds of white whose genotypes were not tabled in the literature, so there could be others. One other oddity about the two chicks, was that they were much smaller. It...