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OK well mine look pretty different than yours.

OK NEWBIE ALERT

I realized after inspecting some of my birds much more closely today that two of those birds have what i think may be scaly leg mites (It sucks being a newbie i just thought their feet might be deformed im a dumb ass!!) Looked up weird deformed chicken feet and there they were. <SIGH>

One of the chickens toes seem to have gotten stuck when it was in the box and cut somehow so i also need to treat that. One of the leg mite birds.

SOOO now i get to treat that. Ohh well.

SO NoSkiveez I don't think anyone wants to trade with me for a while.
How transmittable is this stuff?? Anyone know?

Should i separate them from everyone else?


Shaun (dumb ass newbie right now)
 
Watching Modern Marvels, "Eggs".

Eat Well Farms actually pastures their chickens, uses big mobile coops for egg laying and sleeping and then farms on the land they have been "fertilizing. They charge $8 per dozen for their eggs
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and have a waiting list of hundreds of folks waiting to get in on the co-op which is the only way they sell them. Wow!

A "free range" farmer (20K chickens in a big barn) tried and failed to explain why some eggs are white and some are brown. He did better than the folks at Hickmans, I will give him that.

Also boasted that their chickens are fed an "all vegetarian" diet. I just love that. Chickens are vegetarians!
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An "expert" is explaining that there is "no nutritional difference" (or flavor difference) between an egg that has been laid by a caged chicken and one that has been laid by one that lives on the ground or [implied] pastured.
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There are some interesting facts on eggs, but with the above "information" I am wondering if any of it is true...
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Well I find vegetarian chickens hilarious. I also find it particularly funny that an "expert" could not explain egg color. As for nutritional differences in eggs well there might not be a "nutritional" difference but I can tell you first hand that a backyard egg tastes ten thousand times better and I think part of that is that the backyard eggs are not heat treated and they are not scrubbed and sprayed with chemicals and they are FRESH!! Those eggs are old by the time they get to the store and into your fridge. Proof is in the boiling! Now here is something I can't explain because I am no "eggspert" The backyard eggs have yolks that are much thicker and darker in color. I have heard many times and watch plenty of egg factory shows where they say that they add marigolds to their feed to get that sunshine yellow yolk that everyone thinks it should be. I want that orange thick stick to your ribs yolk, not some runny crud that had to be "added" to make it that color.

Now I have an update that I have to be careful how I word this. I "took in" 60 chickens from a feed store that will remain unnamed because they no longer have room to raise them. These birds will go back to said feed store to be sold at a later time when they are grown. The fine little fuzzies got to touch the ground for the first time in their 3 month long lives. They were so very happy and it almost made me cry when I opened the cages and let them run. They ran and flew and flew and ran and then they flipped over and all looked like they were having seizures dusting in the pine chips and having a blast.

I also got 9 mystery fertile eggs and gave them to my broodies today. I dated the eggs with pencil and marked the calendar. I then placed the eggs one by one in front of each hen. It was so sweet they would roll the eggs slowly and gently under their tummies.

So all in all I am quite proud of my little day.

Shaun ~ you can use any oil such as cooking oil, mineral oil, unscented baby oil, or even vaseline and coat the legs of the birds daily. Make sure not to pull at anything. Let it come off naturally. I have to say this is the first time I have heard of using Pam but it would work and I really like the idea.
 
To learn more about pastured animals and their nutritional value go to www.eatwild.com.
In an egg, the cholesterol is lower and the omega fatty acids are higher! Not to mention that the chicken is actually eating its natural diet and the animal is as it should be.

The explanation that is given by Hickmans Eggs by their "expert" is that a brown chicken lays a brown egg and a white chicken lays a white egg.
This guy, at least, mentioned the ear lobe. He said, "It's the ear lobe. They're sex linked, so the white ear lobed chickens lay white eggs and the brown ear lobed chicken lays the brown egg."
Well, that is closer than the first, right? Not sure what the sex linked part has to do with the lobes...whatever.
It's no wonder people are so freaked out by a blue or green egg! No blue or green chickens!!

Was it the feed lot? They always have more than they can handle. Sorry to name names. What kind of chickens are they? Are they healthy?
 
Thanks! I called them and they are already gone! :-( Worst case scenerio, I still have hatchery credit and will just order some. Im definately going to need to done some serious flock thinning if I am going to be bringing 25 more chicks in.
 
They are healthy. Not going to name the store, sorry just can't cause well I don't feel right about naming it. You all know it and most of you have been there. There are spitzhaubens, jersey giants, langshans, delawares, barnvelders, cuckoo marans and a couple others I would have to go back out to the pen to name. I am not selling them just raising them for a while. The store is supplying all the feed and bedding so it's okay. Everyone gets in over their head occasionally I suppose. I am just glad that I could help.
 
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Let us know which ones are in your "thinning" pile. I would love to have a few polish and they are the same age as my chicks, so they would be able to integrate. Will buy them from you.
 
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Learned that from Mahonri.
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Mahonri is just an all around great person and I am very glad to have met him. He always has neat little things to add.
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gckiddhouse,
Your dog is freakin adorable!

Yup, just about all I have to say.

Excluding that I LANDED a wonderful job with BENEFITS working with animals as a Vet Tech.
The catch: It's with Covance, a company that tests chemicals on animals and treats them like they can't feel pain.

So...there goes a high paying job, I can't support such a thing. I feel so discouraged.
 
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