Recent content by RoseHawke

Just FYI. It apparently takes just about a week after changing feed. This morning's offering might have had a very slight fishiness to it, but not so you'd notice unless you were specifically looking for it. Certainly nowhere close to what it was. They're starting to molt now anyway so I was...

I tossed them. Three dozen eggs. There is no way we were going to eat these. Got a different feed (Dumor, I've used it before with no issues.) Bought some eggs from the grocery to tide us over, in the meantime I'll boil an egg (we're only getting one or two a day right now,) every day to see...

This has just become an issue. After a bit of research, it's probably a combination of their genetics and definitely their feed - Layena Omega-3's - which has flaxseed as the source of Omega-3's. My question is how long might it take after changing their diet will it be before the girls' eggs...

Well, if my experience in the last few weeks is any indicator, I'd say Legbars and Legbar crosses is one of them. I've been feeding Layena "with Omega-3's" for the past six weeks or so, but since most of my eggs are actually used in baking, hadn't really noticed anything. Tried boiling a couple...

Oh, my gosh, don't say that's even possible. As I started looking into this issue I keep seeing that Legbars are supposed to "rarely" go broody, but it appears that Missy didn't read the manual. Getting her chicks or hatching eggs is out of the question as I think I'm at my limit with just the...

Averages, yes?

Bamboo comes in two varieties - "clumpers" and "runners". The running type can put out rhizomes up to thirty feet from the grove. You can successfully grow them with root barriers but it's an added expense and a lot of work to put in one that will contain them. The clumpers include some...

My gut feeling is that it's the pretty near constant vibration of transport that affects hatch rate. The eggs can be well protected against sudden shock so they arrive perfectly intact, but I'd think even a low level vibration wouldn't do the blastoderm any good.

@LadiesAndJane - I just did a quick google on this issue and it looks like it might, but depends to some degree on the thickness of the material used (i.e. thick aluminum would actually be more effective than thin lead.) Several layers of heavy duty aluminum foil probably wouldn't hurt.

So I'm not the only one that does that!

Three out of four. Also got one that at 62g is "large" , just a bit shy of "extra large" so that's nice.

Oh, yes. I really want to avoid buying anything though and make do with stuff I have on hand.

You know, this just occurred to me about 15 minutes ago. Perhaps we're on the same wavelength :).

Four out of Four. A red letter day!

Unfortunately, my feeder is out in the weather so this wouldn't do. I do have some leftover sheet aluminum from some aluminum trim that I have actually thought about doing something of the sort with, but my hands are starting to fuss a bit these days and I'm hoping for something that will...