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  1. LaurenRitz

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Isolate the one pushing the eggs out for a few days. You can identify her egg as a bonus.
  2. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    What tool do you use?
  3. LaurenRitz

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Boy. Overactive, plays games with poop, determined to kill himself. Boy. :lau
  4. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I have 34 birds and need to get down to just breeders for winter, so 12 need to go. Three girls have stopped laying or are laying less than once a week. I have them marked. Most of the boys are being perfectly behaved, which makes that choice harder. One is being a teenage jerk, but he's only 15...
  5. LaurenRitz

    Culling Towards the Best Flock

    I went to an informal animal auction a few months ago, and I'll never do it again. The woman buying roosters...lets just say she was cruel to the birds. While I knew and expected that they would be harvested, I would prefer to know that they are going to be treated respectfully until that last...
  6. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    The neighbor's dog died, and they got 5 puppies, four of them pitbulls. Right now the puppies are just interested, and stalking rather than chasing. There is a fence between, but the chickens are used to foraging in the garden and the puppies keep coming over (we've spent the last week...
  7. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    Hatched! The broody was completely indifferent to the new chick, so I stole it and I'll brooder raise the two of them together. Good to know that she didn't actively reject the baby. No pecking or violence, just indifference.
  8. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    One of the little boys was dead this morning. He was the smallest of the Kraienkoppe and he's been struggling to get up into the rafters, even with the help of a ladder. He is now feeding a young mulberry.
  9. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    So the "maybe dead" has been resurrected. Pipping currently.
  10. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    Not sure they bonded, but the chick is following the group. Mom seems mostly indifferent, but she obviously let the baby sleep with the others because it's not lethargic or chilled.
  11. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    My sister's broody hatched 6 eggs, and when she came off the nest we discovered that she had stashed 14 more! I candled them and found 5 that might hatch, so I brought them into my incubator. Three were rotten. I think another is dead but I'm still waiting. One hatched day before yesterday...
  12. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    The first set of cucumbers is dying, but the second set is in full swing. Same with the melons. A few stubborn melons are holding to the dead vines, but the new batch is working hard. I'm picking green beans nearly every day. It's enough for fresh eating but not enough to put up, even in the...
  13. LaurenRitz

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    Apparently, eating by osmosis is a thing.
  14. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    You split it, gut it, bake until soft. Then use it like any other squash, OR use a fork to divide it into strands. I prefer it alone with butter, but it's almost as tasteless as zucchini so it will go with just about anything.
  15. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    My tomatoes are still green, except for one bush of orange salad types. Something got my most productive melon, with maybe a dozen tiny melons still on it. I suspect whatever is tearing the ripe melons open got impatient. Still half a dozen massive watermelons out there (last one was 33...
  16. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    When I let a new cockerel out, he usually stays where I put him for a day or two,then moves in with the girls. They'll work it out.
  17. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    This one little girl just can't seem to figure out the rafter roost. All her siblings took to it easily. I've been catching her and walking her over for nearly a week. The little boy, no problem. It seems she still wants to roost in the brooder with her big brothers. When I put her down, she...
  18. LaurenRitz

    Roosters needing a new home

    I have too many boys right now, but I've sold them in the past for $10 each.
  19. LaurenRitz

    Digging out a run

    In that caseI would also suggest laying the hardware cloth on the ground and building up. I thought you chose 2 feet because the squirrels didn't go down that far.
  20. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Good. I've talked to people who go through this weird grief process when they get a rooster and the behavior of the hens changes. Figured I'd mention it JIC.
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