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  1. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I still pick up leaves. The chickens will have to deal, otherwise.
  2. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    If I had a wood ladder that would be better. Unfortunately all I have is sn old two piece ladder that's totally unsafe for humans. The birds can't really get a grip on it.
  3. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Two!
  4. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Last night she was another 2 rungs up. Keep climbing! Once the other two settle on this as their roost spot, coop 2 will have 10 hens and 2 cockerels, which is what it was designed for.
  5. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Coop 2 only had 12 birds at bedtime, so I went hunting #13. Found her up on the ladder, right where I put her last night. I brought out two more girls to keep her company. Good girl!
  6. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    Dog today, but ran off without attacking any birds. All my roosters were silent except the Dorking-Sussex cockerel in the bachelor pad. Not within sight, the dog wasn't making any noise, I believe even the wind was against him, but that bird somehow realized the dog was there and alerted me...
  7. LaurenRitz

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    They can hold onto an egg for a while, but if it's in there it is coming out.
  8. LaurenRitz

    How did your flock annoy you today?

    My Australorps have always laid a pinkish egg.
  9. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Black Australorp, and Barn Yard Mix. Basically unknown parentage. I keep pretty close track of which birds are related and how.
  10. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    I looked her over more carefully. She has bare spots on her butt (which I knew) but under the apparently untouched hackle feathers she's missing a lot of skin on her neck. I couldn't see anything specific on her wings, body and feet, other than missing and broken feathers, but there's...
  11. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    I saw her resting in the shade this afternoon and she was rolled over on her side. I think she's hurting more than I can see. I’m going to pull her and the other Ranger tonight (so she has company) and isolate her.
  12. LaurenRitz

    Do most/all layers, who are allowed to free range, eventually relapse to egg-hiding?

    Depends on the chicken. Some chickens care, some don't. Some roosters will encourage the hens to lay elsewhere if they see you collecting eggs, some don't care. Just a personality thing, I think. If they're locked in a coop/run it's going to make less of a difference, or course.
  13. LaurenRitz

    Do most/all layers, who are allowed to free range, eventually relapse to egg-hiding?

    My birds free range dawn to dusk. I am currently getting apx 3 eggs per day from 15 laying age hens. Not sure where they're hiding them, yet. In my experience, a shift to laying outside the coop often occurs because of something changing in the coop, something they see as a risk. Most recently...
  14. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    She lost a lot of feathers and is hiding in the bushes, but she's back with the flock. She was molting, so maybe that made a difference?
  15. LaurenRitz

    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    They start easily from cuttings. I used some new growth and some older, used honey as a rooting hormone, and got about 90% on the new wood and about 50% on the semi-soft wood. You could probably use.dormant wood as well.
  16. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    She's head hen, and she's not going to give up that position to a teenage punk. Wait till he mounts one of the girls and she knocks him off. Either entertaining or lethal. Once a bird decides a particular spot is "theirs," they will return to it. Waking in a new spot in the morning is...
  17. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    I'm not going to open the big coops until later in the day. A little crowded, but they'll just have to deal. That leaves only the rafter roosters at risk. They usually forage as a group, so it'll be easier to keep track. All the attacks so far have been in the chicken area and I need to secure...
  18. LaurenRitz

    Spoiled little velociraptors

    Thank you. She's eating now, and decided to go back in the coop tonight. If she's still lethargic (i.e., lets me easily catch her) she'll go back in isolation tomorrow. When she feels well enough to run from me, I figure she doesn't need it anymore.
  19. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    When I put my birds in the rafters it generally took 3 days to a week of putting them up there for them to start doing it themselves. After two or three days they know this is their new "house" and start heading for it automatically. Mine may have taken longer because they had to learn to...
  20. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    So in regards to the project, this has actually been revealing. I'm down to two Kraienkoppe boys. The dogs haven't gotten any of the others. One attempt on a fat Ranger hen, which I interrupted. Other than that, only Kraienkoppe have been taken, all low level cockerels. Feathers have been...
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