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  1. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Hey everyone! Been a while and wanted to say HELLO!!!! I have been up in Lincoln again and have left Mumma to tend to the flock. We have had a bit of a problem and I am hoping that you can direct me to the right answer. All of our girls have been laying like mad, and we love it! 13 hens...
  2. pellepeterson

    Maine

    hey everyone just checking in, been over a week! We processed our Cornish in a rush one week ago and got them all in the freezer...what a day! I have been in Lincoln teaching all week and barely home with Jules for the weekend, but..we just had the most wonderful chicken meal we have ever...
  3. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Yes I do! I am a Paramedic in Ellsworth. I also teach the Paramedic program in Bangor among other things LOL!
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    Comment by 'pellepeterson' in item 'Leghorn'

    I have 9 of them. Great egg layers for sure! In fact I think I have one that is doing double duty, and are those eggs BIG! They are flighty, but I find that moving slowly around them seems to settle them down a bit. We have one that we call Brain Damage...she is the smallest of the bunch and...
  5. pellepeterson

    Maine

    BACK TO WORK!!!! YAY ME! Just got cleared today, back on the boo boo bus Monday...whew! In chicken land, the girls have been working OVERTIME! I am having a hard time with chicken math, and hoping you guys can help me a bit, here it goes... I have 13 hens, and one rooster. That makes 14...
  6. pellepeterson

    Maine

    So, the saga continues! First of all, I HATE BEING OUT OF WORK! There, now that I have vented, my girls are driving me crazy! Yesterday, home with two of the kiddos, I heard the rooster crowing like mad, I looked outside and he was nowhere in sight...I walked up the drive to the...
  7. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Good morning everyone! Just wanted to take a minute to thank you all for your GREAT advise as always! The girls, as unhappy as they are, and Cogburn (the rooster...could not help myself) are locked away in the run. A few of the leghorns have managed to still master flight after being clipped...
  8. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Superchemical Girl, I think I have them set nicely...There are 6 boxes, they only seem to use three...I have tried the golfball trick and that got me started, seemingly with just the leghorns. I have one BSL (I think) who is utilizing the nest boxes. I just went and removed the eggs from the...
  9. pellepeterson

    Maine

    How do I train my chicken to lay in the nest box? I have been elated with the abundance of FRESH eggs and have been thinking that maybe a few of my girls are just a little slow...well this morning I watched one of the girls sneak around a piece of plywood that was leaned against the...
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    I just found a few of my meat birds with skin tears. I applied some anti-fungal cream (it is all I had...). There are no flies outside, the layers make quick work of most of the bugs in the yard. They are not suffering from what I can tell, they eat and drink as the others do. I do not see...
  11. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Hey all, I have a question... Added the wheels to the tractor today, life is so much easier now! I just went out to check out the Cornish X's and they are laying out, some in the shade, some in the sun, seemingly enjoying life! I thought AWESOME! Then, I noticed one of the birds had what...
  12. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Our leghorns pushed the 20 week envelope. There are two batches, two weeks apart for a total of nine. We also have 4 BSLs. About two weeks ago, I came home and found two very small eggs, I was excited as you can well imagine. That was only the machine starting...I can tell that one of the...
  13. pellepeterson

    Maine

    coopchick...I feel so bad for you, I can fully understand after last night...I fell as if I failed my little flock and let them open to danger. All the best to you!
  14. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Appreciate all the comments, Jules posted her first BYC post! I LOVE YOU HONEY! So...the tractor idea I love, however, my over-engineering made it a wee bit hard to move around, so I tried to add some wheels. I re-purposed some old child ATV wheels, mounted them, and after about 10 feet...
  15. pellepeterson

    Maine

    Hey hoppy, not an easy bake roof LOL! It is white PVC roofing, used it on the roof of the layer coop, cheap and works great...very easy to work with too!!
  16. pellepeterson

    Maine

    This is the new Meat Bird Tractor that Bob built today. He is so creative. He took an old truck rack and added some lumber and a small pitched roof. Now all 40 meat birds are inside this and loving it. He even built his own feeder, getting the idea from my father, Jim Pelletier.
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