Here it is the first part of February, temps still cold with snow cover and nighttime temps down to almost zero some nights. My Giant African geese have started laying already. At least one has started laying in a box in the coop , and sets at night, but gets up and ranges during the day...
I know there was an earlier thread about these TSC tetra pullets. I picked up 15 of them on March 9, assuming they wer a couple days old then, I was quite surprised yet pleased today to find the first pullet egg in the nestbox. That would put the first egg at just over 11 weeks which in my...
After 10 trouble free weeks with these birds, this am I found 3 dead birds practically under the roost. The only thing that has changed recently was the addition of two bags of coarse pine shavings added to the floor day before yesterday. These birds showed no injuries other thean feathers...