I did not wash eggs when my girls first started laying but over the past three years I am home less often to gather eggs as frequently and my girls always seem to find dirt and mud and track that onto the eggs. I rinse and will wash dirty ones and clean ones as well. I store my unwashed eggs...
Thanks everyone. Nancy was a good mom while she was one.
When I let them all out this morning, she is completely ignoring the chicks, who seem to have accepted the situation by staying away from her as well.
I let the older chickens and the young chickens all out on pasture together, then...
Is this the normal time frame? This is the first batch of chicks I have let a broody hen raise so I do not know what to expect.
Broody hen hatched out 7 chicks on the 24th of September and is done with them as of this week. She is not laying yet but made it abundantly clear that she was tired...
Hoss has done this for some of our hens. It seemed like he was offering encouragement as well as protection.
Here he just stands while the black australorp lays and the buff orpington also seemed to be clucking and encouraging her.
I have 36 hens all types of breeds and have never gotten 36 eggs in one day. I get an average of 2 dozen and some days only about 18. I expect the older hens to start a moult soon so they should quit laying and the young girls will hopefully NOT moult and I can continue to get some eggs...
I am glad I found this topic, I have had the same questions. This is my 2nd year with chickens and the first time I am attempting to hatch my own eggs using a hen.
I have a 7 month old Buff Orpington (Nancy) who has gone broody and after the 2nd day of arguing with her I decided to let her...
My hubby saw the end of it back in Feb and ordered the video from PBS so I could watch it. I love it. It touches on all aspects of chickens and it is done in a way that it makes people aware of how we get our eggs and food, without all the gory scary aspects.
Did either of your neighbors say WHY they wanted to include this tree? Do they think it is dying ir did the arborist say that it is dying?
Something to be aware of.....trees often bloom prolifically right before they die. Anytime you trim a tree you put that tree under stress, it has to put...
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It happened because I have/had too many chickens in too small of an area. Since I have been letting them out to free range, they stopped this behavior. She was in with her own age group and Hoss, the older roo. He didn't pick at them, he studiously ignored them.
This is my 2nd year with chickens and sadly I made a newbie mistake that caused harm to one of my chickens.
I have 17 chickens from the first batch, two of which are roo's. In the second batch I had 33. The first set lives in one half of the coop and this year's set in the other with Hoss the...
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Perhaps you are easily amused...
Thanks, it was meant to be light hearted.
For your viewing pleasure, Barbara Jeans feet:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o138/IloveJoe_photo/chickens/DSC_0006-5.jpg
Oh I am easily amused!!! Simple minds, simple pleasures!!! LOVE THE FEET..Poor...
Out of my batch of chicks that hatched the week of Valentines Day...5 turned out to be roosters. One as a hatchery bird and the others were from my own birds. All dual purpose.
We have a poultry farm in the area called Tewes Poultry and they charge 1.75 ea. On the 14th I packed up the boys...
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I was not unobservant. I knew how dogs and humans mated - I wasn't born knowing that chickens work the same way.
I think sometimes people will grasp onto anything just to feel superior to others.
It is the superiority thing. I bet those "stupid RN's" have little tidbits of info that...