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  1. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    Thanks to everyone for the information I needed to "kill" the broodiness in my hen. The simple grass bottomed run during the day and the pet carrier at night broke her in a few days. Everything is back to normal. No more insanity and turkey imitations. :)
  2. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    All very good and interesting information. I'll stick with the program and see what happens. Towards the end of the day, just before I let them out of the tractor to free range before dark and coop lockdown, I threatened to eat them all if I didn't get my eggs...hahaha. Thirty minutes later, I...
  3. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    Ok, this broody chicken crap has got to end. My hen is still insane. She is quarantined from nest laying materials and has been in a pet taxi for the last two nights. My other three hens have not laid an egg for the last two days. Sympathetic broodiness??? Maybe I should just look for fertile...
  4. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    I remember those "good ole days" as well. Only problem was that during my summer visits to my Grandparents; I was the one milking the cow for that "real milk". That was the easy part! Fence building, cattle wrangling, goat wrestling, plowing, combining, grain shoveling, hay baling and hauling...
  5. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    Ok, I put together the "Broody Breaker" wire run. Five feet long x 36" x 36" and my poor confused hen is in it now that the rains have stopped for a bit. Going to storage today to get my pet carrier to keep her safe and "un-nested" at night. So today is Day Zero. We will see what happens!
  6. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    will do!
  7. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    Too cool!!! I have an abundance of 36" 1 x2 wire and excellent cutting pliers and a large pack of zip ties. I see success just around the corner!
  8. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    Thanks for the advise. I had no idea the instinct to "nest sit" would be so strong. She is full blown broody now and refuses to get up and leave the coop. I have to steal the eggs she has stolen every morning. I think I will have to build a "broody breaker" cage. It is so sad to watch her be so...
  9. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    So if I collect eggs every day then how long will she continue this? If I leave a couple of marked eggs in the nest for her but she tries to hatch them (sterile eggs) then will she stay this way for a long time? She is epecting them to hatch so this could go on for a month right?
  10. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    The diagnosis of broody has been confirmed for my turkey imitator. I pull eggs every day but she still went insane about a week ago. She is still insane. Yesterday when I let the girls out she was sitting on the nest and threw her "pluffy fit" while still sitting. When she finally did get up...
  11. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    All four hens share one nest no matter what I do. They toss my plastic easter egg to a different part of the coop and ignore it. If I try to shift their laying spot, they throw the plastic egg aside and will actually move all the eggs (that I moved and left in the new spot) all the way across...
  12. FireAntFarmer

    The Buckeye Thread

    I have four of the coolest buckeye hens anyone could ask for....well at least they are since I got rid of the obnoxious rooster that was trying to kill me. However, I woke one day to find that one of my hens has turned into a turkey. That's right, you heard me! How can a perfectly happy and...
  13. FireAntFarmer

    Buckeye Breed Thread

    Thank you! That is quite a bit of difference and should be easy to spot...even for me.
  14. FireAntFarmer

    Buckeye Breed Thread

    Breed, Lay, or get et....yup, that's about it. I have six about ten weeks old or so. I have no idea what sex they are. I don't know how to figure out what a saddle feather looks like. They all have plentiful tail feathers, thick and everywhere so I don't think I'll have any luck sexing them that...
  15. FireAntFarmer

    Buckeye Breed Thread

    I have six chicks that are a month old. I have never been around this breed but I have one chick that is much larger than the others too. It is the most friendly of them all as well. I can't get over the difference in personalities these chicks display!
  16. FireAntFarmer

    North Carolina

    Kids today..... I spent my summers on my grandparents farm. I was plowing, sowing, combining and shoveling grain, driving the grain truck and everything else by the time I was eleven. When I was twelve, I hauled and barn stacked 1200 bales of hay by myself using the choke to keep the pickup...
  17. FireAntFarmer

    Buckeye Breed Thread

    4 days old
  18. FireAntFarmer

    Comment by 'FireAntFarmer' in article 'Saga of the Ugly Duckling Buckeye'

    Thank you for your karenbrat! I will remember these tips next time around for sure. I have moved them to the brooder, but they are isolated from the others who are almost three times their size now! The first guy is eating feed but the ugly duckling is still only old enough for the occasional...
  19. FireAntFarmer

    Buckeye Breed Thread

    Saga of the Ugly Duckling Buckeye https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/saga-of-the-ugly-duckling-buckeye
  20. FireAntFarmer

    North Carolina

    Saga of the Ugly Duckling Buckeye https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/saga-of-the-ugly-duckling-buckeye
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