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I fineally got done with quarantine with the new guys

Welp, looks like some of my girls decided it's time to molt. Guess sometime next year I get to look forward to larger eggs. went from 14-16 eggs a day down to 4 now, and it looks like a massacre with all the feathers in the coop. I love how funny they look now too. I went ahead and thew a few...

An hour north of kansas city.

speaking of wind, on my way to work this morning I saw we got really lucky and had a near miss on the front of the house! I guess I can't wait much longer to cull this Maple.

I got bored last weekend and decided to do a change up in the coop. Went with stall-dry below the roosts, I can't believe how much cleaner it keeps the pine shavings. It's a bit more work, mainly because I clean up under the roosts every day, but that still only takes maybe 5-10 minuets and I'm...

I haven't been able to keep many eggs in my refrigerator. We raised our price from $3.50/dozen to $4.50/dozen, and still can't keep up with an average of 14 eggs a day. But next year I'm planning on expanding and going after real Jersey Giants. Mainly because they look awesome. LOL

They're just some production reds I picked up from the local feed store, Heartland Hatchery supplies them.

At 25 weeks I finally had all 16 hens lay yesterday. Kind of exciting since last month they actually paid for all of their expenses and feed themselves.

I was stung on the side of my left hand the end of June, and i still have a very sensitive hard ball where he stung me, this past weekend it looked like it was to the surface enough to pic it, and to my mistake it was not ready and now it's healing all over again. but I've been dealing with this...

To elaborate, they still don't have any sound science on where it's coming from. They suspect wild game birds, but if that was the case why are a huge number of factories getting hit hard, and a handful of back yard flocks. And all you have to do is cook your eggs completely and no worries. This...

That's insane! Good ole' uncle same kicking in his fun.

Man, I need to complain about these **** hens in here more often! Egg was in the nest 2 hours ago, LOL!

The thing is they are all coming around different times, and in different spots, about every 3 days the egg is in the same spot again. I just cant see a chicken laying in 3 diff spots in 3 days. Also I had an egg Wednesday laid between 2-3pm, and there was one at 7am on Thursday. Yesterday I had...

So i've been workng my chicken math since we fineally had enough eggs collected for breakfast yesterday(6). I studied the eggs and 3 had a much more distinct appearance, as far as freckles/color. Only one was fertalized. Thismorning i had my first layers egg its was bigger than any others, and...

That's terrible! Since Monday I have now removed 3 coons from where my chickens are at. They're sneaky lil guys, trappin last season I had one that no matter how well i secured my coon cuffs he would always pull them out and get the bait, so i went and put some #3,s around them and ended up...

I hear ya on the rain, my tomatos just started going crazy after all this rain, but my corn is ready in a couple weeks. Going to start my fall seeds next week. I hope this rain slows down but im pretty sure my carrots are split like crazy

well I was able to catch my egg layer in the act yesterday, so I know whose eggs I will be hatching the beginning of next year to try and fill the gap when they molt. She's giving me one a day now since Saterday. Still only have one layer, but hey they're still young at just 18 weeks. We got...

I've gotten to the point I leave my phone in the house for the weekends, and it gets so bad my family will call my wife to make sure we're ok, then yell because I didn't respond. I'm quite young, but still hated cell phones when they came out just because of the loss of privacy/peace. I've even...

I get to set traps tonight, have some lil bandits trying to dig under my coop. Thankfully they havent noticed that i didnt finish my fence yet. I was hoping that there was enough food out i wouldn't have to worry about it until fall. I may just go ahead and do an electric fence, seeing that ive...

Yeah the heats pretty rough for awhile here too. But I also don't use bookface either, i leave it to my better half to waste time on there. Kinda bad for an IT manager i know, but i found the drama is so much less when people ask me if i saw what someone posted, i can just say nope and don't care.