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KlopKlop
Crowing
They have a daughter coming soon, and a new puppy plus have plans to finish the remodeling in their home to sell it and move out of town in the next few years it sounds like so he is taking a break so he can focus on that. He said it would be worth it so that he can have a 'huge poultry operation someday'. DW and I considered adopting his flock but decided it just wast a good time. Glad they found another good home!
Coffee swung by BYC. With her new house and boy she seems to have no time.
Blanch, one more post for you to make 1000.
scandiafowl
Songster
Congratulations! And major scale envy! Where did you find it?IT HAPPENED!! IT FINALLY HAPPENED!! One of the chicks my broody hatched last spring finally laid an egg!! They'll be 35 weeks tomorrow. Unfortunately it was frozen and cracked, but it's an egg!e
I present to you, a BUCKEYE EGG!! @Minniechickmama
LTC Steve
In the Brooder
Hello there,
I too am kinda new to this site. I have only been doing the chicken thing for a few months and up until a few days ago....before the cold snap came along, I was getting 2-4 eggs our 4 hens. I might do the chalk dusting method to find out which one is slacking.
They all seem to be taking the cold snap in stride. They are out when I get home from work about 3:00 pm and don't act any different. The eggs as you can guess are frozen by the time I get home...been feeding those to the dog...she loves it.
I just put in a coiled rope light under a paper bag to heat the nesting box, we will see this afternoon if they use the box today.
Pictures to come later.
I too am kinda new to this site. I have only been doing the chicken thing for a few months and up until a few days ago....before the cold snap came along, I was getting 2-4 eggs our 4 hens. I might do the chalk dusting method to find out which one is slacking.
They all seem to be taking the cold snap in stride. They are out when I get home from work about 3:00 pm and don't act any different. The eggs as you can guess are frozen by the time I get home...been feeding those to the dog...she loves it.
I just put in a coiled rope light under a paper bag to heat the nesting box, we will see this afternoon if they use the box today.
Pictures to come later.
KlopKlop
Crowing
Welcome to the thread, Steve! Glad to have you. Cold weather will put a dent in your egg count. I think the hens decide that it is to cold to go sit on a nest and decide to 'hold it'
Good luck with your heated nest experiment.
Thanks! It was in the back of one of the hatchery catalogs...actually I think it's in the back of most hatchery catalogs
hope it was a happy job move. New jobs do really take it out of you, don't they? Glad you checked in.
MinnesotaNice
Songster
I always cringe just a little when people give me the label 'guru' or 'expert' of anything, because I am learning more all the time and there are plenty of people who know much more than I do. However, when it comes to this respiratory crud/crap, I had my butt kicked good the year it hit me hard. That was the biggest, best lesson I have ever got with these birds. 1. you don't want to just wait and see if they get better, treat them and don't pussyfoot around about it, 2. watch the weather, damp and chilly but not really cold is a breeding ground for respiratory crud, regardless of what strain it is, 3. get rid of birds who are slow responders to treatment, especially if you plan to breed. 4. know your flock, handle them and observe their behavior daily, know what each bird's normal behavior is. 5. if you have a couple who are sick and it seems to be spreading, treat everyone. This last part goes against what I would do for humans, but if you have something like a respiratory illness spreading in your flock, it won't take long for all of them to come down with it, be proactive and reactive. 6. and I can't stress this one enough, if you have a bird who gets sick repeatedly (for me, that is more than once) cull it, they aren't worth keeping to attract bad things to your whole flock.
I may have said this before, but you can tell sometimes a bird that has something wrong with it because you will find a load of lice or mites on them, parasites go in for the easy host. If you find a bird with a load of something crawling on it, start checking for other signs of illness or injury.
Here is the rule I go by in reading info on the web about poultry, or anything for that matter, if you start reading conflicting advice, do more research with places like universities that research what you want to find out more about. Use common sense, if something sounds too silly to be true, it probably is. There are lots of books (those rectangular things with paper pages we rarely use any more) that were written by old timers who were happy to share their knowledge with others, and their approach is many times the best and easiest solution to a problem. I am not an old timer
regardless of what my children might say about me.
I learned a lot from this ordeal (which still isn't over but getting better) and agree with everything you said. At first I didn't want to treat everyone and then I was like.....*** was I thinking. Small symptoms were there. And you know a lot more than some people, so that still makes you a guru to me
I love 88 year olds.
IT HAPPENED!! IT FINALLY HAPPENED!! One of the chicks my broody hatched last spring finally laid an egg!! They'll be 35 weeks tomorrow. Unfortunately it was frozen and cracked, but it's an egg!
I present to you, a BUCKEYE EGG!! @Minniechickmama
Awesome! A nice sized one, too!
Welcome to the site!
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