➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Hope you're okay!





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He's BIG! Is he only 8 weeks or older?



Awesome! So they each have some hens/can share?

They are sharing I think, as of right now, but they wanted to get more hens too. A full 12 acres for the chickens so they have plenty of room to add.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I wish I could have a rooster but we have close neighbors in the back so I don't think they'd appreciate it nor would I appreciate getting woken up. Although Gator's bark is probably louder lol

But also the girls are turning 3 years old next month so I think they're probably too old to hatch anything. And some of them are starting to get weird eggs. For instance, my BR eggs are like kind of flat now? But still huge length wise but I don't think a flat/misshapen egg would be a good one for a chick to grow in and I got a brown speckled EE egg which has NEVER happened before. And it only happened the once but still. Normally never speckled. And the flat egg is regular now

Roosters are so loud, the EE was our quietest one.

3 years is high in years for hatchery bred, some home-bred can lay well into 8-10 years old.

 

[Sara L]

Buttons might be on their way, there's a pip.

 

[ShrekDawg]

They are sharing I think, as of right now, but they wanted to get more hens too. A full 12 acres for the chickens so they have plenty of room to add.

That's awesome! And yes, definitely a lot of room!

Roosters are so loud, the EE was our quietest one.

3 years is high in years for hatchery bred, some home-bred can lay well into 8-10 years old.

Do you think they're louder with multiple? Cause they have to compete with them? Or are they all loud?

And yeah, they're all hatchery bred, from Meyer Hatchery, but they're mostly all still laying really well. Or pretty well. Especially considering their age.

I have a Barred Rock, 2 Black Australorps, 2 Buff Orpingtons, and 2 Easter Eggers.

 

[room onthebroom]

That’s awesome!


I don’t know what we’ll do if they turn out to be boys. We’ll just have to give them to whoever wants them, and try not to think about what happens to them.

If they are cockerels then I give up trying to hatch anything. I’m almost 110% certain our newest hatchling is also a boy. That would be 5/6 boys, and our only for sure sex-link pullet was a malpo. It’s just frustrating.

Agreed! We hatched two eggs in an incubator, both boys. A broody hatched an egg in the nest. Yep, a boy. I don't know what normal peoples m/f ratios are, but so far I have a 100% rooster hatch rate.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

That's awesome! And yes, definitely a lot of room!



Do you think they're louder with multiple? Cause they have to compete with them? Or are they all loud?

And yeah, they're all hatchery bred, from Meyer Hatchery, but they're mostly all still laying really well. Or pretty well. Especially considering their age.

I have a Barred Rock, 2 Black Australorps, 2 Buff Orpingtons, and 2 Easter Eggers.

Negan, our main rooster, has always been super loud. With the other two it just created competitions and even louder voices. So it’s a mixture of the rooster, and however many they are competing with.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Agreed! We hatched two eggs in an incubator, both boys. A broody hatched an egg in the nest. Yep, a boy. I don't know what normal peoples m/f ratios are, but so far I have a 100% rooster hatch rate.

I feel you! If I was raising meat birds then I’d have no problem with roosters but when I’m trying to increase our layers it really sucks.

 

[Kiki]

I'm alive!!!!
Let's see last Sunday was my brother's birthday, so I only got about the hours of sleep before going back to work.
Monday I caught up on sleep from Sunday. I spent the rest of the week fixing up the coop, getting rid of the old one and running around doing stuff for my sister's wedding next month. I don't know where the time went. I could have sworn there were more days in the week and more hours in a day when I was younger.
On the plus side, 2 of my girls are laying!

 

[Kiki]

I'll love to hear it! I've actually been watching ask a mortician on YouTube and just got my murder box from huntakiller.com so I'm in that kind of mood anyway!

What the heck is a murder box?
Is this real?

 

[room onthebroom]

No scabs. The tips turning more black than purple and bruised. Yes, I'll take a picture when I next see it.

Has anyone addressed this yet? We always heard that was bad circulation.