19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

[blondiebee181]

Cool!! Mine love squash!!
pumpkin eating, by morning there will only be a thin skin left


this is Betty White with Frankie and Francine the jumbo egg layers
and mega pumpkin and squash eaters

So you just feed it raw? Coooooolll....Ima do that....

 

[B J Hopkins]

All summer long I've been saying there is a snake in the chicken house. My only proof being eggs under the Broody hens disappearing. Tonight when I went out to shut the doors, I saw a snake w/it's tail just leaving the ceiling and a lump in it's belly. Did a quick look around but all babies were accounted for. Went and grabbed a pitch fork and speared the sucker!!! The lump in the snake was the golf ball from one of the nest boxes!!! This snake was only 3-4 feet long. Last year I shot a 6' black snake that had eaten my day old chicks.

 

[Rhoise]

So you just feed it raw? Coooooolll....Ima do that....

Heck Yeah that small one only cost $.67 @ Winco, I chopped it in half works well to keep the junk out, better than the quarters or sixths, in the sandy run!!

 

[Rhoise]

All summer long I've been saying there is a snake in the chicken house. My only proof being eggs under the Broody hens disappearing. Tonight when I went out to shut the doors, I saw a snake w/it's tail just leaving the ceiling and a lump in it's belly. Did a quick look around but all babies were accounted for. Went and grabbed a pitch fork and speared the sucker!!! The lump in the snake was the golf ball from one of the nest boxes!!! This snake was only 3-4 feet long. Last year I shot a 6' black snake that had eaten my day old chicks.

OMGOSH!!!! I would have freaked out!!

 

[Rhoise]

So about adding lemon ... the recipe I've seen for canning apple butters calls for adding "bottled lemon juice" to each jar. But I have a "thing" agains bottled lemon juice and would prefer to use fresh-squeezed lemons. Will I kill us all if I don't use bottled lemon juice? Our lives may depend on you, Julie. I am for sure not eating the stuff we found. A few years ago I cleaned out another dark forgotten corner of this house I found some home-canned stuff as old as I am ... Prune Conserve from 1965. Tempting, huh? I probably had to pry it out of Dad's hands ... he'll eat anything ... which might explain why it was hidden away in the first place. I'm just glad I was able to persuade Nelson to eat some home-made strawberry rhubarb freezer jam I made this year. He likes it so much he helped make some blueberry rhubarb freezer jam, too. This is great as I was getting tired of telling him, "NO!" when he begged for store-bought "Grape" jelly. He kept telling me "but it tastes good!" and I kept asking him "compared to what?" Now he knows.Token comments kinda sort on topic: We're building a new section of coop this week before the rain starts. I may discuss it over in the Oregon thread. I've been advised to stay inside while the guys work. But I may just need to go gather some eggs or something so I can steal a look at their progress. I think maybe all our girls except the bantam breeds are laying now.

It's for the acid, not the sodium benzonate, sodium metasulfite, or sodium sulfite ya need to get a PH less than 3, if our grandmothers didn't need a chemistry degree to can good whole food! Darn it neither do we!! I say sure go ahead and use real honest to goodness lemons!! Oh gosh! don't tell your dad the figs were still good in the pyramid, he'll start eating that stuff!! Coolio! I was born in"65" too trust me it's way too old to still be sweet he he he!!!

 

[cheeka]

OMGOSH!!!! I would have freaked out!!

Whoa! that is a fabulous picture! guess it's "payback time"! instead of "the ring of fire"... it's a "ring of feathers"!

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

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I knew there was something special about you. Guess what we have happening this week/weekend ... We have chicks hatching from our hens' eggs. Not really ready for this, but woo hoo!

 

[MissusC]

Ok, I need help here. I was just told by another urban chicken keeper that since the girls haven't started laying yet (they are 21ish weeks) and the days are getting shorter that they won't lay until winter is over. Is this true?! I thought the shortened daylight hours just meant they wouldn't lay as frequently, not that they would just take the whole winter off! FWIW, we are in San Diego...our winters aren't very wintery.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Ok, I need help here. I was just told by another urban chicken keeper that since the girls haven't started laying yet (they are 21ish weeks) and the days are getting shorter that they won't lay until winter is over. Is this true?! I thought the shortened daylight hours just meant they wouldn't lay as frequently, not that they would just take the whole winter off! FWIW, we are in San Diego...our winters aren't very wintery.

They're fairly close to the "cutoff" (though chickens don't exactly read the same handbooks we do

); technically, if they're around 6 months old before you get less than 14 hours of daylight, they might still lay over the winter. If they're much younger than that and haven't started yet though, it's not very likely you'll get very many, if any, eggs for the winter. I honestly wouldn't stress about it though, you'll have eggs soon!

 

[RoxyBird]

Cool!! Mine love squash!!
pumpkin eating, by morning there will only be a thin skin left


this is Betty White with Frankie and Francine the jumbo egg layers
and mega pumpkin and squash eaters

Loooooooovvveeee these pics!!!