5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

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They cancelled our winter storm and now are calling it a winter snow advisory with life threatening temperatures. The weather people are so funny, they act like it isn't even winter or something. It is supposed to get cold in January here in Ohio. I went to Walmart and you would have thought we were going to be buried in for a month, the shelves were bare and people were crazy. Come on please act like you live in Northern Ohio. I did however give my d'Uccles a heat lamp and moved everyone in one coop to keep warm for the next 2 days, wouldn't want them to freeze or anything. Now I hope the older rooster don't do harm to my younger Mille as he is the keeper, and the older on is going to be sold as I don't want to work on Blue Mille's at the time being.
 
michaelf said:


I had a white polish rooster over a couple of production reds . I hatched these last year for NYD hatch a long. I figured I would post pictures of them. I gave them to my neighbor that lives behind me. Uh can you say ugly chickens:/
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Oh wow! Love this! Do they lay well? What size egg? If they are laying yet? :)
 
roostercluck said:
Ok I need help from y'all. One of my chickens has been experiencing pasty butt, and I have been clearing it off and I put ACV in the water and raised the light to lower the temp. After I cleaned it off for the third time, I realized that it looks like his vent was poking out. It was pulsing and he didn't like it when I touched it. What do I do? I don't want to lose him!
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First off, do you have some neosporin on hand? :)) Works great. Also, don't rub the area so much with a cloth or paper towel. Just carefully cut the feathering around the vent so it has room to pass the poo to the ground.
 
randerson846 said:
Does anybody know of anyways to encourage a hen to go broody?
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If a hen is going to grow broody, eggs in the nest will do it. Try putting 5 or so golf balls into her nest.
 
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randerson846 said:
Does anybody know of anyways to encourage a hen to go broody?
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If a hen is inclined to be broody, she can possibly be encouraged by leaving eggs/fake eggs in the nest. The magic number is said to be 7, although I have not tried this so I don't have personal experience to go by. If it's a hen that has no interest, nothing will encourage her. Hatcheries and others who want hens to just lay eggs and not brood, breed away from broodiness. Not all hens produced by such places refuse to brood, of course, just a lower percentage. Leghorns have been bred away from broodiness for decades, but occasionally you read about someone with a broody Leghorn, so nothing is out of the question.

ETA: LOL Ron, owe me a coke! :)
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yes I have a friend who has an ideal hatchery white leghorn who goes broody each spring and she allows her to hatch a clutch of chicks which the hen will raise . a good little mother. interesting as I had told her that hatchery hens probably wouldn't go broody and white leghorns never would ...
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well I have been wrong before ..
 

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