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cactusrota said:
I have heard that about cornish eggs not shipping well. I've ordered two different batches so far and neither of them were any good, they all had detatched air pockets and barely even started developing before dying. I've been reading, though, about people that actually don't turn the eggs for the first 5-7 days in the incubator and have decent luck so I'm thinking of trying again with ordering eggs, but it won't be real soon. I went hatch happy this summer and am over loaded with chicks and temporary grow outs I had to throw together for them... :p
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I see shipping as dangerous for rare, delicate eggs. I think I am happy to be able to drive over to DesertChick's place. It is 3.5 hours driving one way from Prescott. In the event I get the palace I'm looking at, next spring, I will be drivin'! Maybe I can make a delivery route in AZ? Have Smart Car, will deliver!
 
@Bobby Basham I'm kinda late chiming in.....sorry. I use the PVC pipe thingee for one of my oyster shell holders (it is in the coop) and the other is a cute bird feeder that I picked up at WM on the clearance aisle. Put the oyster shell through the roof and comes out the bottom. (out in the covered part of my yard) Birds use either one and when I'm feeding in the heat of summer I remind them to eat their oyster shell so the heat is easier on them. LOL - I'm sure they understand!!

@meetthebubus I hope to put in some seed too. I'm going to try to cover it with some of that orange/sometimes green plastic like stuff for temporary fences so the chicks don't undo the whole thing before anything gets grown. If that doesn't work then I'm going to try some short fenced cover type things and move it around as I can. Maybe I need to cover with the fenced thingee first then when I uncover it for the girls then use the plastic stuff as a deterrent for digging up the new stuff. Not much green on the ground around here either!
 
Our thermostat says our low just before sunrise this morning was 44 degrees. But then we're east side of the mountains from the valley and just under 3,000 feet. We usually get a teeny breeze too, so we've only had to leave the windows open, no more fan... and without the fan drowning it out you can really hear the roosters now and the hubby is back to bugging me about putting no crow collars on a couple of them... haha!!
 
Chicken therapy?.. anyone experience this?

My top hen has become rooster shy just runs around screaming or stays in the nesting box so he won't come near her, he's not mean to them, she's losing weight bc she hardly eats I've made a playpen for her where they hang out so she can bathe, eat and scratch while knowing roo can't get to her, she's slowly getting better, but I don't know if she'll ever go back to just hanging out normally
Seems like I have to hand feed her to keep her alive maybe it's extended broodiness? Her appetite is fine.... we'll see how it goes...
 
meetthebubus said:
Chicken therapy?.. anyone experience this?

My top hen has become rooster shy just runs around screaming or stays in the nesting box so he won't come near her, he's not mean to them, she's losing weight bc she hardly eats I've made a playpen for her where they hang out so she can bathe, eat and scratch while knowing roo can't get to her, she's slowly getting better, but I don't know if she'll ever go back to just hanging out normally
Seems like I have to hand feed her to keep her alive maybe it's extended broodiness? Her appetite is fine.... we'll see how it goes...
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Is she also molting? If so, it could be because of that and she could be just not willing to breed right now because it hurt's?
 

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