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FeatherPugs said:
@starri33 Egg production is down here too. My theory is the NNs who are now in the 2 year old area (in March) are laying less AND they need a warmer coop at night. Another thing that happened is - remember about 6 weeks or so ago I had a dog get in my yard and kill 3 chickens. That trauma along with the cold we have been having - mostly in the 30s at night for quite a long time. Days it isn't as cold at night I have more eggs. We build for the warmest weather but when the cold gets here we're trying to make it warmer in the coops. Most of you know I will be selling my home of 20+ years as I cannot support it without that extra income that I lost when Glenn passed. SO my girls will be going to a super good home where they will also be more useful than eggs. They will be providing hot compost for "hugel" ditches. Its a long story. Long run I was able to get in on the bottom floor of them building their tractor coop. Tractor means it moves so is on wheels and has that wonderful space where they can get under the floor of the coop. PLUS it will have open and close windows for storms and warmth in the winter. I'm working on getting them a pop door as a gift when they move. Attached nest boxes - floor ladder roost (I've never used them). I'm pleased anyhow and I believe the girls will be happy campers. Stay warm folks. I'm freezing - must have AZ blood now!!
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I am sorry you are looking at having to move, that makes it really tough, I am glad that you have found a good place for your girls.
 
That 6th egg has finally hatched, and all 6 have various degree of the naked neck's on them. I'm waiting for that last chick to dry and fluff up so I can move it down into the brooder, and shut off my incubator until I want to hatch again.

My pullet named Shadow layed her first egg today, and it's a blueish-green one. I was wondering what color of egg that she was going to end up laying. She has the blue earlobe's. The 3 Barnevelder's should be starting to lay pretty soon too, but those are supposed to be a darker brown.
 
starri33 said:
Happy New Years a bit late, hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a bright new year.. Beyond some hatching a while back and having to re-do the roof on the big coop, nothing much going on here. I decided to be thrifty when we were building the coop and didn't want to spend the extra money for tin, so the roof started leaking, my girls and guy's track in dirt and mud, the leaking roof was turning it all to mud.. I'd be out there cleaning the coop, one of them would come running in and go sliding across the floor.:eek: now that I am waiting for rain to insure that the new tin roof is doing it's job, we've had nothing more than a slight sprinkle. :lau. Am getting ready to create a bachelor pad, far more Roo's than I should have for the number of hens, I'm wondering if that combined with winter is what is affecting my egg production. Putting out more in feed than I am making back in egg sales. I'm going to be inching my way to a total NN flock eventually and dramatically downsizing the flock, Hubby and I have been thinking about traveling and asking a house/pet sitter to deal with 50 +/- chickens is beyond unreasonable. I do have a question for all of you, how do you dispatch your younger Roo's, heck for that matter how do you dispatch them period? I've done in 2 roo's so far. One was a lesson in how to do it, the other was a 2 hour skinning job..lol. Ended up just taking the legs/thighs and the breast. Those you tube videos make it look so simple.
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We put them in a cone, cut off the heads, then scald @150 to 160 degrees and the feathers literally rub off. Then gut and either leave whole or make parts.
 
FeatherPugs said:
@starri33 Egg production is down here too. My theory is the NNs who are now in the 2 year old area (in March) are laying less AND they need a warmer coop at night. Another thing that happened is - remember about 6 weeks or so ago I had a dog get in my yard and kill 3 chickens. That trauma along with the cold we have been having - mostly in the 30s at night for quite a long time. Days it isn't as cold at night I have more eggs. We build for the warmest weather but when the cold gets here we're trying to make it warmer in the coops. Most of you know I will be selling my home of 20+ years as I cannot support it without that extra income that I lost when Glenn passed. SO my girls will be going to a super good home where they will also be more useful than eggs. They will be providing hot compost for "hugel" ditches. Its a long story. Long run I was able to get in on the bottom floor of them building their tractor coop. Tractor means it moves so is on wheels and has that wonderful space where they can get under the floor of the coop. PLUS it will have open and close windows for storms and warmth in the winter. I'm working on getting them a pop door as a gift when they move. Attached nest boxes - floor ladder roost (I've never used them). I'm pleased anyhow and I believe the girls will be happy campers. Stay warm folks. I'm freezing - must have AZ blood now!!
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I'm so sorry to read this Featherpugs. I am happy you found a place for your girls though.

Will you be staying in AZ? Moving to a place where you can have chickens again?
 
FeatherPugs said:
@igorsMistress No I'll be heading to Florida where my son and his family live. My kids are all over the US so this - according to the kids - is the most logical place to head to. The kids hate that I am here alone with no "family" around. We will see about the chickens when I get there. All will be well. I can feel it.
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:hugsGood luck with everything! Please do stop in and let us know how you're doing too.

I think if my family was worried I was here all alone I'd tell them I'm an old woman with lots of experience taking care of myself :gigI understand though, being closer to family can be nice.

Will you be close to the beach?
 

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