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Many thanks to beehappy.

I have a VERY HAPPY broody Blue Icelandic hen with four little chicks under her. 1 Blue Am. 2 Splash Ams and a barnyard mix. I gave them to her in the middle of the day and she took right to them.

Tonight when I checked on Ida, my other Icelandic mamma, somehow she had coaxed her little ones up onto the roost with her! I have no idea how they flew up there.... I showed my 15 year old when he was helping me stack feed in the feed shed and he couldn't believe it either.

10 patients tomorrow morning and then an appointment with my eye doctor to get new glasses. I hope that they have the same frame style that I'm wearing now.
 
beehappy4ever said:
Exhaustion has officially set in! I hatched chicks on the 21st,
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I got exhausted reading all that! What a lucky woman to have a hubs like that! They are few and far between, which is why I've been single for over ten years now! I know how you feel; just finished a 10x10 hoop coop brooder house so I could get at least some of the babies out of the living room..... and immediately realized that not only is it not going to be big enough for very long, but that gang of EEs I got from you are beginning to outgrow the space they are in too..... Looks like I"ll be building coops and pens for months to come with all the projects and things going on around here right now!

OCD= obsessive chicken disease
 
AZKat said:
You can store them on either the counter or the fridge, depending on how long you are going to need to store them. The best source of information on storing eggs comes from an older Mother Earth News article (I refuse to call it "old" because it was published the year I was born!) that you can read for free on their website: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx
Its especially interesting because they tested out a whole bunch of methods for preserving eggs. The quick summary is that when kept on the counter at around 70 degrees, the eggs were still safe to eat after a month, although past their prime. In a sealed container in the fridge, the eggs were in good shape 'almost fresh' after 7 months. That result matches pretty well with my own experience keeping eggs in the fridge, although I usually eat my eggs by the time they are 3 or 4 months old, because we go through a lot of eggs. I've also read that in the first half of the 20th century, it was common practice to buy eggs in the spring and early summer, when they were plentiful and cheap, and then store them in vast refrigerated warehouses until winter, when they would fetch a higher price. Personally, I start to build up a stockpile of eggs in the spring, so I have enough to get through July and August without needing to buy eggs.
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My mother used to talk about storing eggs in the root cellar in waterglass, which is liquid sodium silicate. We never did it because we always ate ever egg laid and then went looking for more. But I believe her family used to.

Speaking of eggs, when I was in the war, we were eating powered eggs that were laid years before we were born. It was pretty much like eating sponge rubber.
 
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Speaking of eggs, when I was in the war, we were eating powered eggs that were laid years before we were born.  It was pretty much like eating sponge rubber. 
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You are. They are in fact the very same eggs that we go in 77...... From the same chickens....... :lol:
 
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maryhysong said:
I got exhausted reading all that! What a lucky woman to have a hubs like that! They are few and far between, which is why I've been single for over ten years now! I know how you feel; just finished a 10x10 hoop coop brooder house so I could get at least some of the babies out of the living room..... and immediately realized that not only is it not going to be big enough for very long, but that gang of EEs I got from you are beginning to outgrow the space they are in too..... Looks like I"ll be building coops and pens for months to come with all the projects and things going on around here right now!

OCD= obsessive chicken disease
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What did you use to build your hoop coop? And how tall did it wind up being? Inquiring minds want to know. I have some cattle panels (50" x 16') waiting to be turned into a hoop coop, but haven't figured out how wide I can make it and still have it be at least 6' tall at the peak.

Also curious how many chicks you've got in that hoop coop? Wondering how fast I'm going to run out of space. There are 25 chicks on the way in the next few weeks and I thought I had enough space planned but now I'm not sure.
 
Have a new brooder under construction and went to Home Depot tonight for a sheet of plywood for the roof. (Rest is recycled lumber.) I wound up with an entire cart load of random stuff, only some of which was chicken-related. The woman behind me in line asked what I was making. I told her she'd never guess. Her husband immediately popped out with "CHICKEN COOP!!" Wonder if his wife knew he had chickens on his mind???
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ChelleBelle said:
Hi Everyone,
We live in Glendale and my 9year old daughter is interested in entering her Speckled Sussex at the fair next year. Does anyone know how we go about doing that? What do we do to prepare my daughter and her hen. We are first time chicken keepers. Her hen is 5 months old and is okay with being picked up and looked at.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated :)
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State Fair (October) or Maricopa County Fair (April)?
https://azstatefair.com (although it is way too early for any concrete information
http://www.maricopacountyfair.org/handbook 2.htm

With the age of the hen, I would suggest that she enter this year's county fair.
 

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