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[CapricornFarm]

Are they big Cochin I have one in the little coop with Smudge

Lol, I am not sure. Could be bantams. I don't have them in with the other chicks that hatched then.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Funny part my Giant one is laing banty size eggs?

 

[ronott1]

Funny part my Giant one is laing banty size eggs?

My UofA blue egg layers are in the 3 pound weight range and lay large eggs. The Hen I hatched from Trader Joes eggs is a bit bigger and lays extra large eggs.

They are very feed efficient! Marans are feed hogs LOL! And Bresse were the worst but were very good egg layers

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh my my spelling need to pay more attention ..
My EE lay big eggs major big ... My marans lays big eggs...
My sex links lay med to large eggs..

 

[CapricornFarm]

Funny part my Giant one is laing banty size eggs?

Is it a young pullet?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Not even a year yet

 

[CapricornFarm]

Not even a year yet

The eggs will get bigger.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thanks Cap .. I have 2 partridge giant cochin growing up in the silkie coop.
I was getting a bit worried

 

[bruceha2000]

I still cannot bring myself to euthanize my birds. I must figure out a way to get myself to do this.

I'm sorry she didn't recover.
Have you considered the "broomstick" method of euthanizing a hen? No mess, no gunshots or fear/potential of a miss. I had to do it to my favorite hen when she had a clearly irrecoverable prolapse. Like Lucy she was really lethargic, no improvement. Yeah it hurt me but instant death for her when her spinal cord was severed.

It got to 34 last night and they are saying snow showers on Sat. night.

Well that is just WRONG!!!

I finally saw my first Bobolinks for the season. They are one of my very favorites with their melodious song and striking plumage.

We have bobolinks in Vermont but I've never seen one and after hearing that call, I've never heard one either. Still I don't mow my fields until after bird breeding season just in case some move in.

The barn swallows are building a new nest in the barn alley, same as every year we've owned the place (2012 was first summer).

I've seen tree swallows in the new box I put up at the NW corner of the pond. There have been tree swallows in this box at the SW corner in years past but I THINK what we saw going in this year was a bluebird. Of course in the right light and angle tree swallows look pretty blue. This box isn't really big enough for tree swallows, we figure the ones that went to the new box maybe were ones that used this box in years past and were singing "We're movin' on up to the East Side". Same neighborhood and amenities but a larger house.


This is the box I originally made for the NW corner patterned after an old rotting box in the garden that hasn't been used the last 2 years. THEN I looked up tree swallow houses and found the inside bottom should be 5" x 5". This one is only 3 3/4" x 4 1/2". But you see that little tiny house up top? A tree swallow kept checking it out hoping it was bigger on the inside so I put out the "old" new box for them and they are building a nest in it. I've never seen a bird use the little house.



We also have robins making a nest (or multiple? I see several "starts") in the carrying beam under the deck on the back of the house.

I guess spring has sprung!

 

[ronott1]

I'm sorry she didn't recover.
Have you considered the "broomstick" method of euthanizing a hen? No mess, no gunshots or fear/potential of a miss. I had to do it to my favorite hen when she had a clearly irrecoverable prolapse. Like Lucy she was really lethargic, no improvement. Yeah it hurt me but instant death for her when her spinal cord was severed.



Well that is just WRONG!!!


We have bobolinks in Vermont but I've never seen one and after hearing that call, I've never heard one either. Still I don't mow my fields until after bird breeding season just in case some move in.

The barn swallows are building a new nest in the barn alley, same as every year we've owned the place (2012 was first summer).

I've seen tree swallows in the new box I put up at the NW corner of the pond. There have been tree swallows in this box at the SW corner in years past but I THINK what we saw going in this year was a bluebird. Of course in the right light and angle tree swallows look pretty blue. This box isn't really big enough for tree swallows, we figure the ones that went to the new box maybe were ones that used this box in years past and were singing "We're movin' on up to the East Side". Same neighborhood and amenities but a larger house.
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This is the box I originally made for the NW corner patterned after an old rotting box in the garden that hasn't been used the last 2 years. THEN I looked up tree swallow houses and found the inside bottom should be 5" x 5". This one is only 3 3/4" x 4 1/2". But you see that little tiny house up top? A tree swallow kept checking it out hoping it was bigger on the inside so I put out the "old" new box for them and they are building a nest in it. I've never seen a bird use the little house.

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We also have robins making a nest (or multiple? I see several "starts") in the carrying beam under the deck on the back of the house.

I guess spring has sprung!

Nice!