Hi all! I was a lurker until recently and just found this awesome thread. I wanted to share the eggs I got from my newly adopted hens - I got 5 girls Sunday and they have given me ~4 eggs every day since! The pic shows one from each girl.
And I've got chicken fever bad!!!
I'm looking into hatching eggs to add to my flock!
Last night at about 4:00am I woke up to squawking and bawking. I ran outside making noise to scare whatever was scaring the chickens away. One of the chickens was making a noise like it was being held or dragged. I grabbed a flashlight and went down to the coop. Everybody was there, no blood. There were about 4 chickens at the front of the coop and were in slight shock. 2 were on the very end of the left side of the roost. 2 were on the rabbit hutch (used for laying and sometimes roosting).
I soon figured out there was a coon that got stuck somewhere in between 2 pieces of the coop. Everybody was fine this morning. I only saw a couple fresh breast feathers near the rabbit hutch.
Last night at about 4:00am I woke up to squawking and bawking. I ran outside making noise to scare whatever was scaring the chickens away. One of the chickens was making a noise like it was being held or dragged. I grabbed a flashlight and went down to the coop. Everybody was there, no blood. There were about 4 chickens at the front of the coop and were in slight shock. 2 were on the very end of the left side of the roost. 2 were on the rabbit hutch (used for laying and sometimes roosting).
I soon figured out there was a coon that got stuck somewhere in between 2 pieces of the coop. Everybody was fine this morning. I only saw a couple fresh breast feathers near the rabbit hutch.
There are a lot of dogs in the yards around my place. I have not seen any evidence of anything but kitty cats here. I still have them in secure coops each night.
Hi, All!!! Monet and I are back in California after spending a week helping with my sister's girls while she had surgery. It was special to be there with them but we sure missed our chickens and I was happy to see them this morning!
My sister is doing fine and is thankful that the tumor is gone! After removing it, the doctors changed the status from stage 0 to stage 2 because it had grown so much in the past 2 weeks and had some aggressive characteristics. The lymph nodes were clear so she will probably not have to have radiation but may need to have chemo. The pathology report won't be in for a few weeks and once it is in, the doctors can decide where to go from here. I was very impressed with her doctors and the hospital.
We got back in Oakland late last night. Our first day back home in California was sure eventful. All of my chickens were fine but someone hacked into my eBay account and charged my PayPal account for shipping for 35 international packages. It was a huge amount of money and I didn't have enough in my PayPal account to cover it so PayPal took the money from my bank account. When I went to pay a bill this morning, my bank balance was at $0!
Talk about a shock! Thank God that I caught it on the day the charges were to go through! My credit union was able to reverse the charges and put a block on my account so PayPal couldn't withdraw the money again. I spent all morning and part of the afternoon on the phone with PayPal and eBay. I think that I talked to 6 different eBay customer service representatives working out of India. Talk about frustrating! One operator had me void all of the shipping labels and change my password. 2 of the packages were already in transit so I was unable to void them. They were shipped from Banks, OR and Azusa, CA. I have my money back but I'm sure that this isn't the end of the problem! Someone will have to eat the $55.40 in postage for the 2 packages that were mailed but they better not try to make me pay for them!
All I wanted was a nice relaxing day with my chickens. I just poured a glass of wine and I'm headed off to watch some mindless TV! Have a good evening!
The $14.99 incutherm works great! I have it in my hatcher currently and for hatching my old style Genesis is running at 98.8 with 72% humidity. They hatch great at those settings.
Search the site--they should have the clips too and even the thermostat controller thing if you need it. Does it get warm and cycle the temperature correctly?
We keep a several different species including crested geckos, gargoyle geckos, leachianus geckos, ball pythons and russian tortoises. It's a lot of fun!
We are absolutely loving the girls! I make sure to handle them each a couple minutes everyday and since we are coming in an out of the room they're in they're getting used to our presence. Also we may have to pay another visit in the not too distant future as I know your hubby builds coops and we may need another. I hope everything goes well at the doctors, I'm not a praying man but I'm send many good vibes your way.
I LOVE that idea. I have a rat terrier and I'd love for him to have a job like that. Plus I personally think it's far better then having to poison stuff.
hahah my last name isn't Andrews, but your right it is an Andrews sister theme. The girls kind of actually fit their name sakes. We have a soft spot for that era of music as my husbands great uncle was lead trumpet in the Glenn Miller Air Force Band for many years.
