California - Northern

[lizanne]

I have some eggs available this week. Above are some of the rarest chickens you can find White Empordanesa also a few eggs from my Blue Ameraucana who is with the White Empordanesa Above are my other rare ones. Crele Penedesenca The Emp's are throwing a few real nice dark eggs

So pretty!! I love the dark ones!!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I've set some white empordanesa eggs and OE eggs for Jason (Hangtown Farms) and I was admiring the color on them. Thought I'd share. They are sharing a shelf in the incubator with call ducks, serama & a whole bunch of turkey eggs which are various levels of clean to muddy (turkeys seem to lay in the worst place they can find). Anyway, I thought Jason's eggs were beautiful!

Here's a closeup of one of the turkey eggs. I don't know how such a fuggly bird can lay such a pretty egg.

Woohoo! Serama eggs!

These two are inseparable. He started crowing 2 weeks ago. Squeak-a-doodle-doo!

 

[Miss Molly]

Yeah, she's not kidding! It's like Chicken Disneyland! e :cd

You are so Funny

 

[PetRock]

It would probably get to you faster than the lactobacillus could be made.

It takes 9-12 days to culture the lactobacillus. 2-5 days for the first step and 7 days for the second step.

 

[lualshannon]

I took a picture of each of the HRIRs today.

Be prepared for too much cuteness!

Simply gorgeous babies, Ron! I love the mahogany colour on the wings...so pretty! Their tummies are so full that they are bulging out. Ohhh, they look adorable..

 

[PetRock]

Okay! I already have a warm mist humidifier, so that should be easy! Do you mix the Oxine into the water or put it in the little channel on top where you put Vicks or whatever when you have a cold? How much Oxine do you put in? I bought some Vet RX today, should I treat her with that until I get the Oxine?


This is really interesting! I don't know anything about it, but thank you for the info. I can see I'm going to have to look into fermented feed. Where do you acquire it? Sounds like a whole area of expertise I need to dip my toes into.

I'm pretty sure that a cool mist humidifier is preferred. I put 3/4 c. of oxine per gallon of water right in the water container in the humidifier.

You can ferment your own feed. There are threads here on BYC that talk about it. I started my first batch by putting poultry pellets plus whole grains in a bucket and filled it with filtered water until the water level was 2 -3 in. above the dissolved feed level. I added about 1/4 c. of Braggs apple cider vinegar and stirred the mixture 3-4 times per day. 4-5 days later, it was bubbling and showing signs of fermentation. I then just strained out the grain/mash, fed it to my birds, and added more feed/grains and water to the left over liquid. My husband brews beer and we also make homemade pizza dough, etc. I started wondering exactly what I had growing in my feed. Was it the bacteria that I wanted or yeast or ???. I had a few chickens with vent gleet and one with sour crop. That all happened after I started feeding them fermented feed and stopped giving them yogurt. I decided to start a new batch using a homemade lactobacillus culture as a starter. It should be ready in 2-3 more days. I will report back after they have been eating it for a month or so.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Beautiful eggs. I am not familiar with the Emp's or crele though. Our coop is sturdy, elevated and heat lamp ready but it still hits a few degrees below a few weeks a year. How would these girls fair ?

That is cold for sure. There are people that keep them in Wisconsin and Iowa. I do not believe they heat there houses. Out of the wind for sure though,,
These guys get huge combs

 

[liz9910]

Woohoo! Serama eggs! e These two are inseparable. He started crowing 2 weeks ago. Squeak-a-doodle-doo!

One of my seramas has the same coloring as your little guy aww their crow is so cute isn't it?

 

[tommysgirl]

Good Morning! hygrometer saga continues. I found oune at the pet store yesterday with sensors so I can have the actual display part outside but the errrherrmmmm very full incubator and when I brought it home the display was all wonky and I couldn't set the time so back this one goes. Third time will hopefully be the charm and I will be able to exchange it for one that will tell me my humidity. It's supposed to dry out around here by the end of the week or maybe sooner.

I candled....I looked into about 5 of my dorking eggs and really all I could see were air cells and maybe a darker spot. I did note detached air cells and a saddle air cell so have a clear idea what that looks like now. I also rotated my cartons around in the incubator. I have three in there moved the dorkings from the far left to the far right and Renee's eggs into the middle. I thought I read somewhere in all my reading that I should do that but not sure how often. I am using a book under the bator to turn.

So far so good with temps though. I was worried after reading LG horror stories but I think all of the advance help I got from you helped a bunch..

 

[lizanne]

The chick is better! I gave it a little olive oil last night, and this morning, no more issues. Thanks guys. The poor chick must have gotten somthing stuck in it's throat...