California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

Awesome! Thanks.
No worries, I would have them stick by me. I'm not even sure I'll let my adult birds free range without me out there, just because we have so many hawks!

Other birds to consider are the Jays and the Crows. When I had mine out last spring the Jays gathered in the tree next to the little pool I was using for a brooder. They were squaking and staring and josling for position. It was like a scene from The Birds. I kept the top covered so all was fine but it was freaky.

 

[tommysgirl]

BOSS is also very high in fat. Not only do the eggs get bigger - but they store the fat around their vent - making it hard for the egg to get out past all that fat.

This is good information. Thanks!

 

[Ali707]

Was your vehicle - that always does it for me. I wash my car - it rains...

Even in July...
BOSS is also very high in fat. Not only do the eggs get bigger - but they store the fat around their vent - making it hard for the egg to get out past all that fat.

LOL I washed my car the day before!

Hmmm interesting they store the fat in the vent area....She was a BIG egg layer so she needed all the help she could get.

 

[lawatt]

two new mamas today!



Frances with one of her four foster araucana chicks -- she's adopted them without any trouble.



Speedy with one of the two marans chicks, both have hatched but i couldn't get a picture with both looking out -- not sure about her other 7 eggs, but hoping more hatch today!

 

[tommysgirl]

two new mamas today!



Frances with one of her four foster araucana chicks -- she's adopted them without any trouble.



Speedy with one of the two marans chicks, both have hatched but i couldn't get a picture with both looking out -- not sure about her other 7 eggs, but hoping more hatch today!

Sweet! How old are your SPR and did they both go broody?

 

[Janeothejungle]

10 whole minutes of rain this morning at 4am!!! Woo Hoo! At least the girls slept through their first introduction to 'weather' in the new coop.....

Rosie has taken to waiting by the coop until I let the chickens out. We think of it as protesting the chickens imprisonment.



"I only count 4, where is my chicken?"


"Dudes, I got your back."

 

[BCollie]

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We have a Jay that is always sitting on the fence outside my window, eating something. A couple days back it was carrying a wasps nest!

 

[BCollie]

10 whole minutes of rain this morning at 4am!!! Woo Hoo! At least the girls slept through their first introduction to 'weather' in the new coop.....

Rosie has taken to waiting by the coop until I let the chickens out. We think of it as protesting the chickens imprisonment.


"I only count 4, where is my chicken?"


"Dudes, I got your back."

So cute! I love seeing big dogs be friendly with little animals, it's adorable.

 

[lawatt]

Sweet! How old are your SPR and did they both go broody?

both SPPRs are about 10-11 months old now (I got them from Cheryl last July), and yes, both have gone broody, although one about 3-4 weeks after the first. also have a basque, an australorp, and a CL that have gone broody -- so far!

the basque, Eleanor, has 2 chicks that are two weeks old now -- they have all settled in with the rest of the laying flock quite easily, no big girls are picking on the babies -- just hoping that as the new mamas and new chicks start appearing, they don't squabble at all over the teenies?

 

[tommysgirl]

both SPPRs are about 10-11 months old now (I got them from Cheryl last July), and yes, both have gone broody, although one about 3-4 weeks after the first. also have a basque, an australorp, and a CL that have gone broody -- so far!

the basque, Eleanor, has 2 chicks that are two weeks old now -- they have all settled in with the rest of the laying flock quite easily, no big girls are picking on the babies -- just hoping that as the new mamas and new chicks start appearing, they don't squabble at all over the teenies?

One of my Australorp girls growls and makes her feathers stand on end whenever anyone pokes their head even into the run when she is on the nest (where she spends a good hour + a day) but that is the only sign of broodiness out of any of them. Hoping that my all of my new girls will be broody at some point or other but they are just little or still in the egg now.

Do you have any that are laying eggs for you now?

In chick news I have none other than they really like yogurt!!