California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

BCollie here are the pics. Please excuse the poop on the floor...this was taken before we had the poop tray

The corrugated tin roof also creates ventilation where it doesn't evenly meet the top of the walls






Nest Boxes they are well below the window in the door



Shows how when they are standing on the roosts they can look out

 

[ronott1]

Ok I have a weird egg issue. We cracked open an egg to fry. Fresh egg from today. Inside the egg was the normal egg white, yolk PLUS what appear to be a chunk of chicken. Almost like a colorless piece of cooked yolk. SO weird. I usually try to candle some of my eggs before selling them. But I am mortified at finding this because what if I customer comes across this? I have NO idea what it is, how it would get there or who laid it. We junked the egg. I did save the weird chunk. It's about the size of a nickel so it's not tiny. I cannot find a thing on the net about it. Any ideas? it was NOT a worm. It's not a living thing. lol

Those are called meat spots. they are a broken off piece of the reproductive tract and can be removed from the cracked eggs. They are not dangerous. Heritage chickens get these. Commercial chickens are culled when they do this so they are rare with them, but we do not cull heritage birds for leaving a spot.

I warn people about them when they get eggs from me. I see them rarely but more often from certain hens.

 

[debs_flock]

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I just looked in my oldest grow out pen, there are 3-4 pullets in there. Everyone was milling about and they aren't the only black birds in the pen. Most of the chicks in the pen are around 8 weeks old also. I know I also have some in one of the pens with heat, but this pen is living outside already.

Ok I have a weird egg issue. We cracked open an egg to fry. Fresh egg from today. Inside the egg was the normal egg white, yolk PLUS what appear to be a chunk of chicken. Almost like a colorless piece of cooked yolk. SO weird. I usually try to candle some of my eggs before selling them. But I am mortified at finding this because what if I customer comes across this? I have NO idea what it is, how it would get there or who laid it. We junked the egg. I did save the weird chunk. It's about the size of a nickel so it's not tiny. I cannot find a thing on the net about it. Any ideas? it was NOT a worm. It's not a living thing. lol

Do you have a picture?

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I see meat spots sometimes too, but I've never seen one the size of a nickel and colorless. They are usually tiny and reddish brown.

Actually you'll find them occasionally with any chickens. They are totally fine to eat and you eat them all the time without knowing. Commercial eggs are candled by computer. That would be the grading on the carton. Eggs with meat spots, blood spots, etc are rejected from packing. I forget the grading, but B I think. Those eggs are used in commercial production, so if you eat processed food with egg included (baked goods, mixes, etc), you're eating those rejected eggs without ever knowing about the spots.

 

[Nikon]

I just looked in my oldest grow out pen, there are 3-4 pullets in there. Everyone was milling about and they aren't the only black birds in the pen. Most of the chicks in the pen are around 8 weeks old also. I know I also have some in one of the pens with heat, but this pen is living outside already.


Do you have a picture?


I see meat spots sometimes too, but I've never seen one the size of a nickel and colorless. They are usually tiny and reddish brown.

Actually you'll find them occasionally with any chickens. They are totally fine to eat and you eat them all the time without knowing. Commercial eggs are candled by computer. That would be the grading on the carton. Eggs with meat spots, blood spots, etc are rejected from packing. I forget the grading, but B I think. Those eggs are used in commercial production, so if you eat processed food with egg included (baked goods, mixes, etc), you're eating those rejected eggs without ever knowing about the spots.

Who's not the only black birds in the pen? The BC Marans? If they are within a weeks age of our flock at home do we need to get two pullets or will one be ok?

 

[lawatt]

Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

wow, they are so gorgeous!! and prompts a yes-i-know-nothing question from me: just curious why it is considered "okay" in chicken breeding to breed related birds to each other? isn't there concern about inbreeding etc? (i.e. breeding the girls back to their GC fathers)

and i finally got an ok picture of Daisy with her day-old hatchlings:


two are CLs (a girl & a boy), haven't quite figured out which of the others are the isbars & which are the isbar/blue marans crosses! none seem to have feathered feet so far (at least not that i can see), which is what Miss Molly suggested i look for... but two definitely came out of isbar/marans eggs!

 

[8machines]

debs_flock, those Chamois Campines are beautiful!!

 

[Nikon]

Wow those Chamois campines are really pretty! So is mamma broody!


The Bed & Breakfast is up and running! YAY!

 

[debs_flock]

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I just meant looking through the pen, there are other black chicks in there (araucana, etc), so I couldn't just look for black chicks and look at the sex. But there are 3 for sure and I think 4 BC marans pullets in the pen. One would probably be okay, but I usually prefer to blend in a chick with a "friend". They are much less likely to get picked on if they have someone else to pal around with. Usually if you introduce two birds together, they will do better and remain BFF's, LOL

wow, they are so gorgeous!! and prompts a yes-i-know-nothing question from me: just curious why it is considered "okay" in chicken breeding to breed related birds to each other? isn't there concern about inbreeding etc? (i.e. breeding the girls back to their GC fathers)

It's not supposed to be so much of an issue with chickens. Kind of like with breeding frogs. You can breed back to your same clutch over and over. In the wild, some dart frogs never venture past a very small territory, so generation after generation breed within the same population until they are unique from the population in close proximity.

 

[debs_flock]

debs_flock, those Chamois Campines are beautiful!!

Aren't they beautiful? I wish they were mine, that's why I'm "building" some, LOL

 

[debs_flock]

Great looking setup Nikon!