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[Audio51]

The little guy died while i was just typing

Awww..so sorry.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I know someone just said they had ordered from Boggy Bottom but I can't find the post now. I'm wondering how the eggs did, they have silver phoenix available, the d'anver are tempting also, OK I admit it, they are all tempting.

That was Chickee.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

That is why the sop says they have to lay a 4 at the begining of the cycle only. Egg color can shift a lot! As the eggs get bigger they also get lighter. I have been happy with egg color so far this season. Amazingly consistant!

Well, your eggs are almost the darkest I have seen AND one kept falling out of the turner -to hungmumgous! The rest are close to falling. My turner has never labored so hard work it !

 

[ronott1]

It is amazing to see the parallels from the Chicken world and the Human World. The Music Pastor from Calvary Baptist Church Esparto has survived stage 4 Melanoma and then Lymphoma. At the last 6mo. scan, they found a mass in the lungs and did a biopsy yesterday. It was not cancer but a fungal mass--with tendrils and everything.

He will be fine but now they need to get the mold out from under their trailer house and check his wife and pets. She has had Lupus symptoms for years which may actually be her immune system fighting off the mold.

I had an Australorp die of the same mold several months ago.

 

[chickee]

I know someone just said they had ordered from Boggy Bottom but I can't find the post now. I'm wondering how the eggs did, they have silver phoenix available, the d'anver are tempting also, OK I admit it, they are all tempting.

I know someone just said they had ordered from Boggy Bottom but I can't find the post now. I'm wondering how the eggs did, they have silver phoenix available, the d'anver are tempting also, OK I admit it, they are all tempting.

I have d'Anver from eggs I bought from Boggy Bottom Bantams. Out of 18 only 5 hatched. He is in Georgia and that state seems to be rough on shipping! I recently got Ameraucana eggs from Lark Rise, who is in Georgia also. They were pretty beat up, and out of 18 I am down to 8 still growing at 14 days along. Some of those will have a hard time hatching because the whites are jiggly. On the other hand. I once bought EE eggs from Bargain in Georgia and had a 100% hatch

I love Boggy Bottom's d'Anvers! I was thinking about bidding on his currant auction.

 

[ronott1]

I have d'Anver from eggs I bought from Boggy Bottom Bantams. Out of 18 only 5 hatched. He is in Georgia and that state seems to be rough on shipping! I recently got Ameraucana eggs from Lark Rise, who is in Georgia also. They were pretty beat up, and out of 18 I am down to 8 still growing at 14 days along. Some of those will have a hard time hatching because the whites are jiggly. On the other hand. I once bought EE eggs from Bargain in Georgia and had a 100% hatch

I love Boggy Bottom's d'Anvers! I was thinking about bidding on his currant auction.

Yes! One of the USPS Centers there has some type of Problem. It may be Atlanta.

Edited to add: It is important if you get egg from there to make sure they are using the correct packing method. If getting eggs form Boggy Bantams, you might want to send a pre paid box with packing materials, including a second box to pack the eggs into along with instructions.

I do not really care if I offend the seller---They should be happy to help and learn how to pack correctly.

 

[chickee]

It is amazing to see the parallels from the Chicken world and the Human World. The Music Pastor from Calvary Baptist Church Esparto has survived stage 4 Melanoma and then Lymphoma. At the last 6mo. scan, they found a mass in the lungs and did a biopsy yesterday. It was not cancer but a fungal mass--with tendrils and everything.

He will be fine but now they need to get the mold out from under their trailer house and check his wife and pets. She has had Lupus symptoms for years which may actually be her immune system fighting off the mold.

I had an Australorp die of the same mold several months ago.

That is awful! I get an allergic reaction to mold. It gives me severe migraine headaches. I also lost a young Wyandotte cockerel to a mold plug last year!

 

[chickee]

Yes! One of the USPS Centers there has some type of Problem. It may be Atlanta.

Edited to add: It is important if you get egg from there to make sure they are using the correct packing method. If getting eggs form Boggy Bantams, you might want to send a pre paid box with packing materials, including a second box to pack the eggs into along with instructions.

I do not really care if I offend the seller---They should be happy to help and learn how to pack correctly.

The best hatch I had with bantam eggs that came from Michigan were packed in the foam packers. I had a 95% hatch.

 

[sewandgrow]

I've been sprouting grain for almost a year now and I'm very pleased with how my flock looks. I sprout oats, barley, wheat, and a higher end bird seed with BOSS, millet, etc. in it. I usually have about 12 containers going at one time. I've been using Parmesan cheese containers with holes drilled in them and some quart Ball jars with screen lids on them. I wash the seeds twice a day and let them drain. They are ready to feed to the birds by day 3 or 4. I just purchased some 1/2 gal size Ball jars. I am hoping to reduce the number of containers and the amount of work by increasing the size of jars.

I spouted the seed mix you were getting from that catalog. That was in the big black cement mixing trays with the hardware cloth frame on top. I did that all outside. That worked well but they were heavy for me to handle & the chickens made such a mess eating off the tops of them.
Now I am using perforated trays with 1 pound of grain (i am using Barley now $13.50 for a 50 pound bag) in each (about 10" by 12"). I soak the grain over night then divide it up into the trays about a pound per tray & water them twice a day. I have them set up on my unused breakfast nook tile counter on a 2 shelf plastic rack. It hold 3 trays per shelf so counting the counter I have 9 trays. The bottom 3 trays are doubled with the bottom tray solid to hold the runoff water. I put sections of cut PVC pipe in the solid trays on the bottom to keep the top tray elevated from the water. It takes just minutes to soak each tray twice a day. I was using a big watering can & watering the top trays & letting it drain through to each tray beneath (like You Tube does it) but I think I like the soak method better. It is a little more trouble but I get a lot better results. This method is actually fodder feeders & not just sprouted grain but if I dumped the trays at 3 or 4 days it would be sprouted grain. In a week I have 9 trays of thick green grass about 5 inches tall. They eat it all, grass, grain spouts, roots everything.
I am eager to try the oats, $18.95 for a 75 pound bag. My daughter is on her way to pick it up at the feed store now. I have been using cheap aluminum trays from the $1 store 2 for a dollar but bought the expensive ones,$1 a piece, ( LOL ) plastic trays the other day & will switch to them this go round. Not a big investment at all. I have been reusing the cheap aluminum trays for weeks now. Maybe I will sprout oats in the aluminum ones when I switch my fodder feeders to the plastic. I have lots of holes to drill today in the 9 plastic trays........LOL.
Now I off to study more on Beehives while I wait for my daughter to get back..........LOL

 

[chiqita]

If you can avoid atlanta nashville (esp for lives) and chiago its better. Of course its hard to miss chiago. This is not a scientific survey. Id like to find a programmer that needs a project for school who would write one to check.

You would put your postcodes in and it would tell you the sorting center Your mail would go to and the % of damaged boxes.(% of hatch mebby too) It could also say if writing on the box no xray and this side up had correlation.

Someone find me a programming senior!