California - Northern

[lizanne]

I found these at Walmart today. Is this something I can put in the coop to prevent mites?

 

[Olamina]

Hi! I'm in the Sutter County area of Norcal and am a new home steader/ duck mommy! I really just came here because a little birdy in my pm box told me too so hello and goodbye

 

[ronott1]

Hi! I'm in the Sutter County area of Norcal and am a new home steader/ duck mommy! I really just came here because a little birdy in my pm box told me too so hello and goodbye

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Thank you for stopping by!

Please post pictures!

 

[tommysgirl]

Hi Olamina welcome!

Thank you for Cheryl's contact info. I sent her a PM and I hope it works out.

I am putting some of my uncle's eggs in this hatch and when I went down to collect there was a broken egg in one nest and an some albumen and yolk on an otherwise perfect egg. I sort of wiped it off with my finger but is it OK to set. My mind went straight to Ron's kleenex wrapped eggs and how he had to wash almost all of them. I am setting six and they have unpredictable layers and an egg eater so I may have trouble getting enough to set.

Is egg eating genetic? I have no idea which of their hens is doing it and neither do they. I wouldn't want to pass that quality on.

lizanne that looks interesting. How is it supposed to work?

 

[ronott1]

Hi Olamina welcome!

Thank you for Cheryl's contact info. I sent her a PM and I hope it works out.

I am putting some of my uncle's eggs in this hatch and when I went down to collect there was a broken egg in one nest and an some albumen and yolk on an otherwise perfect egg. I sort of wiped it off with my finger but is it OK to set. My mind went straight to Ron's kleenex wrapped eggs and how he had to wash almost all of them. I am setting six and they have unpredictable layers and an egg eater so I may have trouble getting enough to set.

Is egg eating genetic? I have no idea which of their hens is doing it and neither do they. I wouldn't want to pass that quality on.

lizanne that looks interesting. How is it supposed to work?

Hens peck the egg after it is laid to test it. If it cracks it is not good and they eat it. The best way to stop egg eating is to make sure the flock is healthy. Give them free choice calcium.

TSC has a 50 pound bag on sale for 6 dollars this weekend.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Hens peck the egg after it is laid to test it. If it cracks it is not good and they eat it. The best way to stop egg eating is to make sure the flock is healthy. Give them free choice calcium.

TSC has a 50 pound bag on sale for 6 dollars this weekend.

I have a hen or two out of my 27 layers that lay soft shelled pourus eggs. Is this just the way they are? Because all the other 25 hens lay great eggs. Maybe because they're the oldest?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

home from a roadtrip to Davis/Dixon today, to pick up 8 eggs (4 birchen marans, 4 SFH) from Thistledown Farms, and then met the fabulous Ron in a Dixon parking lot to hand off two of his CL/penedenseca crosses (hatched from Deann's eggs, i'm pretty sure)! we are all now home, the eggs are already tucked under my broody Eleanor (she conveniently got up for a stretch when i got home -- one of the existing eggs that was underneath her had broken, but i was able to get it cleaned up & put the new eggs in before she came back), and the two Amelias are a bit freaked out but settling in to their transit lounge, where the rest of the flock can't peck them, but can see them:



THANK YOU, Ron! it is a real treat to have amelias again, after mine passed away -- i'm hoping they will settle into the flock with ease, since at least they are vaguely familiar (undoubtedly cousins of some sort of my original amelia). should i take the little ankle bracelets off right away, or is it okay to leave them for a while?

and wish me luck with my broody's hatch! countdown til april 21...

(and Kim, Ron passed along your "hi" -- and I said hi back!)

yeah very nice

 

[capayvalleychick]

My hatch is still going on. There are 3 more SG Dorking egg in the incubator and two have pips. The Delawares stared last night so they are a slower hatching group.

I did find an egg that was upside down and it pipped in the wrong end. I opened the pip to make sure it could breath and put it back. Apparently this Dell is an Amazing hulk type of bird-- it did not need to zip but just broke it's way out of the shell! Amazing!

That makes 4 Dels so far.

Whoohoo! Don't chicks usually break their way out? I thought that was what zipping was?

 

[ronott1]

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Zipping--cutting off the top with the egg tooth-Breaking out--no zipping just crashing out of the small end.

The poor thing could not turn to cut the egg shell. Just goes to show you what they can do if they want to live!

I bet that one will be a keeper.....

 

[tommysgirl]

Thanks Ron. It isn't my hen. It's my uncle's but I will let him know.