California - Northern

[chrissyr]

Very Nice! How do you keep them looking nice? I think my hens are playing soccer with their eggs and they get all scratched up. I use plastic tubs with straw.

Thanks farmhand. They usually come out pretty clean. I use clean, and new (lol) cat litter boxes as nests, and all is pretty good unless they want to sleep in there at night. It's easier to clean them than a wooden box. But I do wash the eggs when we're going to eat them. Not a lot of farmy people around here understand the bloom thing.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

I will have a dozen Crele and a Dozen Black Penedesenca eggs by tomorrow night if anyones interested.
I will be setting my Empordanesa and Project Olive Eggers along with a few of my 2nd line of crele this weekend
but will still have extras they will all be from this week.

I would like to come pick up a few crele chicks if you have any available before the end of april?

 

[AmyPaperlady]

It's looking like I won't get the quarantine pen all the way finished by Saturday. I do have a way to house any purchases in the garage for a couple of days while I finish, though. What's the easiest thing to put down for litter for those couple of days--easy to clean up, too? Or should I just put pine shavings down, and then add those shavings to the quarantine pen when I can move the birds in there? Or would cardboard work OK?

Yes, I realize I'm probably overthinking things. Again

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I would like to come pick up a few crele chicks if you have any available before the end of april?

I am sure I can but only want to sell them as pairs
you may like the olive eggers too once they start to hatch as they will be
crele looking hens with salmon chests on the first cross. The males will be single barred crele
but they will be pretty

 

[farmhand]

My Marans eggs get scratched up often. I understand Marans eggs are easy to scratch when still wet. I am using plastic tubs with straw. Looking for advice to help them look nicer rather than like the hens have been playing soccer.

 

[chiqita]

It's looking like I won't get the quarantine pen all the way finished by Saturday. I do have a way to house any purchases in the garage for a couple of days while I finish, though. What's the easiest thing to put down for litter for those couple of days--easy to clean up, too? Or should I just put pine shavings down, and then add those shavings to the quarantine pen when I can move the birds in there? Or would cardboard work OK?

Yes, I realize I'm probably overthinking things. Again

I have linoleum down on the bottom of the cage and put whatever down on it depending on the cage. But that way no poo or disease gets on your Perma floor

 

[Happy Chooks]

question about olive eggers: does the first cross always produce an olive laying generation?

Depends on what breeds you use. If you use a breed that is pure for the blue gene (like pure Ameraucana's) over a dark laying breed (Marans, Welsummer, etc) then all chicks will lay olive. If you use a regular brown layer, you'll get green eggs. If you use an EE, you don't know that they are pure for the blue gene, so you may get some brown layers.

 

[PetRock]

30ish 1-17, 55% day 18, 65% day 19, and 75% since

Any action yet?

 

[Audio51]

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Anything hatch from these yet?

 

[ronott1]

My Marans eggs get scratched up often. I understand Marans eggs are easy to scratch when still wet. I am using plastic tubs with straw. Looking for advice to help them look nicer rather than like the hens have been playing soccer.

The best I have found for eggs is plastic nest liners.

I cut them to fit the nest boxes and have some spares that I keep clean for swapping out.

Cutlersuppler sells them for 1.95 each.

http://cutlersupply.com/zen_new51/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_102&products_id=682

I also have two golf balls in each nest box.

Pullets that are starting to lay will play with the eggs more. That behavior gets better over time.