Colorado

[21hens-incharge]

Uzi, I feel for you. Dealing with all the garbage treatment at work can really drag one down. Just know that you are better then them and deserve better treatment. Some people on this planet can only feel better about themselves when they are dragging someone else down. Sad but real.

Try not to let them get to you. Saturday is just around the corner.

 

[COChix]

On the rooster rescue, do you have enough spacing for multiple roosters. First thoughts are they would need to be kept out of eye sight of your hens if not there would be fighting. Secondly, not sure how many roosters can live together comfortably without fighting, do you have enough space and land? Multiple roosters do better when they can free range and have lots of space. Just my two cents.

 

[lomine]

So I put 6 chicken eggs in my incubator this morning. This will be my first chicken egg hatch. Five are from my Wyandotte. She had been the only one laying. I'm excited to see what kind of chicks will come from her and my AM cockerel. Since she is splash laced red and he is blue I think that means all the chicks will be blue or splash based but I have no idea how her lacing will effect things. I also put one egg from a Blue AM pullet, just because I had it. It's only her second egg so I don't know how well it will do. I sure hope I have a good hatch.

I got 82% hatch rates with my quail eggs but those were much quicker so less opportunity for human and incubator error. I guess now I will be fretting over eggs for the next 21 days.
ETA I came back home to another egg after leaving work because I wasn't feeling well. I decided to go ahead and put that one in too since it had only been a few hours. So now it's 6 Wyandotte eggs.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Nice! Keep us posted.

 

[21hens-incharge]

We all need a good laugh.........

Today was so nice that I decided to let the girls out as soon as I got home. That's all good.
Aparently the leghorn is feeling needy. She ran to get in front of me then with very little warning jumped up to land on my shoulder. Not so easy to get her down since she decided that was where she wanted to be.
There I was with a chicken on my shoulder (not where I want one) frantically trying to get a chickens butt out of my face.
I am just glad my hubby was not home to see this. It would be on the list of things I am unlikely to live down.

 

[Mtn Margie]

 

[manjari108]

About 2 weeks ago, my 2 EEs had their vents pecked bloody by my other 2 girls. I separated them, gave them an epsom salt bath and put pick no more on their bottoms. I built a backup coop and divided the run so that they could be outside while they healed.

I gave them all extra protein and oyster shell and I throw in a little scratch and timothy hay/cucumber/berries etc here and there. I gave them a treat bottle with holes in it to play with, but they don't care about it.

The EEs are looking almost completely healed and they both started laying just recently. I want to try and get them back into the big coop, but I'm worried that the other two, who were the top two, will just injure them again. They can all see each other all day, so I know they are still used to each other. They can kind of reach each other because the garden fencing I separated the run with has 2 inch square holes and it looks like the top two have pulled a few of the EE's feathers through. Advice?

 

[Percheron chick]

Separate the 2 meanies and place the 2 EEs with the beta hen. Give it a week than throw them all together.
Why did the initial picking start? How big is your setup? Diet?

 

[manjari108]

I only have 4 birds all together, I think the very top one started it and the beta copied. Should I just separate #1? Their run is about 10ft x13ft, before I divided it in half. They have logs and stumps and even a xylophone. The big coop is about 4 ft x 8 ft. They have free choice pellet food and the extras I mentioned above. I have no real idea why the picking started. Some people suggested to me that they were bored, but I don't know what else to give them!

Thanks @Percheron chick !

 

[Latestarter]

Eat the 2 meanies and replace them with more EEs... Just a thought.