Oh it gets worse..I am up to 17 different breeds including the rare Marsh Daisy, Ayam Cemani, and Svart Hona. My family thinks I have gone off the reservation.
Oh it gets worse..I am up to 17 different breeds including the rare Marsh Daisy, Ayam Cemani, and Svart Hona. My family thinks I have gone off the reservation.
Chicken math. That's all I am going to say. And it all started with the gateway chicken "Cream Legbars".
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another thing you can do is trap nesting, if you're around to check on them through the day. record each girl (banding helps) and her eggs... this way you can keep track of egg size and production for each hen, and those that lay better/bigger eggs get to reproduce while the slackers get culled.
I have been thinking about figuring out a system that would track the hen's activity including when they are in the nest and if they lay and egg, what time it was etc. Maybe using RFID at the threshold of the nest boxes. Hubby is a propeller head and said he would wire up the coop to monitor temp and humidity remotely calling it the chicken.net. Of course he hasn't doen anything so I am adding on to the needs of my hens
I was thinking if I could convince him that there are other people that would use a chicken monitoring network (not video, but something that would actually track and monitor the chickens and give me data) that he might be more inspired to work on it.
Anyone else interested in a robust monitoring system for their Cream Legbars?
