Dixie Chicks

[Outpost JWB]

Thank you all for the kind words

I was thinking warmth when I went to the grocery after work....I think......now I'm not sure what I was thinking. I did buy all the fixings that go into chili. I have browned the ground beef and it's all in a big pot on low. Should be nice and warm when little girl and DH get home.

Anyways, for the chickens I got a bag of sunflower seed and a pack of beef suet. Does anyone else give their chickens stuff to keep them warmer? Our chickens have one little lonely 40watt bulb clamp light in the coop and no heaters. I also sparingly give them whole kernel corn throughout the winter. I used to give them cracked corn, but accidently bought whole one time, and they loved it and seemed to waste less.

The little dog is mad at me because I cant get the fire going. Well, I am taking the goods out to the chickens and watch them play football

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@Alaskan , I like your first aid kit. We went through a lot of corn starch here this past summer. 17 roosters just didn't get along with each other sometimes. Thankfully most of them are in the freezer, or have already been consumed. I am going to make up a kit with the ingredients you suggested. I used to baby a chicken if it got sick and try medicating it, then I learned that it may get better, but every time I medicate a chicken, I am weakening it. 9 times out of 10, that chicken dies sooner than it should anyways. I will add wormer medicine to my 1st aid kit. Maybe that is not considered 1st aid, but preventative though.

 

[Amberjem]

Sorry I skipped everything to whine that people don't want to eat fertile eggs!!! And ask if having rooster has anything to do with the blood spots? I'm pretty sure it doesn't.... But is there anything I can do to reduce these blood spots?

I believe I read that the blood spots were debri from the egg making process from the Fallopian tubes or whatever the process parts for egg making a chicken has... anyways so it was something that can occure with or without a rooster..

 

[Ravynscroft]

 thats about my take on it when I looked into the process as well.. I wasnt sure what it involved so looked it up...nope wasnt a place I felt comfy doing..thought it might have been a less invasive process before I researched it more.
yes seen that before I didnt know about the base white n blue and the other colors layering exactly...thank you for explaining it  better for me to process  what about the pink eggs? is that another gene or layering or?

I agree on the caponizing, no unnecessary surgery for me, lol.

The 'pink' eggs, and other off shades are usually just a thin brown layer where that particular hens brown tint is not functioning properly, lol. A cool side effect of mixed genes, strange development, etc.

 

[vehve]

To my understanding there are about 14 different genes that affect the brown coating. This is an oversimplification, but you could think of it like having 14 different tubes of slightly different brown shades, and a huge can of white paint. Add a bit of a couple of the tubes, and you get a light color like with a Sussex, add a lot from all tubes and you get Marans or Welsummer eggs.

 

[Amberjem]

@hennible need to relook it up or you can but I "think" cayene pepper was supose to help with that or something in regards to the egg making process for chickens..to reduce the blood spots...something bout the cayene peppers doing "something" that helped with the egg processing of the chicken laying...sorry I know thats vague but least might give you a area to look more iinfo up on it

 

[hennible]

I believe I read that the blood spots were debri from the egg making process  from the Fallopian tubes or whatever the  process parts for egg making a chicken has...  anyways so it was something that can occure with or without a rooster..

Thanks everyone... That's what I told the lady who runs the store... She didn't believe me... And was letting me know I should separate my hens and Roos... It's a health food store people come on fresh and fertile eggs fed fermented feed... If you want infertile crappy eggs go to a grocery store.... I have never had large blood spots in my eggs she was whining about the tiny spots you even see in commercial eggs... I will try candling thank you all again.

 

[1kluckychik]

Sorry I skipped everything to whine that people don't want to eat fertile eggs!!! And ask if having rooster has anything to do with the blood spots? I'm pretty sure it doesn't.... But is there anything I can do to reduce these blood spots?

The hen might be getting too old??? I read that people cull the hens that keep laying eggs with blood spots. I agree that it has nothing to do with a rooster. On most egg farms there are no roosters, and there are still blood spot eggs.

 

[hennible]

@hennible
 need to relook it up or you can but I "think" cayene pepper was supose to help with that or something in regards to the egg making process for chickens..to reduce the blood spots...something bout the cayene peppers doing "something" that helped with the egg processing of the chicken laying...sorry I know thats vague but least might give you a area to look more iinfo up on it

I will look into it... Maybe its the clotting power or vitamin C...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thanks everyone... That's what I told the lady who runs the store... She didn't believe me... And was letting me know I should separate my hens and Roos... It's a health food store people come on fresh and fertile eggs fed fermented feed... If you want infertile crappy eggs go to a grocery store.... I have never had large blood spots in my eggs she was whining about the tiny spots you even see in commercial eggs... I will try candling thank you all again.

Just don't say mention that the Roos are with the hens, most people can't tell the difference. If a spot happens in yours, explain that it happens when the hen is making the egg.

 

[Amberjem]

Thank you all for the kind words

I was thinking warmth when I went to the grocery after work....I think......now I'm not sure what I was thinking. I did buy all the fixings that go into chili. I have browned the ground beef and it's all in a big pot on low. Should be nice and warm when little girl and DH get home.

Anyways, for the chickens I got a bag of sunflower seed and a pack of beef suet. Does anyone else give their chickens stuff to keep them warmer? Our chickens have one little lonely 40watt bulb clamp light in the coop and no heaters. I also sparingly give them whole kernel corn throughout the winter. I used to give them cracked corn, but accidently bought whole one time, and they loved it and seemed to waste less.

The little dog is mad at me because I cant get the fire going. Well, I am taking the goods out to the chickens and watch them play football

.

@Alaskan , I like your first aid kit. We went through a lot of corn starch here this past summer. 17 roosters just didn't get along with each other sometimes. Thankfully most of them are in the freezer, or have already been consumed. I am going to make up a kit with the ingredients you suggested. I used to baby a chicken if it got sick and try medicating it, then I learned that it may get better, but every time I medicate a chicken, I am weakening it. 9 times out of 10, that chicken dies sooner than it should anyways. I will add wormer medicine to my 1st aid kit. Maybe that is not considered 1st aid, but preventative though.

...ohh chilli I was just telling @Sharps Big 50 last night I wanted to make some chilli and cast iron cornbread


and what size tote was it to hold a 50 pound bag of feed? been thinking about my feed bin/minis shed thing I wanna make.....if I could put the totes on bottom shelf then have two more shelves one to do stuff use as a tablish kind of thing (could keep a scale there to check wieght of before after bird processing also..) work on a bird do wing trimming whatever...then also keep a chicken first aid kit maybe a animal processing kit as well just kinda miscellaneous chicken storage thing