Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

The one I had to butcher didn't crow until he was 7-8 months old. Mixed breed, a little EE and who knows what...

 

[Amberjem]

ok I have kinda a weird question and might be confusing to ask so bare with me... say if you have two roosters and one hen... she lays an egg monday and rooster A is the father and the next day she lays an egg can it be rooster B who is the dad then?

 

[Beer can]

Man I have to leave the suggestive text and spell check off on my phone, I edit more words, I didn't write black box... I would rather have misspelled words than the wrong ones.

 

[perchie.girl]

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They are close to the house..... unfortunately I dont live there right now. I was trying to raise them from a distance... sixty miles away. But even when I do live there at the time the predators just had free rein.

thats why I am not planning on any poultry or goats till I move back.... and build my Poultry house/fortress.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

I have seen them removed on You Tube.... Hot potato was one method and just pliars was another. You only remove the external part of the spur.... kind of like pulling off a fingernail.

they grow back

deb

figured would find something there...argh wish you hadnt compared it to fingernail removing makes my fingers twitchy lol

 

[Amberjem]

Man I have to leave the suggestive text and spell check off on my phone, I edit more words, I didn't write black box... I would rather have misspelled words than the wrong ones.

lol I hate texting and the texting spell check makes it even worse nothing like spending two hours trying to type out a simple sentence

 

[hennible]

ok I have kinda a weird question and might be confusing to ask so bare with me... say if you have two roosters and one hen... she lays an egg monday and rooster A is the father and the next day she lays an egg can it be rooster B who is the dad then?

I want to know this too!! I'm pretty sure you must get a mixed paternity in a clutch... But want to know more about it

Man I have to leave the suggestive text and spell check off on my phone, I edit more words, I didn't write black box... I would rather have misspelled words than the wrong ones.

Haha
Did you see my voice to text I didn't fix the other day? Some times stuff I type is just as messed up, thank you spell check...

 

[Beer can]

ok I have kinda a weird question and might be confusing to ask so bare with me... say if you have two roosters and one hen... she lays an egg monday and rooster A is the father and the next day she lays an egg can it be rooster B who is the dad then?

I imagine it is like dogs, one litter can have multiple fathers if the female dog is running around.

 

[hennible]

Same for cats

 

[perchie.girl]

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my dog the first time.... I had him put down... for a whole bunch of OTHER reasons. But my Rosie was a good girl with the chickens.

No it was Coyoties that took my flock last time... Raccoons got the Tween agers.... I missed an important spot on the chainlink of the coop and they were coming in as if there was a door just for them.

I have lost four flocks now to mostly Coyote and bobcat predation. when I got some more chicks to raise up my Roomate said.. "So you going to kill another batch"

That phrase alone struck me just the other day.... sob.... But I was able to keep chickens for a good two years each time... So I do know what to do.

deb