Doing It Again...Eggs Went in Hova Today (Candling Report Page 3)

[speckledhen]

Those spoiled girls can't be lacking anything, LOL. Geez, they have the best 22% protein layer pellets, the best 11-grain scratch which is almost a complete feed in and of itself, yogurt, buttermilk and pumpkin seeds, etc. What I can't figure out is why only the year-old girls are doing this and his more mature women leave him alone. Very odd. I watched one of the PoufyHead sisters eat the soap off the feathers of his chest where his soapy wattles rubbed off on them. Ick, ick and triple ick!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Diffenently strange tastes run among that younger group!

 

[skeeter9]

Maybe they're Goth?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Speckledhen-I've run into the same problem with my "feather problem" pullet. What is it with these crazy birds?

 

[speckledhen]

No idea! Poor Hawkeye is keeping the chicks in the nursery coop company so he isn't completely alone anyway. I haven't been able to get to the store yet to get the pine tar, but I hate to think of it being all in his chest feathers! May be no choice, however. Anyway, all eggs since last candling are still growing just fine in the bator and Monday, the first 9 go in the hatcher.

 

[seminolewind]

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Seriously, Cynthia, you don't really think I meant that. I'm sure your hens eat like queens and your roos eat like kings. I think they're doing it because it gets your attention, and you start offering different tasty things, they have you trained well, LOL
Karen

 

[speckledhen]

I know you were kidding, LOL! I was just griping about those silly younger women-I give them anything they need, Hawkeye treats them like queens and this is the thanks we both get!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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[speckledhen]

I just realized that I have 25 eggs growing in the bator on Days 16, 13 and 8 tomorrow. What's wrong with me? I said I wouldn't incubate this many at a time because my brooder in the bsmt can't handle this many chicks for an entire month....maybe two weeks at the most. My nursery coop is still filled with chicks, and although they'll be gone except for maybe 4 or 5 the last week of January, I'll still have to keep any chicks that hatch in the bsmt brooder for at least four weeks because I cant put 4 week old chicks out in the nursery coop with chicks that are 10-13 weeks old. They'll be massacred! Logistics problems again. Oh, well, it'll work out. It always does.

 

[Katy]

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who doesn't always think far enough ahead on these kinds of things!!