EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

I wish I could get All Flock. I sent a few hours wandering around on the internet trying to figure it out...

What brand? Nutrena has a nice one, but I think Purina is more common in the US.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Sorry, it's the Nutrena All Flock I'm talking about, which I can't really get. The Purina is the Flock raiser, and I was not happy with it and likely wouldn't go back to it...

 

[microchick]

Spring is whenever I can see over the snowbank next to my driveway

We haven't even had a decent snow yet. I don't call 3 inches a decent snow. 8-12" around here is a decent snow.

I'm so glad we live in an area if the roosters crowing at dawn don't wake you up, the neighbor's cows bellowing for their newly weaned calves will. Then there is the sound of our dogs barking at the Amish buggies going down the road from the relative safety of our fenced in yard. God I love country living!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I was a Nutrena dealer; it's pretty common, & cheaper

 

[BantyChooks]

Sorry, it's the Nutrena All Flock I'm talking about, which I can't really get. The Purina is the Flock raiser, and I was not happy with it and likely wouldn't go back to it...

Ahh.... Gotcha

I just remembered I left Georgia outside. Wondering if I should go get her... It's not going down TOO far tonight, but I'm paranoid coz of Maple.

 

[Phage]

Smart birds are a plus. I have 7 cockerels/roosters, and I have found that they will crow about 1-2 hours before sunrise briefly, then stop, then sometimes crow when it gets light. (I have no night time crowers.) Except the three GNH bachelors (who will get pullets this fall), the other three roosters and one cockerel are "heads of households". I've noticed that the older the rooster gets, the less likely they are to crow a lot in the morning, or for that matter, in the day time (unless disturbed). It's almost like I can imagine them saying to the young ones "Shut up already, we get the point!" Also, the ones with families have their hands full with guarding and breeding their girls, and don't spend as much time yelling as the bachelors...

That is good to know.
This guy will have plenty of girls to keep him busy once they grow out. He will have his 8 hens, and may visit the "Trader Joe" egg hens just to see what that mix produces.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: I was a Nutrena dealer; it's pretty common, & cheaper

I like Nutrena. Am using Feather Fixer currently. All Flock is newer, I guess, can't find it easily (yet).

Quote: Go get that little chicken inside and give her some snuggles!

 

[BantyChooks]

I like Nutrena. Am using Feather Fixer currently. All Flock is newer, I guess, can't find it easily (yet).
Go get that little chicken inside and give her some snuggles! 

Thing is, she hates being confined... She manages to bust the lid open enough for her to get out, then she poops all over the basement. *Sigh*

Georgia, I luvs ya, but you really do haveta stay in your crate....

She's too mean to stay in with the chicks

 

[dan26552]

I don't have them yet - S&G discontinued NNs, but sold their stock to Dunlap, so I called Dunlap, confirmed their broiler NNs were from that S&G stock, and ordered 25 for their very first available hatch (hatch date Feb. 22). I will be plotting their growth in detail compared to my hodge podge group from Ideal (that I'm delighted with), and if they are large as expected, will be crossing them with both the Aloha NNs coming later (to improve size) and with the German New Hampshires. I'll post about them ad nauseum on the NN thread, no doubt - likely cross posted on the Breeding for Production thread as well (they like graphs!).

He sold them?! We raised about a 100 years ago, I was to small at the time to tell you anything about them now (except I loved them) and a funny story, we missed a pair the night we loaded them to take to the processer and we named them John boy and Marcia Woolery and shortly after that we "married" them, the day after married them Marcia laid her first egg

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Smart birds are a plus. I have 7 cockerels/roosters, and I have found that they will crow about 1-2 hours before sunrise briefly, then stop, then sometimes crow when it gets light. (I have no night time crowers.) Except the three GNH bachelors (who will get pullets this fall), the other three roosters and one cockerel are "heads of households". I've noticed that the older the rooster gets, the less likely they are to crow a lot in the morning, or for that matter, in the day time (unless disturbed). It's almost like I can imagine them saying to the young ones "Shut up already, we get the point!" Also, the ones with families have their hands full with guarding and breeding their girls, and don't spend as much time yelling as the bachelors...

That is good to know.
This guy will have plenty of girls to keep him busy once they grow out. He will have his 8 hens, and may visit the "Trader Joe" egg hens just to see what that mix produces.

Well, I'm sure every rooster is different, and it probably also depends on level of light pollution and if they are disturbed in the night by anything, but I have these 7 over about an acre, and they will sometimes call and response with each other, but aren't all that bad. And, indeed, the older ones (I don't mean really old, just 1-2 years old) like to "sleep in", though they'll occasionally respond to a youngun. The 4:30am stuff lasts about 5 minutes tops, then they all shut up for a while. No complaints, and my next door neighbor didn't even know I had chickens. (SEVEN roosters/cockerels - actually 8 at the time - and he never heard them). I DO locate the coops so that most of the noise form crowing is directed toward my house and away from the neighbors.

Alas, Dumbledore (senior cockbird here at about 2 years old) is the self-appointed protector of everybody. He is a hero (protected the entire flock from a pair of terriers), but he also sometimes thinks egg songs are alarm calls. He has phases he goes through - at least that's during the day. (But I'll run out and think something's gotten to them, and it's just that Lissa laid and egg!)



So maybe there's some hope for your boy as he gets older. (If you have the ability to arrange/build so that the sound from the coop bounces off your house/outbuildings instead of travels out that helps while he works it out.)

- Ant Farm