Several chickens missing in this picture too! Xzit, Shenandoah, and Bo, are out of frameChickens in freshly cut grass. (The grape vine isn’t quite ripe yet) but the chickens love the grapes! View attachment 2728101
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Several chickens missing in this picture too! Xzit, Shenandoah, and Bo, are out of frameChickens in freshly cut grass. (The grape vine isn’t quite ripe yet) but the chickens love the grapes! View attachment 2728101
Thank you for the encouragement, much appreciated!This is very clever. You have knack for clever solutions. You are going to be real good at this chicken thing.
Bob is right - very clever indeed.Thank you for the encouragement, much appreciated!
My plan whenever I encounter broodiness is to let them set on some duck eggs from my friends since their duck flock has a drake. After the hen is done raising them, I'll let my friends decide whether to sell the ducklings or not.Good morning everyone. I'm so sorry to hear of some of your troubles with your hens, especially since they are so young. I really feel for the production breeds and those that own them. I do not have production breeds but still some of my girls will give me 5 to 6 eggs a week. Henrietta lays about 8 eggs before she takes her break. Old momma hen, when she is not broody and laying lays 6 days in a row before skipping and she is close to 7 at least. Only 1 of my girls has produced a soft shelled egg, and that was Butter, and it was her 2nd ever egg. I've been thinking, my chickens have access to layer feed, for the most part they ignore it, prefer grass, bugs, whatever they find in the manure pile and for some of them snakes and minnows from the creek. What I do different them most is if I have a broody hen, I do not break her, she either hides, or I intentionally let her set. I know being broody can be hard on the hen, but if I know where she is I see to it that she has fresh water available and food. On average after the chicks hatch *not counting momma hen* they care for them 5 to 6 weeks before they are done. That is a 8 or 9 week break their body gets naturally from egg laying. I wonder if where most of us chicken keepers for many reasons break up that broody we are doing more harm then good to her body. I know many of us can't have roosters, or are at our limits so we have no choice but to break them. I feel though that the broody break, plus the normal break they take through winter and molting helps the hens in the long run in preventing reproduction problems. Now I may be completely wrong on this, but its just my train of thought.
She must have been in the army in her last life.She really has camouflaged herself.
All this little guy needs is a Superman cape and insignia!Some people can’t have roosters I know, and the ones that can, sometimes have more than they need. I’m only trying to say (no one can have this rooster, but I do loan him out to people if emotional support is required)
Jaffar, the greatest emotional support rooster ever)View attachment 2728278