Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[ozexpat]

I am glad you are keeping busy.

Let us know how many yolks are in that egg

 

[ozexpat]

Mrs oz finally got to Bacolod. The poor kids passed out in the car waiting for her. The a/c gets them every time

 

[piglett]

Mrs oz finally got to Bacolod. The poor kids passed out in the car waiting for her. The a/c gets them every time

glad to hear that she arrived safe

1 more week of classes then I get a break

these last 15 weeks have worn me down Mate

I only have one 5 week course lined up for the first 1/2 of the summer

I have to get Marily her cheep car & re-vamp the 4 deck brooder

it is to become a 3 deck brooder so it will hold older birds

they will all be 1/4 inch screen with a pull out poop tray

i'm tired of buying shavings for the youngsters

I also have to get my big chicken tractor put in place for my cockerels so they can grow out

Wed is the last day I will set local eggs

so 3 weeks after that the sportsman will get some time off......unless I have a weak moment on ebay

got to build some nest boxes on the ground for my 9 female muscovies

I have seen breeding but not any laying

take care

pig

 

[piglett]

Looks like you have some work in your future OZ with the incubator remodel task.

I had the GOOD/BAD/Ugly hit me last week. Well 1 bad/ugly. Something got into my duck pen and got my male. So I am so hoping my 23 rouen eggs hatch as well as those she laying that are still fertile get some babies from them.

Wife's horse showed up from breeder. Calf was born day before horse got home (Free beef!!!!) doing great after a slightly rocky start. Most eggs cooking are doing well (1st batch fertile test went awry but waiting a couple days yet).

Picked up new customers for eggs, but demand outweighs supply currently (May have that slightly rectified in a couple days) and also might have some new chicks also within a couple days from a semi local hobbiest breeder. By fall hopefully I can get supply=demand.

Meat project eggs are good development 12/13 (1 clear) and meats from hatchery doing good. As well as the dz chicks we picked up (Wife took pity on me and we went to feed store) when a layer deal fell threw. The last are replacement roos. Which I am proud of. Her words were exactly "Get what you want" and I did 2 things. Let each of our 3 little ones pic out a chick from a fry pan bin and then picked out 1/2 dz roos myself. I COULD have picked up 5 dozen pullets and got away with it that day. Thinking there is a couple RIR pullets in there but time will tell. Only about 10 days old right now.

And production is nearly 100% 41 pullets and I get 38-41 eggs/day. Even the CX pullets are pulling weight in the eggs department.

All in all the good outweighs the bad lately. Which reminds me. I got a monster egg other day, larger than a duck egg from a hen. It weighs 3.8 oz, my other large eggs weigh 2.2. I am tempted to crack it just to see how many yolks it is holding. Mistaken for a duck egg to start but wrong shell and duck layed in another spot that day. And its about 25% bigger than my duck's eggs are.

can we get a pic of the youngster??

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

OOPS I typed "breeder" meant trainer for the horse. I'll try get a pic of him and the heifer later its rainy crappy weather though today.

 

[ramirezframing]

OOPS I typed "breeder" meant trainer for the horse. I'll try get a pic of him and the heifer later its rainy crappy weather though today.

You must be in the south. I feel your pain on the weather, as my gold fish are now playing in the neighbors yard and the frogs haven't stopped chirping since last evening. Hope you stay above water.

 

[hillfloweranch]

Tad windy here...

 

[ozexpat]

Tad windy here...

where is the pink paint?

 

[hillfloweranch]

Purple paint on the nest boxes

 

[ramirezframing]

Tad windy here...

Hope the birds are ok and you can just flip it back up.