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

Eggs went into the bator on Friday.

The Guineas are laying up a storm. In a few monhs we will have enough to let 30 loose as a free range experiment.

The heritage birds are putting out 4-6 eggs a week each, I have to be happy with that.

Still no eggs from the white rocks or cuckoo marans. I will have to give them a little chat in three weeks if we dont have eggs by then.

The renetting of the first frow out pen is complete. The birds will get their second Coryza vaccine and new zip tie leg bands before they go back in.

Coco lumber milling started yesterday at the farm in Kabankalan. There are four coco trees not five as I thought but they are 30 years old, not 10 so they are a good 50 feet high. We should get some good lumber out of them. There is also a 40 year old Santol or cotton fruit tree that we harvested.



Its a popular fruit tree but this one is past its prime.

According to the internet, It is fairly hard, moderately heavy, close-grained and polishes well, but is not always of good quality. It is not durable in contact with moisture and is subject to borers. However, it is plentiful, easy to saw and work, and accordingly popular. If carefully seasoned, it can be employed for house-posts, interior construction, light-framing, barrels, cabinetwork, boats, carts, sandals, butcher's blocks, household utensils and carvings.

We will season it for a year before we use it.

500 cinder blocks and 20 bags of cement were delivered yesterday.

The carpenter starts construction on the piggery extension on Monday. It will give us 2 12x8 pens, more room for the farrowing pens and an 8x8 boar pen under one roof.
It helps to have a handaxe and a stew pot in hand when you do one of these little 'chats' ! Good luck!!
Scott
 
It helps to have a handaxe and a stew pot in hand when you do one of these little 'chats' ! Good luck!!
Scott
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WOW

Its been a long time since there were no posts for 24 hours.

2 weeks, 2 days and 12 hrs till I am heading back to my tropical chicken paradise.

I may have souced some Delaware and New Hampshire eggs from Hemet. I hope our Socal temps are moderate for the five days before I head out.

I have to fit 2 kids bikes with training wheels into my luggage as its birthday season and the kids are well and truly out growing their tricycles. I picked up some well treated, new looking bargains on Craigslist. I was happy not to have to buy new.

The construction should begin on the piggery extension today if all goes as planned. I hope it will be finished while I am there.
 
Thanks..

once it hits July the egg fertility really gets messed up in SoCal. Most suppliers are inland with summer temps in the 100-110 range.

It makes it tough to collect eggs before they start to incubate then cook.
It's the same here.....the heat seems to just kill the mood for the flock.
It seems they no sooner get back to business once the heat cools down
when they go into molt and again are in no mood for procreating
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It's the same here.....the heat seems to just kill the mood for the flock.
It seems they no sooner get back to business once the heat cools down
when they go into molt and again are in no mood for procreating
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and thus the reason why losing the last lot of imported chicks will have such an impact on my program.

Some of the breeds I wont even be able to get till April 2015

Lets hope I can get a moderate hatch in September. The breeds I am trying to take are all for developing sex links. I have a great potential market for them. I just need birds....
 

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