Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[SleepyOwl]

Nice Krafty!

You are lucky being in the south where you can build open like that!

 

[Reyvaughn]

I figured out today that my RIR hen has been pecking holes into my eggs. I was thinking it was the bedding, but I just caught her yellow beaked. I put some golf balls into the favorite nesting box (out if six choices, they all lay in one or on the floor

), to try to deter her. Any suggestions? I am killing my rooster tomorrow, should she be included? She is one of the best layers, but she has been breaking one or two eggs a day. Also, all the other girls are fat, but she has always seemed bony to me...not unhealthy, but not as robust as the others. She is a RIR, aka production red. Between her and Henry, this is definitely not a breed I will do again.

I have wooden dummy eggs and I just discovered my Ameraucanas are eating my Delaware eggs. I take my wooden eggs and toss them on the floor and watch everyone run and peck at it and kind of mosey away when it doesn't break. I do it again. I keep doing it until when I drop it, everyone stays away from it. They stay away from the eggs until someone is careless and breaks another one in the nest box again. It takes a good 5-10x but I don't want to cull a chicken for a reason that is fixable. Unless she just isn't your cup of tea... or coffee.

 

[pysankigirl]

one of the unfinished ones.... the duck approves apparently, she has a nest now

NICE! wow...how many different pens will you have!!????!!! I am going to slink away now with my tail between my legs....

 

[pysankigirl]

Off topic, if you all don't mind: does anyone know when the Gilmanor VA is this year?

I've never been but someone said it was the first weekend in May? same as the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival if I am not mistaken.

 

[kraftyladies]

NICE! wow...how many different pens will you have!!????!!! I am going to slink away now with my tail between my legs....

16... one day .... my dream is to have them all around the perimeter, then i would have 32. Just a dream....

 

[Sahwithchicks]

16... one day .... my dream is to have them all around the perimeter, then i would have 32. Just a dream....

I'll move in, if you ever manage it

 

[tdhenson86]

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Wow! Those are some nice pens! Oh, and don't you know chocolate melts in heat? You should probably just pack all those chocolate Orps up and send them up here to Michigan to keep them safe.

 

[babymakes6]

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Wow! Those are some nice pens! Oh, and don't you know chocolate melts in heat? You should probably just pack all those chocolate Orps up and send them up here to Michigan to keep them safe.

Nice try!

Anyone interested in Cream Legbar Roosters?? 2 have a crest but still have a nice comb. Free, you pay shipping.

How old are they and who did they come from?

 

[babymakes6]

Last night was a lot of fun-when is the next one?

 

[mzstre]

Last night was a lot of fun-when is the next one?

x2!