How is your flock today?

[Byrd gal]

I am having a laugh at my flock. Its been snowy here so they been hanging inside. I figured I would hang cabbage outside to get them up and out. Well they are tether balling it around and bopping heads with the darn thing. I guess I really should get dressed again and hang it on the fence smh...

 

[416bigbore]

I think that it might have something to do with that thin layer on the inside of the shell. Maybe the duck egg's have a little thicker layer. I know that turkey egg's have thicker one's, because I tried eating some years ago. They still tasted good.

I am no expert when it comes to different egg shell hardness, just as long as the egg shells stay hard and no one has any broken shells or egg bound issues, neither one is fun to deal with.

 

[BlueBaby]

I am no expert when it comes to different egg shell hardness, just as long as the egg shells stay hard and no one has any broken shells or egg bound issues, neither one is fun to deal with.

You've got that right. I would never try to hatch an egg from that type of hen neither. I'm sort of picky about what egg's that I hatch chick's from.

 

[416bigbore]

@BlueBaby Just curious, have you ever experienced any snow where you are at in Phoenix?

 

[416bigbore]

You've got that right. I would never try to hatch an egg from that type of hen neither. I'm sort of picky about what egg's that I hatch chick's from.

If I understand you correctly, too hard of a shell is what you mean?

 

[416bigbore]

I am having a laugh at my flock. Its been snowy here so they been hanging inside. I figured I would hang cabbage outside to get them up and out. Well they are tether balling it around and bopping heads with the darn thing. I guess I really should get dressed again and hang it on the fence smh...

A pic would be funny if you can post one?

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby Just curious, have you ever experienced any snow where you are at in Phoenix?

Not that I know of, although one year I got up early to go somewhere and there was frosted ice on the porch landing that was a bit slippery.

If I understand you correctly, too hard of a shell is what you mean?

No, I mean any miss-shaped egg's do not go into my incubator. Miss-shaped egg's might mean the hen may be having a problem, and I will not pass that on in a chick. I also don't set the smaller pullet sized egg's. I like to give the girl time to have a bigger egg that has a nice shape, and I'm sure that she's not having any problem's in her egg laying.

 

[ackie]

How many eggs do you normally generate a day? We average ten when all the girls are doing their thing on time each day, four chicken and six duck.

I think I need to build bigger nesting boxes for our chickens because they started to lay their eggs up in the wheat straw bales or down in the straw on the ground in one of the ducks nests with their eggs.

For a quick nesting box I used three large square plastic cat litter buckets and I think they have out grown them, so time to do something different.

I have 20 chickens that can be laying. Plus two more that aren't because they're with babens.

I've got 7 loose hens so they could be laying where I don't know about
and then 6 in one pen (main) and 5 in another (side). the loose nest I know about I'm calling Henriettas nest or H, because she's the one who told me about the spot.

I've only been tracking it the past few days but

1/25 10 - 5 main, 2 Henrietta's nest, 3 side
1/26 5 - 2 main, 1 H, 2 side)
1/27 8 - 2 main, 3 H, 3 side
1/28 7 - 4 main, 1 H, 2 side
1/29 (today so incomplete) 5- 3 main, 1 H, 1 side

I use 5 gal buckets

I don't think they're good for hatching ..I've had issues before... but for laying, they're great

and then Henrietta's nest is just on the ground between a big piece of styrofoam and the barn, it makes a little right triangle so its pretty weather resistant.

 

[ackie]

No, I mean any miss-shaped egg's do not go into my incubator. Miss-shaped egg's might mean the hen may be having a problem, and I will not pass that on in a chick. I also don't set the smaller pullet sized egg's. I like to give the girl time to have a bigger egg that has a nice shape, and I'm sure that she's not having any problem's in her egg laying.

I've never actually chosen what eggs go in my bater. it's always a nest someone has already started and then either abandoned or it had too many eggs and I had to steal some. 2 of my pullets laid and hatched full nests that I didnt even know about.

 

[BlueBaby]

I've never actually chosen what eggs go in my bater. it's always a nest someone has already started and then either abandoned or it had too many eggs and I had to steal some. 2 of my pullets laid and hatched full nests that I didnt even know about.

I don't let my broodies hatch any. I had 5 broodies this last year that I had to keep taking the egg's away from.