How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[kychickens123]

3 green today....its been pretty cold here

 

[gander007]

3 eggs today

1 egg from the control group

1 Hen escaped and decided to play around with the free range chickens

2 eggs from the free range chickens

0 eggs from the ducks as the girls also decided to leave there little area last night and play with a couple of the Mallard drakes and again tonight I caught them out with the Mallards funny thing is just last week the same girls ran from the boys now they are getting all cleaned up and sliding out between the gate and the post

Temp staying around 70 degrees all day

 

[cabinchicky]

3/15

 

[Spartan22]

9 so far before noon!

 

[matven123]

7 eggs from 10 hens and 4 pullets. Just about time to cull the elders

 

[matven123]

It's about -7 Celsius here I think that's 18F

 

[mossyroo]

Our last batch of 14 chicks included 6 roos. We figured the harassment of the pullets may have contributed to only getting one egg a day on a good day. Eliminated 5 of the buggers on Sat leaving only 1 JR and the SR survivor from our original batch. This is what I found in the coup last night. I think our little hens like those rowdy roosters being in the freezer. When I went out Howey was on one perch with two hens on each side and Sidney was on the other perch with two hens on each side. And all was peaceful. —

feeling thankful. I might add that we had some really good chicken noodle soup last night. Yummy.

 

[karenerwin]

6 eggs today.
I had a late hatcher from my incubation. I had to assist (twice!). I never figured he would make it. When he finally got out he couldn't stand, and his toes were extremely curled under. But he had the loudest and most persistent chirp, which is why I helped in the first place. It turns out he was malpositioned. Even after I removed the top part of the shell you couldn't see his head at all. I left him like that over night hoping he would push & get himself out. ( I had a warm moist towel wrapped around the shell for extra humidity.) No such luck, so in the morning I got him out. Man, was he a sad mess! Hours later he still couldn't stand & was not fluffing out. I figured I would give him a while but really held out no hope for him. I kept putting off the inevitable ( I HATE culling chicks), I was procrastinating figuring he would just pass on his own. He just kept laying on his side, chirping with gusto & one of his legs would twitch.

This morning when I got up, yep, he was still chirping! I went over to take a look & low and behold... He was standing & looking around alertly!!! Hubby wanted me to put some water in the bator so that he could drink. I said no I don't want the humidity back up. So I moved him to the brooder with the other chicks from his hatch.. He still looked a mess, he had shell membrane stuck on him ( I didn't want to try to get it off when he was trying to dry out & then I thought it wouldn't make a difference anyway). Yes, he was walking & running around on his curled under feet, it looked like he was walking on his knuckles (I don't even know if chickens have knuckles!) I wasn't sure what I would find when I got home from work.

Well, I got home 10 hours later & he is still doing fine! I took him out gave him a 100 degree bath to remove the membrane & junk. Dried him off real good (his feathers are finally fluffing!) gave him some poly sol vitamins and fashioned him some little shoes to at least straighten out his little toes ( now they are curved to the side, but at least they aren't curled under). I don't know if he'll make it to adulthood or not, but I didn't think he was going to make it to Monday morning!

 

[WthrLady]

Got our 1000th egg today!

 

[Daethen]

9/14 today. The girls have picked back up since adding more light. They got another rib cage today to peck at too.