How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[pennyJo1960]

We have lucked out i think many are run off by Fear-ah prowling at night this may be her last year of that we almost lost her last winter may have end her time of out in the cold this year bring her in more

 

[karenerwin]

We have lucked out i think many are run off by Fear-ah prowling at night this may be her last year of that we almost lost her last winter may have end her time of out in the cold this year bring her in more

I would like for our dog to be able to patrol more at night, but we don't want her barking to bother any of the neighbors, so she stays inside for the most part. I do believe that she and our previous dog have kept the coyote and fox away.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I only hope crazy white dog matures enough to follow in Fear's shoes and not chase the chickens like they are dinner

 

[karenerwin]

I only hope crazy white dog matures enough to follow in Fear's shoes and not chase the chickens like they are dinner

It took a long time for our dog to learn not to eat the chickens. I still don't trust her around young chicks or juvenile birds. She really never seemed interested in eating them, she would just play with them until they stopped moving . She still will chase them sometimes if they go into her "dog yard", but she doesn't always chase them and she usually lets them get back into their yard or through the cattle panels into the safety of the other side of the fence.
She also does an awesome job of letting me know where one is hiding if it is anywhere in the near vicinity at night.

My hubby just pointed out that it is midnight here, so I am headed to bed. Good night.

 

[pennyJo1960]

maybe there is hope from crazy white dog then well bedtime here see ya here tomorrow

 

[pennyJo1960]

had 10 but two where the two white egg banty in their or very slow maturing
full size birds but their not getting bigger

 

[Wimomof2]

4 eggs from 7 hens. A couple of my RIR's should be laying but arent. Yesterday I had 6. I got some new hens, so still trying to figure out who is laying what! I get blue, green, dark brown and tan eggs!

 

[karenerwin]

I got 10 eggs today. I sold 10 hatching eggs to a friend of mine (25 cents a piece, LOL). He has been trying to hatch some eggs since the middle of April but hasn't been having much luck. I keep telling him to join BYC and go to Hatching with Sally, but for some reason he hasn't.
He is trying a different incubator. I think he had 2 hatch out of his last batch, but didn't realize that his young child would be so rough with the chicks. He learned that lesson the hard way.

I had another chick hatch in my incubator today! A cute little black chick. I slipped him under the Momma broody that got the last 2 chicks a couple of days ago. She seems to have taken to him already. So she now has 4 chicks and the hen in the other coop has 2. I found her last egg in the water dish when I went to lock them up this evening. Not sure how it got there. It was still in the nest box earlier today. She and the nest box and the 2 chicks are securely inside the broody box that my hubby made, so the blame can't be placed on any other chicken. When I fished the egg out of the water bowl, it had part of the outer shell off, but the membrane still looked to be mostly intact. The chick appeared to be fully formed and ready to go, but was dead. I don't know if it was alive or dead before it ended up in the water bowl. I was thinking that she was getting the hang of this hatching eggs business, but now I'm not so sure. At least, she seems to be taking good care of the 2 chicks that she did hatch.

 

[Spartan22]

I got 10 eggs today. I sold 10 hatching eggs to a friend of mine (25 cents a piece, LOL). He has been trying to hatch some eggs since the middle of April but hasn't been having much luck. I keep telling him to join BYC and go to Hatching with Sally, but for some reason he hasn't.
He is trying a different incubator. I think he had 2 hatch out of his last batch, but didn't realize that his young child would be so rough with the chicks. He learned that lesson the hard way.

.25 cents? that is super cheap ha ha, I sold some of my fertilized eggs for $5 a piece, non fertilized for $4 per dozen, I just make sure non older than 5 days old for freshness. But am not in egg business, I just want to maintain quality. LOL

I had another chick hatch in my incubator today! A cute little black chick. I slipped him under the Momma broody that got the last 2 chicks a couple of days ago. She seems to have taken to him already.

Nice! I have also 27 eggs in incubator ready to hatch in a week, will be my last batch of chicks this year, I might stick some of them under my 2 broodies (2 more hens went broody few days ago), broody #7 & 8. Never had so many broodies in my chicken life ever.

 

[karenerwin]

I know 25 cents is super cheap, but they are just backyard mix and he's had such a terrible time getting any of his eggs to hatch, so I took pity on him.