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Killer Tomato said:
I know this sounds like a platitude, but sometimes everything goes to crap all at once because you are going to make a BIG shift for the better, and you're getting a giant shove/nudge that it's going to happen soon.

It's the moments leading up to the change: when you're covered in mud and rain, sick and broken and crying, feeling alone and depressed that suck pretty hard. You're gonna be better than ok -- you're gonna be great! You got this!

(I'm dealing with Mystery Illness myself, and I have the MOST unsupportive doctor. I'd fire him if I could, but the only other specialist around isn't taking new patients. I'm stuck with choir boy Doogie Houser....grrrrrr)
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I hope their is some good coming! All I see right now is the holidays coming and being broke! And Ive def been covered in mud and rain, trying to fix that run. It was mud that sunk you up to your knees! My illness is so weird and I think Ive been tested for almost everything with no for sure result. I hope you find an answer.

On the "up" side: I found 4 eggs yesterday and they were all in a nestbox! Usually 1 is on the poop board, 1 is in a corner and 1 is in the middle of the coop floor! Here is my haul from yesterday! My camera makes everything light, all eggs are a bit darker than they appear in photo. That green looking one is actually more blue.
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Well hey,eggs in the nestbox that's good and pretty unexpected! May not be a huge windfall but its something. I told Lulu that Rosie laid before her, she seemed to take it hard sneezed right in my face...:)
andreanar said:
I hope their is some good coming! All I see right now is the holidays coming and being broke! And Ive def been covered in mud and rain, trying to fix that run. It was mud that sunk you up to your knees! My illness is so weird and I think Ive been tested for almost everything with no for sure result. I hope you find an answer.

On the "up" side: I found 4 eggs yesterday and they were all in a nestbox! Usually 1 is on the poop board, 1 is in a corner and 1 is in the middle of the coop floor! Here is my haul from yesterday! My camera makes everything light, all eggs are a bit darker than they appear in photo. That green looking one is actually more blue.
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Chickassan said:
Omg they're killing me! Went out to feed them and they're all puffed up in a circle I'm thinking this cannot be good! Guess what? It wasn't! The dummies are puffed up around a HAWK that's trying to eat a chipmunk.....what is wrong with my chickens?!? :barnie
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That is hilarious, and kinda gross! Chickens....gotta love em. :)
 
OK, don't laugh at me, but I'm still pretty much a noob at this chicken thing. So I got a couple of noob questions for you old-timers. :)

Today's egg (did I really just say that?!) had a little blood on the shell. I cleaned it off and checked my Silkie's butt. Looks like a normal Silkie butthole to me (a black smile/hole combination, if you will).

Secondly, this is like maybe her tenth egg. She was born May 1 (incidentally, the same time as I started with chickens. Coincidence? I think not). So, after she goes through this, her first laying cycle, since we're heading into winter, will she likely lay a certain amount of eggs and then stop, or will she continue to lay through the winter? I am not supplementing light in their coops, as I want them to do their natural thing, and I don't want them all getting skinny on me like Big Bird.

Thank you in advance for not laughing at my stupid questions! I love you all, peeps! :love
 
Chickassan said:
I almost had a heart attack lol! Imagine what the hawk was thinking, its like a hamburger about to beat you up while you're eating a hotdog.
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Hahaha, I'm so brain dead from work that this didn't even make sense when I read it! But now that I (finally) get it, that is really freakin' funny...
 
Ok the blood on the egg,totally normal it happens no need for concern or additional butt checks unless you just want to lol! And she will most likely lay through winter since this is her first year, next year she will molt and take a couple months off from laying. :)
pitbullmomma said:
OK, don't laugh at me, but I'm still pretty much a noob at this chicken thing. So I got a couple of noob questions for you old-timers. :)

Today's egg (did I really just say that?!) had a little blood on the shell. I cleaned it off and checked my Silkie's butt. Looks like a normal Silkie butthole to me (a black smile/hole combination, if you will).

Secondly, this is like maybe her tenth egg. She was born May 1 (incidentally, the same time as I started with chickens. Coincidence? I think not). So, after she goes through this, her first laying cycle, since we're heading into winter, will she likely lay a certain amount of eggs and then stop, or will she continue to lay through the winter? I am not supplementing light in their coops, as I want them to do their natural thing, and I don't want them all getting skinny on me like Big Bird.

Thank you in advance for not laughing at my stupid questions! I love you all, peeps! :love
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Chickassan said:
Ok the blood on the egg,totally normal it happens no need for concern or additional butt checks unless you just want to lol! And she will most likely lay through winter since this is her first year, next year she will molt and take a couple months off from laying. :)
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Thank you for the quick answers! That's what I was thinking too with the bloody egg.

I'm wondering now if I should have just switched my girls over to an All Flock feed, instead of the Layena (I'm still transitioning them over from the starter crumbles they were on). I didn't realize that layer feed has *lower* protein than an all-flock, which sounds counterintuitive--you would think that if they are laying they would need more protein. I was basing my feed choice on the (faulty) logc that if one hen started laying, they all would, lol! But now I'm paranoid with my skinny Big Bird, and wondering if I should mix in some All Flock too (what I'm feeding my other coop of nonlaying birds and my cockerel).

Just when you think you're getting a good grip on all this stuff, eh?
 
I know it's confusing sometimes. I mix the flock food and the layer crumbles together and feed everyone. Just my personal opinion they seem to like it better and i don't think the roo is going to get enough excess calcium to harm him from the mix.
pitbullmomma said:
Thank you for the quick answers! That's what I was thinking too with the bloody egg.

I'm wondering now if I should have just switched my girls over to an All Flock feed, instead of the Layena (I'm still transitioning them over from the starter crumbles they were on). I didn't realize that layer feed has *lower* protein than an all-flock, which sounds counterintuitive--you would think that if they are laying they would need more protein. I was basing my feed choice on the (faulty) logc that if one hen started laying, they all would, lol! But now I'm paranoid with my skinny Big Bird, and wondering if I should mix in some All Flock too (what I'm feeding my other coop of nonlaying birds and my cockerel).

Just when you think you're getting a good grip on all this stuff, eh?
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