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[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Howdy, friend Joey. I trust everything is glorious in your world today?

I woke up on the blade side of the grass... not the root side... so it is indeed a glorious day!!!

And how, pray tell, are things in your world???

 

[casportpony]

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-Kathy

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Didn't see your name your list, but here you are plain as day. Are you hiding from yourself???

Good morning, Kathy! After reading the article you posted, it reminded me of something I saw in the laying house run a couple of days ago. There was a rather large milky-looking puddle in the run, like one of the hens had explosive diarrhea. No solids, just a translucent white fluid. That was the only time I've seen it, and it happened to be the same day one of my hens started laying again. She laid a "rubber egg", and I attributed the diarrhea to her system being a little out of whack as she starts a new laying cycle. Is that normal, or am I just grasping straws?

And good morning to all the other crazy chicken people of the world!!!

Darn it, I was trying to hide from myself.

I've seen some odd looking poops from hens trying to lay softies, or in hens with stuck hard ones. When I see poops like that I keep an eye on everyone. If I know which hen is laying softies, I give her a calcium pill or calcium gluconate for a few days.

-Kathy

 

[chicken hawk 33]

You brought it on yourself, Seth,

You need 7 cabinet 'bators like you need 2 heads.  What you need is a reality check

Where are you going to get the money to build them?  They don't give the components away

Where are you going to get the money to buy enough eggs to fill them?  You can't expect to continue getting all your eggs shipped to you for free

Even if you managed to get all those eggs, and somehow managed to hatch even 50% of them, where would you get rid of that many day-old chicks on a regular basis?

Where are you going to get the layers to produce that many eggs? You can't rely on people to give you that many hens. Even if you could, they're not going to give their best breeding stock away.

With the volume you're talking about, you'd soon flood the local market; then what?  Even if you started shipping eggs, the shipping charges alone would keep you broke until you could get a reputation for supplying eggs from top-of-the-line breeders.

You better spend some time thinking this through before you jump into it.

I,am getting five dozen a week right now

 

[casportpony]

@Sally Sunshine @NaJoBeLe , here is a close up of the egg:


-Kathy

 

[chicken hawk 33]

You brought it on yourself, Seth,

You need 7 cabinet 'bators like you need 2 heads.  What you need is a reality check

Where are you going to get the money to build them?  They don't give the components away

Where are you going to get the money to buy enough eggs to fill them?  You can't expect to continue getting all your eggs shipped to you for free

Even if you managed to get all those eggs, and somehow managed to hatch even 50% of them, where would you get rid of that many day-old chicks on a regular basis?

Where are you going to get the layers to produce that many eggs? You can't rely on people to give you that many hens. Even if you could, they're not going to give their best breeding stock away.

With the volume you're talking about, you'd soon flood the local market; then what?  Even if you started shipping eggs, the shipping charges alone would keep you broke until you could get a reputation for supplying eggs from top-of-the-line breeders.

You better spend some time thinking this through before you jump into it.

are at least one big bator.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@shahtir101

EVERYONE
Look who is on the home page!!
Please have a look at her lovelies!!

 

[kwhites634]

I woke up on the blade side of the grass... not the root side... so it is indeed a glorious day!!!

And how, pray tell, are things in your world???

Not too awful shabby, so far, but it's early yet. Got a coat of primer on all the major pieces of the new coop I'm building...duplicating the pre-fab job I bought last year. Gotta wait a while, 'til the primer dries.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: that is the ONLY way to take cold meds lol

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Thank you.. Thank you very much....


This is what happens when you take cold medicine on an empty stomach.

Well, she is about as famous... So it fits!
PS. Go eat something before you kill me!

OMG Banti!!!!!

Set my eggs for the Easter Hatch-A-long.
1 Brown/White Chinese goose egg set 2/26
1 Toulouse goose egg set 2/28
4 Ameri-flower
4 SBEL
2 OE
1 EE
3 Maran
3 Lavender Orpington
20 Rhodebar
31 Barnyard mutts
10 Lavender Orp/ Rhodebar
3 LO/ Unknown breed Splash hens
With a grand total of 81 chicken eggs set around 12:30 p.m and 2 goose eggs

you need to throw in a few more to catch up with me!!!! bawhahahhahhaaa

I think I've about maxed out my allotment of fun for one day.
Got the rest of the major pieces cut out for the new coop.
Tomorrow I'll roll a coat of primer on them
I hear the bed calling my name right now, though
'Nite, y'all
'Nite, Kid

Morning WHITESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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A few of our mutts working on our training field today. Pictured are Loki, Lexi, Mina, Venus and Porsche. Also green and blue baby out of Porsche/Baron. Blue baby already has his call name assigned, Gunner. Green baby is awaiting a flight to Ohio.

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Hello everyone!

Update

Last hatch 8 of 13 Auracana , 2 late quitters, 3 dis.

Set my eggs for Easter today.
8 leghorn
8 Easter eggers
8 Columbian rocks
6 silkies
Haven't had time to finish cabinet bator, so back to the good old hovabator

@Sally Sunshine
@BantyChooks

 

[BullChick]

Quote: Part of me is glad my in-laws took Duckling this morning. The other part hopes she is okay. She is sick too. I wish I had figured that out when she drank a cow yesterday (sucked it dry! It was nothing but leather and bones!) and refused all food but Cheerios. Her diapers didn't give it away either. Man! How did I miss it? I thought she was just being a toddler.

I am actually crying now. I feel so awful for thinking she was having temper tantrums when I was roughhousing with her. She was sick, and didn't want to play!

It's all coming together. Oh, man!

The answer to the coffee question is caffeine kicks in after 15 min so if you kept it down for 15 mins your safe.

Oh, good.

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Try again

 

[kwhites634]

that is the ONLY way to take cold meds lol

OMG Banti!!!!!

you need to throw in a few more to catch up with me!!!! bawhahahhahhaaa

Morning WHITESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Good morning, Sallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy