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[Chaos18]

Nighttime brooder checks...done...kids seem like they're getting over being sick but now hubby is sick...

I'm so, so tired

Hope he doesn't share it with you.

Morning. Thanks for the coffee.

 

[hippiestink]

Great to hear that she has returned. I believe you need to trim only one side so that the wings are unbalanced and that prevents flight. If they are symmetrically trimmed, even if short she could still fly.

We usually have to clip it VERY short on one side before she is sufficiently clipped. I don't know how, but she's a very strong flier and even just trimming like all the diagrams you see floating around isn't enough to stop her. I end up having to clip just short of the blood feathers before she stops flying.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Update: the hen has returned to the coop! I was throwing some green matter from the garden out to the others and changing out the water when I hear the rustle of feathers and her weird strangled crow. She then pops out of the bushes, leading to a small chase where I finally got her into the run. Just got back upstairs to tell the story.

I still have no clue where she was. Husband and I will be catching her and trimming more off of her wings, since it takes a lot of trimming before we find the length that won't let her fly over. All I know is that when she retires from egg laying, we are NEVER buying an ancona chicken again. This flightiness thing is going to give me a heart attack, and with her being the top of the pecking order the other hens WILL NOT eat until she begins eating.

Maybe she has a nest somewhere.
I probably won't have them again until I live where fences aren't an issue. They are very good layers of nice white eggs though.
I've settled on a single breed that is very respectful of fences. They will go under them though if there's any gap at all. I have a lot of fence work to do. Hens have already decimated most of my early garden.

We usually have to clip it VERY short on one side before she is sufficiently clipped. I don't know how, but she's a very strong flier and even just trimming like all the diagrams you see floating around isn't enough to stop her. I end up having to clip just short of the blood feathers before she stops flying.

I've seen birds with clipped wings continue to flap and walk up a fence to get over.

Have you considered adding a little height to the fence? Perhaps some flimsy chicken wire cantilevered inward toward the chicken yard side.
Often, they go over when they have something solid to land on at the top of the fence.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The following thread started as a meat bird discussion but changed on post 18 with a couple people that are convinced chickens lay 2 eggs a day.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/917662/meat-bird-breeds/10


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[daxigait]

@ChickenCanoe@MotorcycleChickGood morning guys!
@flocktasticI hope you got some rest and everyone feels better today.
@LittleLakePhil I hope you got some rest and feel better soon. Have a nice day fishing, and enjoy it. Don't worry about the old job. They don't care, they just want their lives to be easier. I work sixty hour weeks and help out with extras, but when I hurt my ankle at work and had to miss several days because I could not drive they could not be bothered to let me do office work I am qualified for, but had a temp. I was just out of work and wages. They have a different worker in me now.
@kwhites634Did the mower go better?
@hippiestinkI am glad your bird is back. Any luck on the job front?

 

[daxigait]

Sometimes it takes a lot to get through the day for sure. This was one of them.

I hope today is better.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Good morning. I've been up since about 3:30.

 

[daxigait]

Good morning Phage and Chaos18

 

[BullChick]

Morning MC

Good morning

Hope he doesn't share it with you.

Morning. Thanks for the coffee.

Good night

@ChickenCanoe@MotorcycleChickGood morning guys!
@flocktasticI hope you got some rest and everyone feels better today.
@LittleLakePhil I hope you got some rest and feel better soon. Have a nice day fishing, and enjoy it. Don't worry about the old job. They don't care, they just want their lives to be easier. I work sixty hour weeks and help out with extras, but when I hurt my ankle at work and had to miss several days because I could not drive they could not be bothered to let me do office work I am qualified for, but had a temp. I was just out of work and wages. They have a different worker in me now.
@kwhites634Did the mower go better?
@hippiestinkI am glad your bird is back. Any luck on the job front?

Good morning!

 

[daxigait]

Good morning. I've been up since about 3:30.

I got up at 4:30 and was at work by 5:25.