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[chicken hawk 33]

I got my first blue egg from one of my three ee

 

[Jessimom]

Morning/afternoon everyone!

Ok, I am not zoned for having chickens, but I'm on 2 acres. At some point, I want to change my zoning, but until then, I'm taking my chances. We've been here 4 years, and nobody has complained.

I have a brother that lives on my lot in his motorhome. That is illegal in my town. I have an obnoxious neighbor that complained about the motorhome living - she CAN NOT SEE my property, I'm at least 75 feet higher than the roof of her house - but we've had several run ins with her. I've had to evict my brother.

When code enforcement comes up to make sure we have nobody living in a motorhome, they will see my chickens. So, we are having to dismantle their runs and disguise the coop as a shed. We'll have to stash the chickens somewhere - is there any suggestions on how to keep them quiet? There are 18 hens (and 1 rooster that we'll bring inside). We should know when he's coming, so it should just be a couple of hours.

It would be really nice if he came up at night after they roost, but that isn't going to happen.

The joys of living in the middle of a city....

 

[chicken hawk 33]

It doesn't look blue in the pick but it is

 

[Jessimom]

These are the 5 New Years Seramas. Two are silkied.

This is part of the group before that. The front one is silkied. Three silkied in this batch of 7.

These are the babies that hatched a couple days ago. Pictures are a couple days old now....

They are adorable!!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

I got my first blue egg from one of my three ee

Congratulations!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I will be setting blue eggs once I get some more and have the time

 

[kwhites634]

Don't start this English mistakes again!! I am an
Israeli

You tell 'em, Bernie

 

[evitachu]

I keep several small and large ones. I usually use them for fermented feed but they do make good water bowls for winter. I don't like using them for roosters. They end up with water soaked wattles which tend to freeze off.

I went through the same as you experienced for a long time till I found 2 accurate ones.
I didn't trust the Brinsea spot check because it didn't agree with any of the other ones.
It is accurate but not my favorite. https://www.brinsea.com/p-394-spot-check-digital-incubator-thermometer.aspx
Then I bought a guaranteed accurate Thermoworks pocket thermometer which agreed exactly with the Brinsea. I then threw the other junk away.
http://thermoworks.com/products/low_cost/rt301wa.html It's on sale now for $16, guaranteed to be accurate to ±0.9°F, reads in 5 seconds and has adjustable calibration. I highly recommend it.
Below 95 is the zone of disproportionate development and will cause embryo death or malformations.
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx

Roosters need to be photostimulated just like hens. In winter, added light may improve fertility.

Not me. Wife would kill me. A rooster in a varikennel on the back porch has me on thin ice.

I love liver - all kinds.
My mom had a great beef liver recipe. Good thing because we had it nearly once a week or I may have starved. We ate a lot of cheap meat.
I've grown to embrace cheap cuts and other inexpensive sources of animal protein. Kidney and squid come to mind as excellent nutrition at low cost.

I so need a clean room. Mine are in the overly cluttered cellar.

If I try, I skip 4 pages at a time. You won't miss much that way.

Are you referring to coccidia?
Keeping bedding bone dry and feeders full so they only get a slight dose of the oocysts and healthy chickens will become resistant.

Raccoons and other predators laugh at chicken wire. Keeps chickens in but doesn't protect them.
If you build it, they will come.
I had all my buildings raccoon proof and after 150 years of chicken keeping here, voila - mink arrived. Killed 6 flocks of chickens in 6 nights with no opening larger than an inch.

I was the first to respond to his first post. "Am I crazy?" I told him to go for it.

I went to Farm & Home across the road from TSC. Oyster shell there was $10 for 10#. I put it back. I can get it from my co-op for $10 for 50#. But I have to buy $500 worth of feed to order.
The old timey feed store up the street from me has OS for 50 cents a pound so I got 4 lbs. to get me through till my next order.

This time of year, I start the generator a couple times a month to make sure it is still working. Just for refrigerators, freezers, incubators and electric heaters.

We were 58F on Friday and 42F Saturday morning but hit 7F Saturday night.

Shalom.
No avian commodities including hatching eggs from Turkey and Ukraine are allowed into the US because of HPAI. (highly pathogenic avian influenza)
Israel reported an outbreak of Newcastle in 2001. I guess that is past?

Here's your procedure to get hatching eggs exported from the US to Israel.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/regulations/vs/iregs/animals/downloads/is_pr_po_hc.pdf

The nefarious ways of getting birds to which you have referred is how these things spread.
People that should know better bring in things on the sly. The rules are there for a reason.
I knew a person that worked for the US govt. working in Costa Rica. He carried hatching eggs to CR without any of the documentation because he could.
Not good.

That isn't close to hatching. It may - for some unknown reason - have been late starting to develop.
I really can't see into most of my eggs so I just leave them alone and don't discard unless they leak or stink.
I once had an egg set with the rest that hadn't hatched and on day 25, I opened it for an eggtopsy only to discover a live chick about to hatch.

Ah! Ok so it may have a chance. No it doesn't stink or leak. It is very active and kicking. Thank you!

 

[mlm Mike]

I will be setting blue eggs once I get some more and have the time

Wonderful!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Sall this is for you!