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[lazy gardener]

My Dom babies. Hatched 1/18/16.

How many, where from? Love Doms. Looks like you have an excellent strain for auto-sexing.

O.K. I was guessing, based on your signature. You can sex them based on the wing feathers?

Can id at hatch with a good batch.

I'm good as most; better than some. Be a whole better if this mud would dry up; gotta be really careful or you'll bust your butt.
Glad DH found work; hope he enjoys it. We've been fairly warm here lately, except for the massive (for this area) snow we had a couple weeks ago. Now we have the mud & fog to contend with. Have I mentioned I hate winter?

I had a mud pit. Now it's all taken care of 4 - 8" of snow expected today. 5" already. Covers the mud quite nicely! Puppy has been out playing snow plow with her nose!
Originally Posted by granny hatchet


LOL never could understand why people want them for pets.

Hamsters either .

or snakes

Problem solved. Feed the rodents to the snakes. Feed the snakes to the chooks.

We never had ladybugs, then one year they showed up & never left. Several years ago we had an invasion of those black & red bugs (that I can't call the name of). I've seen the so thick on doors that you literally couldn't see the door. Stinkbugs weren't near as bad last year as they have been, but even one's one too many; chickens don't even like 'em.

Just remembered: the black & red jobs are Box Elder bugs.

There's also a black and red bug called a harlequin beetle here. Never saw them congregating on buildings, but they will carpet an area in the garden, or a plant in the spring.

 

[casportpony]

Are the new eggs coming from a farm that's tested negative for mycoplasma?

-Kathy

That is the issue most places don't even npip people don't know if they are or are not. I just hate the thought of exposing others by sale or incoming chicks to me.

As i understand it, NPIP clean just means they don't have Pullorum. If NPIP people want to, they can have other tests done.

If you still have some that look sick, might be best to euthanize them and/or have them tested.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@daxigait

Florida NPIP participants:
http://www.poultryimprovement.org/documents/fl.pdf

-Kathy

 

[Chaos18]

How many, where from? Love Doms. Looks like you have an excellent strain for auto-sexing.

I only have the 6. I got them as fertile eggs from MPC.

 

[lazy gardener]

I only have the 6. I got them as fertile eggs from MPC.

How many eggs did you set from MPC? Tell me about condition of eggs when you received them. Air cell shape, size? Rolling, saddle?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@kwhites634 I responded to your pm, just in case you didn't get an alert again lol. Don't worry, he's gentle

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Does anyone else have a candling addiction

 

[casportpony]

@Sally Sunshine , Morris Hatchery in Florida is NPIP and mycoplasma clean.

-Kathy

 

[ChickaLong]

Does anyone else have a candling addiction

Never

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 I responded to your pm, just in case you didn't get an alert again lol. Don't worry, he's gentle

Thanks, Jess....I'll go look