My son saw your hen last night on the home page. He asked why is that hen trying to fly? I was so surprised, I was not even thinking he could tell the hens from the roos yet.Well, to my surprise, my red sexlink girl Flicker is circling the home page.I find it interesting that they would use her picture to link to a post about determining which hens are laying since she was actually late to mature and didn't even lay until her second summer.
I would feed an all flock or a non medicated grower or since you have some in molt you might consider the high protein meatbird crumbles but they cost more money. I would still have the grit and oyster shell available. Growing feathers takes lots of protein and nonlaying chickens don't need as much calcium. You may notice that your chickens don't eat as many scoops of the chicken feed if you switch to a higher protein feed. I noticed a slight drop off but I was feeding close to 20 chickens when I switched. I also noticed the higher the protein in the bag, the more scoops of feed I got. So weight wise I know my chickens were eating less pounds of feed per day. BUT they did increase their oyster shell intake some. Still I have not finished 50 pounds of oyster shell in over a year.
I'm sure there will be hens for sell at the upcoming shows. There is one tomorrow in Blommington and one Oct 19th in Lebanon. Then some of the TSC stores have parking lot swaps. But one does need to be careful when buying an adult bird. Inspect the hen and ask lots of questions. One of the reasons I started off with chicks was because I did not know enough about chickens to be able to inspect or even come close to asking good questions. We got chicks as late as Oct last yr. I have an order of chicks coming from Meyer next week. They will be fine outside once they are fully feathered around 4-6 weeks.
Congrats on the blue egg! My EE was the first to lay, I want to say she was like 4 months old. She lays a green egg.Stop it!!!! Never mind. Buy them and breed them! My Brahma is the sweetest girl in my flock and these are just gorgeous!
And... One of my EE girls just started laying! Extremely light blue but I think it's just gorgeous. First time I've ever actually seen a blue egg. I was really surprised that an EE was the second to start laying since everything I read said they tend to start laying late. Excited to see what I find today!
Thank you M2H for asking about CE. I was wondering the same thing. In my house, if I were gone, my kids would probably eat fast food more than I'd like , stay up too late, their clothes wouldn't match, but they'd have a really good time. This is what happened the last time I went somewhere and left the kids at home:If I had your flock I'd put them on an all flock or starter/grower feed and offer oyster shell for calcium supplement. You've got enough birds that aren't laying that they don't need the extra calcium in the layer feed. I have my flock on an all flock feed just for my rooster
Chicken Educationthat's funny! CE=continuing education I have to have 16 hours every 2 years to keep my vet tech liscence current and I missed last year so...
They lived and I only had to soak that dress for about a week.Double Yolk Weekend (Makes more sense that saying Doubleheader)
Hope to see some fellow BYCers!
DH and I are going to the Bloomington poultry show depending on the time (we're an hour behind). I know it starts at 9:00am and I thought I read it was open all day, but I just read something else that sounded like everyone leaves after the judging! Does anyone know? I will PM pbirdhaven because I think she is showing there. We're going to IU under the guise of visiting our younger daughter, so I'm hoping we can stop by the poultry show. Saturday evening DH gets his turn when we attend the football game. The next day we're going to Indy under the guise of visiting our older daughter and we'll check out the Coop Tour. The weather sounds like it will be great. I am still worrying about what shoes to wear that I can spray Clorox Clean-up on. I don't have any white plastic shoes!
Name Tag for Bloomington Poultry Show & Indy Coop Tour
I made a 3" x 4" name tag that people can use if they wish to identify themselves at the events this weekend. It's interactive: you can use a red marker to fill in your county!This is just an idea if people want to look for Indiana BYCers. Just click on the image, "save as" NameTag to your desktop or wherever to print it off. Don't make me be the only one wearing it!
September 21 • Saturday
Southern Indiana Poultry Show
Monroe County Fairgrounds
5700 West Airport Road
Bloomington, IN
9:00am -
September 22 • Sunday
Indianapolis, Indiana
Pre-sale tickets are $8 at naptownchickens.org; day-of tickets run $10. A portion of proceeds will fund the installation of a fully furnished and stocked coop at a local school. There will be 12 “show coops” on display. This is an “open-house” style event and can be explored at your leisure by bicycle or car.
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She did wait about 3 weeks before her next egg tho, then she got serious, she lays about 5 eggs a week. I'm not complaining.
