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[chickiebaby1]

Wow! Where is everybody today!!!

 

[chickiebaby1]

Time to set the New Year's Eve eggs. I have 4 bantam black cochins and 4 silver laced wyandott/golden laced wyandotts. Can't wait to see what these will look like.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Wow! Where is everybody today!!!

I'm here!!!!

 

[birdman55]

well almost done securing the bottoms of the four coops and then goes the netting on top and then the temp tarp for the winter..check out the progress below...also building my own incubator for you diy ers

 

[Dish chickens]

Birdman
I'm there with you just dropped 32 eggs in the bator and hoping for the best.
Good luck and happy hatching----New Year Hatch Along

 

[hanakimi]

Those are really cute! Hopefully next year I'll have some more time to of homemade gifts!!

On another note I must have some more pullets laying cause we got 11 eggs today!!!

Congrats on your eggs. i haven't had eggs from my girls in 2 months but i know why. my 2 heritage buckeyes were born in June so the shorter daylight came before their first egg and the other 3 molted in October and haven't returned to laying because of shorter days. i don't feel like adding supplemental lighting so I'll just wait till they decide to lay again

 

[PeacefulWalls]

Silly ducks! They stopped laying October 29. On December 1 and the following 3 days someone decided to start laying again. Then on December 5 & 6 someone else decided to join her. Then another joined in on the 7th & 8th for 3 eggs a day. Today......6 eggs! Do the ducks know something we don't -- is it actually spring in the air instead of winter?! Wouldn't that be cool if we got all of winter over with in November

oh -- forgot to mention we've had a lot of mallards on the pond the last couple of weeks. There was one day when I counted 11 -- the most we had at one time. The windmill and geothermal dumping into the pond have both helped keep the water from freezing over with the cold nights and the colder days we had a few weeks ago.

For those of you with ducks, do they normally lay throughout the winter? We do have lights on in the barn for about 15 hours each day. I had a thought about why they stopped laying & wanted to throw it out to see what you all think. We had 10 hens and 6 drakes. On October 22 I took 3 of the drakes for processing. The hens stopped laying a week later. Do you think it was in response to missing half of the drakes and now they're finally used to them being gone?

 

[Dish chickens]

What is the easiest way to get your flock NPIP certified for shows or selling eggs?

 

[kittydoc]

What is the easiest way to get your flock NPIP certified for shows or selling eggs?

Check the Indiana State Poultry Association website. They post information on when classes are available to become certified so you can do it yourself. Or you can pay someone who is certified (like me) to come out and test your flock. Last year, they had a class in April I believe. I didn't have to go that route since I'm a licensed veterinarian.

It's a great thing to do, whether you sell birds/eggs, or show, or whether you don't! You know that your flock is free of two serious diseases, which used to be common but are now relatively rare because of the NPIP program. However, the cases of pullorum and typhoid that are STILL found are generally in smaller backyard flocks!

Hope this helps.

 

[ellymayRans]

Wow! Where is everybody today!!!

Awww that's so cute!