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[animallover2202]

ok so my laptop wont allow me to be on desktop setting cuz the bar is gone so yea ok so Ms. May doesnt seem like she broody just has no feathers on her crop i will upload pic of it later when i get some

 

[animallover2202]

i get the bar back lol

 

[SallyinIndiana]

one of my eggs in the incubator has a pip mark. yay. this is the farthest I have gotten in the hatching process. about how long after I see the pip mark should the chicken start hatching out?

 

[kabhyper1]

I have some very angry juvies this morning.

They wanted out so badly, but there is a moat around the coop. Side note, there is nothing cuter than a 2 month old bantam cochin trying to crow. He was trying to wake everyone up, with a tiny little voice.

 

[Mother2Hens]

Re: Mean Birds jchny posted: With all these birds, I have to face some realities later this fall. Some will be for the freezer. Any I raise have to be social and gentle or they have to be gone. My Mom loves to hold and touch the birds, so I want them all to be respectful to people. We have several friends with small children too, so I am pretty tough on who will stay or go. It will be a lot harder with these having hatched and raised them, but its all part of it. This is the main reason I started raising and breeding.. I want to know our food is safe & what it was fed. More importantly, the animals were loved respected and cared for while they were here.

I really do understand and admire you for all you are accomplishing! I'm just teasing you because my instinct is to throw my body across your chicken to save her (it would actually squish her!) hahaha That's my emotional response, but intellectually, I realize that chickens/animals raised with love and care for human consumption are lucky as opposed to being raised in factory settings. I do hope more and more people do exactly what you're doing so that maybe someday there won't be so many factories.

Egg Washing~ EmSteele asked a question that I don't think we've discussed before. I never know if I am doing the right thing, but my eggs go directly from the nesting box to the refrigerator. I don't wash them first because as I understand, it removes the protective bloom. If the eggs look clean, we just crack them and use them. If they have marks, I quickly dip them in a cup of WARM water with a spray of bleach and rinse in warm water. When I give them to neighbors, I select the clean ones and give them instructions about the dip/rinse method. I've heard that you can wash them first, rub them with cooking oil that serves as a protective coating, and store them in the frig. What does everyone else do?

AATH~ I thought of you when I ran across this photo. Hope your chickens have finally learned to use their ladder. Next, you can teach the wild birds!

 

[Mother2Hens]

This kitty picture is for vicki chicki~ Got Milk?
This is my best buddy, Lionel. My daughter got him a few years ago at the Indy Humane Society. He is so affectionate and needy that he drove her crazy in college because he was always messing up her artwork when she was trying to work. I talked her into letting Grandma take him because I was crazy about him and I knew he needed more attention. : - ) He avoids the chickens because he has been painfully pecked on the nose!

 

[Mother2Hens]

I ran across this cartoon for today's laugh. : - )

 

[Leahs Mom]

I also don't wash the eggs. And I don't put them in the fridge - unless they are going to customers! Mine get to stay out on the counter. (There is research on the why...and I know my chickens are healthy. I wouldn't keep store-bought, factory-farmed eggs out of the fridge.)


It always looks like Easter on my counter!

 

[EmSteele]

A lady at my daughters school. Told me today that she buys farm fresh eggs. They don't wash the eggs so that the "bloom" isn't washed away.....will definetly have to research it a little more but I thought I'd ask here first...because you guys and girls are AWESOME : )

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I wash our eggs and put them in the fridge. Unless I'm going to try and hatch them.