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[Mother2Hens]

Aw, they miss you and are looking for you!

If you need some beginning piano music for her let me know!

Peaceful Walls ~ Look! You can teach your rabbits to play!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Is 8 months too old for them to be good dinner?

Nope its a good age. Let the meat stand 3 days and they will make nice fryers.

This Saturday I get to see all my chickens

I'm taking my boyfriend with so he can see what I raised

.......found out my baby that I hatched the farm that they went to a cat got sold off all then

but she's having me more so I can show some at 4-H I get to help her candle and hatch the eggs

I get to be a momish again lol

That will be fun! I am sorry to hear about the chicks. So glad you still get to help with them! I would wither away without my birds.

Ugh. Just looked at the weather forecast. Sunday is processing day for the Thanksgiving turkeys (and some roos that recently volunteered for Freezer Camp). They are predicting a high temp of 25....that doesn't sound fun at all.

I am doing mine tomorrow, (saturday) and ya, the wind has been miserable.
Really hate the cold, and its just getting started. I really envy your garage, I would be doing it in there except the "cone part".

 

[kabhyper1]

I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jchny2000 got her silkie eggs! I hope they hatch into pretty little fluff balls!!!!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: X2, they are fantastic! I love wild game, dark meat etc and I was very pleased with the quail.
I fried my first batch, next round will marinate and BBQ.

I have another layer or two. I found 2 broken eggs in the run today, very very light brown tint so I'm thinking not the ducks. They have lots of calcium so I'm thinking it is just the pullet soft shells and lack of knowing where to lay. After all an egg on the ground is more likely to get broken than one in the boxes, thin shelled especially. If it is two layers than I'm up to 3 laying hens. I'm so happy, I know it seems like a low number but somehow getting even one egg makes all that feeding and watering not as bad. Given a few more months and I'll be over run with eggs as my hatchery chicks should start laying in 10-12 weeks. Just in time to sell some off as laying hens for spring.

Thats great news!!

 

[Mother2Hens]

I like the look of them [ceramic heater emitter bulbs], thought about getting some too. I really don't like the heat lamps.

jchny ~ I ran across some protective covers like these, which look like a good idea if the appropriate type of fixture is built-in.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Merry Christmas to me! Just ordered a dozen Tolbunt polish eggs. Better be looking for a backup if power goes out again with these guys cooking!

Find a likely hen. Tape her legs in the retracted position. Set her on the eggs in a small box.

You might want to let her out for a walk every day or so. By the end of the hatch when she is released, be cautious. She will come after you with a hatchet.

For the sensitive folks, chill. It is only a stupid joke.

John

 

[kabhyper1]

Find a likely hen. Tape her legs in the retracted position. Set her on the eggs in a small box.

You might want to let her out for a walk every day or so. By the end of the hatch when she is released, be cautious. She will come after you with a hatchet.

For the sensitive folks, chill. It is only a stupid joke.

John

Wouldn't it work better if you chopped her head off first? ( joke from the girl who hasn't eaten chicken since last march due to her attachment to her chickens, yet finds this really funny!) lol. We love your humor John.

 

[PeacefulWalls]

Peaceful Walls ~ Look! You can teach your rabbits to play!

Forget teaching the rabbits how to do rabbit agility -- it's time for music lessons! We'd have to use our bigger rabbits -- I don't think the small Polish ones could reach the keys! Hey -- how about chicken & rabbit duets??

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Wondering if my temp on it is running a little hotter than its reading. Hmmmmmm

If you have a pharmacy thermometer (the kind used to take people's temperature, use it to check the incubator thermometer. Medical thermometers are VERY accurate and cheap. They measure temperature to the 1/10 degree.

John

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: I always just leave them if there is no odor, do a "smell test". Trust me, if its bad, you will smell it.

Just smell the egg to see if there is any odor. I will pull them if I need space in the incubator, but that's very rare this time of year.

I have about 5 roosters that are really pushing their luck. two of which are bantams so they wont be ate but just culled and disopesed of. I have some on that process and bags them $3 a chicken (so that I dont have to do the deed myself, I know what a chicken!). 2 are "mixed heritage" that i was willing to keep as flock protector but it is a hassle to collect eggs with them around because they are starting to come at me. Another pecks me every time I try to feed him and flys at my legs. If they would just behave I would keep them

Yep, agreed, no room for mean or aggressive animals here. That makes them go pretty quick.

Decided to take some pictures of my Marans today so figured I'd post them. There is a blue Birchen hen and roo in the group.

WOW! I love how they look, now am even more excited to see them hatch!