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Thats a big egg, I love it when I get those big'ens. I got a I will get out of them. this is my first real blue egg the rest all have been differant shades of green, which is cool too but I like all colors, the more the merrier.. lol

So sorry that bites  . Hope the last one is still doing well. 

She is still sick, and now she is not eating, So I don't look for her to make it much longer. I am getting myself set for the day I will have to bury her, I am going to put her with her mate that died earlier. I give up on Seabrights, they are sweet heart birds and beautiful, but I just have no luck with them.  Now I will have a Golden Seabright I got from a very nice lady here, that will be all alone, .... but he don't really seem to mind that. 

Don't know if you want to try buying off line or not but yesterday, maybe it was today, no wait it is 3 in the morning .. so it was yesterday, I saw an add on HT that had all kinds of rabbit babies for sale. 

 Sit on your hands to keep from touching... lol

I have the same kind of nest box, LOOKING for a different one to replace it, I hate it, the girls love it, but it is too far back to collect the eggs. Of course I'm short too... lol 

Love'em, I forget are they Micro Pigs? If you are selling them? I know someone that is looking for 1, She wants a female I think. 

This has probably been talked over too but how and where can I get my flock tested and what all does it test for, I'm sick of sick birds. I just cant help but feel like it is something I am doing.  I know I'm not getting anymore new birds until I know what is going on. All my LF kids are great, whatever is going on is only hitting my Bantams. And I just picked up some MF's too. Hope nothing hits them. 

Thats allot of corn !!! Glad to hear your dad is coming home. 

Thanks.

And it tests for PT. The t stands for typhoid and I can't spell the other word otherwise I would lol. You just ask a tester I come to your house and test them. They usually charge at least gas and a little for there time.

 

[CVAN732000]

Good, Good Morning Hoosiers!

I have a very unhappy Ameracauna rooster (19 weeks old) named Oliver, that needs a new home. He is the low guy on the totem pole and is being kept out of the run away from the food and water because Big Buff (my Buff Orpington rooster) rules the roost and his 10 hens with an iron beak!

All my birds are well cared for, no diseases, fed organically and loved, loved, loved. The neighbor lady wants him, but she free ranges and that's just not okay around here (she lost over 80 chickens last season alone).

I live in North Central Indiana nearly right on the line with Indiana and Michigan. Please private message me if you are interested! Thanks!

 

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I kind of figured out the whole thing with bringing terrible looking chickens to a show. Won't say how I found out, or which people I am specifically talking about, but maybe it will give you an idea of why people would do that.

Some people have hundreds of chickens there. Some families will enter all there chickens under one person so they only have to pay one entry fee. They will bring ALL the chickens they have. Not only so your chickens get feed for free for a few days, but you get paid for winning. I don't know how much you get for champion and stuff at tho open show. But you get $6.50 for first place and it goes down a dollar a place down to 4th. You figure say ou have 300 chickens and bring them all. You might have a few good chickens, but it is hard to keep all 300 in show condition. If there isn't anyone else in your class, you get 1st. There was no DQs in this show. Figure you get 100 1st places. That is $650 right there and I am sure you got lots of 2nds, 3rds, and 4th. So you get paid to show. You don't do it because you love it.

Honestly it makes me sick. When you ge into chickens you should know there is no money to be made unless you do things like that. It gives you a bad name when you show chickens that look bad.

Did anyone see one hen, her entire back was bald and she got 1st!

 

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I kind of figured out the whole thing with bringing terrible looking chickens to a show. Won't say how I found out, or which people I am specifically talking about, but maybe it will give you an idea of why people would do that.

Some people have hundreds of chickens there. Some families will enter all there chickens under one person so they only have to pay one entry fee. They will bring ALL the chickens they have. Not only so your chickens get feed for free for a few days, but you get paid for winning. I don't know how much you get for champion and stuff at tho open show. But you get $6.50 for first place and it goes down a dollar a place down to 4th. You figure say ou have 300 chickens and bring them all. You might have a few good chickens, but it is hard to keep all 300 in show condition. If there isn't anyone else in your class, you get 1st. There was no DQs in this show. Figure you get 100 1st places. That is $650 right there and I am sure you got lots of 2nds, 3rds, and 4th. So you get paid to show. You don't do it because you love it.

Honestly it makes me sick. When you ge into chickens you should know there is no money to be made unless you do things like that. It gives you a bad name when you show chickens that look bad.

Did anyone see one hen, her entire back was bald and she got 1st!

Agreed. It's shameful. Similarly, I have a friend that runs a predatory bird rescue. The most food she receives is around Fair season. When these adults and kids, who, in my opinion are showing for the wrong reasons and have no respect for life, don't win at the show, end up taking all their chickens and rabbits and such to her and they are frozen whole. I realize these rescues need food, but I just can't imagine doing that to my girls that I raised and loved on for so long. Guess it takes a certain person that I'm not.

 

[kittydoc]

@pginsber That looks like what is called a "meat spot." Sometimes a hen loses a tiny bit of tissue as the egg passes through the oviduct but before reaching the shell gland. They are not harmful. If bothersome, you can dip them out with a spoon. My understanding is that hens that lay eggs with meat spots are likely to do so again. However, if you are allowing them to go through a natural molt this summer/fall, things might go back to normal next spring. If you use artificial light to keep up egg production, it will probably continue sporadically. It may well bother egg buyers, so I'd keep this hen's eggs for yourself, if there is any way that you can. You might be able to see it by candling the egg. Hope this helps!

 

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About the bareback hens at the fair, of which I saw several (at least a dozen), was the one that got 1st the only one in her class?

Do all shows operate the same way, with payment for all positions? I showed cats for 15 years--there was no money to be made, only money to be spent!

It also blows my mind that one person can show 100 or more chickens (often illicitly, as you pointed out) for one entry fee. If the entry fee was a lot smaller, but per bird, I think that would discourage those shenanigans.

 

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My little ducky has internally pipped!!
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Oh, gosh, I don't know what to do with myself!!

No progress since yesterday! Humidity and temp are holding steady. I'm seeing the egg rock around and hearing peeps every once in a while, but no external pip. It's been just more than 24 hours since the internal pip. I'm getting anxious over here! Where's a nailbiting smiley when you need it?!

Sit on your hands to keep from touching... lol

That's too hard!

 

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This is the little black girl's photo from May.

Is this Tilly's sister? I wish I had the time and space for another quarantine! Tilde's doing quite well, by the way! She gives the big girls a wide berth, but at least she doesn't absolutely freak out if one of them comes toward her. And she's queen of the baby flock, so she has them to lord over if she needs a confidence boost. They have been spending the morning with the big girls, but since Tilly's got a tendency to perch on the roof of the coop instead of inside, and one of the babies, Poppy, has been known to fly into trees to perch, I've been fencing them off again for free-range time. I just want to be sure they'll come back to the coop at night. Ah, I don't have a very good recent picture of Till, but here she is looking grumpy in the rain.

Did you ever notice that it gets really quiet here around dinner time?

No, what I have noticed is that it gets quiet here whenever I'm bored and looking for something to occupy myself. This is almost always the first place I look.

 

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About the bareback hens at the fair, of which I saw several (at least a dozen), was the one that got 1st the only one in her class?

Do all shows operate the same way, with payment for all positions?  I showed cats for 15 years--there was no money to be made, only money to be spent!

It also blows my mind that one person can show 100 or more chickens (often illicitly, as you pointed out) for one entry fee.  If the entry fee was a lot smaller, but per bird, I think that would discourage those shenanigans.

Te I guess I left that out, he was the only one in her class.

No not all show run this way. These people just find a way to play a game. There is no reason they can't show 300 chickens. A lot of show charge per chicken, this on didn't. Not all shows pay for places. Normally just for bigger awards like champion and grand champion.

 

[kittydoc]

OK, thanks for the clarification and information.