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[racinchickins]

Peahen is laying!!!! @ellymayRans you were right! Top 2 eggs are goose, bottom center is the pea egg!


Went out this morning and there was a beautiful egg in the corner.

@racinchickins have you seen eggs yet?

Since my peas free range, I'm not sure. I'm also not familiar with pea eggs yet, so I don't know how they differ from turkey or chicken eggs. Are they larger than chickens? I've gotten a couple of what seems to be very large chicken eggs lately. Now I'm wondering if they are pea eggs. They don't seem to have the definitive pointed end or speckles that my turkey eggs do.

@jchny2000 & @racinchickins
I will post pics later but Geez i just about fell over coming home seeing my scovy ducklings They are Huge!! I knew they grew fast but Really! ?!?!

I'm just getting ready to start setting eggs, so no hatches yet. Looking forward to it though.

 

[ellymayRans]

Since my peas free range, I'm not sure.  I'm also not familiar with pea eggs yet, so I don't know how they differ from turkey or chicken eggs. Are they larger than chickens? I've gotten a couple of what seems to be very large chicken eggs lately.  Now I'm wondering if they are pea eggs. They don't seem to have the definitive pointed end or speckles that my turkey eggs do.

I'm just getting ready to start setting eggs, so no hatches yet.  Looking forward to it though.

Pea eggs do not have speckles and do look like large chicken eggs but very large. My largest chicken eggs ive gotten weighed 89g but pea eggs will be 94-132g. My pea layed a few in the coop and i immediately could tell it wasn't a chicken egg.

Mine free range too and i haven't found any this season. They start disappearing for hours when they do. Ive seen my girl almost allow to be mated but nope...so...i don't think she is yet. Of my 3 turkey hens only 1 is laying and my single duck hen is not laying yet either.

Ive been setting every MW egg i get though...lol.. still dealing with my MW tom meeting my poor DH at his truck almost every day charging at him.. i don't get it! He doesn't do it to the dog any more and hasn't done it to the kids either. Not sure what to do about that.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Saw this on CL. Ayam Cemani. https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/5533299058.html

Wow thats crazy!

Back from vacation, and ready to fire up the incubator. Finally got through the 300+ posts and seeing all the hatching has me excited to start.

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The pea eggs aren't spotted, just tan colored and larger than turkey eggs for sure.

Quote: One of my Holland toms is trying to attack my DH and nephew. He won't challenge me, and if he does he is going to the ground. DH grabs them up like I do to teach them. First time I have had this issue in a tom for a long time. He is probably going in the freezer.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Great hatch this week, have 44 out of 60 so far! pictures later, if I can upload them! Lavender & Chocolate orp, Sumatra and Turkens. Some scovys in the bator, for some reason they haven't laid all week. Guessing because I confined them and they are all mad at me, lol.
I'm lookin for Pekin hatching eggs or ducklings if anyone's raising them also, near Indy/Muncie area. Please PM if you have any.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

almost 20 pages behind. But my little update is that I now have a job. Thank you all very much for your thoughts and prayers during my job hunt. I still need to get taxes filed for 2015. I know I'm cutting it close to the dead line but I'm missing some of the data.

I have enjoyed all of the pictures here lately as those are fun to look at quickly in the album.

 

[ellymayRans]

Well so far turkey eggs are proving to be smooth hatchers!
Of the 5 due today 3 have now hatched and the remaining 2 have pipped. I expect 1 to be hatched before bedtime. Hoping they both are. I want to move them into the brooder so i can resume tending to the duck eggs. They aren't due to hatch for another week.

 

[iamfivewire]

we have been doing some updates (well, there are some coop/runs updates planned soon - the weather hasnt cooperated yet - looks like it may be decent enough to get started this week. Plan on adding a few smaller sheds for multiple breeding groups, grow-out housing, broodie house, sick bay/quarantine, or whatever else)
we are now setup with enough hens to keep two seperate breeding groups for our iowa blue flock(s).
also recently acquired a CCL roo - will be breeding with our legbar hen & white leghorns to produce "sapphires"
the Chanteclers eggs are fertile
just got a lead on some chainlink kennel panels - at least 10 of them for $200 - just a 2 hour drive (each way) to pick them up tomorrow morning.
also we are going to try some ducks - put a dozen Ancona eggs in the incubator that i picked up this morning. we've heard they can be friendly critters.
we will prob be wanting to get some turkeys someday too - Chocolates preferably

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

almost 20 pages behind. But my little update is that I now have a job. Thank you all very much for your thoughts and prayers during my job hunt. I still need to get taxes filed for 2015. I know I'm cutting it close to the dead line but I'm missing some of the data.

I have enjoyed all of the pictures here lately as those are fun to look at quickly in the album.

You can file an extension stretching you out to October if you need to. I normally have to for my parents, Dad tends to take things and lose them. Hope everythings going well for you

Well so far turkey eggs are proving to be smooth hatchers!

Of the 5 due today 3 have now hatched and the remaining 2 have pipped. I expect 1 to be hatched before bedtime. Hoping they both are. I want to move them into the brooder so i can resume tending to the duck eggs. They aren't due to hatch for another week.

They hatch well, normally no issues at all.

we have been doing some updates (well, there are some coop/runs updates planned soon - the weather hasnt cooperated yet - looks like it may be decent enough to get started this week. Plan on adding a few smaller sheds for multiple breeding groups, grow-out housing, broodie house, sick bay/quarantine, or whatever else)
we are now setup with enough hens to keep two seperate breeding groups for our iowa blue flock(s).
also recently acquired a CCL roo - will be breeding with our legbar hen & white leghorns to produce "sapphires"
the Chanteclers eggs are fertile
just got a lead on some chainlink kennel panels - at least 10 of them for $200 - just a 2 hour drive (each way) to pick them up tomorrow morning.
also we are going to try some ducks - put a dozen Ancona eggs in the incubator that i picked up this morning. we've heard they can be friendly critters.
we will prob be wanting to get some turkeys someday too - Chocolates preferably

Great find on the panels! Duck eggs are flat awesome for baked goods too. I really enjoy raising Turkeys think you will love them.

 

[Faraday40]

Been busy, but thought I'd drop in to show off my funny, little 80s hair band. I sold one today, so I'm down to 5. Still I have no way of knowing the sex. All have black "spitz" but since I hatched them, I highly doubt all are female. I should be able to see some pink comb or wattles, but so far, none. If anyone has advice on how to sex this breed (aside from crowing vs eggs), please let me know. They're 4 weeks old.

 

[Indyshent]

One of my Holland toms is trying to attack my DH and nephew. He won't challenge me, and if he does he is going to the ground. DH grabs them up like I do to teach W

almost 20 pages behind. But my little update is that I now have a job. Thank you all very much for your thoughts and prayers during my job hunt. I still need to get taxes filed for 2015. I know I'm cutting it close to the dead line but I'm missing some of the data.

I have enjoyed all of the pictures here lately as those are fun to look at quickly in the album.

CONGRATULATIONS!

What an answer to prayer!



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In less awesome news on my front, I was allergic to the antibiotic prescribed for a bladder infection, stopped taking it because I was passing out, and now have a horrid bladder infection, the doctor wasn't even in today (and the nurses at the front desk insisted I make a whole new appointment for another prescription... like they can't call it in or something...

) Still no headway on getting finding for whatever procedures I'm going to need. Feeling craptastic. DH has been assured that he'll be fired very soon, and so I'm waiting either for him to land a better job with benefits or become unemployed to file for aid.

Indy Animal Control came by and inspected my premises because somebody complained. I did a pretty great customer-service-veteran show of it and only remembered to breathe well after she'd left. She's given us three weeks to a month to finish the new coop and run. I have no idea how we're going to do it. I don't have the stamina for much of anything; I'm in the middle of all kinds of major papers, projects and finals right now; a drywall section of the boys' room collapsed so we've spent a lot of time (and money) repainting and replacing a lot in the room; Purdue still has not sent me the t12 egg carton, so I don't have any hope of getting a diagnosis one way or the other on M.g. before she shows up, and I have to have a coop built or be able to fit everyone comfortably in a 4x6 coop (would be a hefty de-birding effort, though they can all squeeze into it, oddly enough). Everything looks like a disaster area, and, as worried as I am about the losing the birds, I'm a lot more worried they're going to peep inside and see the boys' sleeping in the living room and take them away. I also don't understand why my birds are being singled out when other people have blatantly allowed their birds to roam the neighborhood or keep them completely contained (and possibly for less pleasant reasons than eggs).

So yeah, pretty much everyone's up for grabs so long as the receiver is aware birds may or may not have M.g. They've never had symptoms of anything more severe, but we've occasionally had run-ins with some kind of respiratory bug which causes sinus problems in turkeys and rales, wasting (if it's allowed to go on a really, really long time) and sneezing in chickens. Responds fairly well to Tylan and Denagard. One BO hen, the Cochin pair, almost all of the baby Cochins, the Breda rooster, an EE hen, and the BLRW roo have all been treated for it. Don't believe anyone else ever became symptomatic.

Only ones I insist on keeping presently are the 3 turkeys (two are bitty BBW poults, and the other is sick, flighty, lonely and developing an attitude *pffft, boys*), 4 ducklings, two remaining quail, and two juvenile (superultramegaincrediblexpialidociously flighty) pheasants. I don't suspect anyone will want the lame rooster (poor boy never did improve no matter what I threw at him, so I can only surmise this must be something I can't fix), and I don't mind keeping him. I don't mind keeping any of them, of course, they're all sweet chickens.

The BLRW rooster is exceptionally hospitable to many-legged guests. Hell and high water cannot separate him from his beloved company. Just warning anyone who might want him. He came to me with a respiratory infection and lots of friends, and we've been trying to kill his friends off for the better part of six months, I think, but he's a lousy dustbather. I've pretty well cured him of what attitude problem he had coming here, but I suspect most of it was just him being sick and testing the new personalities here. New coop and run will have a dedicated dry spot for dustbathing with loads of DE and Sevin and everything else I can possibly throw at this young man's friends. For the most part, the other birds don't get or keep this sort of company around (can't imagine why).