"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[LemonMeringue]

I exercise......I walk around to do my chores when I feel like it. Lol!

Seriously though, the most "active" I am is gardening or walking when shopping. I suppose o should do something about that. But its just so exhausting. I could not Zumba! Terri and I would be in the same boat.

 

[Celie]

I feel a little silly how excited I am about a green egg!

My youngest, Matthew was so excited, you would have thought it was Christmas morning. He then went out to the coop to get Edna and tell her what a good job she did. On a side note, I had to fuss at Matthew that he can't ride his bike while carrying the chickens!!!!! He has some that he always has tucked under his arm. My husband just shakes his head at us.

Good luck on your colored eggs...hope they come soon!

If you cross a blue egg gene layer with a brown egg gene layer, you get green eggs, but I don't remember if the blue egg gene was in the rooster or the hen, because most egg color genes are dominate in the roosters. That's probably why you got cream color EE. Maybe someone with more knowledge of chicken genetics will chime in here. I sold so many of my EE hens, I thought all the green layers were gone, but yesterday I got 2 very dark green pullet eggs, so the green genes are still in the flock. .I get a lot of blue and a few pink and rosy brown, but have never gotten any yellow. I got a few gray, but very, very rarely.

Morning folks. I can hear Winnie the Pooh today. Tut tut, looks like rain.

Congrats on the green egg! We love them. I'm very glad that both of my EE hens are laying green, not cream eggs. I have had some before that just laid cream eggs. Still good eggs though.

I made applesauce yesterday. I finally found apples for 99cents a lb. I forgot how good fresh homemade applesauce is! Going to make part of it into Apple butter today......maybe. Lol. I'm tired already.

I really miss the fresh apples, from the New England states, that my in-laws used to ship us every fall as soon as the new crop was picked! After eating a really fresh apple, the ones they sell locally taste like cotton.

I always made my own apple sauce when the kids were little, but I don't bother anymore, not one of my favorite eats.

I have 6 on strike and its got me peeved lol

Time of year & late molt did me in I think. Their feed is top notch, they're happy healthy and I have only one trouble maker...I'm thinking that one hen (not a head hen either) is causing a lot of stress picking on everyone

bully.

But for the time being I hope just the season change is stalling some girls.

You might try giving your molting hens snacks of BOSS( black oil sunflower seeds from your feed store, it has natural oils that really does wonders for their feathers and the added protein based calories will also help them, too. It is also good for hairy critters like rabbits, minks, etc. Sometimes you just can't rush mother nature, but after they molt, they will have darker legs, feet, beaks and brighter coloring in their eggs, too!

 

[Ron Skekel]

I got a text from the lady who I sold my bottle fed lamb to and she said that he is doing wonderful with his "new job" (the petting zoo). She said that he is getting along very well with all of the other animals and the kids. She said thht he is spoiled rotten but then again, I already knew that. I'm so happy that I found him a new home because I wouldn't have been to take him to the butcher and I couldn't keep him either. So, it all worked out.

this is great news. I'm happy everything worked out!

 

[Celie]

I exercise......I walk around to do my chores when I feel like it. Lol!

Seriously though, the most "active" I am is gardening or walking when shopping. I suppose o should do something about that. But its just so exhausting. I could not Zumba! Terri and I would be in the same boat.

A nice veggie garden can be a lot of work and good exercise and think about all those yummy veggies!

 

[Celie]

Speaking of molting. I have been seeing some pics of chickens that their owners say are molting. I am talking half of their feathers fell out at the same time!!! Whats up with that? I have never had a chicken look like that. Its shocking to look and. Poor things. So it has me wondering if maybe it has something to do with climate maybe. Maybe because our climate is more temperate they molt in a more gradual manner??? Or does it maybe have to do with the chickens diet? Or maybe my chickens have just gotten lucky to not have a naked molting booty.

Sometimes the molt is so gradual, they don't seam to even slow down laying. Others tell me they don't get a single egg for weeks. We had a mild winter, so the birds molted late in the spring, so it probably has something to do with the weather shifts, too?

 

[Celie]

That could depend on whom you are asking.

I never heard of a FATHER Nature yet ! LOL

 

[Celie]

The ants are back and I"m not happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As soon as the ants get bad, this time of the year, fowl pox also goes around! Remember last year when I said I saw my turkeys pecking at the ants and then got scabs from the bites? I wonder if ants can spread fowl pox too, because if not it's a big coincidence ? None of my other birds ever got any!

 

[catdaddyfro]

I never heard of a FATHER Nature yet ! LOL

Nope! but without FATHER Time none could do anything though, LOL

On the coincidence of the pox and bites this could be a result of an open sore from the bites allowing the virus in the birds system? maybe IDK?


Jeff

 

[Celie]

Thanks. That makes sense. Never thought of the feed store contamination, but that makes sense too, no different than visiting someone else's flock.

Wait a minute, when we talked about fowl pox vaccine on BYC last winter/spring, I was under the impression that the vaccine was a one time thing like small pox was! I knew new poults would have to be vaccinated after 3 weeks of age, but EVERY YEAR? Am I hearing this right? My older turkeys got dry pox last year this time, that I thought was ant bites, until I learned they were fowl pox. This year none of the turkeys from last year got any, and the younger ones, hatched this year only got a mild case, (because I left them alone and did not make them worse by cleaning them with hydrogen peroxide and antibacterial ointments), none of my chickens(they don't peck at the ants) ever got it! I thought it was a one time vaccine for the dry pox and they could still get the wet pox, but it would not be as severe!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

The fowl pox vaccine has to be administered every year. Good observations Celie & Jeff, who knows? maybe there is a connection. I always thought that most of us natives probably have had a mild case of West Nile & just didn't know it--- seems like every year about this time, this "flu-like" stuff goes around-- could it be mosquito transmitted?

Anyway, sad here tonight; I came home from work to find one of my chicks dead -- the one that the hen just let hatch on its' own - guess it couldn't get past that initial chill & weakness. I am so upset. I will never let hens set eggs again.

I put a stuffed animal in the box w/my lonely crying chick & it is finally settled down & sleeping. Tomorrow morning Jim will go to Petrus & buy a chick to keep this chick company. Geesh, I never thought I'd be going to buy a chick to be a companion for a chick. How bizarre is that?! A pet chick for a chick.