"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[campingshaws]

That's awesome! Good work.

My RIWs are looking better today. Poor Jenny is 90% pin feathers, it seems. I hate touching her because I'm sure it's uncomfortable. I'm giving them both 3/4 cc of Tylan 50 twice a day. They absolutely devoured their salmon and layer feed this morning. I've got vitamins and electrolytes in the water. They're isolated with a heat lamp. I weighed them this morning, right at 3 lbs each. They've always been a bit scrawny, but that just seems too light. I'll have to weigh a healthy one for comparison, I guess.

I have safeguard paste and sevin dust ordered so I can be sure that I'm really doing everything possible. Everyone else looks totally perfect, the very pictures of health.

 

[kacklinghen]

The hen (not the goose) who laid the golden egg

 

[Ron Skekel]

The hen (not the goose) who laid the golden egg

Great news which breed layed it? Pam

 

[topdog24]

Another before/after, this is my FBCM pullet.

 

[topdog24]

I plugged my new bator in about midnight and let it run for over 18 hours, i spent about 2 hours getting the thermostat set at and holding 99.5/100 degrees, the therm. on the unit read 100.5/101 while the interior therm read perfectly, the hygrometer was reading about 33 the entire time with no water in trays, going to load it Mon.or Tues. with EE and RSL eggs for first hatch.

 

[LemonMeringue]

Hopefully this will be me tomorrow....

I'm crossing my fingers everything goes smoothly.

 

[KimmyIsRad]

Our eggs are SO much cleaner now that we use these nesting pads. The nest pads are plastic and are easy to clean.
http://www.qcsupply.com/420355-standard-nesting-pad.html


I think it helps keep the hens feet clean also. It kind of works like a boot scraper, when they are scratching around on the nest pad before they lay their egg.

This is cool. How do you use it? Put it in the box or in front of it?

 

[LemonMeringue]

This is cool. How do you use it? Put it in the box or in front of it?

There is a door there that is flipped up...... And we usually have more pad at the back edge, so the one you see there doesn't move.

 

[LemonMeringue]

They were sitting on the perch in front of the box trying to decide who wanted to go in and lay an egg first. Lol

 

[campingshaws]

The chickens were acting squirrelly all day yesterday. They huddled on the porch a lot, and the rooster sounded his warning several times. One time he did I was one short at head count.

I finally found this one sleeping in the nest box. She eventually laid an egg.

This morning on the way to school I saw the hawk perched at my neighbor's house, about half a mile up the road. I'm going to keep them up til the fog burns off, then I guess I'll spend the day in the yard.

EDIT: Well, there it is.