Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ChooksChick]

Do you have a pool for them? We figured out our White Chinese were both male when they go in the pool and both tried to mount each other. Luckily we have 2 female Poms to even things out.

We do have a pool, but I haven't seen any attempts...perhaps they are both females. *sigh* I would love to know, but really , ti doesn't matter at this point.

 

[Cynthia12]

That made me think of my Mom, rest her soul. We were watching Gaither Hour one day and in the middle of a sentence she said "Oh, look! There's Rex Nelon, he died. This must be a re-run."

I said, "I hope it is." I laughed so hard she got mad at me.

That's too cute!

 

[The Sheriff]

Check out the new entries for the egg art contest HERE. Get your creative juices flowing for a chance to win 6 hatching eggs from my gorgeous flock of blue Isbars!

 

[wolftracks]

Beautiful!

Check out the new entries for the egg art contest HERE. Get your creative juices flowing for a chance to win 6 hatching eggs from my gorgeous flock of blue Isbars!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I have been working hard and then playing with my ridiculously cute puppy. My big guy just adores her, I'm glad he finally has someone that will wear him out. I have to separate them for either one of them to get any sleep.



In other news, I candled

I'm happy to report I only pulled 5 eggs. 3 Icelandics (2 clears and a quitter) and 2 AM's (a clear and a quitter)

They are beautiful dogs, Michelle.

I went ahead and candled all the rest of my eggs last night. It was day 7 for at least half of them because of shipping and day 5 for the rest. Well, all of the non-shipped eggs from my flock are developing and look great. My swap eggs look good, I think, but some are very dark. The Basques were 1 clear, 2 blood rings, and 12 looking great. 3 of my 7 Dutch Bantam eggs, 1 of my Marans, and 4(!) of 6 Brown Leghorns were clear. Last year, I was really unsure about what I was seeing, but it seemed very definitive to me this year. So, I removed 11 eggs which were definite goners and left a few questionable eggs. Ah, well.

The 1 hour seminar on chicken nutrition, say that 3 x fast, was interesting. Very good, concise and easy to understand.

I learned a few things, though the Blue Seal nutritionist said most information hasn't changed since we went to school. It's the micronutients and probiotics and prebiotics that really improves the health of the chicken and poultry now.

Blue Seal was doing a study using 2 pens. One given a higher dose of zinc, the control group was not given the higher dose of zinc. The Midwest heat had soared to 110 degrees. Only 2 birds died from the zinc supplemented group whereas all in the non-supplemented group died. The death of the birds was not intentional and the original study stopped right there for a re-do.

Chickens cannot digest roughages . So too much sunflower seed is not good for them. They eat grass for the sugars. Fish was taken out of the feed because people didn't want to feed fish to the poultry, but a good source of complete protein has not been replaced in the feed. Added methionine and lysine have been added instead.

Regarding our health, omega 3's and omega 6's are important and need to be in balance. While 3's are touted to be so good for us, the omega 6's that promote inflammation is important because this actually aids in the repair of tissue.


Oh, and more and more people are raising poultry! Didn't we already know that?? AND pigs.

Thanks for posting this! I wonder about the sunflower seed. How much is too much, do you think?

144 hours, Day 6:
(This one is developing the weird "clam" shape that some get, but these usually do well.)

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Check out the new entries for the egg art contest HERE. Get your creative juices flowing for a chance to win 6 hatching eggs from my gorgeous flock of blue Isbars!

I have no chance of winning at this point, I think, but I guess I will have to do my corny idea anyway. These are just too tempting.

 

[LarryPQ]

People LOOOOVE Corny.

Cheeseball sells.

 

[crazypetlady]

That would be Jumbo Courtinex.

ohhh that makes more sense, thanks

 

[Mahonri]

Well I candled this morning....I also have in there my hens eggs and OMG they are developing. Which means they will be Chicken/Guinea cross! I didn't think my guineas were breeding them. Yay!

IT'S ANOTHER EASTER HATCH-A-LONG MIRACLE!!!

 

[Mahonri]

Here is some Frizzled NN cuteness !

HEY! Serious! Is that really a chicken? If it is, I've gotta get one of those!!!!