Maine

[superchemicalgirl]

The shanks are white. I'd say it's a cuckoo marans rooster.

 

[anyasmifya]

Oh no! Bad news here at Gravel Pitt Lodge, we have an egg eater! Just started to get some eggs and now someone is enjoying them! I mixed some scratch with oyster shell today. Hope that stops this bad behavior. How do some of you give oyster shell?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have a "trough" on the wall that I fill up with it. They can eat it free choice.

 

[buckabucka]

Oh no! Bad news here at Gravel Pitt Lodge, we have an egg eater! Just started to get some eggs and now someone is enjoying them! I mixed some scratch with oyster shell today. Hope that stops this bad behavior. How do some of you give oyster shell? 

Are you sure it wasn't a thin-shelled egg that got crushed/stepped on? I've had that happen, and they always eat what they can, yet still haven't figured out that is what is in every egg. If you don't have any wooden eggs or golf balls, I'd put some in there, just so they can peck at them and not get results. If you have a true egg eater, I've read it is a very hard habit to break. Try to keep an eye out.

I also leave oyster shell out free choice. Just a plastic pint container screwed into the wall. Same with grit.

 

[Widget]

Today I stopped in at Longhorn in Buxton to buy a couple square bales of hay to get me through until my truck in back in action. They know me so well there they were ready to ring up a round bale since that is what I buy several times a month. I told them what was going on and the owner offered to load up a round bale on his truck and deliver it no charge. He was at my house about 30 minutes later. Now this is customer service at its finest.

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[Widget]

Fed Trinket, the goat, some grain this morning and the roving gang of ducks quickly discovered it and made a feast for themselves. Then they knocked over the water pail and left the scene of the crime.

Posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a companion goat. Had two responses that I replied to but have not heard back from either. Saw a couple of goats that would be perfect but they are up in Thorndike so a bit of a haul for me.

 

[yankeehill]

On the note of turkeys: I raised three bronze broad breast turks this year. They were VERY friendly and VERY curious to the point where they were extremely irritating. They would sit outside the front door making that silly sound to the extreme frustration of the cat. They were messy and poop big poops all over the place. They lived with the Chickens without any issues though. They were physically exhausting to kill and process BUT they were so DELICIOUS! Delicious enough to make me want to deal with their silly antics next year as well. I would like to get some midget whites because our birds were just too big...they dressed out at 18lbs each and for just two of us...that is a lot of bird. They do have weird tendons in the legs but...that didnt bother me at all.

How old were they when it was freezer time? Could you have slaughtered them at a younger age, for a smaller bird, while still having the flavor of them?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Fed Trinket, the goat, some grain this morning and the roving gang of ducks quickly discovered it and made a feast for themselves. Then they knocked over the water pail and left the scene of the crime.

Mine do this too. If I turn my back for a second while I'm filling waterers they will stick their dirty little heads in it, root around and get it all mucky, and then haul butt out of there when I discover them. The other morning when it was raining I could hear the ducks making very loud happy duck noises from inside the house. It was still dark out, so I opened the front door, turned the light on and saw them standing under where the gutter leaks, splashing in it and digging. They were so happy to have found that spot. Every time I think about getting rid of them they go and do something cute like that.

 

[lazy gardener]

Hubby who is so not into the chicken scene spent his Sunday afternoon making a chicken heater for the girls: Cinder block, several 8" ceramic tiles, and wiring for a ceramic light socket, set up with a 60 W bulb. The girls were in to inspect his work before the coop door was closed. I'm not sure how much heat this will throw out, but it will make me feel better! I can step up to 100W if needed.

 

[dowgirl71]

Hubby who is so not into the chicken scene spent his Sunday afternoon making a chicken heater for the girls: Cinder block, several 8" ceramic tiles, and wiring for a ceramic light socket, set up with a 60 W bulb. The girls were in to inspect his work before the coop door was closed. I'm not sure how much heat this will throw out, but it will make me feel better! I can step up to 100W if needed.

Mine, too!! He was awful worried about them being cold, today, and took his space heater down to my coop for a little bit. So funny! I noticed they were all outside, because they didn't like that strange thing in their house.