MarineCorpFarmr Egg BOMB, A new Beginning! Follow along in his journey to a new flock!

[abmaddox1981]

Those are both beautiful birds! Ugh! I hate being indecisive! Thanks guys!

 

[roostereggs]

This IS my day job. When you are disabled, you have to have something to do to occupy your time. My babies keep me from going insane with nothing to do.

I totally get that. I was off work for 6 months after my back surgery and if I hadn't been in school at the time would have gone nuts. I think the hardest part was losing my independence...couldn't just go jump in the car and run errands. Had to wait til dh or dd had time to take me.

It's a good thing I didn't have chickens then or I would have made it a business and never finished school!

 

[roostereggs]

Oh, you make me feel so much better!!! I thought there was something wrong with me....

I keep a daily log of how many eggs I get each day...have been doing it since the day I got my first egg. I even log how many rubber eggs, soft shelled eggs, broken eggs, etc...as well as if any were on the coop floor.

I have a composition book with a label on it that just says "Chickens". It's like a diary for my chickens...started the day I brought my first babies home. I have written everything in there, from behaviors, too looks...anything new with my chickies gets put in there.

The NYD hatch took up 9 pages!!!! (I think I have enough pages left in the book to last until the NYD chicks move outside...but then I'll have to start a new book!)

I also have a mini notebook in the kitchen...everyone knows they are not allowed to put the eggs into the crate unless they use THE SYSTEM which involves documenting the eggs by date and then putting it in the right row, in the right order. I also write down when I open new feed, whether it is crumble or pellet, and other important things like that.

 

[FeyRaine]

Speckled Sussex is a pretty bird that has good size

Very true. I hatched 1 SpecSux from a batch of shipped eggs in late Oct. I'd never had them prior so I don't yet have much of an opinion -- in fact I've only recently concluded that she IS a pullet. I will say she is HUGE, noticably larger than her 2 hatchmate SFHs & a w/in a week same age hatchery BuffOrp pullet who she latched onto as best buddy. Since she is the only I've ever had & not yet to laying I can't really say much about her other than she is about middle of the pecking order, ie never uses her size to bully in fact I've never seen her go after any other birds, just some of the younger/smaller/shyer in that flock see how big she is and assume she should be above them. So I'd say pretty docile if this one bird is typical....? (She is in a grow out flock w/ CL, SFH, BuffOrp, EE, CochinX, & other misc. barnyard mutts) She is middle of the flock on free ranging too, literally never the fartherst from "homebase" (the coop/pen) but does range around w/o hesitation (a couple of the mutts would just as soon stand in the coop beside the bowl waiting on pm feeding).

Any one else have Spec. Sux birds? Is this one typical? How well do yours lay? Mine is pure so I could track down a mate for her if it would be worth the effort to set up another seperate breeder pen... oh wouldn't the DH just be thrilled to death, NOT ;/
On the other hand, I recently bought him this wee beasty, who has no kidding more than doubled size in 2 1/2 weeks,
photo is a few days old, noticably larger now.

then 1 wk later


So ya'll are SO GOOD w/ Chicken Math , please help me w/ mine;
1 French Mastiff puppy for the DH = ??how many more chickens for me ....??

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Very true. I hatched 1 SpecSux from a batch of shipped eggs in late Oct. I'd never had them prior so I don't yet have much of an opinion -- in fact I've only recently concluded that she IS a pullet. I will say she is HUGE, noticably larger than her 2 hatchmate SFHs & a w/in a week same age hatchery BuffOrp pullet who she latched onto as best buddy. Since she is the only I've ever had & not yet to laying I can't really say much about her other than she is about middle of the pecking order, ie never uses her size to bully in fact I've never seen her go after any other birds, just some of the younger/smaller/shyer in that flock see how big she is and assume she should be above them. So I'd say pretty docile if this one bird is typical....? (She is in a grow out flock w/ CL, SFH, BuffOrp, EE, CochinX, & other misc. barnyard mutts) She is middle of the flock on free ranging too, literally never the fartherst from "homebase" (the coop/pen) but does range around w/o hesitation (a couple of the mutts would just as soon stand in the coop beside the bowl waiting on pm feeding). Any one else have Spec. Sux birds? Is this one typical? How well do yours lay? Mine is pure so I could track down a mate for her if it would be worth the effort to set up another seperate breeder pen... oh wouldn't the DH just be thrilled to death, NOT ;/ On the other hand, I recently bought him this wee beasty, who has no kidding more than doubled size in 2 1/2 weeks, photo is a few days old, noticably larger now. then 1 wk later So ya'll are SO GOOD w/ Chicken Math , please help me w/ mine; 1 French Mastiff puppy for the DH = ??how many more chickens for me ....??

57.3 chickens

 

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[ozexpat]

I also have a mini notebook in the kitchen...everyone knows they are not allowed to put the eggs into the crate unless they use THE SYSTEM which involves documenting the eggs by date and then putting it in the right row, in the right order. I also write down when I open new feed, whether it is crumble or pellet, and other important things like that.

i have a microsoft access multi-relational data base with feed purchases, mixes, hatch data, vaccination data, treatment info, pie graphs reports

its on a web server so i can access it anywhere