Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[bigmrg74]

UHG..what is that? Did you post here about it before?

yeah it was a few pages back.

She had a leg band on her leg and somehow it got tight and cut into her leg somehow. Been giving her epsom salt soaks for the leg pretty much daily and medication to cover it. Actually today was kinda poking at it today after her soak and the part that was sticking out there came off today. had a little blood with it, but treated it. Think it will heal up better without all of that scab there on it.

Have had a pretty good run of egg production myself. Been getting so many eggs that I've had to take some into work to sell them off. And that's with all of the baking and cooking that Mom and Amy have done lately. Yesterday we got 13 eggs out of my flock of 16. and some of those girls are getting to be 2, 3, and 4 years old. I don't know if the 3 of them that are 4 years old are producing, but heck, if the 3 year olds are producing, pretty good for me.

 

[aart]

yeah it was a few pages back.

Ah, yes, now it comes back to me.
Hope it heals up well.

 

[Newby81]

What was the fake egg made of? To discourage pecking a ceramic egg works best, it needs to be very hard, you want them to be uncomfortable when they peck it.

The fake eggs are ceramic, I bought one of those two packs from TSC. I figure that is generally what most people would use.

 

[SillyChicken]

Happy new year gang!

Only got out on the weekend to hunt and came back down with illness again...... ugh! I swear!

Wonder if there was a way to color an egg so that the color would transpose onto a beak if pecked.

 

[aart]

The fake eggs are ceramic, I bought one of those two packs from TSC. I figure that is generally what most people would use.

I recently tested one of those fakies, doubting it was ceramic(fired clay)...
....skeptical and insatiably curious being that I am, haha!
It was easily cut with a small file and a compass point.
I tried to burn the resulting powder, thinking it was plastic, it did not melt or even char.
Still not sure what they are made of, didn't want to 'taste' it, or do any further destructive testing...but am guessing something more like plaster than fired clay.
Anyway they are pretty hard so not sure how yours got broken,
but doubt a chicken could do it unless it was already cracked somehow.
Yes, this is how retired engineering techs think.

 

[aart]

Wonder if there was a way to color an egg so that the color would transpose onto a beak if pecked.

Topical coloring would get all over everything, but blowing egg out and filling with something distinctly colorful might work.

 

[Newby81]

I recently tested one of those fakies, doubting it was ceramic(fired clay)...
....skeptical and insatiably curious being that I am, haha!
It was easily cut with a small file and a compass point.
I tried to burn the resulting powder, thinking it was plastic, it did not melt or even char.
Still not sure what they are made of, didn't want to 'taste' it, or do any further destructive testing...but am guessing something more like plaster than fired clay.
Anyway they are pretty hard so not sure how yours got broken,
but doubt a chicken could do it unless it was already cracked somehow.
Yes, this is how retired engineering techs think.

I don't know either. At least they haven't done it in since I brought it up. Hopefully it is a once in a long while behavior. Thanks for all of the responses.

 

[RaZ]

Glad the fake egg topic came up. My young girls should be getting near POL. I think I got them as day-olds in August. Plus the days are getting longer. WU says today will be 8 hours and 58 minutes long. And we gain 54 seconds tomorrow.
I have a couple of extra drawers that I will fill with bedding and add a couple of golf balls to give them an idea of what to do. Golf balls have worked for me in the past.

As for marking an egg with any substance to identify an egg eater; I would think that it would draw attention from any curious bird and could give a false positive identification. A better bet would be to install a trail camera. They are on sale now that hunting season is over.

Good luck.​

 

[RaZ]

Yes, this is how retired engineering techs think.

I have the same "condition".

 

[RaZ]

Did we get the Delta Mills location for 2019 Chicken Stock?