MJ's little flock

[Ribh]

Escaping from jail?

I don't know what to say to this one... Just what do you think I might have been cashiered for?

 

[RoyalChick]

I don't know what to say to this one... Just what do you think I might have been cashiered for?

Chicken rustling maybe?

 

[Ribh]

Chicken rustling maybe?

Well played!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning folks

If I understand the term abseiling correctly, it's what we would call rappelling. When I was a kid (first real job) I had to change light bulbs on 650 foot Oxygen towers. I would climb up using stairs and ladders, and then repel down stopping to change each bulb. Six times per tower 18 towers at my plant. It was a blast. The boating stuff, don't ask me... I'm the guy who had to be recued when the water started rising and the boat was up against the dam.

 

[micstrachan]

Time for Ivy's bath and dinner.

1. Put Ivy on cushion.

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2. Wait.

3. Bathing beauty.

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Beauty! Where is all that red in her feathers coming from?

 

[micstrachan]

And Mary laid a fairy egg today.

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Buttercup has laid lots of those. However, she molted on and off all fall and has not come back into lay yet.

 

[micstrachan]

We are all good here. I dont work on a friday and love spending the day in the yard with them!! 2 are laying now although one is giving a lot with soft shells. They are on a commercial layer pellet and shell grit. Any advice would be welcome. Do i need oyster shell grit rather than general shell grit?

Have you sorted this out? I have a young hen who sometimes has trouble making egg shells. I was direct dosing her with calcium citrate plus D3 made for humans a few days each month, snd that seemed to solve the issue. But then the calcium therapy stopped working, so I did some more research. I read a manganese deficiency can cause brittle eggs, and hapened to be growing zucchini last summer, so I shredded some for her. I kid you not, every time I provided zucchini, she laid a shelled egg. It doesn’t seem they could be correlated, since it takes so many hours to make a shell, but somehow it seemed to help her. She lays shelled eggs most of the time now, but pops the odd softie now and then. I have noticed thst this particular hen loves egg shells, but not ouster shells. I provide them as often as possible.

 

[Ribh]

Good morning folks

If I understand the term abseiling correctly, it's what we would call rappelling. When I was a kid (first real job) I had to change light bulbs on 650 foot Oxygen towers. I would climb up using stairs and ladders, and then repel down stopping to change each bulb. Six times per tower 18 towers at my plant. It was a blast. The boating stuff, don't ask me... I'm the guy who had to be recued when the water started rising and the boat was up against the dam.

Yep. Rappelling. Technically, abseiling means to descend by wrapping a rope around your body & I did learn how to do that but mostly we used a harness [which we strapped around ourselves] & attached crabs to & used that & the right hand to control the rate of descent. Most of us liked to jump rather than just lower ourselves. Way more fun.

 

[micstrachan]

Good evening folks

@Louwin I would suggest looking for a vet. The problem may be poor calcium absorption. There's a vitamin to help with that but I can't remember what it is.

Were you thinking of D3?

 

[micstrachan]

What she wrote.

I thought this, too, at first, but read some more and I think the manganese itself is part of the shell formation process, not just/necessarily calcium absorption.