Nevadans?

[Knemeyer]

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Sounds like she's one of a kind. Glad she is getting better!

 

[KandJsmama]

This is for the Vegas peeps...

How has the heat affected your egg production? This is my first full summer with them laying and my go-to girls haven't laid eggs for days and when one did is was very small. My EE's seem to be okay but the BSL's have really dropped off. They used to lay every day. Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

[vegaschick]

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I have 14 hens (8 EEs) and am getting an average of 7 eggs a day. Of course some days I get 4 and some days I get 11. My EEs are my best layers, followed closely by my Lakenvelder and White Faced Black Spanish. I have 4 older girls that barely lay so it's mostly the EEs and the 2 others. So .... IDK.

 

[laceynoelle]

Horsefeatherz, i hope your neighbor keeps getting better. She sounds like a great person.
I have a massive black cochin, and shes not even full grown. Its mostly fluff, but shes probably about twice as big as the other chickens her age. Shes full size and came with my ideal order. I thouht she was a packing penut, but shes a hen, so idk.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

lol, its hard to keep up with you guys, hope all is well!

horsefeatherz im not sure i could resist avoiding a dog, even if i knew it was best! glad your neighbor is okay...

laceynoelle a few pages back you were discussing your dad issues...well at 22 years old i can say im not far off from you! i went through the exact same thing!!

mythkat CUTE PIC!!!

 

[BoulderCityFoul]

mythkat Those ducklings are cute!

horsefeatherz Sounds like your neighbor is a fighter! I hope to be that energetic and fiesty when I am in my golden years!

KandJsmama Our girls aren't old enough to lay yet. They are still primarily living inside with afternoon yard time. We typically have to keep moving them into the shade. They'll run out into the sun and just stand there, panting. Once in the shade, they are back to the business of eating stuff.

I am amazed at how much personality chickens have and how my two girls have become attached to me. I had another late night at work last night. When I got home, there was just enough daylight that I decided to let them roam for awhile. They refused to play and chose to sit on me instead. Virginia flew up onto my shoulder; much to my surprise and hers! I was fine with that until she left me a present. That ended the "sit on dad" time.

 

[ke_ben]

Greetings all.
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At this rate I'm lucky to still have chickens breathing. It is 117+

in the shade right now. We've been getting 7-16 eggs a day, which considering some pre-mister hen losses and other things I guess isn't bad, but during the summer we got 30 on occasion. I did lose a mutt rooster due to the heat, even though there was plenty shade and water, that I had in with some goats just to clean up after their feed dropping and keep down the fly population. I also lost my BCM rooster that I have had in a batchelor pen with Tina the big fat lard (pot-bellied pig) for several months. It appears that she must have laid on him or something, since she doesn't look before she lays, because he couldn't raise his neck. He was a big, healthy roo and the base for my olive egger project.

All the others are fine but I'm in the market for a BCM roo for the fall now though. I do have some blue/blue wheaten Ameraucana cockerels about 4 months old that I could work out a trade for including 2 that look like this.

 

[KandJsmama]

So sorry to hear about your losses. I have decided that I will focus my energy on keeping them cool instead of counting eggs. Can't help you with the BCM's but that is a nice looking cockerel.

 

[The Sparks Coop]

Someone close to Sparks interested in 3 Penedesenca roos? I ordered 6 straight runs and I now believe 3 are roos. They are only like 6 weeks old now. I am trying to find someone interested in these chickens and maybe we can do a breeding loan later in the year? These chickens are rare and I hate to see them go as meatbirds. I am also probably going to get rid of a black cochin, I think he is a roo. I will need to find him a home too.

Thanks!!!

 

[SunnyDawn]

Hi everyone! I too am seeing a reduction in eggs but I think that's pretty common in this heat. Anyway, just came on to say

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