Nevadans?

[SunnyDawn]

Yes I let my gals have the run of the lawn and yes they have damaged most of it!

If you want to keep your lawn but give them some grass just throw the extra sod in the run area.

 

[Humbrd]

Hey sunny, How did the chicken delivery go?

 

[vegaschick]

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Amelia is from a hatchery and therefore an EE. She's one of my first and best layers. She lays a large to ex-large barely mint green egg. Until this month she was giving me 5-6 eggs a week. She's the only one I have that looks like that. I love her but I think she's picking the new feathers of the other hens backs. Grrrr.

Good luck with your surgery...let us know when so we can put you in our prayers.

Just wanna say thanks for all you do for all of us Nevadans...you do such a great job keeping up with all the info. I appreciate it.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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It went very smoothly! Your boy is such a perfect gentleman! The other roo I dropped off to someone else was a total butt head, crowing every time we stopped the car.

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She sure does show some silver ameraucana parentage! She's just a little better filled out than most silvers I've seen. Hopefully I will get some as pretty as her next spring.

I don't want to post the exact date of my surgery on an open forum but it is soon.
Thank you so much for the appreciation! I'm enjoying the sense of community we have here so much that it doesn't feel like a bother at all!

 

[Humbrd]

I can't wait for some of those chicks too. I'll be giddy all winter waiting for them. Best on your surgery.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Lawn...............what is that?

My birds do not know grass even lives....they do get hay (alfalfa and grass). They do prune the bottoms of the trees well

Sunny I am glad they are settling in........for all my complaining about them, they are really good birds. I would be surprised if HR (or whatever you will call him) is agressive, Flrpl was the only one "lower" in status than him. I would imagine him and the girls hang together for a spell and just be snooty to the others (they will draw your Ams into their gang and then you will have a large snooty gang).

Eggs were set last Monday. I would candle them again and pull or mark the bad ones - I was going to mark them but well it was too akward. Do you want more for the pullets?


Vegaschick - I have an Amelia also - she is an EE

, I call her Sweet Amelia cause she is just so personable. She is on the right

Eglyntine - oyster shell is amazing and the fact that chickens know it is good for them and should be in their diet - blows my mind at times. I do not feed a layer feed, so all the girls extra calcium comes from os. I have watched my young cockerels eat it, my broodies share it with their chicks, and my Roo call the girls over and encourage them to eat it.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Me too! They are such pretty birds.

Thanks for the good wishes!

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The black Ams already hang by themselves! The wheaton Ams do not like to mix with any other bird either.

They all think they are too cool for each other I guess. I probably won't keep the black roo I have. He is a sweetie but not a looker so not good for breeding and my 1 black Am pullet is not fit for breeding either because of her clean face. That's why I wanted your trio.

No, you already gave me a lot more eggs than I expected. The one pullet left her nest for more than a few minutes today so I took her eggs and gave them to the other two gals. She came back and was upset when she saw they were gone so I gave her back her plastic eggs. She can have some real one's when she is older and more dependable.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Sometimes my girls will get off the nest for almost an hour - eat, drink, dust bathe and run around all puffy and vocal. In fact I use to pick Blonde up and put her back on her eggs

I do not any more, she seems to know how long she can be off. Course I have girls who will only leave every other day and some who do 2x a day. I no longer worry unless the eggs get cold.


Snooty Ams - they are snooty.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Depending upon her egg color, might be interesting to see if she throws full muff/beard or what on her chicks. She has the genetics for muffs and beards - I wonder why they are hiding.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I've been reading James Dryden's book online - he was the father of selective poultry breeding and of poultry science. I'm thinking that once I'm full time in Nevada, I'm going to set up trapnests and only breed the most productive hens - especially those that lay well for three or more years. He pointed out in the early 1900s that choosing birds for appearance had actually destroyed the productivity of some breeds. The Orpington and Cochin are some of the clearest cases.