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[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Me

Aren't you about done downsizing???

You're going to walk outside one day
and wonder where all the chickens got off too.

 

[vfem]

I had a good laugh today with my daughter!

We went out to pick some strawberries, and we have 2 raised beds full of plants... 1 by my main garden and 1 next to my chicken coops. We were picking berries the size of our hands out of the one next to the coop and the berries in the other one were runty and small. I never fertilzed either myself, but I have a feeling one of them was enjoying chicken run-off! lol

WOW... they were juicy good too!!!

Anyways.... with my luck I woke up sick again yesterday. Got some antibiotics again today, turns out my ear infection returned I had at the beginning of the month and the drainage has made me ill. I should be feeling much better in a day or 2 since this isn't viral thank goodness. So hopefully I'll be back in the garden a bit this weekend, yummy stuff is already rolling in and I need to be out there picking as much as I can.

 

[vfem]

Aren't you about done downsizing???

You're going to walk outside one day
and wonder where all the chickens got off too.

ROTFLMAO!

Doesn't anyone else notice that her downsizing is then followed by a hatching?! I

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

ROTFLMAO!

Doesn't anyone else notice that her downsizing is then followed by a hatching?! I

SO TRUE!!

 

[BHep]

ROTFLMAO!

Doesn't anyone else notice that her downsizing is then followed by a hatching?! I

SO TRUE!!

 

[Mouzekin]

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I really don't know the answers for you but ........

mine start back to laying within a few weeks after they quit losing feathers......
unless it's the colder months with short daylight hours.....
then it takes a bit longer

The dots on the egg shell are common and nothing to worry about
not sure why the runny whites......
usually get that with older eggs but the egg is still good to eat

Try ordering fly predators........they are tiny flies that eat big flies and/or the larva.
I also save my plastic mayo jars......drill holes in the lid
fill with bait or kitchen scraps,

traps the flies
and then you toss it when it gets full or the bait goes stale.

hope that helps

I'm sure some of the other BYCers have better info

Hey, I'll try it! Anything is worth trying! Now to actually get some jars... I'll have to look in my recycling. Thanks! I wasn't too worried about the dots, just odd looking is all. I guess I'll just keep hoping my chicken lays eventually.

 

[scottcaddy]

Hey folks! I asked this a few pages back but I think it got missed since it was the second to last post on the page


How long after a molt before a chicken starts laying? She started apx 2 months ago and has stopped loosing feathers and there are no bald spots left seems she's grown most back in. Just wondering if I'll ever get eggs from her.

Second, one of my EEers laid an egg that had a lot of dots on it(like calcification or something). And when I cracked it the white was really runny. Anyone have experiences with this? It was a same day egg. Am I missing something in their diet? I feed them layer feed, let them free range grass and bugs, BOSS, and occasionally scrambled eggs and shells.

Lastly, WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THESE FLIES?!? I'm using DE and the fly strips and they are still bad! Anything else I can do? I clean the coop every 2-3 days.


Thanks in advance!

Is this a only-lonely chicken? It might make a difference in how fast she starts back laying. As for the fly's <BG> remember the nice warm winter

, while we liked the warm, so did all of them D#@&* flies! Not much winter kill so we now have a lot of flies and other bugs to deal with, Good luck!!

Scott


I just read your siggy after I posted this, I think you should just wait on your non-laying hen and see what happens. How old is this hen?

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

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Finally...for your viewing pleasure...introducing our little Lav Orpington Biddie (??)



Momma & Biddie:






So...any thoughts on this one?? Anyone want to sex it for me?? LOL Soon...momma and biddie are going to be moved back into the big coop so I can get ready for a quarantine pen...in case someone just NEEDS to get rid of some chickens or ducks and sends them my way... <HINT HINT BETH> Hehe

Aww cutie chick!

ROTFLMAO!

Doesn't anyone else notice that her downsizing is then followed by a hatching?! I

Yes...she downsizes to raise all those new fuzzybutts....

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

One of my areas that I had to pad down with straw because it was a mucky yucky mess from all the rain the past couple days. ugh. all the rain had to come a few days after I'd raked all the winter bedding (woodchips and mulch) out of the pens...

 

[Cpntherfan]

One of my areas that I had to pad down with straw because it was a mucky yucky mess from all the rain the past couple days. ugh. all the rain had to come a few days after I'd raked all the winter bedding (woodchips and mulch) out of the pens...

how is it working out? I thought about doing the same or use pine straw