NY chicken lover!!!!

[Metella]

akaruby - see me about Millie Flur D'Uccles ..... send me a private message and we can chat ....

 

[akaruby]

akaruby - see me about Millie Flur D'Uccles ..... send me a private message and we can chat ....

PM'd you Metella

boskelli1571 - thank you! I'll take a look.

 

[vmdanielsen]

I got this weird thing in the hen house today ...someone laid it .



It was like a layered cooked egg yolk no white no shell ..boy was it stinky !

Look up lash egg...I am way behind on reading posts..;someone may have said this already....

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Ok...those lash eggs are nasty!


Broody questions...

How many eggs can a standard-sized hen sit on? (I have a Marans sitting, and an australorp)

How long will a broody sit, if nothing hatches under her? After my first hen went broody (that would be Attila the Hen), a second one went broody shortly after. I candled last night and pulled three eggs total...leaving three under one hen, and four under another. If more eggs do not develop, I'd like to stick some additional eggs under one of them...moving the more developed eggs under one bird.

I'm trying to hatch several of my BCM X EE eggs, of which I was unsuccessful in the incubator (the one that hatched, had a slipped tendon and had to be put down). The three eggs that I pulled last night were all EE eggs. Two developed a little...but the embryo stuck to the air cell. This actually happened to several of the EE eggs I set in the incubator.


Finally...if a broody hatches a few eggs, but has one or two that still have a day or so to go, will she continue to sit on the eggs that still have time to hatch, or will she get up and follow her chicks around?

Thanks for your help guys!

 

[Pyxis]

Well, I had a tragedy this morning. I'm sure the older birds running around the workshop are to blame. Somehow in the night all the water in my gallon waterer in the waterfowl brooder ran out into the brooder, soaked everything, chilled the babies, and I lost all of them except one khaki campbell duckling. All five of my beautiful sebastopols died I'm almost positive whatever happened was caused by the older birds flying into their brooder and bumping the waterer.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Nooooooo!!!!

 

[aalissa]

Well, I had a tragedy this morning. I'm sure the older birds running around the workshop are to blame. Somehow in the night all the water in my gallon waterer in the waterfowl brooder ran out into the brooder, soaked everything, chilled the babies, and I lost all of them except one khaki campbell duckling. All five of my beautiful sebastopols died

I'm almost positive whatever happened was caused by the older birds flying into their brooder and bumping the waterer.

I am soooo sorry. I know there are no words that will make you feel better.

 

[rancher hicks]

That is so terrible.

 

[rancher hicks]

Is this a new format? Who's idea was this? I'd like to kick them in the .......

 

[rancher hicks]

So we went to a "flea" market. It was a culture shock. Chickens and all kinds in cages and crates. Goats,pigs,and ponies. Many not so good looking. Of course being Texas mostly Spanish speaking. Wished I'd learned it. Will be going back, but no for animals. I expect many were for eating.