NY chicken lover!!!!

[Breella]

Here are the photos of the hen we culled today. There appears to be a herniation, it was hard to tell the condition was this severe with all the feathers on. She was still producing eggs.

Interesting to see, I wonder what caused that. Was it ALL of her organs outside?

 

[miquwid]

How old was she?

 

[rancher hicks]

Evening all. Dh finally caught the egg eater with yolk on her beak. He opened the nest box doors to get eggs and there she was, sitting on the egg and dipping her beak under her to eat it. He threw her out of the coop. We processed her a little while ago. Interesting thing was that it looks like she herniated at some point as all of her organs were not in her abdominal cavity but outside it. We took pics and dh will probably post them. Found one egg in the ovaduct without a shell and lots of yolks. I salvaged those and cooked them up for the others. She also had a lot of fat on her, compared to the roosters we did. A lot of fat and I am not sure why as they freerange and only get layer feed. We will eat the breasts tomorrow.

I gave everyone some cat food mixed with oatmeal tonight as a protein booster. They all like that. Roger, however, used my distraction to his advantage and tagged me on the back of my calf. Hurt like crazy. I turned around and lauched him with my size 10. I then pulled out the cockeral correction tool and warned him that all bets are off and I will be gunning for him every day until he learns some manners. Washed up my wound when I got in. Chicken momma dont play that. If he doesnt straighten up,I still have his brother wild bill.

Baked 4 different kinds of cookies before 11 this morning to take down to GA to my girls. Making bread for me now and will make banana bread and egg bread on tuesday to take down. Been cleaning like a mad woman in preparation for our trip. My friend is kind enough to come up and take care of the cheeps for us.

Rancher--thanks for the chuckle. I hope your marans lays soon. Rabbit is tasty, especially with pickles.

Jlaw--nice pics and nice job on the brooders. Tis that time when everyone starts looking to downsize. I usually downsize into my freezer.

I checked her tonight and she is laying based on vent size and moisture. She may not be laying a dark egg. I can't understand that, unless she is not an marans but an EE cross. She has a straight comb. I am getting a lighter than normal egg in that coop, I'll have to keep an eye on her. She will have to go, as I want more marans.

I am glad you caught your egg eater.

 

[JLaw]

Well I have 35 eggs sitting on my desk in egg turner atm pulled like 10 out of fridge to try and hatch more. I plan on tomorrow putting them in the bator hopeing to get an even 40. All coops on lock down tomorrow till I get my 5 eggs. I'm sorta worried about some of them that look like double yolkers but I have high hopes of twins. These are all my eggs so will be my Ameraucana over my tsc reds and my light Sussex. Wish my OG frizz and marans and the silver Ameraucana I got from tab was laying. They're combs are turning red so any week now I think.

Everyone is safe but wife crashed the van. She was pulling out of driveway and t-boned a van with the back of her van. She was by herself the other van had a band in it hope this don't slow down they're tour. Now to wait and see what our insurance company does. It ripped our bumper cover off broke a back side window for us. For them it broke pass mirror off and made the side door not open. They was driving a van that had the duel doors on one side not sliding side door.

well posted all the chicks/chickens I want to get rid of on craigslist. No hits yet so I may have to do the deed and learn how to process the chickens.

Don't think I posted it but I scored a nice buy at TSC. I was looking for a water and feeder for my brooder. Well the one here didn't have any so we went to hamburg and the one out there only had one plastic top for water/food. So we was looking around and saw the starter kits that have feeder, water, food pack, and the cardboard surrounding thing with reuseable box on sale. It was marked down to $14 on the box and $6 on the shelf. So we bought two. We check out and they was marked down even more $2.99 each. So I got two waters and feeders, for the price of one water or feeder. I like the waterer better than the one with red base its wider and tends to not tip as easy.

 

[Sally8]

I'm happy for you.

I'm getting worried about this Marans hen. She should be laying by now. Her comb is a red as can be, but no eggs.

Now I will admit to keeping them in with the older girls and she may have gotten some layer feed, but it couldn't have been much to upset things could it? For the most part they've been on Grower/starter.

I've been raising BCM eggs/hens now for several years and they always seem to be late in laying their first egg compared to EE's, Wyandottes, or my hamburgs. Someplace between 25 - 30 weeks. I'm in search of that illusive dark egg .

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Thank you everyone grandbaby is doing what babies do eat, sleep, and fill up diapers. Granddaughter who is a spoiled diva princess says oh no she did not sign on for a sister so this baby has to go to the adoption home. I told her now stop you are supposed to love having a little sister and she says Grandma have you ever smelled dirty diapers do you want that stink sharing your clothes LOL! I can see daughter is in for a terrible time with that one.
I think my chickens prefer the heat when it was so hot out they were egg laying machines now that it is cooler I am not getting so many eggs.

Question for all you that have guinea hens what is the purpose other than ticking off your neighbors is it for bug control or what and how noisy are they really? Hubby thinks they are cute and is talking about getting some told him I would think about it.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Interesting to see, I wonder what caused that. Was it ALL of her organs outside?

How old was she?

She was just over a year old and it was her intestines, ovaries and ovaduct that were outside. Also the bottom part of her liver I think.

 

[ke5hde]

Question for all you that have guinea hens what is the purpose other than ticking off your neighbors is it for bug control or what and how noisy are they really? Hubby thinks they are cute and is talking about getting some told him I would think about it.

Yes they are noisy. I'm in the house right now about 200' from the coop and can hear the girls making noise. My neighbors don't complain about them though and say they barely hear them. We bought them mainly for bug control but we'll have no problem eating them when/if the time comes. A friend bought our extra male and processed him. All dark meat and very tasty he says. We have 3 girls and 1 boy now. Hopefully we'll get some eggs to hatch in the spring.

 

[miquwid]

Guineas are great for fruit trees or the upper part of a barn. My breeder also keeps them to help keep order amongst chickens. I really want some but I'm afraid they are too loud. My apple trees and peach tree really could use some Guineas.

 

[ChickPrincess]

She was just over a year old and it was her intestines, ovaries and ovaduct that were outside. Also the bottom part of her liver I think.

I'm wondering if the fact that her body was so strange was the cause of her egg eating? How on earth did she survive? And still lay eggs? Crazy.

JLaw, did you pull eggs from the fridge to hatch? I'd always read that once they are cooled in the fridge they are no longer hatchable. Maybe I'm wrong?

FIL is having surgery today. He has been battling bladder cancer for awhile and has had pollups (sp?) that they have been treating with fluid chemo that they put directly into his bladder. They found a spot on the wall of his bladder now. They are going in more for exploratory surgery, but will remove what they need to from his bladder. Hopefully they will not need to remove the entire thing, as this is a man who will NOT do well with a bag the rest of his life. He should be headed to surgery soon.