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rancher hicks said:
Well my Birchens have copper in there somewhere and while the males are doing good and I've got one hen that is okay, I have to breed and hatch to work that copper out of them. My hope is that the roos will remain large and edible. The hens will have to be used til I have enough to cull the unacceptable one. Egg color is acceptable at this point, though I don't expect to work for that.

I gave up the orps so I could two coops of Birchens. In with these I can stick some EE's and get Olive Eggers too. I keep a coop of EE's with an Araucana and Amer/EE roo for more EE's. I also hope to get more CR hatching eggs for a small flock of those. I'll cull hard on them. The Dels need much work in size too.

I'm not sure what I'll do with the odd bird. BR, RIR, SLW and frizzles. I suppose I can keep them in the EE coop and cross them that way. Or just pull them when they get too old.
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You have frizzles? I didn't expect that...

armorfirelady said:
I've found my girls fluffy butts are less during the warmer months. When they moult and their feathers come back in they are fluffier and it looks like they grew "pants" as well.
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I love the fluffy pants ...they are so cute!

Cass said:
I found out the bird that would work wonderful with my flock. An EMU!!! The male incubates the eggs and raises the young. I have 7 males. Think of all the chicks I could have. LOL

Featherz, I can't find any emu eggs local. They take 52 days to hatch. And are laid October - April, so this is the time to be looking for them.

My fingers are itching to start more plants. I wish I had grow lights. With grow lights you can control the height the plants grow to. The problem I have with starting seeds this early is they are stretching for the light out the window and get really leggy instead of staying compact like the ones in the store. Now this is not a problem with tomatoes, cuz you can bury the stem....but other veggies bend and break in the wind of spring when they are too tall too soon. So I guess I have to sit on my itchy fingers and wait a MONTH. A whole MONTH to start more. (And that will STILL be early. LOL)
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Do you have emus? or wishful thinking
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How cool would that be! Are they easy to take care of? Dh would NEVER let me get one, but I think that it would be neat/diffrent.
 
featherz said:
Speaking of emu, I SO wish to hatch one this year. It's on my mini bucket list. I'll drive to pick up an egg if anyone has them locally (when they are laying of course).. I scanned the potholder pattern - pm me your email if you want it. It's a pdf file. Never seen a crochet pattern before - I vaguely know how, but it's like another language to me. :)
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Not sure how to pm but my email is [email protected]
 
JLaw said:
The funny thing is they probaly wont have the fluff for long. All the breed threads i've been reading everyone wants to get rid of fluff for birds except silkies of course. A BR thread they was talking about it but i figured the fluff would help keep legs warm when roosting for cold hardiness.
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There is no talk of this among barnie breeders.
 
I wanted to share some photos of Stella's eggs to show you all what I was talking about the other day with her being on this feed. (I'm not 100% sure that it's the feed that is making her egg shells better quality, but they have been terrible quality since she picked up laying this winter) I'm beginning to wonder if the quality of her shells is what has been keeping me from being able to hatch any chicks from her. These are the three eggs side by side from the last egg (left) she layed before feeding the Poulin Grain to the most recent egg (right) I got today and was very happy with. You can see how the last one is nice and shiny where the other two have no shine at all.


This is Egg 1, You can see how porous it is:



This is how her eggs have been for months now. Very difficult to candle too when I was trying to hatch them.

This was Egg 2, the 1st egg after being on the new feed.


Slightly better.

She skipped a day laying yesterday so after being on the new feed for 2-3 days now, this is Egg 3, the one I got today:


Much Much better!!!


So what do you all think? Do you think it's the feed that helping with this change in the quality of the egg shells? Because if it is I definitely want to keep them on it. I'm saving all these eggs for the next couple of days and I'm going to try incubating in my LG one last time while my Silkie eggs finish up in the Brinsea. I really want to see if the first 2 eggs pictured don't develop like they haven't in the past and if this last egg pictured does. If that's the case then that will solve that mystery!
 

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