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[Lynzi777]

Morning Everyone!

Adora ~ How did you make out at the show this weekend?

Had two roosters crowing away this morning, Duncan, the newest silkie roo has begun to crow. It's kinda cute actually when you hear it compared to the big orpington's crow. LOL I don't feel so bad anymore about having my roos. I was sitting on my front porch this weekend and actually heard someone else's rooster crowing off in the distance. My one and only neighbor is usually gone in the morning before they start crowing anyway. Not that they do it all the time, but at least I know he's not keeping anyone from sleeping in the morning. Last week he crowing away at 6pm!

 

[rancher hicks]

If she is broody, she's broody. Nothing you can do about it. There is a thread on here about broody hens. They may have a way that will break her. Broodiness is hormonal....try telling someone with PMS to "keep it down". LOL

Broody hens don't care who's eggs they hatch. I had a white silkie hatch 4 black chicks. She is either color blind or blaming the father for the feather colors. Not one single one of the eggs she sat on for 21 days were hers. She's back on another 4 eggs. I'm not sure who's eggs they are or even if they are fertile, but the egg I wanted her to hatch got broken by someone and didn't hatch, so I grabbed all I could find in the coop that day and threw them under the poor thing. She was walking around clucking for her chick and looking in and around the nest box. It was really pitiful. So I put 4 eggs in her box and she climbed in and got comfy. I'll see in 21 days if they were fertile and what hatches.

You got that right. My son used to say if we did a family pic it would have to be done in sequences so we could get all the women in a good mood. There are four or were four in this house at one time. Help me Jesus!

 

[rancher hicks]

Nope, do tell or post a link.

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[Adoravachick]

Morning Everyone!

Adora ~ How did you make out at the show this weekend?

Had two roosters crowing away this morning, Duncan, the newest silkie roo has begun to crow. It's kinda cute actually when you hear it compared to the big orpington's crow. LOL I don't feel so bad anymore about having my roos. I was sitting on my front porch this weekend and actually heard someone else's rooster crowing off in the distance. My one and only neighbor is usually gone in the morning before they start crowing anyway. Not that they do it all the time, but at least I know he's not keeping anyone from sleeping in the morning. Last week he crowing away at 6pm!

We came in with 3rd and 4th. My birds were judge against Kate Morreale's birds, she has had several national Champions, so I learned alot. It was a long day. Miserable outside. I did pick up a nice little Splash pullet.

Glad to hear that Duncan is crowing....little boy is growing up.

 

[Glasshen]

I dug up the potatoes that I had planted for the first time ever. The surprise was that there actually were some, and there was very little to do growing them. Think I'll do that again. Now I let a couple of chickens in that garden to do some work for me. They were young girls, hadn't worked before, but they knew just what to do. There was some garlic in that garden too. Must have grown from a couple of years ago. Their eggs may be best used in Fritata.

 

[vmdanielsen]

there is a thread here on broody's. I got so sick of seeing terrible information given by people who only hatched 1 brood of broody chicks I just gave up and unsubscribed from that thread. Here I have 25 to 30 broody's a year and these (biting my tongue ) ,,,,,, people are telling me I'm wrong, mean, whatever. A bunch of (biting my tongue again).

There are a lot of way to break broody's. Depends on your hen what works. I have some I can break just by taking thier eggs. Others require more work. A cage with no nest and air able to reach their chest seems to work. Ice cube easter eggs are supposed to work. Never tried it. The cage works well.

New Avatar!!! beautiful table. I don't read the broody thread anymore either........

 

[vmdanielsen]

I dug up the potatoes that I had planted for the first time ever. The surprise was that there actually were some, and there was very little to do growing them. Think I'll do that again. Now I let a couple of chickens in that garden to do some work for me. They were young girls, hadn't worked before, but they knew just what to do. There was some garlic in that garden too. Must have grown from a couple of years ago. Their eggs may be best used in Fritata.

yum!!! garlic flavored eggs in fritata!!!!!!

 

[Pyxis]

Just put some of the chickens in their bigger coop, wooh! It only took like 2 months of weekends to build it, too I only moved the birds that aren't so keen to be picked up during the day, which consist of the first birds I got (they all moved in from the neighbors, but that's a really long story), one of whom is my first hen, and a couple of birds I raised myself: my leghorn who doesn't like to be touched, my EE that just doesn't like to be picked up (but loves petting) and my huge light brahma rooster, who runs if you try to touch him. Do you know where I had to get them all from? A tree. Please picture me climbing up a ten foot ladder into the branches of a tree, grabbing a near 15 pound rooster, and then navigating my way back down. Not the best of times. They had taken to sleeping in the tree after I ended up with a bunch of baby chicks on accident (that's on accident for real, not chicken math or a broody hen - again, a long story involving the neighbors) and they ran out of room in the small coop I had originally for the older girls.

Anyway, now the coop just needs some trim work, and I can actually have some darn eggs again - they kept hiding them all over the place.

 

[ChickPrincess]

Morning Everyone!

Adora ~ How did you make out at the show this weekend?

Had two roosters crowing away this morning, Duncan, the newest silkie roo has begun to crow. It's kinda cute actually when you hear it compared to the big orpington's crow. LOL I don't feel so bad anymore about having my roos. I was sitting on my front porch this weekend and actually heard someone else's rooster crowing off in the distance. My one and only neighbor is usually gone in the morning before they start crowing anyway. Not that they do it all the time, but at least I know he's not keeping anyone from sleeping in the morning. Last week he crowing away at 6pm!

My roos crow very early... 4:30 or so. Last week, one morning, it was 2:45. Geesh!

 

[Henicillin]

One of the young'uns crowed today. I heard this horrible "aaOOOOOOH!" sound from the run. It sounded like a sick wolf. So, I listened for a moment, and heard it again. I think it's the big JG/SS boy I like and want to keep. His voice is actually deeper than Captain Morgan's, and will sound nice once he gets the hang of it. I have named him Wolf, of course. If it had been one of the freezer camp candidates, I would have dispatched it this weekend, but since it's my big potential backup rooster, he can crow all he wants.