Official Squatch Watchers

[21hens-incharge]

I boil eggs on the stove.

cover with water, add 1/8th cup salt, bring to rolling boil over medium high heat. Turn off burner once it gets to rolling boil. Let sit in pot for 13 minutes. Ice bath and peel.
I usually just dump the hot water and run the pot full of cold water.

 

[Chickassan]

I just put my eggs in the electric water kettle start it boiling turn it off and let the residual heat finish the job. Got the kids on the roost...finally. They know i'm sick so they're messing with me. Sallie tried to eat a birthmark off my leg and made me bleed. Hobo wanted to roost with Negan which made Susan and Marlene roost on the baby side. Tucks just wanted to sleep in the grass, had to push her up the ramp I don't want to grab her she's molting bad.Bunch of taterheads! I told them if they don't behave i'm trading them for a turkey. The rooster is the only one that behaved himself, that is nuts! He's all ratty and molty too so he SHOULD be king taterhead but nope just my sweet goofy boy. Oh almost forgot Lulu pecked me dead in the earhole for whatever reason. @FlyingNunFarm ...you don't get to have toilet paper if you have a cat. I'm sorry but thems the rules.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have been working a good part of the day, feeding, watering and collecting eggs. I need to go out and collect the rest of the quail eggs in a few minutes. Just need a small breather. I got the 12 foot ditch dug in front of the coop and tacked the hardware cloth on the base of the front. Then buried it and tamped it down. Next i built the door since i am tired of trying to find one. And painted it. Really not so much to be done in part one of the coop;
1) cut and install perches
2) secure the end of the coop with hardware cloth.
3) install perches in the run, fix one small spot near the tree.
4) install food and water containers, add chickens.
5) but i have to secure the other door and window first because the coop divider is just hardware cloth so i can't trust it.
Time to go make another carrying cage. Have a great night.

 

[staceyj]

Well, we love you!!!! And we're very glad you're back, cuz, ya know, you're awesome.....

Don't compare yourself to Cappy, she's a machine, the Bob Vila of Chickendom! (or Chicken Martha).

Cooper is a bad boy. A very bad boy. Dogs. They destroy everything! But you still gotta love em.

Bucco eats money. And only big bills, like 20's. Anything made of paper, all three of them will tear to shreds! I can't tell ya how many times I've brought totally-scotch-taped-together bills to the store!

Did someone say paper products?...

 

[staceyj]

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I have to come up with a way to hide the TP....

Me too!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Did someone say paper products?...
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Ok that is FUNNY!!

That look on his face!

 

[staceyj]

Ok that is FUNNY!!

That look on his face!

Someday I’ll figure out you tube, then you’ll all die because I’ll be posting all the 10,000 videos on my phone and you’ll be sorrrrrry.
I have one of him standing up waging war on a roll of paper towels on the holder.
Pretty hilarious. He was definitely winning.

 

[Molpet]

You could be right, although I've never seen it, I've been told by a variety of folks that a hen can expel sperm if she chooses to.

OK, I lied. One more post, thanks @rjohns39! Yeah, I heard they can do that too, and that's what it looked like. Except poor old Lafay, he wasn't getting busy for at least 6 weeks or so....so that would probably make it kinda unlikely (and if so, super-ickk!)

I had a hen I wanted to breed to a certain cockerel she didn't like.. the eggs were never fertile and I had seen them doing the wild thing from a distance.. . I was right there one day and afterwards she expelled a dab of white goo... she had a smug look on her face ... The other hens in that pen had fertile eggs and when I moved her to a roo she had fertile eggs.
She didn't like younger men

 

[Redhead Rae]

I had a hen I wanted to breed to a certain cockerel she didn't like.. the eggs were never fertile and I had seen them doing the wild thing from a distance.. . I was right there one day and afterwards she expelled a dab of white goo... she had a smug look on her face ... The other hens in that pen had fertile eggs and when I moved her to a roo she had fertile eggs.
She didn't like younger men

Oh good lord, that is funny!

Have you tried AI? That might work if the cockerel isn't directly involved.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I usually object to AI, because it usually means the cockerel can't get the job done, but if he is "getting the job done" but she is rejecting his sperm.... you may have to do AI if you really want that pairing.