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DanielE1990 said:
A few years ago the last time I had chickens I had some black australorps. I had to black Australorp roosters roosters one was nice and the other was more productive of the flock.
So as The story goes. One day I was walking up the field and the more protective Australorp rooster decided to come flogging at me again. I had got used to carrying a stick that I would shoot him away with but this time ended up hitting him in the head pretty hard. He dropped "dead" lifeless. I thought "oh crap I killed him!". I picked them up and tried to see if there was any signs of life and could not find any. I was about to go to work so I threw him into the back of the truck and thought I'd dispose of him down the road as to not draw predators onto my property. About 5 minutes down the road I stopped and picked him back up out of the bed of the truck. He still seemed dead so I pitched him down over a bank into a Laurel thicket.
I did not think a lot about it assuming that coyotes or something would have probably eat him that night. But!!! 3 days later my dad coming up the road mentions a big black rooster that looks like one of mine walking around down there!
I thought it could not be. He was dead! But we went back down and there he was walking around at the bottom of the road lost. We caught him and brought him back home.
He integrated back into the flock seamlessly though his aggression streak and crowing seemed off from that day forward. He lived at least two more years before I gave my flock to someone else that keeps chickens.

We renamed him Lazarus after the Bible story since I thought he was dead dead and all the sudden a few days later was back up and walking around very alive!
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Ha good one
glad he learned his lesson
And I would have fixed him up for soup
 
DanielE1990 said:
Back then I was not eating them. I've changed my mind on that now. Also going to raise quail to eat.
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I raise heritage Dark Cornish, Cornish X (from hatchery), and American Guinea Hogs to eat. Home grown food is the best!

I'm in hatching season right now. I'll be done with hatching chicks by the 2nd or 3rd week of July. I'll keep hatching guinea eggs until they finish laying for the year.

Speaking of guineas, something raided the guinea nest. All 7 of my falsies are gone. I put them there to keep my free ranging guineas coming back to lay there. The only things in the nest today was two real guinea eggs. I need to get new falsies. Ceramic falsies are not cheap. I think I'm going to go to walmart and get golfballs.

I hope whatever took them has a bad stomach or tooth ache.
 
Redhead Rae said:
I raise heritage Dark Cornish, Cornish X (from hatchery), and American Guinea Hogs to eat. Home grown food is the best!

I'm in hatching season right now. I'll be done with hatching chicks by the 2nd or 3rd week of July. I'll keep hatching guinea eggs until they finish laying for the year.

Speaking of guineas, something raided the guinea nest. All 7 of my falsies are gone. I put them there to keep my free ranging guineas coming back to lay there. The only things in the nest today was two real guinea eggs. I need to get new falsies. Ceramic falsies are not cheap. I think I'm going to go to walmart and get golfballs.

I hope whatever took them has a bad stomach or tooth ache.
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Sorry to hear about the guinea.
I am doing chickens and hopefully quail. I have 50 eggs ordered. Thinking if all goes well maybe doing rabbits next year. But I'm not sure on that yet.
 
DanielE1990 said:
Sorry to hear about the guinea.
I am doing chickens and hopefully quail. I have 50 eggs ordered. Thinking if all goes well maybe doing rabbits next year. But I'm not sure on that yet.
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I hatch to sell the keets so it isn't a really big deal that the nest was raided from that perspective, the hens weren't sitting on the nest, just laying eggs there and leaving. I'm more put out that my ceramic eggs are gone.
 
Redhead Rae said:
I hatch to sell the keets so it isn't a really big deal that the nest was raided from that perspective, the hens weren't sitting on the nest, just laying eggs there and leaving. I'm more put out that my ceramic eggs are gone.
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I'm really wondering how the egg thief feels about those eggs...

Rae, how do you label your box when you ship eggs?
 
rjohns39 said:
I'm really wondering how the egg thief feels about those eggs...

Rae, how do you label your box when you ship eggs?
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"Fragile THIS SIDE UP" with arrows pointing up to the top. Didn't bother saying eggs.

I wrapped the eggs in strips of bubble wrap, twice around each egg and packed them with shredded paper.
 
Redhead Rae said:
I raise heritage Dark Cornish, Cornish X (from hatchery), and American Guinea Hogs to eat. Home grown food is the best!

I'm in hatching season right now. I'll be done with hatching chicks by the 2nd or 3rd week of July. I'll keep hatching guinea eggs until they finish laying for the year.

Speaking of guineas, something raided the guinea nest. All 7 of my falsies are gone. I put them there to keep my free ranging guineas coming back to lay there. The only things in the nest today was two real guinea eggs. I need to get new falsies. Ceramic falsies are not cheap. I think I'm going to go to walmart and get golfballs.

I hope whatever took them has a bad stomach or tooth ache.
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I hope that the thief was a snake and swallowed them, but SEVEN?
 

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