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Chickassan said:
Ok, forgot what i was going to ask lol! One of my two derp hens is gaining a serious weight advantage, like a pound and a half lol! The thing is, its like she's never full. I have to stop her foraging to put her in the coop. She's like one of those kids that might eat themselves to death. I don't know what to do with her. She doesn't have anything wrong with her at all. So what do i do? Do i just start building a little cart now? I know it isn't good for them to be fat but i don't know how to put a bottomless chicken on a diet.:confused:
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Some birds are just like that. Speckled Sussex have that tendency too. I had 2 that were total piggies and when they got chubby I had to either segregate and reduce feed or force more movement. Neither tactic worked overly well.
 
Chickassan said:
Ok, forgot what i was going to ask lol! One of my two derp hens is gaining a serious weight advantage, like a pound and a half lol! The thing is, its like she's never full. I have to stop her foraging to put her in the coop. She's like one of those kids that might eat themselves to death. I don't know what to do with her. She doesn't have anything wrong with her at all. So what do i do? Do i just start building a little cart now? I know it isn't good for them to be fat but i don't know how to put a bottomless chicken on a diet.:confused:
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Worms?
 
Chickassan said:
Ok, forgot what i was going to ask lol! One of my two derp hens is gaining a serious weight advantage, like a pound and a half lol! The thing is, its like she's never full. I have to stop her foraging to put her in the coop. She's like one of those kids that might eat themselves to death. I don't know what to do with her. She doesn't have anything wrong with her at all. So what do i do? Do i just start building a little cart now? I know it isn't good for them to be fat but i don't know how to put a bottomless chicken on a diet.:confused:
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Put the birds on free range all summer with little enough feed that they stay hungry most of the day. They'll range pretty far looking for food. I've had an EE like that.
 
Chickassan said:
Nope, she's been tested everyone has. Worms tend to make them eat but they just get skinnier. 21 hens might be on to something, she might just be a little pig.
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What kind of food do you get for them? Is it possible that they are missing something in their diet that the others don't need as much of? I read something one time about a hen that wasn't laying and all the others were. Well one day she gave her cat food and the next day or so she layed. Then the hen stopped again and she gave it more cat food and bam more eggs do you see where I'm going.
 
CSAchook said:
It’s me! So tell me Anansi, what is it like to live somewhere green... and rainy :love
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Besides the green, rainy and Mediterranean climate in Puget Sound, we have 2 mountain ranges we can see, and one volcano in view. Some areas have lahar (volcanic mudflow due to eruptions that could melt glaciers and send floods down some of our rivers) evacuation routes, and east of the volcanoes, yes, we have several, have to worry about ash. Washington state actually had 9 different climate regions, ranging from dessert to rainforest. The state, as a whole, has temperatures that can range from single digits, and occasional below zero, in the winter to in the 110 to 120 range during the summer. The east side gets the extremes, the West side ranges from occasional teens in the winter, to occasional 100s in August. The normal range of difference for my area, Greater Puget Sound, is about 60 to 60 degrees. Contrary to popular belief, we don't have rain all the time, winger is the rainy season, but it's fairly rare to have continuous rain. Yes, we will have weeks where it rains every day, but not continuous rain. You should check out our state online, it really is gorgeous, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I've lived in the Midwest, from Michigan down to Texas, Germany and Hawaii before moving here, and this, by far has been the best place or of all of them. I refuse to move, did to much of that for the first 26 years of my life, and we've lived here for over 22 years now.
 

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