I cannot tell you how much better pine shavings have worked for us rather than hay! Amazing! NOw the hens actually use their nest box and we have nice clean eggs. Counting down until Chick Days at TSC!!!
I have some great wyandottes coming to me soon from the foleys in kentucky!! And some black copper marans headed this way too.....very excited to see what I get.
I just set 24 Buckeye eggs, 12 NH eggs, 3 duck eggs and 2 cochin eggs last night at 7:30. Temps are holding steady and the humidity is holding about 35 percent. My 19 little stinkers from the last hatch are doing great and playing pinball with each other in the brooder! Life is good - now if it would just warm up here in NW Ohio, I could think about getting my ornery little chicks out to the barn eventually! They are almost 3 weeks old and love being in the house - lots of attention every time I move. They are so cute but I can already start seeing the roos........most of the roos will be Sunday dinner in a few months and that just breaks my heart - they all have so much personality! Hope we don't get the 9 inches of snow tonight they are calling for - still don't understand if earth is getting warmer why this has been such a cold miserable winter!
Hi fellow Ohioans! Just sittin here in Holmes County waiting for the storm and to see if we can get out to go to work tomorrow. My egg cartons arrived today, so I'm going to go wash all of my call duck eggs and get them put into cartons. I'm getting 3/day and the 4th duck (and chicken hen) isn't laying yet. Looks like I better start baking some egg-laden recipes!