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[banjoejoe4783]

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thanks he will defanatly be needing one we will have to get him taylored up



EVERY ONE IS INVITED TO COME SEE THE NAKED ROO IN PERSON at the GREEN COUNTRY SWAP MEET at stillwell on sep 17th

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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Joe, your roo is so ugly he is cute! Does he sunburn?
Did you ever check into the research program for naked birds...would be interesting to see if your roo passes on the naked body trait to his chick.

he was breed to have dark skin so he dose not sunburn i am still looking into how the genetics work they is not a lot out there so it will be a lot of try and see

 

[Buckguy20]

Good day everyone.
Well the good news is I didn't lose any birds last night. The bad news is that jared had eight traps set and all he caught was a little possum. I know it wasn't the marauding killer from before.
Will try again tonight.
Had a about 20 chicks hatch last night. Doesn't look like it is gonna be a great hatch.

 

[janbcoo1]

Good Morning everyone. You all have some Great information here for us newbies. Thank you. We are so loving our experiences with our flock of unusual birds that we will find it very hard to part with the three little roos, but they must go. The hard things help us to appreciate the wonderfulness of raising backyard chickens!

 

[Buckguy20]

Joe, That is some bird. You need to take him on the talk show circuit. Leno, Letterman,
et al!

 

[CityClucks]

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Janbcoo - did you post the little roos on Craigslist?

 

[CityClucks]

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You could train him to lie quietly on a roasting pan, surrounded by veggies, then stand up on cue. hee hee...

 

[Ok_Junebug]

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You could train him to lie quietly on a roasting pan, surrounded by veggies, then stand up on cue. hee hee...

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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You could train him to lie quietly on a roasting pan, surrounded by veggies, then stand up on cue. hee hee...

LMAO

 

[poultryand bees]

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I suspect that the 3rd hen would like to go broody. Sometimes, I have 2 hens on the same nest, even when it is in a 12 inch nest box. You might try putting some golf balls or wooden/chalk/ceramic eggs into an empty nest box and see if the 3rd hen decides to claim it as her own. As to the number of eggs, I generally give a large fowl hen about 15-18 eggs in the 12 inch wide nest boxes. I think that what is on the bottom of the nest is as important to keeping them from getting cracked, as how many are in the nest. I use the excelsior nest pads from eggcartons.com and they provide a nice cushion for the eggs.

As to cleaning up the rest of the eggs that have egg on them, I would just scrape it off as best you could. I regularly wash dirty eggs that I am going to incubate, with hot water to remove the soil. I don't know if it would be a good thing to wash an egg that has been incubating for awhile, since the pores in the egg get larger as the egg incubates, making it easier for the chick to hatch. The larger pores might absorb water