@Kassaundra great photos. Loving the warm clothing on those nakeds! Just in time for our winter chills this week.
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I lost one of my Silver Pencilled Rock hens yesterday to a hawk or some other aerial predator. Did my daily headcount at 4 and everyone was accounted for but when I went out later she was half eaten in the chicken yard. One of the other SPRs has a pendulous crop and refuses to wear a bra. I've put her up and her crop will eventually empty so I'm not overly concerned for her immediate health but it does hang down and impede her walking. She has learned to pick her legs up to lift her crop while she walks but has a bald spot where her legs hit and I think in the future she'll make some type of wound there. My research also shows she shouldn't be allowed to breed so she'll most likely head to the freezer with the next processing (provided I don't find any other disease). That leaves me with one SPR hen and the rooster. I hadn't planned on hatching any chicks in the spring but I may let them hatch out some as the SPRs have grown on me.
On a happier note I'm still getting 8-12 eggs a day. So many that there isn't any way we can eat them all. I'm thinking everyone is getting eggs for Christmas.
On a happier note I'm still getting 8-12 eggs a day. So many that there isn't any way we can eat them all. I'm thinking everyone is getting eggs for Christmas.
I lost one of my Silver Pencilled Rock hens yesterday to a hawk or some other aerial predator. Did my daily headcount at 4 and everyone was accounted for but when I went out later she was half eaten in the chicken yard. One of the other SPRs has a pendulous crop and refuses to wear a bra. I've put her up and her crop will eventually empty so I'm not overly concerned for her immediate health but it does hang down and impede her walking. She has learned to pick her legs up to lift her crop while she walks but has a bald spot where her legs hit and I think in the future she'll make some type of wound there. My research also shows she shouldn't be allowed to breed so she'll most likely head to the freezer with the next processing (provided I don't find any other disease). That leaves me with one SPR hen and the rooster. I hadn't planned on hatching any chicks in the spring but I may let them hatch out some as the SPRs have grown on me.
On a happier note I'm still getting 8-12 eggs a day. So many that there isn't any way we can eat them all. I'm thinking everyone is getting eggs for Christmas.
With an incubator, you could go ahead and hatch eggs from you dead hen and tour rooster as well as the remains healthy hen. I would not hatch eggs from the one with the enlarged crop.
Use food coloring in the vent of the hen with the crop to stain the shell of her eggs. You can compare the signature shape of her egg to remove from possible hatching eggs.
Yes, even eggs in the refridgerate can be hatched. They just need a few days to warm back to room temperature and need turning before incubating.
Right now they are/were with the rest of the flock and my other roosters so there is no way to know which rooster covered them. My dominant rooster is my White Wyandotte and I'm not thrilled with letting him breed (his days are numbered as he's getting a little aggressive). I will place the SPRs along with some of my partridge rocks in the breeding pen when I'm ready to have littles running around. I don't have an incubator as my luck with hatches is terrible, I suspect it's because I mess with the eggs and incubator too much. I'll collect from the breeding pen and wait for someone to go broody.
Thank you! I am glad to "see" you all again!
Hi Kassaundra!
That Turken in the sweater is killing me!!
He is scaleless, so completely featherless so needs the sweater.
The birds have been locked up for two days while the boys repaired a tractor used for putting out big hay bales for the herds...no babies underfoot! Fortunately they finished by 3:30 today....but then forgot to open the gates to the pens. Will let them out after the rain stops tomorrow.
One three week old Buff Orpington chickie keeps slipping thru a space in the gate and runs to meet me each time I come out of the house. She was at the back door this afternoon! So of course I had to go get some cracked corn for the flock. Lil Chick ran in front of me all the way back to the barn...cheeping the whole way...so cute.
Got another rat while I was putting out feed in the pens...that make a round 60. Between them and the starlings, I was losing a lot of feed. Hoping the starling hurry up and migrate with this rain and cold.
One three week old Buff Orpington chickie keeps slipping thru a space in the gate and runs to meet me each time I come out of the house. She was at the back door this afternoon! So of course I had to go get some cracked corn for the flock. Lil Chick ran in front of me all the way back to the barn...cheeping the whole way...so cute.
Got another rat while I was putting out feed in the pens...that make a round 60. Between them and the starlings, I was losing a lot of feed. Hoping the starling hurry up and migrate with this rain and cold.
Rats are no fun! Especially when they are eating up the feed!!
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