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[Kassaundra]

I'm not Kyzmette but Bumpers is one of her favorite hens, a cinnamon queen or production red if I remember right????


Double yolks can be fertile, not many hatch out viable chicks, it can be done but is pretty rare.



I've been "fertilizing" the garden. The tomatoes have gotten eggshell / comfrey / lab water, the rest are getting comfrey / lab water, and the comfrey is getting straight chicken poop water, you can't give comfrey to "hot" of a fertilizer, it loves the stuff would probably grow in straight poop.

I almost swear if I stand still and look at the tomatoes, I can see them grow!!!! I hate getting this excited about the garden b/c it makes the disappointment even worse come summer.

 

[Kyzmette]

Kass knows me so well. Bumpers is the hen in my profile pic, and I love her dearly. She's a production red and lays huge eggs, larger than most production reds. I like to think she lays such large eggs for me because she loves me back. I started tossing the most enormous of her eggs in the bator when I would hatch other eggs, and this is an egg from a resulting pullet.

Typically when a double yolker is incubated one or both of the chicks will die. Sometimes one will survive, and very rarely both will. The size of this egg might make it possible for two chicks to survive if it has double yolks, but odds of dual survival are really low.

I've been watching the first egg because the embryo is oddly shaped, almost like a valentine heart. It would be heartbreaking for it to be siamese. I fully expect it to quit soon.

 

[Loriemarler]

I'm not Kyzmette  but Bumpers is one of her favorite hens, a cinnamon queen or production red if I remember right????


Double yolks can be fertile, not many hatch out viable chicks, it can be done but is pretty rare.



I've been "fertilizing" the garden.  The tomatoes have gotten eggshell / comfrey / lab water, the rest are getting comfrey / lab water, and the comfrey is getting straight chicken poop water, you can't give comfrey to "hot" of a fertilizer, it loves the stuff would probably grow in straight poop.

I almost swear if I stand still and look at the tomatoes, I can see them grow!!!!  I hate getting this excited about the garden b/c it makes the disappointment even worse come summer.

Ooooh I would love some comfrey. Where did you get yours?

 

[Kassaundra]

Ooooh I would love some comfrey. Where did you get yours?

I got root starts from Coe's Comfrey, he has a web page. I got the bocking (sterile seeds) but just this year bought some regular comfrey seeds to start in the chickens area since they love it so much and I use it for the garden too.

 

[subhanalah]

I got root starts from Coe's Comfrey, he has a web page.   I got the bocking (sterile seeds) but just this year bought some regular comfrey seeds to start in the chickens area since they love it so much and I use it for the garden too.

small amounts of comfrey given to weaned rabbits also helps with enteritis. Giving too much causes diarrhea, so use sparingly!

 

[NanaKat]

Yes she puffs up and growls at me.  I checked and she had 2 of her own eggs in there, so i took out the ceramic eggs and put 6 SLW eggs under here and she just accepted them and did not move.  She is in a coop with 2 other hens and a rooster (they are a quad).  Should i put food and water close to her so she can get to it without having to go outside.

She needs to get away from the nest to defacate...you don't want broody poop near the nest or the eggs....stinky sticky stuff.

Double yolks can be fertile, not many hatch out viable chicks, it can be done but is pretty rare.

I've been "fertilizing" the garden.  The tomatoes have gotten eggshell / comfrey / lab water, the rest are getting comfrey / lab water, and the comfrey is getting straight chicken poop water, you can't give comfrey to "hot" of a fertilizer, it loves the stuff would probably grow in straight poop.

I almost swear if I stand still and look at the tomatoes, I can see them grow!!!!  I hate getting this excited about the garden b/c it makes the disappointment even worse come summer.

There is a thread somewhere on here that has a video of two chicks hatching from the same egg. The lady helped the second chick because it tried to pip on the small end of the egg.

Kass, I hear you on watching the garden grow with such excitement you have to catch your breath when you remember the past several summers.

 

[Kassaundra]

New batch of comfrey juice is "cooking"

 

[Loriemarler]

New batch of comfrey juice is "cooking"

I had comfrey several years ago but when we moved it died. Would you have any to sell?

 

[Kassaundra]

I had comfrey several years ago but when we moved it died. Would you have any to sell?

It has been in long enough to divide, but I won't do that until fall, so maybe then.

 

[shelbydog]

Who raises the longhorns on here?