Oyster shell to encourage immature hens to lay?

[Eliza]

my chickies are 4 months old. they are buff orps. I have no idea about nest box training? also, what about the light issue. Right now it's getting cold so I switched the blue 85 watt light to a warmer red light. is that all right? the chicken free range on the weekends and after work (only about 1 hour of light left before they leg it with desperate speed back to the hen house!) Will they lay with the warm light or does one use natural - which I have noticed causes increase in their aggressive tendencies as evidenced by more posturing and pecking! that's not good! Also, I've noticed that adding cracked corn to the grain creates yellow poos. What other grains are good to add? Horse oats? Wheat? Remembering that nasty habit of feeding poultry the dead remains of their friends and relations - remember that ineatable chicken remains were processed back into chicken feed. Is that still done? So do people feed feedstore chicken feed like blue seal or nutrena?? Is that even true anymore?

 

[joebryant]

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I agree 100%! I never want to deal with prolapse, whatever it is.

Prolapse is something I have absolutely no desire with which to deal (couldn't end with a preposition, sorry, I 'd rather read like a bad Latin translation). My understanding is that it's a situation where the lining through which the egg travels is moved outside the body with the egg that's too massive to progress naturally. Unfortunately, chickens abhor anomoly (much like the adolescents I teach!) and they "go for" the vent of the offending chicken. It's a bad situation. I particularly worry about it as my Red Sex Link pullets have begun laying at 16/17 weeks. So far, they look ok, in spite of one of them laying a massive egg within an egg.

-Christian

I agree 100%. A preposition is something that I would never end a sentence with.
Prolapse must be horrible. It's something that I've never heard of.

 

[notsooldmcdonald]

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Prolapse is something I have absolutely no desire with which to deal (couldn't end with a preposition, sorry, I 'd rather read like a bad Latin translation). My understanding is that it's a situation where the lining through which the egg travels is moved outside the body with the egg that's too massive to progress naturally. Unfortunately, chickens abhor anomoly (much like the adolescents I teach!) and they "go for" the vent of the offending chicken. It's a bad situation. I particularly worry about it as my Red Sex Link pullets have begun laying at 16/17 weeks. So far, they look ok, in spite of one of them laying a massive egg within an egg.

-Christian

I agree 100%. A preposition is something that I would never end a sentence with.
Prolapse must be horrible. It's something that I've never heard of.

Geez, you really like to make an English teacher squirm! Wow that hurts!
-Christian

 

[Omran]

Oystershell is only for the calsium in egg shell it has nothing to do with them laying or not, but at this age I think it will be no problem to give them the Oystershell at all because you gonna put just a little anyway in the corner of the coop and believe me hens will get only what they want from it.
I put some for my hen and till now I did not use byt few ounzez in like 3 months.
Good luck.
Omran

 

[Justino]

i give mine it when theyre in the week # 20s until they lay but not on a daily basis, like once a week

 

[joebryant]

it's a situation where the lining through which the egg travels is moved outside the body with the egg that's too massive to progress naturally.

I agree 100%. A preposition is something that I would never end a sentence with.
Prolapse must be horrible. It's something that I've never heard of.
Geez, you really like to make an English teacher squirm! Wow that hurts!
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Actually, "heard of" like "called up" "sit down", etc., is okay because it's derived from German grammar, not English, but what's worse is that I don't where that "lining" is at.

 

[cmom]

I didn't start my girls on layer feed until I got my first egg. Oyster shells too. I had a little starter/grower feed left so I mixed it in with the layer feed. I haven't had any problems. They will start laying when they are ready.

 

[dancingbear]

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My inner English teacher cringed. (Sorry, I inherited the IET from my grandmother) Try rephrasing, like this, for example:

"I have absolutely no desire to deal with a prolapse."

 

[joebryant]

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My inner English teacher cringed. (Sorry, I inherited the IET from my grandmother) Try rephrasing, like this, for example:

"I have absolutely no desire to deal with a prolapse."

I had a college English professor yell at me one time about taking that "never end a sentence with a preposition" out-of-date rule to the limit, i.e., I was doing what you did. The rule really only applies in sentences like, "Where's it at?" . The "at" is not needed. It IS okay to end a sentence with a preposition that has its object elsewhere in the sentence.
Also, I mentioned call up, sit down, etc. because those are NOT prepositions. English comes from German grammar, unlike all the Romance languages that come from Latin. The aforementioned words act as one verb.
I hope that you are not teaching your students to speak and write the way you have tried to teach me here. I assure you that I have many, many more college years of studying languages than what you have. If I wanted to, I'm sure that I could write a much more stilted paragraph than you could ever think of.

 

[joebryant]

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My inner English teacher cringed. (Sorry, I inherited the IET from my grandmother) Try rephrasing, like this, for example:

"I have absolutely no desire to deal with a prolapse."

I had a college English professor yell at me one time about taking that "never end a sentence with a preposition" out-of-date rule to the limit, i.e., I was doing what you did when you wrote, "Prolapse is something I have absolutely no desire with which to deal (couldn't end with a preposition, sorry, I 'd rather read like a bad Latin translation).". The rule really only applies in sentences like, "Where's it at?" . The "at" is not needed. It IS okay to end a sentence with a preposition that has its object elsewhere in the sentence.
Also, I mentioned call up, sit down, etc. because those are NOT prepositions. English comes from German grammar, unlike all the Romance languages that come from Latin. The aforementioned words act as one verb.
I hope that you are not teaching your students to speak and write the way you have tried to teach me here. I assure you that I have many, many more college years of studying languages than what you have. If I wanted to, I'm sure that I could write a much more stilted paragraph than you could ever think of.

Ain't I right?

Ooops, should I have said, "Aren't I right?" Is it true that "there's no such word as ain't" like 99.999% of the U.S. English and other teachers teach? They might as well tell their students to say, "I are right" in a declarative sentence.




Answer: Ain't is an acceptable contraction for "am not" on informal college papers as long as it's used as first person interrogative.