Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[kada6305]

We sold our first dozen of chicken eggs today! We were getting ready to leave to take dogs for walks. Our mail lady bought a dozen from us very happy!

 

[LisaYolkUm]

The stress of the move will cause her not to lay for awhile. She should begin to feel more comfortable and begin layimg soon. The egg song is loud bawk bawk bawk BAWK bawk.

well I think I am hearing a loud bawk bawk BAWK bawk.............
I anticipated the delay in laying due to the stress of the move.....................but if a chicken is making this song a few times without laying is it okay.....................

do they ever sing the song without the egg?

 

[chippysmom327]

well I think I am hearing a loud bawk bawk BAWK bawk.............
I anticipated the delay in laying due to the stress of the move.....................but if a chicken is making this song a few times without laying is it okay.....................

do they ever sing the song without the egg?

Mine do it as a "warning" sound.

 

[nbenevento]

well I think I am hearing a loud bawk bawk BAWK bawk.............
I anticipated the delay in laying due to the stress of the move.....................but if a chicken is making this song a few times without laying is it okay.....................

do they ever sing the song without the egg?

They sure do. The song is not exclusively used for egg laying. They will make that sound for reasons such as stress, a warning, yelling at each other when one is hogging the nest. Sometimes others will join in just for fun! Be patient. If it is only 10 months old and was laying before the move, she will start again soon. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week. Don't worry unless you see something that you know is not right with behavior and so forth. Make sure she is pooping, eating and drinking and will be fine.

 

[LisaYolkUm]

They sure do. The song is not exclusively used for egg laying. They will make that sound for reasons such as stress, a warning, yelling at each other when one is hogging the nest. Sometimes others will join in just for fun! Be patient. If it is only 10 months old and was laying before the move, she will start again soon. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week. Don't worry unless you see something that you know is not right with behavior and so forth. Make sure she is pooping, eating and drinking and will be fine.

okay thanks...................otherwise she seems quite content.............and is eating , pooping and drinking just fine!

 

[BirdbyGavin1103]

well I think I am hearing a loud bawk bawk BAWK bawk.............
I anticipated the delay in laying due to the stress of the move.....................but if a chicken is making this song a few times without laying is it okay.....................

do they ever sing the song without the egg?

Yes , mine usually do it as a warning as well as before they lay. My cockerels even do it and will sing it back to the girls when it's egg time.

 

[BullChick]

Dear Food,
I am sorry you find it so annoying when I bite you. Would you rather it hurt? I leave the itchy stuff for your comfort! Okay. I leave it because I am an evil little monster.
I guess I should remind you that I don't like Avon's Skin So Soft body oil, Bounce dryer sheets (works for bees too) or the cute little things they are coming up with for kids. Wrist bands (like the rubber band things that are so popular) stickers and Off makes a clip on fan. All are cheap (under $5) ways to repel me. The kid's things can last several hours (stickers) to days (wrist bands).
I do hope you don't tell too many people about this. I have to eat too!!
Sincerely,
Mosquito

 

[BirdbyGavin1103]

Dear Food,
I am sorry you find it so annoying when I bite you. Would you rather it hurt? I leave the itchy stuff for your comfort! Okay. I leave it because I am an evil little monster.
I guess I should remind you that I don't like Avon's Skin So Soft body oil, Bounce dryer sheets (works for bees too) or the cute little things they are coming up with for kids. Wrist bands (like the rubber band things that are so popular) stickers and Off makes a clip on fan. All are cheap (under $5) ways to repel me. The kid's things can last several hours (stickers) to days (wrist bands).
I do hope you don't tell too many people about this. I have to eat too!!
Sincerely,
Mosquito

Those band ones work fairly well, Gavin and I had them for night fishing. My legs got bit a little while it was on my wrist, but Gavin didn't get bit at all!

Hehehe gotta show off some of the new kiddos we'll be picking up in the next week or so:



Yep more Seramas, nope these little ones are not addicting whatsoever

lol
We'll be picking them up from the same person we got our other three from.

 

[wlrabbitry]

Walked downstairs to check on her and BAM! Egg laid.

Nice. she sing for you too?

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Hello all you out there--------------I need to hear from you on this
My New Hampshire Red is 10 months old and new to me................had her for one week.  She had been laying at her previous owner.

I feed her grower feed because I have 6wk old chickens together with her..............and have provided oyster shell, grit also.
She has eaten well...............watermelon, greens, even worms today.

Today she is making REALLY LOUD vocalizations.................so I am thinking this must be what an egg song sounds like.

she has done this 3-4 x today

no egg

I am wondering if she is having problems..................could the egg be stuck in her?

please talk to me about this.............I am so new at this and really would like to hear from you all!   thanks!

Lisa, looks like you're getting some good advice here, I agree, eating, drinking, pooing...it's all good stuff.

I need some advice.
I just sold about 45 roos/cockerels for literally $0.50-$0.75 each in the last 2wks.  I don't make any money on my MFCs (funny, I made a typing error and originally typed KFCs... irony or not...?).  Actually, I don't make money on ANY of my bantams.  No one around here wants bantams.  Only birds I make money off of are my Wheaten Ameraucanas.  Which, I sold and hatched out over 4 dozen eggs and now have 15 girls growing out to start again.  Anyways... I am considering axing a project again.  I love my MFC, but cost effectively, I am getting no place with them.  No improvements because I can't get new birds and no money off what I have to improve.  I just got my black bantam Cochins a couple months ago and I want to start breeding a chocolate/mauve bantam Cochin project.  I bred pures so far (with ONE MFC x Choco Orp accident baby!).  I am about to start the chocolate project since I have a couple young cockerels about ready to have their own girls but now I wonder if I want to.  Is it worth the aggravation?  No one buys my MFCs which is a project and I am going to have the same issue with the chocolates.  Or... is there a bit of a demand I am not aware of?  I know locally no one will spend an extra couple bucks because it's a rare/new color to Cochins.  I don't mind dumping black F1 cockerels at the auction, though.  Even at only $0.50 each.  The good thing about the chocolates is I already have 6 different origins in my black bantam Cochins, so line/inbreeding isn't an issue.  I also got US SOP BBS bantam Orps, too.  I already have diversity there.  And it's a solid color that's sexlinked!  MFCs don't have that.

So.  Something has to go.  Reason being, I don't have room for so many projects and I can't afford to feed the offspring until they are grown out enough to decide who to keep.  Should I sell the MFCs?  Sell the chocolate project?  Sell both and replace them with a LF breed that will make me a bit of money to help defray the near $200 I spend in feed a month?  Oh, money I put in and I get nothing but poo out.  Literally.  I am not even getting eggs right now.  From anyone!  Everyone is broody or to young.


I am already eliminating the ducks.  No one wants them either.  I was going to eliminate the geese, but I like them.  I did add turkeys, but of the 7, 5 are BBBs, so they will be in the freezer in less than 3 months.  I am axing the LF chocolate/mauve project I have going.  I axed the bantam Ameracaunas.  I only have the bantam Orps (B/B/S/C), bantam Cochins (MFC & black) and the Ameraucanas.  And, Ameraucanas are a project, too.  I couldn't go with a normal color that's established.  No.  I had to go with a color that needs work.  I like the sexlink color and ability to tell gender by 6-8wks.

Hey Bobbie, I also raise the MF Banty project birds, and I also (as I'm sure a lot of us are) am feeling a bit overwhelmed. If my kids had it their way, we'd have cows, a couple of horses and keep every goat. But when it's time for feeding and watering....where'd they all go?

Our plan to get through winter is to downsize to the very best quad or trio of each breed. The Bantam were selling ok here in the spring, but I've had pullets on CL for quite some time now and am having no interest. Goo luck with whatever you do.