Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[Blarneyeggs]

 

[barbiegirl]

sorry if this is a stupid question but the mountains or endenbouro

I'm in the pocono mountains by camelback ski resort. I am willing to drive to get her.

 

[BullChick]

Purdy, yes had a good time meeting up with BYCers, but need more time to see things without the crowds. Hope to go back this week and get me some Mozzerella Cheese Cubes. They are to die for.

These kids are 'hog tired'. Hee hee.

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[BullChick]

Thank you, Mama, for a response. It was that she is going into the box, and not doing anything that had me worried. I checked the calendar, and it has been over a week since I have seen an egg that I know is her's. No odd behavior.
Think you can tell me why I keep finding cracked (small cracks, not "someone pecked it" cracks) on the eggs? On the floor, or in the nest. Fresh laid, and a few hours old. It started last week. Could it be that the girls are still learning, and there is too much pressure when they are coming out? No soft shells.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

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haha...hog tired,..should play that number for lotto..

, MC- could they be "knocking them"- around abit, stepping on them?..idk, just throwing some things out there....do they have to "learn"?-to be good egg layers..haha

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Blarney, great pictures .. "kids on pigs!" ...thank you!...

..wanted to go,but well you know..

, too much going on now. your pictures helped

though..

 

[wingstone]

And I know there's a bunch at the FS today. Lets please keep Bruce in thoughts and prayers.

What happened to bruce ? Is it anything we can help with ???

 

[missydcpc]

The crowds:

That was the loudest duck!!!

 

[wingstone]

I have been looking, and cannot find my answer. Penny is a 9 -month -old Columbian Rock Cross. She lays about five days, off one. I have not seen an egg for her in about a week. I considered that she may have taken to laying on the floor (with some of the newbies), but the past 2 days she has been in the nest box. She doesn't seem stressed (struggling) and she comes out within a few minutes of my being in there. No egg. I checked her for being egg bound. Nothing. She is missing some feathers, but it looks like she is being mounted too much. I don't see mites. Could she be thinking of going broody? It is the only thing I have read that is left for an answer. The odd thing being that the most eggs are on the floor in the corner. Wouldn't she be laying there? That is where she (and the hens I had) was laying several months ago before I got new nest boxes (and put them where the 2-month-olds wouldn't be running around!).

I have a silkie that acts like that on occasions, and yes she does go broody right after that, doesn't need to be eggs in the box they will sit on air if they want to.

 

[wingstone]

Blarney....yes chad was making a short joke,,,decided to let that one go....i owe him one...

Littlemisspurdy....cabin is not in penn state it is just on this side of the mountain if you know the area it is milroy exit off of 322 ..we are out in the valley just past the state park....takes us about half an hour to get to penn state from the cabin......thru that out there for anyone in this area who would like to go to ag progress, they could always stay at the cabin instead of being on the road all in one day...