Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[newbeechix]

Northern Virginia here

 

[newbeechix]

I have a question... I'm new to having chickens and was wondering if when I took out my rooster if my eggs from the next day will be peep free? Or does it take a couple days or weeks?

 

[dheltzel]

He is stunning! What breed is that?

The long feathers are a trait called "genetic hackle". They are usedfor tying flies for fishing, and also sometimes as hair ornaments. The colors are just a basic Crele, like a Welbar, Rhoebar or Bielefelder. My hope is to incorporate the genetic hackle trait into some other breeds, increasing the value of the roos and just making them look really neat. I like raising rare chickens and these are very hard to obtain from the few people who breed them. I imagine the main breeders aren't keen on the idea of this trait becoming commonly available.

 

[dheltzel]

I have a question... I'm new to having chickens and was wondering if when I took out my rooster if my eggs from the next day will be peep free? Or does it take a couple days or weeks?

Your eggs are "peep free" until they are incubated. Fertile eggs are perfectly edible, Trader Joes sells fertile egg for eating and even charges more for them. The hens can store a rooster's sperm for several weeks, so it's possible to get fertile eggs for quite a while after a roos has been removed.

 

[stake]

The long feathers are a trait called "genetic hackle". They are usedfor tying flies for fishing, and also sometimes as hair ornaments. The colors are just a basic Crele, like a Welbar, Rhoebar or Bielefelder. My hope is to incorporate the genetic hackle trait into some other breeds, increasing the value of the roos and just making them look really neat. I like raising rare chickens and these are very hard to obtain from the few people who breed them. I imagine the main breeders aren't keen on the idea of this trait becoming commonly available.

DH:

What Breed are they? I kinda remember a 'Fly tying' breed somewhere????

 

[stake]

I have a question... I'm new to having chickens and was wondering if when I took out my rooster if my eggs from the next day will be peep free? Or does it take a couple days or weeks?

Howdy from Chester Co....you may find fertile eggs for a week or so.....(I think)....

 

[stake]

Good afternoon all:


Way too hard for me to keep up (especially with the train running)....

B:
Congrats on the quad!!!

Anne:

Hope you girl makes it....

For me, I am getting ready to 'reshuffle' my two crews....too many boys and I'm going to mix my egg layers in with the x2 breeding groups....and I should be about x5 days til the next hatch.....

 

[yoopergirl1211]

I'm so sad. I'm pretty sure I will be coming home to a dead turkey today. My female that had been injured in mating started to not look good last night, wings dropped and all. Come to think of it, she seemed confused, like she couldn't find her way into the coop, or didn't want to.

I put her Jn a dog crate in the coop to keep her isolated for observation. This morning, before I left, she was laying down, eyes closed, legs splayed under her. I checked her wound, and it looked very dark but not oozing. I think she had taken a dustbath and got dirt in it, so I suspect infection. I put a heavy amount of tea tree oil on the wound and put het back. But I know what is coming.

I hope she gets better! Your dad too!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Well, I came home and she had passed. It looks like she had hurt her leg also, it was greenish on the skin. Perhaps the infection spread quickly? I suppose that's why she had her legs splayed this morning. I cremated her in the fire for bio security reasons. I'm sad that she died, but I'm glad it wasn't the other one, because had given me fertile eggs, whereas this one had not. Also glad she didn't suffer long.

In better news, Dads procedure went very smoothly.

And the new chicks are doing well!

 

[FluffyButt789]

So this happened...



QUADS!! (One not showing) Let's see April do that!

How incredible! How are they doing?

Check out this huge egg. I don't know who laid it, but I'm sure it's a double yolker, if not an egg inside an egg. It's also wrinkled! Chicken egg and turkey egg for size comparison.

I get an egg like that every day from our one hen. Same color, always wrinkled at the end, and I have no idea why!

when can I let my 7 week old chicks begin to free range and do they go back to the coop or do you have to run them down?

We kept ours in the coop for a week or more, before letting them out. Then we let them out while we were outside, and escorted them back in the coop. Slowly they learn where to go.

Well, I came home and she had passed. It looks like she had hurt her leg also, it was greenish on the skin. Perhaps the infection spread quickly? I suppose that's why she had her legs splayed this morning. I cremated her in the fire for bio security reasons. I'm sad that she died, but I'm glad it wasn't the other one, because had given me fertile eggs, whereas this one had not. Also glad she didn't suffer long.

In better news, Dads procedure went very smoothly.

And the new chicks are doing well!

I'm so sorry you lost her. My favorite hen had gotten hurt badly by our rooster a few months ago, deep gash in the leg and everything. We butchered him because I will not tolerate that. The hen is better now but still acts weird. I cannot see well enough under the feathers to see how the injury healed. Lately she has been sleeping on the coop floor instead of the perches so I am starting to worry. She is our biggest, fluffiest, and heaviest chicken. She's an orpington but should I worry about her weight?

Glad your dad and the chicks are doing well. Again, sorry about the turkey.