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LadyBehir said:
What color are your Penedesencas? I like dark eggs. Dunno why, I just do. And Cate (the Marans) is a lousy layer.
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They look like Welsummers.
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. . . and so do their eggs. 4 on left are Welbars, 6 on right are Penedesencas.
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They lay much better than Marans, but are a lot more flighty, like a leghorn. If fact, they seem like brown leghorns and Welsummers, all in one.
 
Check out this candling pic! It looks like its staring at me. Probably wants me to turn off the light. I thought something was wrong initially, but then I realized I was using a much brighter flashlight. Can a candling flashlight be too bright?


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Dennis, I will take one or two along with a blue egg layer or two. I want to wait until it is a bit warmer on my glassed in porch for chicks and until I am sure that Stapleton is not returning.
For those of us with predator issues--mine started with a eviscerated lavender cuckoo English orpington pullet--followed by holes around the henhouse. I thought it was a raccoon or opossum trying to get in until I figured out there was a burrow under the coop! A rat was digging his way OUT whenever I filled in the holes. My exterminator suggested poison blocks since rats tend to avoid traps and they dangerously scatter granular poison --but he warned me that a rat has to eat 4 whole blocks to die. I put blocks down the holes and one morning my white English orp pullett (who was so curious and active) died within two hours of my finding her sitting in the henhouse rather than out with her friends. I think she either ate a poisoned rat or somehow got a piece of the bait block. So I pulled up all poison and send my hubby out to buy dry ice. I shoved as much as I could down every rat hole around my coop, and sealed them up That night, I checked on my girls about 10 times to make sure they weren't getting and carbon dioxide gas. It has been over 48 hours and I don't see any more activity.....but it turns out that the business next door had rats---so that is where they came from! UGG!
 
An old building in town was being torn down. The mice began infesting local businesses. Including five restaurants. A few days after the construction was begun, a water main burst, and the mice began floating out. :sick
 

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