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We're starting with 8 layers.
post your chicken coop pictures here!
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"Fart eggs happen". My big Black Australorp laid a 50g egg Dec 6th. First egg (and last) since she started to moult mid September. Still waiting for her to start up again. Now 50g would be a HUGE egg for my Cubalayas but for Zorra, it was a fart egg. It is the smallest by far since she started laying 2 years ago; her average is 68g.
BLUEPRINTS and structural review for a 10x10 shed?
Unfortunately we live WAY to close to others for electric fencing but don't think I've not contemplated that lol... I've got an old trick for coons... They can't pass up shiny objects.... My dad built a trap a 'coons' age ago for them...coons age...
Anyway... I've got a nice little .22, 380 and .40 cal pistol, a few different cal shotguns and riffles ... I'm waiting for that trap to spring on anything...
Um, if you can use a .22, .380 or .44, I don't think you are too close to your neighbors to use an electric fence.
maybe someone can tell me why we are getting this small egg, all our chickens are over a year old and have been laying, not like we are waiting for one to lay the one i think is a double yolk
Do you get the small egg frequently and (I know, hard to answer) always from the same hen? If that egg is uncommonly small for the breed of chicken, I'd say you got a dud. Eggs are still fine to use but surely she should not be in anyone's breeding plan.
Stupid question time: Is there a wire floor on these kennels and what will keep the coons from grabbing chickens by the fence? That man of yours needs to get his priorities straight. Guess his self flagellation wore off pretty fast. I rescind my prior statements in that regard, he gets no slack from me.
maybe someone can tell me why we are getting this small egg, all our chickens are over a year old and have been laying, not like we are waiting for one to lay the one i think is a double youk
A BYCer said they got a little egg like that and it had no yolk in it. Just boil or scramble it up for the chickens' treat dish. Some BYCers feed the eggs raw to their chickens but I personally don't choose to do that. Chickens are cannibalistic enough without encouraging them to get a taste for fresh eggs.
If it's safe it'll do fine until the final coop is completed.
We're having to use a 4x8 covered dog kennel for our 3 girls because the chainlink fence is being torn down to put up a new block wall around the house so the girls can't free-range until construction is completed.
Um, if you can use a .22, .380 or .44, I don't think you are too close to your neighbors to use an electric fence.
I can if I take them off in the live animal traps and come back with hats
Stupid question time: Is there a wire floor on these kennels and what will keep the coons from grabbing chickens by the fence? That man of yours needs to get his priorities straight. Guess his self flagellation wore off pretty fast. I rescind my prior statements in that regard, he gets no slack from me.
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I was just brain storming until we get the supplies in 2 weeks..... Everything is ordered for both the privacy fence and my coop/run ... He's already got the hardware cloth instead of that flimsy wire....
I can if I take them off in the live animal traps and come back with hats
Stupid question time: Is there a wire floor on these kennels and what will keep the coons from grabbing chickens by the fence? That man of yours needs to get his priorities straight. Guess his self flagellation wore off pretty fast. I rescind my prior statements in that regard, he gets no slack from me.
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I was just brain storming until we get the supplies in 2 weeks..... Everything is ordered for both the privacy fence and my coop/run ... He's already got the hardware cloth instead of that flimsy wire....
Oh man guys... I'm terrible... I'm trying to lighten the attmo here due to us losing those chickens and my husband asked what I would cook tonight.... I said chicken......
Not to bad....
My daughter walks into the kitchen when I was checking dinner and she asked... I told her to look... She saw the carrots, potatoes, onions and ....
Chicken.... Then she goes 'mommy that's from the store'
no it is not common i got one last week and one this week, it has no youk in it so i will fry it mix it in with there pie next week, i had rir and sex licks which lay a nice egg. its hard to say who is laying it, we have 43 hens. i have yet to get 43 eggs in one day, i know they only lay every other day, so the books say, i have had chickens for a lot of years and got an egg a day from chickens not off days. i am going to have to go out and have talk with them."Fart eggs happen". My big Black Australorp laid a 50g egg Dec 6th. First egg (and last) since she started to moult mid September. Still waiting for her to start up again. Now 50g would be a HUGE egg for my Cubalayas but for Zorra, it was a fart egg. It is the smallest by far since she started laying 2 years ago; her average is 68g.
BLUEPRINTS and structural review for a 10x10 shed?
Um, if you can use a .22, .380 or .44, I don't think you are too close to your neighbors to use an electric fence.
Do you get the small egg frequently and (I know, hard to answer) always from the same hen? If that egg is uncommonly small for the breed of chicken, I'd say you got a dud. Eggs are still fine to use but surely she should not be in anyone's breeding plan.
Stupid question time: Is there a wire floor on these kennels and what will keep the coons from grabbing chickens by the fence? That man of yours needs to get his priorities straight. Guess his self flagellation wore off pretty fast. I rescind my prior statements in that regard, he gets no slack from me.
Here's some pictures of my grain shed chicken coop ...
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Here is my church coop and run. Just waiting for the "congregation" to come end of next month. February.
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