set up for breeding/nesting

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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You didn't ???? me did you. lol

A "vent check" - a large, moist vent equals a laying bird. hmmmmm how to say this on a family site? A "butt check" maybe? inspect the poop end? ..............you know

Steve

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

lol, I did! I didn't know that there would be a difference . . . man, they are awful big to turn upside down!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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LOL they don't like it either. I just thought of another thing to, I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner. There is a term that the old timers used called "shooting the red" In the spring as mating season comes up the legs will take a shade of red, and of course the toms will be strutting more and redder in face and head, look for mud or mussed feathers on the back of the hens. That is a sure sign they are mating.

Steve

 

[kuntrygirl]

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You didn't ???? me did you. lol

A "vent check" - a large, moist vent equals a laying bird. hmmmmm how to say this on a family site? A "butt check" maybe? inspect the poop end? ..............you know

Steve

Steve, can you take pics of you doing that and posting? We would all love to see that.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Hush you, the picture you really want to see would be one time we were vent sexing geese and one of them let loose all over me, or there would be the time one was roosting in the chicken house and I was directly under her getting some eggs. It was in the summer and I was just wearing some shorts. She dumped all over me, down my back, it ran down my shorts.....it was soooooooo nasty. LOL

Steve

 

[kuntrygirl]

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To see that would have been "Priceless".

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

steve - aaaaggghhhhhhh . . . I'm sitting here mad at myself because I looked down and realized I have chicken s!@t on my pants so now I have to go change before I go to the accountents and then I read this . . . lol I feel better about my day now!

kuntrygirl, thanks I have noticed messed up feathers on their backs, but thought nothing of it as I haven't seen the tom doing anything, I better get them in those pens this weekend.