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[frmboyinthecity]

I spect you run it through sidewings wizbang long enough it'll get tender. don't know for sure though . couldn't be much worse than what you can buy at the store . my wife comes out where I'm working. and says about the rooster with the hurt leg .you know if your momma was alive that chicken would already be on the stove cooking. chicken and dumplings .

momma could cook . I said I wasn't to get caught up on here today so back to work .

 

[Ravynscroft]

I hope so! Day 4 starts tonight. I have 21 from our flock & 13 from someone we know with a pair of Rouens. So my ducklings could be any of the following :
Rouen
Rouen x Peking
Rouen x Khaki Campbell
Peking
Peking x Rouen
Peking x Khaki Campbell

Those actually sound like decent mixes for mutt ducks... think my 2 mallard ducks are actually Rouens, lol... I prefer Calls, but those don't sound bad... hmmmm....

 

[meganhundley]

Definitely better than the other images LOL! your good, carry on up humidity 

K, what should I set the humidity at fir lockdown?

 

[Ravynscroft]

My Legbars laid a nice pale blue egg.  Not very saturated, but a true blue.  Mine weren't exactly flighty, were fine with me, but very b*tc#y to the other chickens.

What a fun surprise!

Mine did great with my Sulmtalers, but Sulmtalers startle more easy than the Legbars... I like the eggs I get from them, and they lay really well... 6 eggs a week is about norm...

 

[FridayYet]

K, what should I set the humidity at fir lockdown?

Are you going to mess with them? If so, lean higher. I like 72%.

 

[OldMissionChick]

Those actually sound like decent mixes for mutt ducks... think my 2 mallard ducks are actually Rouens, lol... I prefer Calls, but those don't sound bad... hmmmm....

Are calls flighty? I heard that muscovy are. I want some Cayuga but heard they are loud. I wish one of my 2 KC would of been a hen!

 

[FridayYet]

Mine did great with my Sulmtalers, but Sulmtalers startle more easy than the Legbars... I like the eggs I get from them, and they lay really well... 6 eggs a week is about norm...

The other weird thing about my Legbars (besides snottiness and huge combs) is that they've had some reproductive issues. One I culled a year ago for egg binding, but may have had a tumor or something because she would lay really bloody eggs once in a while. I put her down when she started looking really bad, either from internal laying or egg bound. Even now, the one I have is super sensitive to calcium fluctuations. I changed to all-flock with calcium on the side. (always have had oyster shell in the side) and she'll switch from soft shelled eggs to rough ones with calcium deposits on the outside and back to soft. She quit laying last week and looks droopy now. Molting? Lots of change in the flock? Poor genetics? Really hard to tell, because everyone else is thriving under the same care.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Are calls flighty? I heard that muscovy are. I want some Cayuga but heard they are loud. I wish one of my 2 KC would of been a hen!

Flighty as in nervous? No... just like other ducks they like their routines and schedules though... flighty as in fly really well? Absolutely!

Call ducks are very loud, boys are quieter... noise isn't an issue here though...

I know someone with Cayugas, I can ask if they're louder compared to Rouens/KC/Pekins...

The other weird thing about my Legbars (besides snottiness and huge combs) is that they've had some reproductive issues.  One I culled a year ago for egg binding, but may have had a tumor or something because she would lay really bloody eggs once in a while.  I put her down when she started looking really bad, either from internal laying or egg bound.  Even now, the one I have is super sensitive to calcium fluctuations.  I changed to all-flock with calcium on the side. (always have had oyster shell in the side) and she'll switch from soft shelled eggs to rough ones with calcium deposits on the outside and back to soft.  She quit laying last week and looks droopy now.  Molting? Lots of change in the flock? Poor genetics?  Really hard to tell, because everyone else is thriving under the same care.

The legbars are one of my only ones who've never laid a soft shell... get some little deposits once in a while though, but I feed all of mine Purina Flock Raiser... less of those since I switched...
Genetics could be a big part of that... I know I got lucky in my stock...

Oh, mine have been molting lately, so egg count is way down right now... my biggest issue with the Legbars is their need to send me on Easter Egg hunts... they keep trying to hide their eggs... :/

 

[WalnutHill]

The other weird thing about my Legbars (besides snottiness and huge combs) is that they've had some reproductive issues. One I culled a year ago for egg binding, but may have had a tumor or something because she would lay really bloody eggs once in a while. I put her down when she started looking really bad, either from internal laying or egg bound. Even now, the one I have is super sensitive to calcium fluctuations. I changed to all-flock with calcium on the side. (always have had oyster shell in the side) and she'll switch from soft shelled eggs to rough ones with calcium deposits on the outside and back to soft. She quit laying last week and looks droopy now. Molting? Lots of change in the flock? Poor genetics? Really hard to tell, because everyone else is thriving under the same care.

With as many birds as I've had, I've experienced probably every poultry reproductive issue out there. From my experience, shell quality issues fall into three types, dietary, transmissible, organic.

Dietary generally affect more than one bird in the flock and are typically caused by low dietary calcium, excessive dietary calcium, or general poor diet. Underdog hens who don't get enough food from the feeders also fall into this category. Even though I have a lot of feeder space, I also have some real butthead alpha hens.

Transmissible, such as IB, affect some of the birds and often comes on suddenly. Some birds may be affected for life and should be culled, others make a recovery and resume normal shell quality and rate of lay.

Organic includes poor shell quality during early and late molt, tumors, reproductive injury, nest crowding, old age, parasite loads, and other non-disease, non-dietary issues. While you can correct some of these, others require time and some cannot be resolved. A bird that begins to lay eggs with a single defect, such as a spiral at the large end or a groove along the length, may carry that flaw forever, and it makes for a unique egg basket.

I have one hen that lays an egg that has a flat spot on the bottom and wrinkles along the sides, as if it was dropped soft and tried to "splash" then hardened. She doesn't lay many, but they are all like that.

 

[Ravynscroft]

With as many birds as I've had, I've experienced probably every poultry reproductive issue out there.  From my experience, shell quality issues fall into three types, dietary, transmissible, organic.

Dietary generally affect more than one bird in the flock and are typically caused by low dietary calcium, excessive dietary calcium, or general poor diet.  Underdog hens who don't get enough food from the feeders also fall into this category.  Even though I have a lot of feeder space, I also have some real butthead alpha hens.  

Transmissible, such as IB, affect some of the birds and often comes on suddenly.  Some birds may be affected for life and should be culled, others make a recovery and resume normal shell quality and rate of lay.  

Organic includes poor shell quality during early and late molt, tumors, reproductive injury, nest crowding, old age, parasite loads, and other non-disease, non-dietary issues.  While you can correct some of these, others require time and some cannot be resolved.  A bird that begins to lay eggs with a single defect, such as a spiral at the large end or a groove along the length, may carry that flaw forever, and it makes for a unique egg basket.

I have one hen that lays an egg that has a flat spot on the bottom and wrinkles along the sides, as if it was dropped soft and tried to "splash" then hardened.  She doesn't lay many, but they are all like that.

Good breakdown and explanation... still out of Ovations, lol...

That 'splatter egg' I know what that is... I had a pullet doing that for a while, but she stopped as she matured and things got working right... they're dropping 2 eggs down the shute together... they start to form squished together, but pull apart and finish hardening separate... I always said it looked like a large stylized bullet hole, lol...