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[kwhites634]

You can use a weak bleach solution to wash eggs.

Look that up, it is a ratio of bleach to water--we are never supposed to use straight bleach for anything!

Ok, weak bleach solution:
in a solution using 2 teaspoons of Clorox Regular-Bleach per gallon of water.
Read more at https://www.clorox.com/cleaning-and...to-clean-a-cutting-board/#kqdW8iOGBEfb9qQl.99

Maybe we aren't supposed to, but I've found nothing that stops the itch of poison ivy like turning the bleach bottle up, flat against the effected area to prevent making a big mess,

 

[meganhundley]

You can use a weak bleach solution to wash eggs.

Look that up, it is a ratio of bleach to water--we are never supposed to use straight bleach for anything!

Ok, weak bleach solution:
in a solution using 2 teaspoons of Clorox Regular-Bleach per gallon of water.

Read more at https://www.clorox.com/cleaning-and...to-clean-a-cutting-board/#kqdW8iOGBEfb9qQl.99

I'll remember that the next time. 1 of the breeders is supposed to send me replacements. I got 18 from her and of those 18 I have 3 left... 3!!! She's not happy about having to send replacements, even though she offered it up front, so I have a feeling she's going to be trifflin about it and send me the oldest, nastiest eggs she can gather. I've had problems with her ever since I started losing the eggs. She wouldn't answer me for 2 and half weeks at first and when she finally did answer she got kind of smart with me. I was trying to be as nice as possible but I was starting to get upset after I sent 8 emails over a period of 2 and a half weeks with no response.

 

[ronott1]

Maybe we aren't supposed to, but I've found nothing that stops the itch of poison ivy like turning the bleach bottle up, flat against the effected area to prevent making a big mess,

Be careful with it!

I like teknu for poison oak. I have not needed to use it in a lot of years though.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Chickens are descendant from Jungle Fowl, which is close to the equator. We have domesticated them and moved them north so they are already not in their natural lighting environment.

Adding lights will not harm them--but it will make them run out of eggs to lay sooner. A Hen can only lay so many eggs since they only have so many--mostly one ovaries worth. Hens are born with all the ovum they will ever have. About half of them are male and half are female too.

Weird facts about chickens!

So basically same as humans. We have all the "eggs" we're going to have and when they are gone, they are gone...lol It basically boils down to chickens that are prodded to lay through when when they would naturally stop will stop laying at an earlier age then they would if allowed that winter rest period.

Maybe we aren't supposed to, but I've found nothing that stops the itch of poison ivy like turning the bleach bottle up, flat against the effected area to prevent making a big mess,

Tell me that doesn't sting?

 

[kwhites634]

So basically same as humans. We have all the "eggs" we're going to have and when they are gone, they are gone...lol It basically boils down to chickens that are prodded to lay through when when they would naturally stop will stop laying at an earlier age then they would if allowed that winter rest period.

Tell me that doesn't sting?

Okay, It Doesn't Sting. I feel a little heat from it once in a while, but not to the point of being uncomfortable at all. 'Course I'm not doing it on a daily basis, either; I try to stay away from poison ivy if I can. Wife says it bothers her, though, so I guess it depends on how sensitive your skin is.

 

[ronott1]

So basically same as humans. We have all the "eggs" we're going to have and when they are gone, they are gone...lol It basically boils down to chickens that are prodded to lay through when when they would naturally stop will stop laying at an earlier age then they would if allowed that winter rest period.

It is like humans but the hen determines gender--The rooster provide neutral genes so has nothing to do with the gender of the chicks.

 

[kwhites634]

Chickens are descendant from Jungle Fowl, which is close to the equator. We have domesticated them and moved them north so they are already not in their natural lighting environment.

Adding lights will not harm them--but it will make them run out of eggs to lay sooner. A Hen can only lay so many eggs since they only have so many--mostly one ovaries worth. Hens are born with all the ovum they will ever have. About half of them are male and half are female too.

Weird facts about chickens!

So orienting the door of a coop toward the East for maximum winter daylight, and therefore maximum natural warming, also has the effect of shortening the hen's lifetime egg production?

 

[meganhundley]

I noticed everyone talking about molting, a couple of the 7 Nankin pullets I got 3 weeks ago are molting. They were just hatched this spring. Is it strange that they're molting already? Also, I think my Welsummer cockerel, which is 4 months old, is beginning to molt.

 

[ronott1]

So orienting the door of a coop toward the East for maximum winter daylight, and therefore maximum natural warming, also has the effect of shortening the hen's lifetime egg production?

It is the light that makes them lay, not the temperature--except that they will have a tendency to take a break when it is too hot.

They will live the same amount of time. Chickens usually lay really well for two seasons and then egg production drops of dramatically. A 6 to 10 year old hen will either stop laying eggs all together or will lay a hand full a year.

 

[ronott1]

I noticed everyone talking about molting, a couple of the 7 Nankin pullets I got 3 weeks ago are molting. They were just hatched this spring. Is it strange that they're molting already? Also, I think my Welsummer cockerel, which is 4 months old, is beginning to molt.

That is the last molt for a chick--The Juvenile molt. It is not the first adult molt. He will not do that until next Fall.