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[WVduckchick]

I toss stripped deer carcasses to my chickens every November and you'd think they were piranha, not chickens. They pick the bones clean of every scrap of meat. Lots of protein, raw and unprocessed. Wild birds scavenge too, and the fat and protein is good for them as a portion of their diet.

Hubby is out deer hunting today, and I'll hunt this evening and this weekend. So I'll keep that in mind! Thanks!

 

[rossfam06]

I toss stripped deer carcasses to my chickens every November and you'd think they were piranha, not chickens.  They pick the bones clean of every scrap of meat.  Lots of protein, raw and unprocessed.  Wild birds scavenge too, and the fat and protein is good for them as a portion of their diet.

Hahahah!!! We threw in cooked fish that sat in the fridge longer than we would eat and they tore it up!!! However, for the next few days after eating the fish....their eggs had a fish flavor....pretty gross and unexpected.

 

[Kraftcrazychick]

well If you don't have enough nuts there are plenty on here

True, true. But I'm looking for functional nuts. The ones here are questionable at best....

He's very handsome!!! I

him!
I don't know about the eggs but Walnut taught me something awesome...you can paint the vent on certain hens, so that you know which eggs came from them! I have all mine together and it has to be that way for now but I only want to set eggs from 2 girls, this spring. So I'm definitely planning on looking into that for myself.

I have yet to stick my hand up a chicken but there is always tomorrow. LOL

Nope... my incubator never gets put away... it's an established piece of furniture in our living room...

Actually, I think chicapee said that... and pulled it back out...

I'm pretty sure incubators are better than coffee table books.

Our garage is like that, with special boxes for lots of stuff, but the special stuff could be in any particular box. Then, I have boxes with supplies for a particular project, and put the needed tools in the project box, then I start an other project instead... that needs the tools that are in the box for the former project. Drives poor hubby absolutely crazy!

That logic is located on the X chromosome.

I've never seen a Menards.

I can tell you that my Doms lay lighter colored eggs, and their eggs are on the small side. How old are your girls? If I had to guess, I'd say that the one at 9:00 on the plate is a Dom egg.

My Doms are 7 months. I was guessing they did the light and pinkish egg. The GLW I'm thinking lay the darkest. I interrupted Bernadette in one nest box one day then came back to find a dark egg. By reasoning the uppers should be the BA.. All of this is based on deduction but may in no way be correct.

Hi everyone

Work has been so crazy and I've had almost no time for BYC lately, which stinks. There's a person in the class I'm training who should just be kicked out but the supervisor won't do it so my hands are tied. That's been a pain in the butt this week.

Snap's eggs all died during all her nest switching

Luckily for her I have eggs hatching in the 'bator but it's still too bad she lost them all. She'll get some incubator chicks to raise though so she'll be happy.

On the ayam cemani front, all of the last four eggs I put in the incubator are fertile and developing. At least one hen is laying but she's laying on the ground so with all this rain I'm getting really muddy eggs

Ah well, it won't keep them from hatching.

Sorry to hear about her eggs. At least she can still be a mommy. I've been getting more and more muddy eggs from the nest boxes even though we've tarped almost the entire pen.

I understand that. We've got spaghetti sauce going we need to bottle. And there are so many other things I want to try. This job is kind of getting in the way of my hobbies.

I'm pretty sure all jobs get in the way of hobbies. They're such a pain.

Here is my youngest in her little "chick hatching out of an egg" costume!





She loves it!!! I will paint their noses and mouth area the color of their beaks....lol!!!

Super cute!

 

[kwhites634]

I toss stripped deer carcasses to my chickens every November and you'd think they were piranha, not chickens. They pick the bones clean of every scrap of meat. Lots of protein, raw and unprocessed. Wild birds scavenge too, and the fat and protein is good for them as a portion of their diet.

I do the same thing; have for years. When I was using the large walk-in coop adjacent to where we hang & process deer, I'd just open the run door and the feeding frenzy would begin! They particular relish the trimmed fat, though, having tasted it myself, I sure don't know why. If we laid the hide out flat, hair side down, they'd have a ball with the bits of meat still on it.

@RubyNala97 ,As far as cooking your hot dogs, I wouldn't bother; they're partially cooked before they're packaged. If "raw" hot dogs were going to kill me, I'd be long since dead. In fact, Mom used to grind them up, mix in a little relish & mayo, and make a great sandwich spread when we were kids.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Final on my hatch

38/43 including 9 Bresse, 2 Black Isbars, 27 production reds and EEs

So lets meet the babes!

Bresse chick

Production and EEs all mixed up

Black Isbars

 

[WVduckchick]

Final on my hatch

38/43 including 9 Bresse, 2 Black Isbars, 27 production reds and EEs

So lets meet the babes!

Bresse chick



Production and EEs

all mixed up



Black Isbars

Wow! Very pretty! And awesome hatch! Parade, parade, parade, parade!!!

 

[meganhundley]

Final on my hatch

38/43 including 9 Bresse, 2 Black Isbars, 27 production reds and EEs

So lets meet the babes!

Bresse chick

Production and EEs all mixed up

Black Isbars

Awwwwww! They are adorable. Congratulations. You definitely deserve a parade!!

 

[mixedUPturk]

Sorry guys, its only 88% no parade for me this turn, maybe next! I would also like to report though, i did move up from 84% on my ducky hatch to 88% this time. Im pretty happy about the numbers, but not parade worthy... Theyres more hatchs to come no worries!

 

[Kraftcrazychick]

Final on my hatch

38/43 including 9 Bresse, 2 Black Isbars, 27 production reds and EEs

So lets meet the babes!

Bresse chick



Production and EEs

all mixed up



Black Isbars

Congrats! Can you tell the Production Reds and EE apart from the leg colors or any other minor thing?

 

[mixedUPturk]

 Congrats! Can you tell the Production Reds and EE apart from the leg colors or any other minor thing?

Maybe? Lol i am going to Try and seperate the reds out, they do have a distinct color, you can see in the pic, but some of the striped chicks came from brown eggs, i watched em all shanks are currently yellow and they should turn at about 4 weeks.

I wanted to sell them this weekend to my contacts but im kinda POed that i screwed up, it hurts my clientelle and the fact i had told them they could buy EEs OR prodction from me. I Might instead, tell them what happened, and take them to the swap at TSC this weekend...

Next time i will do better! Learned a valuble lesson here.

Next hatch theres already a plan, it eent like this: my ole man asked me the next day after they hatched into disorder: "dont you have extra fish breeding containers?" Made out of the perfect material for dividing my incubator and trimmable to exactly the sizes i need? "YES!" Y didnt i think of that!!!