TeaChick's Chicks

[TeaChick]

Thank you, thank you.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Thank you, thank you.

If you are talking to me then you are welcome.

 

[TeaChick]

If you are talking to me then you are welcome.

Yes. I was mobile, so quoting is a pain.

 

[TeaChick]

So, egg count has been down. Yesterday I got 3 (one white).
I checked Snoodle's vent and it doesn't look like she's laying, but I think she might start soon b/c Eddie has been after her with increasing frequency, but she won't submit to him. IDK why. If anyone has any insight into this, I'd appreciate it. =)

Otherwise, I got some layer pellets the other day and I started mixing them in with the corn I have fermenting. I keep it going and add pellets and water every day. I put some in their feed dish (a Smart Balance tub they don't seem interested in eating out of) and they dumped all the food, corn and mush, onto the floor of the hen house. =( Whatever, they're going to have to eat what's there before I put much more out for them.

They had been following me every time I stepped out the front door for a couple of days and I realized that they were probably not getting as much to eat as they were accustomed to, so I took some corn out and spread it around in their area; they're bored of that, so I spread some of the layer pellets Friday and yesterday. It rained last night, so the layer pellets are gone, I imagine.
I make sure they have food inside the hen house for first thing in the mornings.

I've got to get the waterer made that I've been thinking of. It'll be a Coke bottle hot glued into a Smart Balance tub and then hung upside down by nylon cord.

Projects I've got to get done this week are that the old coop needs to be repaired, I'm going to need it as a juvenile pen when I start hatching in the next couple of months and I'm going to have to make sure that I have it the way I want it in the meantime and set up nesting and such for pullets and roosting and all, but the structural adjustments must be made first, then I can refurbish the interior.
Also, I have to extend the roof out the front of my hen house. The rain last night blew in half way across the hen house in the front wall. I think extending the roof will help that.

In a couple of weeks, I'll have to finish the trench across the front, for now, I think what I have in front of the door keeps the water from running in and flooding the floor, so they're going to have to live with progressive improvements.

What's going on with you all?

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

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Oh okay.

 

[TeaChick]

Oh okay.

Hey, there!
How are you today?

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Oh not much. Just chill'n and waiting for egg production to go up. Eddie is your rooster that is a Leghorn/Wyandotte cross, right?

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

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I'm fine, thanks.

 

[TeaChick]

We''re all waiting for egg production to go up. Lol

Yes, Eddie is my rooster.

Glad you're doing well!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Yup. Winter comes with its fair share of complications.

That's what I thought.

Yeah!