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At the risk of sounding redundant, I have lost more chickens. I'm so irritated!!!
I lost my Buff Laced Polish (Buffy), one of my Golden Campine pullets, two NH pullets, and one Cochin (he was a cockerel, so I'm not as upset about him, but he had a name somehow; I keep telling the kids to stop naming my chickens, but they aren't listening, ugh).
Sky, my broody, got off her nest several days ago, and she has only been setting on 8 of the eggs and those she has off to the side with all the hay piled up in one end of the nest box. So I sifted through the hay and found three eggs and a wet spot at the bottom, where apparently two of the eggs met a not-so-happy ending. It looks like she moved all the eggs out of the hay and piled it on top of the eggs that got broken, but three of them got mixed in with the hay. I candled those three and they were clears. Stupid me, I thought she was setting the eggs w/o the hay b/c of the heat. Anyway, I'm still hoping for 8 healthy, fluffy NH chicks to start hatching out this weekend some time. I'll try to get pics and I'll post them ASAP.
So, there are 38-5=33 chickens on property...
33 - 5 (DD's OEGB) = 28 - 1 (DS's mutt hatchling) = 27 / 2 (b/c half of "my" chickens belong to DS too) = 13.5, but you can't have half a chicken, so 13, and that's basically a dozen, which is 12, which rounds down to 10 (that's what they said on "Odd Squad" today), so I've got ten chickens.
I updated my count, b/c we changed what we're doing in the evenings. I was finding chicks missing when I went to lock up the coops at night (the other night, I thought I had lost two chicks again, but my idiot, I mean Leghorn, was in the wrong coop).
Now, DD and I go out early and call the chickens in from the woods and then start putting feed in the coops, catch the ones that get into the wrong coop and put them in the right coop, and then lock everyone up for the night. Oh, I forgot chasing my idiot Cochin pullets around until they go in their coop, b/c they're too dumb to follow everyone else into the safety of the coop, and...well, anyway. We lock them up all safe and sound for the night.
Oh, and my egg production had dropped to about 1-2 eggs out of 15 layers.
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I was getting like 12 a day easy. Now it's hot and there's been the predation problem and I know worms can cause them to stop laying, so...I wormed and all and hopefully they'll be laying more soon.
Except that the Wazine says not to eat their eggs, but it doesn't say how long, so I've got to find that out.
I lost my Buff Laced Polish (Buffy), one of my Golden Campine pullets, two NH pullets, and one Cochin (he was a cockerel, so I'm not as upset about him, but he had a name somehow; I keep telling the kids to stop naming my chickens, but they aren't listening, ugh).
Sky, my broody, got off her nest several days ago, and she has only been setting on 8 of the eggs and those she has off to the side with all the hay piled up in one end of the nest box. So I sifted through the hay and found three eggs and a wet spot at the bottom, where apparently two of the eggs met a not-so-happy ending. It looks like she moved all the eggs out of the hay and piled it on top of the eggs that got broken, but three of them got mixed in with the hay. I candled those three and they were clears. Stupid me, I thought she was setting the eggs w/o the hay b/c of the heat. Anyway, I'm still hoping for 8 healthy, fluffy NH chicks to start hatching out this weekend some time. I'll try to get pics and I'll post them ASAP.
So, there are 38-5=33 chickens on property...
33 - 5 (DD's OEGB) = 28 - 1 (DS's mutt hatchling) = 27 / 2 (b/c half of "my" chickens belong to DS too) = 13.5, but you can't have half a chicken, so 13, and that's basically a dozen, which is 12, which rounds down to 10 (that's what they said on "Odd Squad" today), so I've got ten chickens.
I updated my count, b/c we changed what we're doing in the evenings. I was finding chicks missing when I went to lock up the coops at night (the other night, I thought I had lost two chicks again, but my idiot, I mean Leghorn, was in the wrong coop).
Now, DD and I go out early and call the chickens in from the woods and then start putting feed in the coops, catch the ones that get into the wrong coop and put them in the right coop, and then lock everyone up for the night. Oh, I forgot chasing my idiot Cochin pullets around until they go in their coop, b/c they're too dumb to follow everyone else into the safety of the coop, and...well, anyway. We lock them up all safe and sound for the night.
Oh, and my egg production had dropped to about 1-2 eggs out of 15 layers.
Except that the Wazine says not to eat their eggs, but it doesn't say how long, so I've got to find that out.
