Texas

[boobooblueeyes]

Thanks PunkinPeep, I have my bator running like crazy but the heat is making it very hard to keep the temps. steady. I would love any help and maybe we can trade some information or good tricks. Any good advice on preditor controle? Thanks again

 

[Bedste]

Hey boobooblueeyes ..... do you need fertilized eggs or chicks or chickens?

email me......

I live in Cut n Shoot...


Thank you Punkinpeeep for letting me know.

 

[SportChick]

Hi! I'm not really in Texas but am only 30" from the border here in Shreveport so I thought I would post here as well. I have a couple of 8 1/2 week old Barred Rock Roosters that I hatched in mid-June. Chickens aren't legal here anyway but I will certainly get turned in if I keep my roosters. Anyone need a couple of hand raised, very social roosters? I got the eggs from a BYC-er from Georgia. I only have 6 birds and this is my first try at chickens so I don't have any illness issues at this point (ie they have never been exposed to other chickens and they are the first residents in their coop).

Hoping to re-home them rather than eat them because they are so sweet!

 

[txmel]

hi all i'm out in boerne and i was wondering if anyone else is having problems with their hens not laying? i have 4 hens that were laying but for the last month they have all stopped. one went broody for 2 weeks then got off the nest and hasnt layed since. then another went broody and hasn't layed for about 1 1/2 week and one had just started laying and layed 2 eggs and hasn't layed agian for about 2 1/2 weeks, then finally the last one hasn't layed for about 10 days. is it the heat? i would feel better if i knew this was just the heat and will pass. thanks all

 

[PunkinPeep]

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I've talked to several people who aren't getting many eggs and are attributing it to the heat. Mine dropped off pretty badly, and i upped the concentration of nutrients in their food with some calf manna and seem to be having pretty good results. I'm not sure if that really did it or not, but i'm pretty happy either way.

 

[txmel]

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I've talked to several people who aren't getting many eggs and are attributing it to the heat. Mine dropped off pretty badly, and i upped the concentration of nutrients in their food with some calf manna and seem to be having pretty good results. I'm not sure if that really did it or not, but i'm pretty happy either way.

ok maybe i'll go see if i can get some.

heres hoping this will work. thanks

 

[havi]

I was starting to wonder the same thing with my birds. I thought it was kind of odd that 5 hens would all STOP laying all at once. My flock free range and I had this happen in the winter. They all supposedly stop laying, well come to find out, they were laying in an old tire that I had potatoes growing in. So the past couple of weeks Ive been looking everywhere. In the tire, their nest, all over the backyard. And still nothing!

But yesterday I happened to drop a pair of socks(hanging cloths to dry) when walking back inside. And low and behold, there was all the eggs. They had been laying in a tiny coop that I had just bought of CL. I hadnt fixed it up yet so I had it laying off to the side along the fence line. Sure enough when I opened the lid there was about 8 eggs all in one corner of the coop.

So maybe if your girls are free ranging, you might want to look in every nook and cranny there is. Im sure they are laying them somewhere. Although my girls have been laying slow, I normally get 5 eggs a day, with one off every now and then. But I guess Im only getting one or two a day.

 

[FeatherD.Friend]

Well, good to know im not the only one.
All my hens went broody except for one then all of a sudden she decided to "co-incubate" with another hen. Now all my hens a setting and no more laying!

 

[SummerChick]

When a hen goes broody and if you don't want her to or in my case my broody hen had infertile eggs she was wanting to sit on. You have to remover her right away from the nest and block the nest. My hen kept hijacking others eggs and would go whereever there were eggs, i kept removing the eggs. I read that when a hen goes broody if you stop her the first day, in 7 days she will begin to lay again, a hen that isn't broken up until the 4th day won't start laying for about 18 days.

 

[txmel]

i have dogs so my hens dont free range and i have checked everywhere in their coop and run. one finally layed yesterday

but its the one who was a new layer so this would be her 3rd eggs in the last 2 months. i'm hoping that the others take the hint and go ahead and start laying again.