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[winteree]

love these blue eggs

very nice I'm putting together a list of a few breeds i want to add next spring a blue layer is on the list.

 

[bnjrob]

Thats so fascinating, thank you!
Ill try the mineral oil. Do you wash before thw oil coating? Or just when you're about to use them?
Dehydrating is a good idea too...

Looks like my next birds will be Javas and Faverolles! I fell in I ove with them today

I haven't washed them before putting the mineral oil on unless they were dirty and then I tried more to scrape off the dirt rather than washing the whole egg. Some were just so filthy that they just got washed and used rather than even try to store them. Hate it when they try to play hockey with their eggs and make them so filthy.

 

[SlipsWife]

very nice I'm putting together a list of a few breeds i want to add next spring a blue layer is on the list.

From my limited experience with Cream Legbars, you will love them!

 

[AussieGirl]

Anybody else up this late?

 

[needlessjunk]

I'm designing my coop and I keep changing my mind! Why is this so hard to just go with a design? I also put in my order and they will be here at the end of July. I'm super excited but I want to start working on my co-op and run ASAP. Think I can talk the hubby into buying a table saw? I've been wanting one for years... he got an air compressor last year so it's only fair, right? I get excited about power tools... strange I know. I love all the pics of chicks and ducks! What do y'all do with your ducks? Are they used for eggs or meat or just pets?

 

[lovingmyhens]

I hadn't been out since late morning, when I went back outside around 4 it was like walking into an oven...It was a heavy heat, no humidity...usually I would say dry heat doesn't seem to be as brutal but that was NOT the case today.  I miss humidity...

I'll send some your way!

 

[Starfire669]

Hmmm...I wouldn't worry too much.  Birds mature at different rates...even when they are the same age.

I know your right, but I'm a worry wart. I just had to perform my first bumble foot surgery yesterday on poor Screwball. That poor boy, first he is the only chicken to have mites and their eggs, now bumble foot. I caught it early, there was a very small kernel in his foot, I think I got it all out. Now I am just monitoring him and changing his bandage, hoping it heals well. But now I have worries about Ivory getting egg bound, or something being wrong with her and that's why she isn't laying yet. Like I said, I am a worry wart with my animals.

My flock is definately giving me a through education in poultry doctoring, lol. My husband had to help me with Screwball (he bites now) , and he told me he would never be able to cut out bumble foot. I laughed, bug strong man can cut a chickens throat for dinner but can't remove infection. Typical isn't it?

 

[needlessjunk]

My flock is definately giving me a through education in poultry doctoring, lol. My husband had to help me with Screwball (he bites now) , and he told me he would never be able to cut out bumble foot. I laughed, bug strong man can cut a chickens throat for dinner but can't remove infection. Typical isn't it?

Lol, that's funny! Sounds like my husband and yet it makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[Starfire669]

If your guess is correct (and it's much more likely than my guess), that would make 'em 22wks.  That is very possible.  Fred's comb started coming in 4-5 weeks ago & is now flopped over one eye & Red's comb has been taking shape lately as well.  And our biggest EE, Olive, is bigger than our cat.  Looks like we'll have lots of eggs very soon! 

I am not a chicken expert so my guess could be off as well. But your chickens were definately older than mine. At that time mine didn't have that look yours did, and I know my chickens exact age. So yours are definately older, and I guess a month because that's how long it took for my chickens to start looking like yours with small pink combs, legs that were starting to yellow up, adult feathers, and they didn't have that baby look anymore. At 18 weeks my chickens are getting that fat look of hens, not the skinny look of pullets anymore.

 

[Starfire669]

I'm designing my coop and I keep changing my mind! Why is this so hard to just go with a design? I also put in my order and they will be here at the end of July. I'm super excited but I want to start working on my co-op and run ASAP. Think I can talk the hubby into buying a table saw? I've been wanting one for years... he got an air compressor last year so it's only fair, right? I get excited about power tools... strange I know. I love all the pics of chicks and ducks! What do y'all do with your ducks? Are they used for eggs or meat or just pets?

Right now my ducks are strictly pet, eggs. But next year I am going to try hatching some of the Cayugas for meat. We will see how that goes. It's the same plan as for my geese, eggs, meat, and sell a few hatchlings if I can. If I do get some white African eggs, I am hopeful they will sell well here as no one has them. Plus these white Africans are huge, gonna make my Africans look like Chinese. Am also getting some brown and pied Chinese eggs to hatch next year, and maybe some blue Cayuga to add new blood to my duck flock. We will be processing our first goose for Christmas dinner this year. It's going to be tough on me, the geese have personalities and are tightly bonded to each other and to me a little. But I can't keep them all, and goose tastes good.

My hubby and I are tool junkies. We are starting to build up our collection now that we don't have to worry about mobility. He got a 50 gallon air compressor, I got a 8 gallon one, lol, I have smal Dremel saws and tools, he got a reciprocating saw. We finally got a table saw and a pole saw for tree trimming. He wants air tools to work on cars, I go for tools to work on wood and electronics. (I have an associates degree in computer engineering and a bachelors degree in microbiology, hubby is going to school for car mechanics and knows a little about computers, my dad is an electrician) We have to hold each other back when we go to places that have nice tools, lol.