Texas

[hotrodflash]

DH told me that onions and garlic make the eggs taste bad so I never gave them any. I think I will for sure now seeing as we have 15 hens laying and getting 3-5 eggs a day is making me crazy.

There is an old wives tale that if you give the hens hot peppers, fresh, red pepper flakes or cayenne to kick start laying, or to get them to return to laying. Don't know if it works but it won't hurt them.

 

[back2simplelife]

There is an old wives tale that if you give the hens hot peppers, fresh, red pepper flakes or cayenne to kick start laying, or to get them to return to laying. Don't know if it works but it won't hurt them.

Might just have to test that old wise tail since my two aren't laying yet after the move. Just mixed up some.. I was going to wait but I read medicated is fine so... Now, I just let it sit over night? Or longer?

 

[Raine06]

There is an old wives tale that if you give the hens hot peppers, fresh, red pepper flakes or cayenne to kick start laying, or to get them to return to laying. Don't know if it works but it won't hurt them.

Ha ha ha..... We have used cayenne and peppers just picked and some we dried, didn't work. DH says that's how his grandpa used to get his hens to lay. Today we got 7 so at least half are laying, some are molting hard right now. We were getting 12 a day for a couple weeks, guess my girls were just spoiling me!

 

[hotrodflash]

Ha ha ha..... We have used cayenne and peppers just picked and some we dried, didn't work. DH says that's how his grandpa used to get his hens to lay. Today we got 7 so at least half are laying, some are molting hard right now. We were getting 12 a day for a couple weeks, guess my girls were just spoiling me!

They won't lay while molting, everything goes to regrowing feathers instead of producing eggs.

 

[showbarnmom]

They know no boundaries. What personal bubble?

I posted a question about sneezing over in diseases if anyone wants to look at it for me.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Ha ha ha..... We have used cayenne and peppers just picked and some we dried, didn't work. DH says that's how his grandpa used to get his hens to lay. Today we got 7 so at least half are laying, some are molting hard right now. We were getting 12 a day for a couple weeks, guess my girls were just spoiling me!

Mine have slacked off as well. 1 reason im sure is the heat, 2nd reason they have been on an antibiotic regimine so i understand it, im just glad its happening while their meds are in their system...i hate tossing good eggs. Got 5 over the last few days when 6+ a day wasnt uncommon for a while. All of my birds are young too, all 2013 hatches except the pair of yokies

 

[Cockle-Dood]

They know no boundaries. What personal bubble?

I posted a question about sneezing over in diseases if anyone wants to look at it for me.

Just like my BO's

 

[Nomibear]

I lived there about... 13 years ago on Nameless Road, LOL!

I know that place. My family has been good friends with the Rodgers. They were the caretakers of Nameless Valley Ranch. I LOVED that place!!....

 

[StelleKitten]

Congrats to all the new chickens, welcome to all the new members, condolences for all the losses. (sorry, about to catch some sleep)

Thought I would update everyone quickly while I have a moment.

We have our cdl drivers permits. Passed all the tests at the dmv with 90 or above scores. We have mastered backing and parallel parking. (which, btw, we are the best in our class at)

We just finished our first day actually on the highway. I managed to shift through all ten gears both up and down. Since the company we are going into requires double clutching, that is the only way we are doing it. I have been shifting nice and smooth most of they day. Tim got his truck on the highway today and did all his driving almost perfectly.

By the end of the day both of our instructors decided to have us drive from Waxahachi to Lancaster. Both of us did well (even though some of those idiot drivers out there nearly got smooshed) and got everyone back to class safely.

If you see someone you know trying to cut around a truck driver taking a wide turn, tell them not to. Especially if the truck has "STUDENT DRIVER" in brilliant orange all over the darn truck. It's hard to make sure that your trailer doesn't scrape those fools who think you can manage to stay on the road and dodge them all at once when they take up the only place you have left to go. I managed not to kill the fool that did this to me. But only through complete luck. Those trucks don't move around as fast as you would like.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Congrats to all the new chickens, welcome to all the new members, condolences for all the losses. (sorry, about to catch some sleep)

Thought I would update everyone quickly while I have a moment.

We have our cdl drivers permits.  Passed all the tests at the dmv with 90 or above scores.  We have mastered backing and parallel parking. (which, btw, we are the best in our class at)

We just finished our first day actually on the highway.  I managed to shift through all ten gears both up and down.  Since the company we are going into requires double clutching, that is the only way we are doing it.  I have been shifting nice and smooth most of they day.  Tim got his truck on the highway today and did all his driving almost perfectly.

By the end of the day both of our instructors decided to have us drive from Waxahachi to Lancaster.  Both of us did well (even though some of those idiot drivers out there nearly got smooshed) and got everyone back to class safely.

If you see someone you know trying to cut around a truck driver taking a wide turn, tell them not to.  Especially if the truck has "STUDENT DRIVER" in brilliant orange all over the darn truck.  It's hard to make sure that your trailer doesn't scrape those fools who think you can manage to stay on the road and dodge them all at once when they take up the only place you have left to go.  I managed not to kill the fool that did this to me. But only through complete luck.  Those trucks don't move around as fast as you would like.

Way to go stelle and tim! Doi g some hotshot work has always been a retirement idea for me!