The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[Cynthia12]

Oh yeah! Beautiful!

 

[Cynthia12]

SOOOO I have a big ol greyhound dane mix dog who is so amazing with my chickens he truely loves them and even watches over the baby chicks they hop all over him. He just LOST IT looking out into my backyard, I look out to find out what he as freaking out about and I see a Bobcat come out from where my chicken coop is. I DONT DARE TO GO LOOK. Kaysen (the dog) is still barking and hubby is asleep, I may go wake him and make him go look.

I already lost 1 flock I dont know if my heart could take another whole flock gone. I wish my rooster would just crow or something to let me know they are ok...

Oh nooo...catching up..hope I read good news to come!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm In!

 

[Cynthia12]

ALL CHICKENS ALIVE AND ACCOUNTED FOR THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!

After we lost our last flock we tried very hard to make sure NOTHING could get into the coop at night. Apparently we did good. There were scratch and deep claw marks on the outside of the door and under a window, but we had put chicken wire over all of the windows and around the door frame so nothing could dig the door frame open. We also reinforced the door with a lock at the top bottom and a latch in the middle. I think all that work finally paid off.

I had a prayer answered this morning, THAT WAS SO STRESSFUL

Whew! I'm so happy for you!

 

[Cynthia12]

Hey can I join the club? We must have all joined around the same time! I just got my 5 year badge this week!

Congrats to both of you!

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU TOO!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm in need of an Emu update................how are the emu eggs doing?

I was thinking the same thing..yesterday! Update! Update!

 

[Cynthia12]

Even better, 1 X 1 inch welded wire. Hardware cloth can unravel. I discovered this after using hardware cloth on my first coop.

This is what we have on our windows. I can open the wood windows to this.

 

[TJordan]

Even better, 1 X 1 inch welded wire. Hardware cloth can unravel. I discovered this after using hardware cloth on my first coop.

I use the welded kind of hardware cloth Here's what I use. I even used it on my cat pin because she had surgery and can't jump until stitches come out.

 

[ronott1]

Oh and are the "small" eggs at the market from bantams or just weirdly small eggs from leghorns? I am looking to hatch some market eggs and i think it would be cool to have some bantams too.

If you are talking about a grocery store, then they would be leghorns if the eggs are white. It is not common now but they used to sell small, medium, large, extra large and jumbo. The small and medium were pullet eggs, large and Xlarge from hens up to molt and jumbo from older hens.

Now most of the battery farms sell the small and medium to bakeries or make liquid eggs. Hens are processed out at 18 months so there are rarely any jumbo eggs sold.

If it is a farmers market, you will need to ask them what their flock is.

 

[Hurley]

[COLOR=008080]Hey can I join the club?  We must have all joined around the same time!   I just got my 5 year badge this week! [/COLOR] [COLOR=008080] Congrats to both of you! [/COLOR]

Yay, the fiver club is born!