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Mine are on the counter all weather. I do not have them long enough to even worry.Here's a question, now that its warming up outside...should I continue to keep my eggs on the counter? Or is it getting too warm for them to stay fresh and unspoiled?
Oh! A while back we were talking about coconut oil, and someone asked if you can bake with it. Well, after becoming addicted to my coconut oil popcorn I decided to give baking with it a try. Banana Bread, replaced 1/3 cup butter with 1/3 cup coconut oil. My bread didn't rise, I'm not sure if that's the oil or maybe my baking soda is bad? Anyways the bread was moist and delicious. I need to find a calculator to see if there is a difference in calories and fat...I'm not a counter, but it's always fun to compare.
On the A/C....holy cow! That's all I have to say...
For me..this would be a no brainer. You purchased FSH. You did not get them. You march right on over and get what you paid for.would you ask for a different chick?
So, after learning that the teeny tiny chick that hasn't been thriving was not a swedish flower hen, I couldn't figure out what it was. I had gotten very specific breeds from the person who hatched the eggs for me. This just didn't fit with any.
So I sent her a pic and her response was that it must be a banty, probably a welsummer banty. When I picked up the chicks, hatched to order, she had three kiddie swimming pools full of chicks and she selected them. She said she knew she had bantys in her pool.
ugh. first off, I have regular welsummers, and they are not my fav breed. I wouldn't choose to have another. Second, not a big fan of banties, and thirdly and most importantly, the last two smaller sized hens I had were picked on - and they weren't banty, just smaller sized. They both died - the one that was necropsied by the state lab came back with a result that it was a stress induced ecoli overload from being picked on. Both of the two had been picked on by a bully hen.
So I wouldn't bring a banty into this flock.
This little BANTY chick is not quite 3 weeks old. It has had this vitamin deficiency and has required separation with a buddy, lots and lots of extra care, and even when it has been healthier hasn't been able to keep up with the regular sized rambunctious chicks of the same age.
I'm toying with asking her to take the banty back. She will likely still have other ones that this one could be with, and she does maintain a home flock of a huge variety of ducks and chickens, including banties, silkies, giants, regular breeds, etc.
I'm not sure I have ANY swedish flower hens in this batch of chicks. I am a little frustrated here! Of the two chicks that died, one was teeny tiny and must have been a banty. Not a sfh because it had dark legs. I think it probably had the vitamin deficiency issue too and I just didn't recognize it. THe other one that died was the dead in the morning type with no obvious signs of problems.