The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[ki4got]

@TeaChick That is horrible. I have read peoples problems w/ integrations gone very bad here on BYC. I have intergrated several times and never experienced more then just a casual tift here and there. Are you wanting the bad natured hens eggs for eating or for setting?

with my flock, i'm breeding for good temperament... so even bad tempered girls go bye bye. I don't need their eggs that badly.

fortunately even the squabbling roos get over it pretty quickly. my sfh and mille fleur cochins are side by side pens. for a while they just wanted to kick each others' butts. so I turned them both loose. 3 days later, I find all the sfh AND the cochins in the same house squashed onto the roosts, all together. including both roos with bloody combs, side by side. LOL that's 9 birds on 4' of roost space btw. LOL by CHOICE! I had to take the sfh girls out to make enough room, left Gunnarsson in with the cochins so they wouldn't forget they were buddies soon... (let the pens free range for a few more days before they got locked up again - I think some of that time was spent fraternizing with 'the enemy' for the girls... my mfc chicks that have hatched out, i'm pretty sure aren't purebred. LOL but with only 1 girl laying, it hasn't been a huge issue. LOL

 

[ki4got]

Yes, a lot of kids pass through the rebellion and come through stronger for it, and for that I am thankful, but some decisions result in a life time of hurt that can't be undone... but for the grace of God, even those things can turn into a blessing in the end.

Agreed... I would not go back and do my teen years over again. And, regarding the hardships that come with parenting a difficult or rebellious child... if I had it to do all over again, would I? Even if I knew what was ahead? Yes, because if I gave up the hardship, I'd also give up the blessing.

sometimes I wish I could go back and re-do some of my 20's... like that time I had my weight down to a dull roar and the front desk manager at my dad's hotel said 'dang girl you got an ***!' and I took it wrong. I'd been dieting hard, managed to get down to a size 10, and thought well heck. all that effort and i'm still fat. why bother. that one comment made me give up. if only I could go back and resume the lifestyle I'd been working hard to maintain. so many things might be different now. but then again, I may have never discovered chickens, gotten my horses, met my hubby, etc.

 

[lalaland]

its crazy making! been home sick for a few days, still a little shaky when I went to the coop to gather eggs...and dropped 8 eggs. Now the cats have knocked the egg basket off the table and cracked open a doz and a half eggs on the floor. Did you know you can scoop/sweep broken eggs, yolk and white, onto a newpaper and then pour them into a bowl? Will feed them to the hens in the morning.

 

[Scott H]

Man, you must not be feeling good at all...health is every thing...when I feel bad I think of the people that will never feel good again...like both my parents felt who died of cancer. They hurt and knew it was never going to get better

 

[CourtsCacklers]

its crazy making! been home sick for a few days, still a little shaky when I went to the coop to gather eggs...and dropped 8 eggs. Now the cats have knocked the egg basket off the table and cracked open a doz and a half eggs on the floor. Did you know you can scoop/sweep broken eggs, yolk and white, onto a newpaper and then pour them into a bowl? Will feed them to the hens in the morning.

awwee....hope you get to feeling better!!!!!

 

[lazy gardener]

So sorry LaLa. Hope you get feeling better real soon.

Ki: Rude comments come from idiots. You can't fix stupid. There is WAY too much emphasis put on having the perfect body. And unfortunately, most of it is directed at women, but I'm sure men get some of it too. I'm so opposed to the unhealthy obsession with skinny bodies that I wouldn't let my daughter and now my grand daughter play with Barbie dolls!

 

[Leahs Mom]

its crazy making! been home sick for a few days, still a little shaky when I went to the coop to gather eggs...and dropped 8 eggs. Now the cats have knocked the egg basket off the table and cracked open a doz and a half eggs on the floor. Did you know you can scoop/sweep broken eggs, yolk and white, onto a newpaper and then pour them into a bowl? Will feed them to the hens in the morning.

Bummer!!!!
Hope you get to feeling better really soon!

 

[Kassaundra]

The question about the second hen becoming mean after the removal of the mean head hen. There are no garuntees either way. The very mean hurtful hens are the exception rather then the rule, so the odds are on your side that the second hen won't be overly aggressive like your current one is.

 

[ki4got]

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point out to him that alcohol is a product of fermentation... is that rotten? or just better than the grains that formed it?

 

[ki4got]

So sorry LaLa. Hope you get feeling better real soon.

Ki: Rude comments come from idiots. You can't fix stupid. There is WAY too much emphasis put on having the perfect body. And unfortunately, most of it is directed at women, but I'm sure men get some of it too. I'm so opposed to the unhealthy obsession with skinny bodies that I wouldn't let my daughter and now my grand daughter play with Barbie dolls!

lol what she said wasn't wrong or stupid, just that I didn't undstand what she meant by it... think back to sir mixalot and baby got back.