The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[ssterling1776]

Hello, all!

Thanks, Leah's Mom, for posting the link to this thread. I'm starting from the beginning and reading through.

Welcome neighbor!

 

[chickiemomy]

How old?
Are they coming out of molt?
A rooster will mate with an old hen who has not layed for years. A cockerel will mate with a cat or a shoe

 

[countrygirl74]

I have a question... trying to learn how to tell hens from roosters (before the obvious of course, like seeing them crow, etc). I've learned a lot so far but then the POW posted today seems confusing. If I were to guess, they all look like roosters to me, especially the Barred Plymouth Rock. Can someone please comment on those? I can see that one of the Australorps looks like a hen due to the absence of those fancy longer tail feathers - I have no idea what they're called.

Also, just letting you know that I am butchering my first 5 roosters tomorrow - wish me luck! I'm nervous but I will be so proud of myself when I am done. So I'll probably go from this

to this

 

[armorfirelady]

Leah your Swedish hens chicks are BEAUTIFUL. I am to new to guess their sex but they sure are pretty to look at with their markings

 

[Leahs Mom]

A rooster will mate with an old hen who has not layed for years. A cockerel will mate with a cat or a shoe

Definitely sounds like teenage boys

I don't have nustock. I used Coconut Oil

Working GREAT! My fiance has started using it for her night time face routine. It has so many great effects on skin.

I will be taking some after photos tomorrow when I change her bandaids.
Quote: I'll be looking forward to your photos. I keep coconut oil all the time. I really like using it for many things.

I was hoping to find some kind of a drawing salve if needed to bring any infection to a head. Didn't someone recommend one sometime? I just don't remember what it was.

I hope you're right on the kiddos. Would be nice to have 3 females!

 

[Mumsy]

this is the coolest way to talk a spouse into another incubator, write down the wrong hatch day

HAH! I'm telling him this! He will laugh!

Grandson and family just left the island. What a blessedly fun day!



The bantam RIR chicks are so tame they climb onto my hand to be toted around. Grandbaby saw them hatch two months ago. He is meeting them again for the first time in the barn.


Hatch update. Four Phoebe chicks out. Two pipped left.
Edith eggs in the cage. The probe temp is reading three degrees cooler in the cage. Two eggs pipped. No progress with them.

The four chicks that are out are robust, active, LOUD, good sized, and beautiful.

Humidity jumped from 63% with the hatch of the first chick to 78% with the hatch of the fourth chick. Still air temp steady at 101 degrees. Probe temp reading ranges from 101 to 98 degrees in separate areas of the bator. I have not opened the bator at all. Everybody in there is on their own from now until activity ceases.

Judy the 1/2 Orp 1/2 Ameracauna laid an egg while Grandson was visiting. His first experience collecting an egg had him so excited! He brought it into the house and introduced the egg to his favorite toy T Rex dinosaur.



My heart melted.

 

[ChickChickChicky]

Quote:

I was hoping to find some kind of a drawing salve if needed to bring any infection to a head. Didn't someone recommend one sometime? I just don't remember what it was.

You're looking for a product with ichthammol in it. "Prid" is one brand that you can find at Walmart in a little round orange tin, it sells for about $3. Also available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Squire-Ichthammol-Drawing-Salve/dp/B000HHQ67W and I think CVS also carries it. I have used the Prid (on myself and other family members) and the stuff really WORKS.

 

[Melabella]

How precious! Love this picture, everything, the candles, the egg, your grandson, and the dinosaur is perfect!

 

[jockeyeba]

MB I might have missed it in all of these posts but how did/are you faring with the bad weather? A lot of snow?

 

[jockeyeba]

Hello, all!


Thanks, Leah's Mom, for posting the link to this thread. I'm starting from the beginning and reading through.

Welcome Mzstre!

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