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[Alaskan]

oh... Was it yesterday that it snowed? or the day before?

Well anyway.... last night and this morning it rained! So I went from ice just a few days back(I think this was Monday):

To no ice at all!

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg you could put her crazy but in with the Guinea.

 

[chickadoodles]

Clue try a cap full of canine red cell in a gallon of water for a month.
Buckeye breeders start using it before they set up their pens for spring breeding.

 

[Beer can]

Maybe feed bhut jolokia or carolina reapers will get them firing live ammo?

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Night Misty sleep well

Hope you slept good

 

[bruceha2000]

Oh God y'all guess what's a thing again

Oh no, the slasher turkey hen!
Where is the "band-aid emoji"??

To no ice at all!

Soon to be followed by ..... algae!!! Or maybe your pond is deeper than mine and has a source of water so it isn't stagnant.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Good morning everyone have a wonderful day

 

[ronott1]

Continuously, @Beer can. I love to write though.

DH and I took off to the woods for a walk this afternoon. Found 5 ticks on me so far.Still feel creepy crawly.

I read this week that it's going to be a bad year for ticks. Just dandy, she groans.

I read an article last year about a place that you can send your clothes to have them treated with deet. The treatment lasts through a lot of washings. Deed seems to be the best way to repel ticks

 

[ronott1]

Oh God y'all guess what's a thing again





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Be afraid....Very afraid....

 

[getaclue]

Al, they're snazzy Black Australorps, not BCM's, but yeah those are the ones. My original rooster will be 5 years old in Feb. He's had just turned a year old around Feb. 2014. He's never had any fertility issues. I had suspected the first 2 males were not fertile, since I never got any fertile eggs from the females they were with, but when I put my original rooster with the same females, I got fertile eggs. I reasoned it might be an age thing, or I had let them with females too soon. Well, they're 3 years old, so not too young now. I had one in with some hens for a couple months, but not one fertile egg. I swapped him out with his brother. A couple weeks later, and I'm still not getting any fertile eggs. I could not take full advantage of breeding until we moved here, but have hatched out a couple smaller batches of chicks to keep things going.

I put 2 of the younger ones, just shy of a year old, each in with their own group of hens for almost 3 weeks. Not one fertile egg. The only reason this became an issue, was because my original male got to fighting with the rooster in the next pen. There is wire mesh separating them, so they can't really do real damage to each other, but in the process, he found a jagged place, and cut up the bottom of one foot, and tore the top of the skin off the other foot. Not deep, or bad injuries, but enough he wasn't walking good, or treading the hens. I brought him up to the house, caged him, soaked his feet, and applied ointment to them until they healed up.

That's when I put one of the younger males with his hens. They rejected him at first, but within a week he had won them over. Still, no fertile eggs. Now that my original rooster is doing good, I've put him back with his normal group. Yes, I can get fertile eggs from him, BUT I can't carry on the line with infertile male offspring, and I'm not sure about trying to carry on with a line that the bulk of the males are infertile.

The original rooster is from the Kirk Keen line which was outbred that year to the Dan Castle line, and he's one of the results. One of the original hens was from his same line, and the other was straight Kirk Keen line.