ScottyGill
Songster
Good morning. I used the forums a lot last year during the drama of incubation hatching, twice and integrating and losing a lovely pullet and having to cull the cockerels as couldn’t regime them like parents who forgot how bad it all was we’re trying again. weve just been getting along with no issues until this last wee while.
I really did stack my chances on top of shipped eggs I had mixed breeds, then we tried Marans. we ended with one CCL one French blue copper marans and one CCL/BCM Our CCL girl is adorable but has the worst chicken song I would venture possibly in the world. Fortunately our neighbours have a good sense of humour.
Our beautiful blue French copper marans girl whose been laying fantastic eggs had a spell of being poorly two weeks ago. We thought stuck egg so gave her Epsom salts bath. She’s right as rain now but no eggs and is crowing. My vet knows little about chickens! She said when she gets money after lockdown she’s going to buy a £70 manual for chicken vetting! I’m tempted to buy it for her!
she has been a little aggressive with the others and wouldn’t come near us and stopped flattening. But that’s improving again and there’s no food wars anymore.
one theory is ovary damage and I’m hoping the other one will kick in but she’s happy and healthy and is doing a good job being look out chicken. Her crowing is adorable!
This is her and Lottie my darling CCL/BCM cross.
anyway I’m putting 6 buff Orpington’s in and hoping for 50% we are in Dunoon West Coast Scotland and humidity is always high so I’m going to dry incubate. I feel I’m not asking much haha. I feel a little more confident as made so many mistakes last time so hope I can Put it all together now. I also know I can survive culling sick chickens and hostile and very vocal young cockerels. We tried a no crow collar but hated everything about it and he bypassed it. The other one started attacking the girls so that decision was easy. Haha I went from convincing myself from articles I read I could keep two cockerels to they have to go NOW!!!
I really did stack my chances on top of shipped eggs I had mixed breeds, then we tried Marans. we ended with one CCL one French blue copper marans and one CCL/BCM Our CCL girl is adorable but has the worst chicken song I would venture possibly in the world. Fortunately our neighbours have a good sense of humour.
Our beautiful blue French copper marans girl whose been laying fantastic eggs had a spell of being poorly two weeks ago. We thought stuck egg so gave her Epsom salts bath. She’s right as rain now but no eggs and is crowing. My vet knows little about chickens! She said when she gets money after lockdown she’s going to buy a £70 manual for chicken vetting! I’m tempted to buy it for her!
she has been a little aggressive with the others and wouldn’t come near us and stopped flattening. But that’s improving again and there’s no food wars anymore.
one theory is ovary damage and I’m hoping the other one will kick in but she’s happy and healthy and is doing a good job being look out chicken. Her crowing is adorable!
This is her and Lottie my darling CCL/BCM cross.
anyway I’m putting 6 buff Orpington’s in and hoping for 50% we are in Dunoon West Coast Scotland and humidity is always high so I’m going to dry incubate. I feel I’m not asking much haha. I feel a little more confident as made so many mistakes last time so hope I can Put it all together now. I also know I can survive culling sick chickens and hostile and very vocal young cockerels. We tried a no crow collar but hated everything about it and he bypassed it. The other one started attacking the girls so that decision was easy. Haha I went from convincing myself from articles I read I could keep two cockerels to they have to go NOW!!!
It sounds like you had quite a steep learning curve last time! 
