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[hen-thusiast]

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You're welcome here anytime.

The babies are starting to get big! It's like they double in size every day.

 

[NurseDr]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

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The more I think about the article, the less I like it. It seems to me that the writer has something against backyard chickens. It was so poorly written too. Jumped all over the place. They made it seem like eggs from your backyard chickens are uber-dangerous, while they weren't concerned at all about high levels of arsenic in poultry you buy at the grocery store or restaurant. While we don't buy our feed from IFA I really don't think that was fair how they were singled out either.

It does have us looking at alternatives. Is anybody else interested in looking into organic feed? I've got a couple of leads I'm going to look into.

The article is a slant piece and the reporter did a poor job, especially since the Facts did not support the conclusion. It doesn't make sence to blame the feed when NO Roxarsone was added to the feed.​

The newspaper article is poorly written and led to poor assumptions.

Here is a link to the actual report. IFA layer feed did not result in high levels of arsenic.

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/pha/RoxarsoneinHenEggsinUtah/RoxarsoneinheneggsinUTahLHC05212010.pdf

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

I think I have a broody hen. Does anyone know how to sneak babies under them? Also, do they keep track of how many eggs they have, because she really does not have too much but I want to shove at least 4 chicks under her.

Also, if anyone wants to lend or give me day old babies for her to foster, please send me a PM. I don't pretend to know what I am doing, but I've not been able to break her so it seems like shoving chicks under her might be the way to go.

 

[kimbobim]

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I have no suggestions for you, just wishing you the best of luck! Please keep us updated on how it goes - I have an australorp that has gone broody twice, the second time it was much, much harder to break her of it - I'm afraid if she goes broody again, I'll be singing the same song as you.

I can't imagine that they can count how many eggs are under there. There are a number of ads on ksl.com for day-old chicks. Have you tried contacting any of them? Do you want to keep the babies, or just have her raise them?

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

I'm already at my legal Max of chickens, and I cannot keep roosters. Basically I want her to hatch them out and then I'll probably sell or give them away.

How long do I keep them once she hatches them?

 

[ElkMtnCove]

For about two months I thought the UT thread had been very quiet...only to discover I'd blocked the addresss! UGH!! I love 'talking' with this group.

Like everyone at this time of year I hv some roos. I usually let them free range until a predator gets them. Sad, I know but it's typically a very quick-never-see-it-coming end. It's also my way of giving back a little to the wildlife with all the ginormous homes pushing them out of existance. [Not to worry about the ones I keep, they have a Fort Knox coop].

But before I do, I wanted to see if anyone is wanting a particular roo for breeding? I have a big std size buff chochin (PLS, no eating), a banty barred rock, banty partridge (beautiful bird), and either a very small Americana roo or a banty. He's quite pretty and I'd love to see what chicks him and a leghorn or rhode would produce (rather the color of the eggs), but I'm not sure I want babies or fertilized eggs.

All the roos are not aggressive w/me but the Americana roo doesn't like my teens. He's not real mean, he'll just bump their legs. I've only seen the buff crow a few times, he's very quiet and tends to want to cover the hens if it's cold. Doesn't act roo-ish like the others. All hv been fed organic.

I can send photos and if I don't hear anything after a week I'll just let them out. We tried doing the meat thing and I just can't do it again to "Buffy" and don't want to put even my roos through the stress of a move and "an elmination" by man. I live near Park City.

Thanks and hope everyone's having a wonderful summer!

j.

 

[thavok]

new to the forums been reading for a while, just got two welsummer pullets (5 weeks) built their coop this last week and i am already thinking about getting 2 more.

 

[Cynthia12]

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I had this same problem with an Australorp I was very excited about.

I'm in Spanish Fork Utah

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

I think I have a crowing hen on my hands....

It's an Americauna, and I will keep her as long as no one complains. It's not quite a cockadoodledoo, it's more like a hickup that turns into a prolonged and loud CAWWWWW!!!

Interesting, as I've not actually heard a hen crow before. But I have heard it is possible.

 

[kimbobim]

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I've got one Black Star who kind of crows - our head hen. Its not really a full cock-a-doodle-doo sound, more of a prolonged Cu-Caw-Cu-Cu-CAAAWWW sort of sound. She doesn't do it all the time, usually she clucks and grumbles like the rest of them, but when she does 'crow' like that, you definitely hear the difference. It's when she's feeling bossy. She also will 'mount' a lower-ranked hen if she's getting out of line - just jumps on her back and pecks her on the head once or twice. It only lasts a second.