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[Chickielady]

I agree, 1 coop for every month !!

 

[jbear]

lol~ I need to dump the cache on this computer--I still see CL's old avatar here at home, but see MOT on the one at work!

ANYWAY~~ funny story for the night... you know the guy came and got his dogs this afternoon right? Weelll as he was leaving he ran into my son.. who asked about the dogs, so the guy figured out who DS was... The Guy asks DS if I AM SINGLE??!! ewwwwww!!! because I sounded CUTE on the phone!!! ewwww!! lolololol!!! ohhh Cameron was totally embarrassed.. and I was laughing about it, he says 'yeehhh--funny to YOU, but you are my MOM, it was completely AWKWARD!' hahahahahahahahah!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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You are just one hot mamma.....

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

jbear, You go girl!!! LOL! Might sound eww to your son but if you never saw the guy maybe he wasnt so ewww, it's kind of a pick me up like when they card a 50 year old for beer! I agree, you must be one hot momma even if it was just your voice so it's ok to give yourself a smile.

 

[Chickielady]

Besides, Jen is adorable..a beautiful woman who looks every much alot younger than she is !!
I like her non stop smile, she has a great attitude !

edited to add::: Iwish I had half of her energy, (and all of her waistline !

she is awful cute!! !!!!!!!!!!!
So is 4-H Mom...love the freckels. I always got teased and hated my freackels, but grew out of mine, Tam has great freakles !!

OK off to get my work done and bed..

 

[Illia]

Whew, long day today. . .

Just culled 5 of our Wyandottes, our one and only Easter Egger hen, and a mutt pullet. Tomorrow I'm finishing off the remaining 5 Wyandottes. . .


What's really sad is the EE hen. Golly did she prove just how wrong hatcheries can breed their stuff. . . I always knew she had problems, but never realized how bad her physical ones were. Once she was completely processed and cleaned, I found that her back was entirely hunched, and her entire back end was completely cockeyed. Where her spine should have been, one of her thighs were. Where one of her thighs were, her spine was. It is like someone twisted her back, then hunched it inward. It was horrible! The poor thing has been living like that for 2 years, and I didn't even know it. . . She was always to her self, often bit at you if you approached her, and perched up in the coop half the day, but I figured it was just her personality. . . . Nope. I think her severe deformity was giving her a lot of pain, and on top of that, her eggs. . . She's never been a good layer at all, maybe 20 eggs a YEAR, well, . . . When I looked inside, she had eggs forming alright, but they ended up turning into a thick, solid mass of what almost appeared to be solid yolk, as if it was hard boiled. . . I guess in the end it either absorbs back into her body or she spews it out and I never notice it?

Either way, she's gone now, so all the worry is too. I have photos though for those curious. (of what her body looked like) Seriously, she was the most disfigured hen I've ever known. . . And I know Murray McMurray hatchery has given me plenty of faulty EE's before, but not that faulty.

 

[hallerlake]

Poor thing. Are you sure it was genetic and not something that happened in the shell?

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[Illia]

I have personally never known something in the shell to cause a deformity like that, and even if so, I'd still blame the hatchery because it would likely be due to A) too small of eggs hatched, such as from young pullets, or B) way too nutrient deprived of eggs, caused by poor conditions and diet of the hen that laid the egg.

 

[hallerlake]

Note to self : don't order EEs from McMurray.


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[hallerlake]

I found someone on BYC that has gotten Brabanters from H and H poultry. She said the quality isn't very good. They all had the same twisted toe, and one had a hunchback. Bummer. I can only hope the hatchery has done some serious culling between then and now.