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[Cackling Hen]

Hi all WASHINGTONIANS I asked a a few days ago think my post got lost I need your help We have 24hrs to get 40+votes I beg of you
We are having cutest pet contest in our Town If you would kindly Vote for my sons 4 moth old German Shepard "Loomis" Im very proud of him he saved two paychecks You have to register to vote I know its a pain but I promised my son I would ask you all the Help Thanks a bunch I will copy the link for you
http://pdn.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?p=V&c=27031&s=6856697&i=1#SD

 

[broodytood]

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Maybe a hamster size would help?

Mine drank from a huge one that came with my dog kennel. It drips a lot more than the nipple feeders. They were about 2 weeks old when I started them. To this day, they prefer the big bunny/puppy waterer to any other type. They did not need any training because they peck at anything shiny.

Oh yeah... I forgot about them pecking shiny objects. Now, when you say nipple do you mean like what is on a bunny water bottle? After 6 kids, I envision something rubber. But that's not right is it?

 

[Ogress]

The dogs loved the nasty looking egg. It smelled perfectly normal, just looked

Before feeding it to them, I pulled out a lentil sized and shaped dark chunk.

I think I scared off a new client today, a Hindu gal I work with. The pediatrician told her that her son needs to eat an egg per day. It took her DH a while to agree to let their boy eat eggs. She decided to eat eggs with her son, and had her first egg (from Costco) a few weeks ago. She loved it. Her DH makes her cook then in their own pan, and she had to buy new flatware to eat them with as he does not want the egg to eat anything cooked in the same pan that held an egg or the same fork that was used to eat them! (he won't eat cake or anything baked with egg either. Milk is fine because the cow is not killed). Over the weekend, she read my FB page and comments friends had made about my hens yummy eggs, and she also started looking at how chickens are raised. Yesterday, she was full of questions: "does a baby chick die when you eat an egg? How do I know that the when I crack an egg open, I won't find a chick in it?" (She heard of this happening in India ... Maybe the air temp and humidity was just right?) "What happens to the male chicks when you buy eggs? What do you do with your male chicks? Are you birds raised very humanely? How come some eggs are brown? Does it come from another type of bird that is not a chicken?...." I told her that I have so many egg requests now that I can't get her any on a regular basis before July, but I would bring her a sample. So, just beforeI brought her some eggs this morning, I peeled that nasty looking egg. I told her about it and that eggs may contain "Meat spots." Suddenly she did not want the eggs anymore. She thought it would be very scary to find a meat spot. Another co-worker who used to have chickens explained that it is no big deal. She took the eggs back, but I wouldn't be surprised if she tosses them! How do you all explain meat spots to customers? Do you replace any that they tell you about? That is the first one I have found, and no one has ever complained of one.

Edited because I can't spell

 

[hallerlake]

My brother in law is a Hare Krishna. Eat won't eat anything from pot or dishes contaminated by meat products.

 

[Ogress]

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Mine drank from a huge one that came with my dog kennel. It drips a lot more than the nipple feeders. They were about 2 weeks old when I started them. To this day, they prefer the big bunny/puppy waterer to any other type. They did not need any training because they peck at anything shiny.

Oh yeah... I forgot about them pecking shiny objects. Now, when you say nipple do you mean like what is on a bunny water bottle? After 6 kids, I envision something rubber. But that's not right is it?

Bunny water bottle - steel ball in a tube .... and one of these:
http://www.avianaquamiser.com/chickennipple/

I bought some (elsewhere) and punched them through the lids of old, squarish Olive Oil bottles from Costco. The square bttled are easy to lash to a side of a coop. The birds prefer the one with the bearing, but it drips. The "chicken nipple" type does not drip other than when the birds peck at the nipple.

 

[Ogress]

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I'm hoping her DH won't change his mind if he sees meat in the egg! I don't know much about any religion, or why some may ban meats, but from what she was asking me, I get the impression that they are very concerned about the welfare of the animal... no animal should die so they can eat. Milk is no big deal, and they make yogurt from milk every day. She is going to get me a culture of their yogurt, she brought it from India. She said it is very sweet compared to the yogurt from local Indian markets. She gets her milk delivered from Smith Brothers. I told her she can order organic eggs from them ... maybe the operation they buy their eggs from is large enough to candle them for meat spots.

 

[hallerlake]

Basically, it boils down to they can eat so long as nothing dies. Cows don't die when you milk them. I had this discussion about unfertilized eggs with my sister. It was never alive. She says that makes it like eating a chickens menstrual products. Which it's not, but there is no arguing religion. They must think very highly of their doctor to be persuaded by him/her. Do you have a candler? You could candle the eggs you sell her.



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I'm hoping her DH won't change his mind if he sees meat in the egg! I don't know much about any religion, or why some may ban meats, but from what she was asking me, I get the impression that they are very concerned about the welfare of the animal... no animal should die so they can eat. Milk is no big deal, and they make yogurt from milk every day. She is going to get me a culture of their yogurt, she brought it from India. She said it is very sweet compared to the yogurt from local Indian markets. She gets her milk delivered from Smith Brothers. I told her she can order organic eggs from them ... maybe the operation they buy their eggs from is large enough to candle them for meat spots.

 

[Ogress]

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When I was in college, I went on a weekend trip with a friend of mine who was a recent Hare Krishna convert. It was interesting, and I was mean. Other than fish, I seldom eat meat, but I intentionally brought aromatic stuff like bacon along - he said that was the hardest thing for him to give up. I had an interesting lot of friends when I was in college.

 

[broodytood]

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Oh yeah... I forgot about them pecking shiny objects. Now, when you say nipple do you mean like what is on a bunny water bottle? After 6 kids, I envision something rubber. But that's not right is it?

Bunny water bottle - steel ball in a tube .... and one of these:
http://www.avianaquamiser.com/chickennipple/

I bought some (elsewhere) and punched them through the lids of old, squarish Olive Oil bottles from Costco. The square bttled are easy to lash to a side of a coop. The birds prefer the one with the bearing, but it drips. The "chicken nipple" type does not drip other than when the birds peck at the nipple.

Oh, Ok. I was way off in my mind. Thanks!

 

[Ogress]

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I'm hoping her DH won't change his mind if he sees meat in the egg! I don't know much about any religion, or why some may ban meats, but from what she was asking me, I get the impression that they are very concerned about the welfare of the animal... no animal should die so they can eat. Milk is no big deal, and they make yogurt from milk every day. She is going to get me a culture of their yogurt, she brought it from India. She said it is very sweet compared to the yogurt from local Indian markets. She gets her milk delivered from Smith Brothers. I told her she can order organic eggs from them ... maybe the operation they buy their eggs from is large enough to candle them for meat spots.


Ah, so that is why all the questions about the rooster! So when I do get a roo, he will have t be kept away from the hens that lay the eggs I sell to her.

I don't have a candler - I heard it has to be a very bright light to detect a blood spot. Maybe I can get one. Do they cost much?

Menstruating chickens ... funny thought!