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[cheryl98117]

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I havnt built the coop yet. The one in the link that I showed is one that I am useing as a guide for building mine. I will be lucky if it looks half as nice as that one! lol

 

[SadieSue]

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LOL I said that a few pages ago for folks that are going to the Monroe show, but nobody said anything, so I figured there was no interest....

Sorry- I think it's a great idea if we can get it together! I plan on going to Monroe. Who wants to bring Tudy?

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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the only thing you can see at 24hrs is the air sack stabilizing from shipped eggs..
Normal candling is 5-7 days 10 to 12 days and just before lockdown imho.

here's a thread with photos of candling.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876

I do not advise candling often with eggs that cost or are hard to get except maybe 2-3 times total (days 7, 12,17)
the more you handle them the more likely they can get damaged and quit growing.

How fantastic. That is amazing. Sorry, I loved it. That (to me) was so extremely helpful and interesting.

 

[SadieSue]

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Oh I bet you are eggstatic !!!!!!!!!!!

You got that right CL! Along with the coop I've got an incubator coming next week. I cannot wait to get some girls for my coop and eventually get eggs for my Brinsea. I want it all now!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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It is true.
Even the sweetest hen in the world, can lay eggs that hatch into one nasty cockeral after another.
I have been told to try and remember which hen the nasty cockeral came from, and either cull her so it stops, or cull her male offspring so it stops.
Edited so as not to confuse, I hope.

Very informative and interesting.....so even if she is wonderfully sweet...she could have an awful son? Might be better to just buy an older cockeral from someone and we already know he is a sweety.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Very interesting....did not know this. Our poor little Roo - his name is Tyson - not for the fighter but for the frozen chicken products, which he will become a frozen chicken product if he does not shape up. He is so pretty though. He gets jealous when we love up his girls, give them treats. The girls will come running to us and it makes him mad. LOL. So after reading my post and then your response....I got to thinking...Ican't keep one of my own chicks anyway for a roo as they would all be related, well at least the one hen would be his mother. All my "ladies" are very tame and nice, if the "nice" gene is passed by mommy then we would get a nice roo out of them.

You can breed mother to son and father to daughter, it's when you start breeding full sisters and brothers that things get yucky...

I just made 2 nasty roos into frozen chicken products today!! LOL Their names were Psycho, and Nugget!

Psycho and Nugget. When I was in 4-H...I used to name my market hogs names like : HAMlet, or Pork Chop, although my champion hog (one year) was named Jinx as he was quite the cuss to work with. A steer I once took was T-bone, etc. You get the idea.

 

[Imp]

Glad to hear that everyone's on the mend. CR, CL and Ogress.

Zgoatlady,
I'll have raspberry starts this spring when they start growing. Rainwolf has already spoken for some, but they keep popping up all season long. I'm sure I'll get a lot as usual. I got mine from Raintree bareroot; I was amazed how well they did. Even the ones that looked like dead sticks grew like weeds. CL is right they can spread and be invasive if you don't keep an eye on them. But I haven't had any trouble keeping them under control for the past 6-7 years or so.

Also if anyone is interested I'm thinking about either relocating or eliminating my thimbleberries. They are a little too invasive for my mixed raised beds. They are a little more difficult to move cause they are more easily broken.

Russ

 

[Chickielady]

We had a freaky incident not long ago today...I always let 1 pen of birds out into the garden, the others get let out into 2 back paddocks, 1 is netted.
So the Blue Ameraucanas are yelling at me so I let them out like usually, they run to the compost for their daily dose of worms...and I went inside.
Jack was laying right there watching everything and he is so good with the birds...he loves for them to come right over and visit him.
He never touches them.
He lays down and sometimes he gets down on his front legs, rump in the air as if to play with another puppy, he loves friends to come visit.
The birds walk all around him, and even go into his dog house.
Jazz, the Blue Ameraucana cock, stands up on the garden box, and oversees all while his hens eat...
And DH was out in the driveway working on a car..I heard Jzz go off...so I always run outside..and hear a weird squak in the woods, far down....like 50 yards or more...so DH & I count heads, One of the blue copper marans that is living with Jazz for OEeggs..is GONE!!
I ran through the woods calling her & told DH to get your gun, he did & I went deeper, sticks I ferns and thick brush..and heard her closer, and DH went up high and said to keep calling her, she is answering..
My heart sunk, when I heard the squack no more.
I kept going, making as much yelling & racket as possible, thinking CAT the whole time...and suddenly her she comes, totally perturbed, and running for her life, and I kept yelling & clapping and suddenly a big hawk flies up off the ground back where she was..............

DH ran & clapped, and the hen casually ran back to Jazz the cock, and they all hauled into the coop.
There are no marks on the hen.
But the first thing she did was RUN to a nest box and lay her big dark chocolate OE egg........
I am thinking she was out there looking to set, and the hawk took advantage.
She must have deliberately ran into the woods, and now I am wondering if it isn't a broody thing...

But she is safe, and unharmed, narry a feather ruffled as far as I could see.
At first I thought she had been taken & got away, but it does not look like she has a scratch on her.
All are in lock down now.
Wheww!!!

This blue copper hen is so gorgeous, I should have entered her, but there is no class for marans yet.......

 

[Chickielady]

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How the heck are you getting all these awards ???

I would love a thimble berry, just one, to put in a big pot...but how do I get one ??

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Scary story. Glad your hen is okay.