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[Chickielady]

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your getting ride of your Icelandics?????

They are going to and are at Totalcolor's residence now.
She, by the way will be getting rid of several roosters, and you mentioned you were interested?
Contact her here.

 

[jbear]

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Poor CR.... you can't find your Christmas Victoria's Secret catalog?

 

[Chickielady]

New Turquoisey OE egg (on the right) from Mom OE (on the left)
Mom was blue am X Cuckoo Marans, and bred back to a Wheaten Am produced the turquoisy green egg on the right.

Eggs!
All my birds are finally laying!!!!!!!!

 

[jbear]

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nice!
I got TWO eggs from my slackers this afternoon.

 

[Chickielady]

Better color?

and this bowl:

and this bowl:

where you can see an OE deep in there...
all in all, that was Sunday's collection of 42 eggs, half from Saturday as we got home too late to collect.
Since then, 24 eggs a day.
There are still 4 Ams (blue egg layers) that are not out of moult & laying yet

 

[hallerlake]

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We got a locking mailbox, and hubby cemented it into the ground after someone stole the previous mailbox. They were however, nice enough to leave the mail on our doorstep.

We went to the metal 'dump' in Elma a few weeks ago to drop off some metal DH had collected, and watched a few guys in a PU come in behind us with an entire PU load of mailboxes.
I had to laugh, they all had addresses still on them!
Somewhere they stole all those mailboxes & turned them in for scrap metal.

Or they installed the locked mail box blocks like I have in my neighborhood, and were recycling the old boxes.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

I know some folks here use the excelsior for nesting material, EggCartons.com has bales of the stuff on sale for $12.95 in their clearance section right now.

 

[Chickielady]

A freak accident.
A diferent cockeral got into the wrong pen while we had Mr Java at the show.
And there was still 5 java pullets & 1 hen in the Java pen.
The oldest, a 1 1/2 yr old hen, was screaming when we got home, under the coop.
DH ran to see what was up & we caught her & put the stray cockeral back in his pen.
The Cockeral had stood over the obedient squating hen & torn out all her back feathers & repeatedly pecked her to hamburger.
She had several 1" gashes exposing meat...and hundreds of pokes through her skin.
The invading cockeral even tore a point off her comb!

I washed her & debrided with Betadyne.and cleaned all the soil out of her wounds.
Then I sutured 3 stitches on the one gash shown, and another on her other side.
Then slathered her in triple antibiotic & cut off a sweat shirt arm for a sweater..figured to both keep dirt off, let air in & keep her warm.
No antibiotics.
Today I looked at her back & it has risen to bruises as which will happen the day after..and she is black & blue but happy & active and such a love.
Such a super sweet Java hen!

her sweat shirt:

her name is little girl.
Will keep ya posted on her recovery.

Still have no idea why he attacked her unless (being the oldest) she was defending the flock in the Java Cockeral's absence (he was at the show)

I have never seen this happen before, ever.
CR said he had a cockeral attack a silky hen last year..wonder why it happens?

 

[Chickielady]

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We went to the metal 'dump' in Elma a few weeks ago to drop off some metal DH had collected, and watched a few guys in a PU come in behind us with an entire PU load of mailboxes.
I had to laugh, they all had addresses still on them!
Somewhere they stole all those mailboxes & turned them in for scrap metal.

Or they installed the locked mail box blocks like I have in my neighborhood, and were recycling the old boxes.

That is probably what happened!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Chickielady, the poor hen!

I hope she recovers nicely.

And I envy your beautiful baskets of eggs!