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[LittleLakePhil]

you’d laugh at my cartons then. Serama eggs take 6-8 to make a good omelet. But they still work!
My call duck eggs are some of the biggest eggs I get!
(The cream legbars and the Marans lay bigger)

I've seen your little chickens..... They are awesome

 

[Shadrach]

I eat eggs. I even eat the occasional chicken. It's been one of the most difficult decisions I've had to make. I would like any hen that wants to, to be able to sit and hatch. Of course, 50% of the clutch are likely to be roosters. I can only house so many chickens and more than two males per group tend to cause problems in the long term.
I limit the number of eggs in a clutch but even then and with predation, the population grows.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I eat eggs. I even eat the occasional chicken. It's been one of the most difficult decisions I've had to make. I would like any hen that wants to, to be able to sit and hatch. Of course, 50% of the clutch are likely to be roosters. I can only house so many chickens and more than two males per group tend to cause problems in the long term.
I limit the number of eggs in a clutch but even then and with predation, the population grows.

We eat the eggs and any birds I dont need that dont sell..
I like hatching but prefer to let my hens do it if I have broodies ..

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I eat eggs. I even eat the occasional chicken. It's been one of the most difficult decisions I've had to make. I would like any hen that wants to, to be able to sit and hatch. Of course, 50% of the clutch are likely to be roosters. I can only house so many chickens and more than two males per group tend to cause problems in the long term.
I limit the number of eggs in a clutch but even then and with predation, the population grows.

I don't mind eating eggs...I just don't like them that much.... That often.
I would eat my chickens but I don't think I could get past the black meat..... If I had normal chickens I'd be all over it.
I might pick some normal chickens up this spring.

 

[Shadrach]

We eat the eggs and any birds I dont need that dont sell..
I like hatching but prefer to let my hens do it if I have broodies ..

Come Spring all the hens want to sit. It's a nightmare.
With two I have to take their eggs away because they are baby killers.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Come Spring all the hens want to sit. It's a nightmare.
With two I have to take their eggs away because they are baby killers.

No doubt.. it gets that way in late spring, early summer for me.
Chick killers are NOT good!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Its finally up to 42° inside! And the stove is rolling...

 

[kwhites634]

Oh, I wasn’t planning on leaving the Pond! (But it’s nice to know I’d be missed. ) I’ll just have more time between Christmas and spring to read other posts and get myself in trouble by answering some.

"Oh, what a relief it is", just like Alka Selzer

 

[Shadrach]

No doubt.. it gets that way in late spring, early summer for me.
Chick killers are NOT good!

They can't help it. Strangely both are very good sitters, they get up every day to wash,eat and drink. They both defend their nests well and even more importantly, set their clutches in the coops. But, when the chicks arrive they throw them around and peck them to death.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

They can't help it. Strangely both are very good sitters, they get up every day to wash,eat and drink. They both defend their nests well and even more importantly, set their clutches in the coops. But, when the chicks arrive they throw them around and peck them to death.

Oh dear.. could you pull the chicks and brood them in a brooder? Or is it more of a let nature take its course thing?