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[Fields Mountain Farm]

I couldn't fly over a fence anymore either...I'd just hurt my hip,back,knees...Lol y'all get the point.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Maybe it wasn't fertile or she could have cracked it turning it . They will consume the egg shell and all .

I was looking at bust for Chris and missed some post

It must've cracked, there was a small chick in it. Nothing's left of it and she's still on the other eggs so I'm just gonna let her be.

 

[Pork Pie]

Have another pork pie, Chris...

If you insist

 

[DwayneNLiz]

No, she surprised me in the middle of January, up in the attic of Dh's shed, with 5 newly hatched chicks. Moved them to the pen she's in now and they did great.
Didn't notice any broken eggs when I moved her but....:/

i have seen hens eat bad eggs, whether infertile or early death
but other times the hen will leave them and let them explode on all the others

Why do you guys make everything I say sound so......

you make it rather easy, just be ready for it

 

[BYC910]

Their mama could rip me to peices. Dad has seen sows break through wooden fences to get at someone who made their piglets scream

If they trust you and are gentle they aren't bad to be around . We lost more pigs to the sow s than anything . and always were hands on for farrowing. But I have seen dogs hurt dad by sows .

Round and deep.

that's why I say 8 .

8 would be nice but I'll keep my expectations low.

Give her a good nesting place with deep straw . That's what we always did and we also used farrowing crates for the big sows .those save a lot of pigs . Are you going to snip the eye teeth so they don't grow tusks ? I don't think anybody cuts the tails anymore .

I know nothing bout pigs, except they can be down right mean. One chased me once when I was 13 just for admiring her piglets.lol I flew over that fence like I thought I could really fly. I couldn't and the landing was rough!lol

Tusks can be razor sharp . better to hit hard ground than be ripped to pieces

OMG...the biggest one has got to be a cross dresser!

Well it is a queen

Why do you guys make everything I say sound so......

Poor Dan look on the bright side Dan . If you can take us you can take anybody .

 

[Pork Pie]

you make it rather easy, just be ready for it

Yeah - Dan's Eggsy in drag

 

[Pork Pie]

I don't think anybody cuts the tails anymore .

evidently it was all the rage when I was young

 

[dan26552]

If they trust you and are gentle they aren't bad to be around . We lost more pigs to the sow s than anything . and always were hands on for farrowing. But I have seen dogs hurt dad by sows .

that's why I say 8 .

Give her a good nesting place with deep straw . That's what we always did and we also used farrowing crates for the big sows .those save a lot of pigs . Are you going to snip the eye teeth so they don't grow tusks ? I don't think anybody cuts the tails anymore .

Tusks can be razor sharp . better to hit hard ground than be ripped to pieces

Well it is a queen



Poor Dan look on the bright side Dan . If you can take us you can take anybody .

Well I've raised them since they were eight weeks old so they should trust me though I think I'll stay on the cautious side the first week or so. Piggy is real gentle but Mig (the one who's due next week) can be a bit of a handful sometimes. She's never really been aggressive but she can be moody when she cycles. I didn't know you used to do pigs. She's got a hut that's 6x5 that's got a foot or so of leaves and pine straw.

any number under 14 is fine by me.

I think we will, we'll probably have my dads friend who loaned us the boar come by and show us how to castrate the boys too.

I got piglets from a commercial place last year and they cut the tails but I haven't found anyone else who does it and I really doubt we'll do it, don't really have a reason to.


That's true!

 

[BYC910]

I'm sitting here waiting for the refrigerator repair man to come put parts in can't leave the house Waiting for him to call . I got things to do and he's holding me up .No defiant time just sometime between 8 & 5 . . Just looked outside and saw the groundhog and don't have my rifle . Sure as I start doing something he'll call .

 

[WVduckchick]

i have seen hens eat bad eggs, whether infertile or early death
but other times the hen will leave them and let them explode on all the others

you make it rather easy, just be ready for it

Last summer when Dragon Juice hatched her ducklings, 3 days before they were due, I found an egg in the pool. Almost no shell, but membrane was intact. Duckling was dead of course, but almost fully formed. I was amazed that it was in the pool (up and over rocks, 14" climb and back down the other side!) I never was positive what had happened... until this time.

Yesterday, I had the other ducks locked up and Juice is not in the same area with them now. We have a drain that goes underground about 50 feet, from a gutter/down-spout off the house. It normally just soaks into the yard. Well the ducks have started using it to drink/bathe. Anyway, yesterday I found a duck egg in it, broken open, mostly eaten or leaked out. Looked like it was just an infertile one that she had been cooking for 3 weeks. Walked over to check on her and found another one, just a few feet from her nest, it was broken, so I think she couldn't roll it any further. It was creamy yellow inside and stank! She is disposing of the bad ones.