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Lynn79 said:
Good to know! It was the only large brown egg I got that was fertile and I was really hoping to hatch it :) They should hatch a week from tomorrow I think. I can't wait!
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Most people in the incubating and hatching forum will tell you the same thing - wax. Any kind of unscented wax candle will probably do.
 
Does anyone have Mallard hatching eggs, or Canada goose eggs?

I promised my nephew something "different" when we found something had attacked his little duck and killed it. There is a lady in Jackson that sells mallard eggs, but NOW she's claiming she won't have any available (when I told her a week ago that I planned to buy them on the 24th).
 
Boy, just did a major change up. The broodies were taking over the nest boxes and someone was also stealing hatching eggs and eating them!......so I am putting all the broodies their own small crates in the garage. They don't do anything anyway but sit on their eggs! That will free up the nests for laying hens plus it will protect the eggs! I am down 3 duck and 2 BO eggs from someone eating them! They don't eat the regular eggs, just the ones the broodies are sitting on. That's weird!

I think I have talked DH into letting me get 3 new chicks. I am getting these chicks for their egg color. I now have several places that are wanting to sell my eggs because they are fun colored. I have too many brown egg layers so I am going to sell 3 chickens who lay brown/pink eggs in order to get the new ones. I will be getting another blue egg layer, a deep green/olive egg layer and maybe another dark dark brown egg layer.

Now that the chickens are free ranging in their big fenced in yard, I have been busy planting grass and flowers! I also think now that my DH no longer has to step in chicken poop on the porch as he comes in, makes him not so angry with me for having 35 chickens! It also doesn't hurt that I sold 7 dozen eggs this week and orders for more. (Only about a third of my chickens are laying right now. Some are just pullet eggs and are really too small to sell, 4 broodies who are, of course, not laying, one still not laying from her molting, and many who are too small to lay yet!)

My friend, who I hatched the GCM for is going to bring me more eggs to hatch next week! Yea! I love hatching eggs, even if they aren't mine!
 
GAFarmGirl87 said:
Dear Lord!! I just got quite a scare a moment ago. Dad came inside to say he found a pile of feathers by the fence that separates our yard from the neighbor's, and that my girls were scattered all over the yard, including over the fence in the woods behind our house. 

I was sure one of my girls was a goner. And I know who to blame - the neighbor's pit bull. Dad said she was hanging around earlier today (though this wasn't mentioned until AFTER the little episode) They don't take care of that dog, they just bred her recently, and she's skinny as a rail right now. She has spent time in our yard many times before. I've nailed her hiney with a pellet gun before, and it appears I must do so again. 

Anyways, after rounding up everyone - which took several minutes (the silly girls got over the fence and couldn't figure out how to get back out again - I found the dog DID NOT kill one of the chickens. THANK GOD! But she took the entire tail off one of my hens, poor girl! That was the pile of feathers we found. I can only assume my awesome roo went into action and nailed that dog - I don't know how else to explain how she got away from that bull dog!

This has never happened before. I let my girls out to free range for an hour or so each afternoon, but only when I am at home. Let's just say I won't be free-ranging the girls for a while without supervision. 
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So glad your girls are okay. Having had a similar situation (excep bad outcome, may I offer a couple suggestions?

1. Thr poor dog is literally starving so she is looking at your girls... Is there any local animal rescue that might foster her if she were confiscated by animal control and report them to the county Humane Society. If they confiscate her then let foster family know sand she can get a good family.

2. If you don't agree with that you can do what we did after we caught a neighbor's dog killing our 25 chickens. I was told it is often best with neighborhood pet situations it is best to use the local animal control to act as a intermediary. We did not want to have the dogs killed or taken away - we just wanted the dogs to be kept 24/7 in a supervised spCe. And that if we caught them at the henhouse we would shoot the dogs. The neighbor never acknowledged the incident (or paid for new chickens) but they have for 10 years kept the dogs in the house or walk then outside. No neighborhood fights and we wave on the road passing each other.

I feel terrible for the chickens but sympathize why the dog went after them.

Good luck with everything!
 
Finally got close enough to one of those nasty things known as a cornish rock, to figure out why we are losing some. It's a bad mite infestation, but only on them (thank goodness). Since my sister bought them with the sole intention of eating them, I am hitting up TSC for some diatomaceous earth tomorrow.

Thankfully, I have been almost obsessive about checking the others, and they are fine. Just never wanted to get my face that close to a CR to look at them.
 
I went to the TSC in Rome today. We don't have a forum member who works there, do we? I was buying DE and shavings and the girl said, "chickens?"

It didn't hit me until I left- she could've been a forum member and I missed it! :lau
 

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