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What is going on with my girls! I have orders for eggs and today I only have 6 eggs so far, and 2 are pullet size eggs I can't sell! I was hoping for the usual 14! Are they just loving the weather too much to go inside to lay an egg?!?
 
Flower did you get those from a lady in Cumming? Those look similar to what I wanted off a craigslist post the other day :) Love all the colors!
 
Sorry was out all day, the three meds the vet gave me are Neovit powder said to use first for 3 days as antibiotic, then Cevac Uni L give for 2 hours on fasting chickens. Then a bi monthly Solvent Vac.Bt.BCI said to mix and give every two weeks.
I mentioned them to my sil and she said her brother was told to not eat eggs of chicken while on the first med, is this correct? Vet didnt tell me about this but she was told mine are babies. I want to check tomorrow these meds online but was busy today. Going to see a house tomorrow so im praying I find one soon.
 
ChickDancer said:
So I just went outside and heard a loud chicken "yelp" sound - like that of a hen who was surprisingly grabbed by a rooster. Only problem is, it came from the woods, and my only free-ranging roo was in eyesight, no where near the sound. Two of his hens were with him, with Brownie being the only missing one.

So I followed it, and a few minutes later found Brownie safe and sound. Maybe she just saw something, or a tree limb fell in the woods (some are still weak and dangling from the ice storm in February) and scared her. I went looking around just to be sure though, and came into the neighbor's property where he has two pole barns full of junk. Everything from broken lawnmowers to 15 shovels in various stages of rust and decay are in there - lots of cinder blocks, car tires, a lobster trap, old fridge, you name it, he's got it stuffed under there.

Since I was there, I decided to check a popular egg-laying spot that the hens used last summer. It consists of two cinder blocks laying parallel beside a broken-down and rusted-out riding lawmower, and a tire leaning against the cinder blocks/ And sure enough, it was full! I had finally found Karmel's laying spot!

BUT there was something really odd about it. I checked it last about 2-3 weeks ago, and didn't see anything. It's not surprising that I found something, since I have three free-ranging hens right now. But what IS surprising is that two of those hens lay green eggs, one lays brown, and their little nest had green, brown.... and WHITE eggs! I have no fricking clue WHO put the white eggs in there. I did lose one Sumatra hen a couple of days ago, but she's not "lost", she died. A predator tried to pull her through the fence of her enclosure, and then took off with her head, leaving her body behind. So I'm PRETTY darn sure it's not hers!

But plainly put, there is no free-ranging hen that lays white eggs, and there hasn't been one for about 3 months. There's no way any of my hens laid these white eggs. They're also too small for my current free-ranging hens - they all lay very large eggs, and these are slightly smaller.

There are only three of them too. But I'm going to incubate them and see what happens. My secondary incubator just went into the dish washer to get cleaned up for it. Then I'm going to mark all of these, and see what I get from the white ones!

My luck is, some wild duck has moved into the pond down the street, or in the creek that runs under the road a little further down, and thought my neighbor's junky pole barns would work for their eggs, too. But I'm betting my chickens probably ran the duck out (Brownie is hell on eight claws within the area she deems HER territory), and it probably won't be back now.
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Can't wait to read how this turns out! LOL
 
Lynn79 said:
Flower did you get those from a lady in Cumming? Those look similar to what I wanted off a craigslist post the other day :) Love all the colors
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Yes, her name is Ann and I have talked to her several times. She doesn't sell chicks until they are at least a week old so that she can make sure they are healthy. She also vaccinates them. She sexes the chickens for you so you get want. She also uses Gro-gel to get the chicks off to a great start. She bands each chick as they hatch to make sure you get the kind of chick/eggs you want. I am excited about these little babies and the eggs I am going to incubate!
 

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