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Cknldy said:
you could prop up 2x6 or 1x8 boards around their area. That might give you a couple of weeks to get something else lined up. Old Butch is just hilarious!
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Well, I have poultry wiring. And I don't have spare boards to put up. But I'll get to it before they really wander away from their mommy and leave the pen. The bigger concern is night time anyway, but I'm quite sure they'll be safe inside of the nest box - which sits inside of a dog house, too far from predators to even reach through and access.
 
FYI:
Tractor Supply has a new location opening up down in the TOWN of Forsyth (Monroe County, between Atlanta and Macon). They were apparently supposed to open this coming weekend, but were pushed to go ahead and open last weekend. HOWEVER, their grand opening is still THIS weekend.

Sales for the grand opening start TOMORROW, Thursday, June 19th. Lucky me, tomorrow is also payday! But if anyone needs to stock up on anything, get more supplies, whatever, this weekend is a good opportunity to check it out. Those of you in the general area (including Griffin, High Falls, Forsyth, and even parts of Macon) should probably check it out. I have no idea what the sales are going to be, but I know grand openings are usually pretty good. And yes, I plan to be there at some point, spending my paycheck!
 
i am soooo lucky. I ordered 10 chicks 5 white leghorns and 5 rhode island reds and in the leg horns, they are two roosters and in the rhode island reds there is one rooster yes
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So I came home from work to find my second egg. Not sure who is laying it, but she managed to get into the house this time. However she laid it in the corner on the hardware cloth instead of in the box. I crawled in and got it and put it in the box and moved the golf balls which were in it to the other box.

My question is how long after laying can I safely keep the egg in the box. I'm sure it will help her get it if I can keep moving the egg she lays to the box, but I don't want the eggs to go bad.
 
pr0wlunwoof said:
So I came home from work to find my second egg. Not sure who is laying it, but she managed to get into the house this time. However she laid it in the corner on the hardware cloth instead of in the box. I crawled in and got it and put it in the box and moved the golf balls which were in it to the other box.

My question is how long after laying can I safely keep the egg in the box. I'm sure it will help her get it if I can keep moving the egg she lays to the box, but I don't want the eggs to go bad.
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Leave the golf balls in there, and remove the egg. She'll get the idea with the golf balls within her next few eggs laid. But her eggs don't look any different than the golf balls, to her. So no need to use the egg itself.
 
Hello all I lost one of my blue Cochins this morning I was wondering if anybody had any for sale if so pm me thanks
 
Well I just went out to feed some bread that was no longer worth me eating to them. I witnessed my Australorp giving the business to the second Cornish rock hen. So far he has bred with both of the Cornish rock hens. Guess he is gonna stick around for a while. Time to start my genetic cross breeding chicken experiment to take over the world.
 
Blue Roo said:
Hello all I lost one of my blue Cochins this morning I was wondering if anybody had any for sale if so pm me thanks
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Unfortunately, that's one of the colors I was trying for with my McMurray Hatchery order. But all I have left is a splash pullet, and a silver-laced... but not sure of the sex. Plus the silver laced is half the size of the splash, even though they are the same age, and both of them are only about 10 weeks old anyway, so no where near ready to breed!
 
I mentioned before that I bought 12 silkie eggs from a BYC user and waited three weeks to get them. I actually got 14 in the shipment, but only TWO hatched. One is a partridge, and the other is white.

Well, out of those two that hatched, both are still doing good, but they BOTH ended up being sizzles. So they both have curling feathers (even though their feathers stay soft like a silkie).


That's bad because you don't usually want to breed two frizzles together. Although I have no clue if these are even male or female, either. But if they end up being a pair, breeding them together could cause more problems with their feathers than I want to deal with. While I'm not too worried about keeping a double-dose frizzle hen from the cochins, I wasn't planning on even really getting into sizzles. I just wanted to outcross my own silkies - which I have since lost to predators.

So while I got the good news of finding out my Royal Palm turkey poults are a pair, I got the bad news of both silkie chicks developing curled feathers.
 

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