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Flowerbh said:
Farmers Market today was really really slow. Almost no vendors. The ones there said it has been so hot and dry their produce has suffered and they don't have enough to sell. I managed to sell 6 dozen eggs in less than 2 hours. Then, DH wanted to go get pizza and beer so we didn't stay the whole time. That's ok.

Have a guy coming to get a few chicks to put in with his newly hatched turkeys to show them how to eat and drink. Turkeys are not very bright.

Still have about 20 chicks to sell. Have put the incubator up for a while. Still have 5 baby ducks for sale. About a month old! Had some calls, but no takers! Ugh! DH says I'm never allowed to hatch ducks again because nobody wants them!
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What do you guys do with your older hens? Mine are pets and I hate to do it, but I need to sell some of them! Too many! Too much food! No eggs! There are probably 50 chickens in the big coop and I'm only getting 10-18 eggs a day! Of course, about a 1/3 of them are still too young, but about 30 others are either too old or taking a break! That's ridiculous!
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and it's blackberry season, so you could roll up some extra dough and make cobbler for dessert......



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I have a couple of Mille Fleur d'Uccle roosters I need to rehome. I wound up with 3 boys and 3 girls. I need to rehome 2 of these little guys. They're quite handsome, and they make the coolest sounds of any breed I've ever had. Very vocal and very curious whenever I'm in the coop with them. They were hatched Jan 23rd, and they're all crowing






on another note, I found a mouse nest and a LOT of droppings in my coop. I've been meaning to set a trap, well, tonight the lil bugger did me a favor and caught hisself tryin to get in through the hardware cloth partition...........He got a free trip home to meet his maker

 
Flowerbh said:
Are you suggesting that I EAT my babies?!?!?!?
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Sell them to the Mexican's they will eat them, or keep them, they have earned a spot in the retirement home. I don't eat my chickens either but the turkey's that is a different story.

carcar80 said:
I have found the rat trap I believe we are going to use. I'm already nauseous thinking of what our catch number could get up to.. Has anyone used this one? And in general, what would one do with all the rats? (This says you drown them but even after that..)



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I don't know if I could drown them, I'd rather shoot them not sure how you would do that with them in the trap. or put poison in there and wait for them to die. Then throw them away. but after a while the rats get smart to the trap if it has poison in it, have you thought of putting jar lids with coke in it around where they go? Rats and mice will drink the coke and then they can't pass gas and blow up and die, but after a while that doesn't work they get smart to that too, but it does work.
 
katsdar said:
Sell them to the Mexican's they will eat them, or keep them, they have earned a spot in the retirement home.  I don't eat my chickens either but the turkey's that is a different story.

I don't know if I could drown them, I'd rather shoot them not sure how you would do that with them in the trap. or put poison in there and wait for them to die.  Then throw them away. but after a while the rats get smart to the trap if it has poison in it, have you thought of putting jar lids with coke in it around where they go?  Rats and mice will drink the coke and then they can't pass gas and blow up and die, but after a while that doesn't work they get smart to that too, but it does work.
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Well, I'm trying to AVOID using poison, although hubby did set out a small bait station last night. I'm super nervous about it though. So I found this this AM and showed him.

I've never heard of the coke thing. Seems like it would go flat quickly..
 
I heard the awful noise this morning, was looking for the hurt bird, no it was a roo trying to crow, one of my boy is getting to be a big boy. My broody hen hatched her one and only chick, that is all I would let her have, it's so cute black, yellow underbelly, face and. the best of all feathered feet, soooooo cute
 
carcar80 said:
Well, I'm trying to AVOID using poison, although hubby did set out a small bait station last night. I'm super nervous about it though. So I found this this AM and showed him.

I've never heard of the coke thing. Seems like it would go flat quickly..
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I figured you were being cautious with the poison, that is why I suggested using it in the trap, chickens then shouldn't be able to get to it or the dead rat, Naval base over seas had a terrible problem with rats, and they put out lids with coke in it to help control the problem, they put new coke in every few days but after a while the rats did get smart to the drink. cause they go back home and die, so you switch back and forth.
 
Flowerbh said:
Farmers Market today was really really slow.  Almost no vendors.  The ones there said it has been so hot and dry their produce has suffered and they don't have enough to sell.  I managed to sell 6 dozen eggs in less than 2 hours.  Then, DH wanted to go get pizza and beer so we didn't stay the whole time.  That's ok. 

Have a guy coming to get a few chicks to put in with his newly hatched turkeys to show them how to eat and drink.   Turkeys are not very bright. 

Still have about 20 chicks to sell.  Have put the incubator up for a while.  Still have 5 baby ducks for sale.  About a month old!  Had some calls, but no takers!  Ugh!  DH says I'm never allowed to hatch ducks again because nobody wants them!  :(

What do you guys do with your older hens?  Mine are pets and I hate to do it, but I need to sell some of them!  Too many!  Too much food!  No eggs!  There are probably 50 chickens in the big coop and I'm only getting 10-18 eggs a day!  Of course, about a 1/3 of them are still too young, but about 30 others are either too old or taking a break!  That's ridiculous!
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We have put a rooster and a hen in the freezer to later use for crock pot chicken and rice. The rooster had a broken toe that just wouldn't heal and he developed a bumble on his toe where the broken place was and every time we got his toe better he would try to fight our silkie rooster through the wire and would hurt it again. We also had a hen with bumble foot we were unsuccessful in treating and getting to stay healed. We decided it was nicer to just put them out of their misery before the infection possibly spread and made them really sick.

I've finally made a list of chickens to sell... and I've posted them. They've been treated twice for feather lice now and if they sell I will treat them a third time before they go. If they don't sell... we'll be plucking chickens again. I hate to... but it's just too many to treat if anything happens to all of them, too many to feed, and we get so many eggs we can't even eat them all and now that eggs are cheap again we don't have people coming around for free eggs anymore. We end up tossing a lot of them... or feeding them to our egg eating dog.
 

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