YO GEORGIANS! :)

[ameliadanielle]

They are like my babies. They have just raised too many babies of their own. I only let ONE hen be broody at a time. If it was my choice I'd keep them all. But we have a limited amount of space. Also from Spring break until after school starts is the slow season at our business. So money is limited in the summer too. They eat too much. Lol. So we're just going to keep our EEs, Turkens, and bantams. Everyone else has to go. I originally was going to sell the babies we hatched out. Then I would get attached to every single one of them. They stayed. Lol. Last time the babies I sold, I sold them at a few days old. Before my husband or daughter named them and claimed them to keep.

 

[ameliadanielle]

How much do people normally sell 16 month old hens and point of lay pullets? I had the older hens priced at $10 for the red stars and $15 for the other breeds. I priced my point of lay pullets at $20. My extra roos at $5. No takers.

 

[Flowerbh]

How much do people normally sell 16 month old hens and point of lay pullets? I had the older hens priced at $10 for the red stars and $15 for the other breeds. I priced my point of lay pullets at $20. My extra roos at $5. No takers.

I can't believe you didn't have any takers! I am asked all the time for hens. I just don't want to sell my active egg layers and I won't sell someone an old non laying chicken if they are looking for egg layers. I sell any young egg layers or POL for $20.

About your extra eggs. When I have eggs that break or are funny shaped, I scrabble them up and feed them back to the chickens. Good protein for them.

 

[Lady Who]

I had a chicken that never laid an egg but her personality made up for it. Her "sister" lays maybe once a week and is the best shoulder bird ever

 

[ameliadanielle]

I can't believe you didn't have any takers!  I am asked all the time for hens.  I just don't want to sell my active egg layers and I won't sell someone an old non laying chicken if they are looking for egg layers.  I sell any young egg layers or POL for $20. 

About your extra eggs.  When I have eggs that break or are funny shaped, I scrabble them up and feed them back to the chickens.  Good protein for them.

We do that too. We have been experimenting though, as our great pyrenees is a great chicken guardian... but eggs are fair game. We have tried everything to get her to quit eating the eggs. Even going to great lengths to invent places for the chickens to lay that she can't fit her big head into, but she's smart and she'll use her paws to roll them out to eat them.

So we're going to see if giving her some eggs every day will make her stop seeing them as a special treat. Lol. If they're available to her... maybe she'll quit getting into the eggs I don't want her eating. Like... from underneath my broodies.

 

[ameliadanielle]

Our chicken who rarely laid and was also a silkie that would not go broody was our pet. Specifically my husbands pet. Ironically even though in a year she had only laid 3 eggs, she died from being egg bound of all things.

 

[Paymaster]

We do that too. We have been experimenting though, as our great pyrenees is a great chicken guardian... but eggs are fair game. We have tried everything to get her to quit eating the eggs. Even going to great lengths to invent places for the chickens to lay that she can't fit her big head into, but she's smart and she'll use her paws to roll them out to eat them.

So we're going to see if giving her some eggs every day will make her stop seeing them as a special treat. Lol. If they're available to her... maybe she'll quit getting into the eggs I don't want her eating. Like... from underneath my broodies.

I was raised on a farm and we could never break an egg sucking dog. We always ended up giving the dogs away to someone without chickens.

 

[PapaChaz]

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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carcar, google how to make a 5 gallon bucket water trap, pretty simple really. although with that trap above you could just set it off in the pond and when they die, empty into a garbage bag and take off with the trash

 

[carcar80]

carcar, google how to make a 5 gallon bucket water trap, pretty simple really. although with that trap above you could just set it off in the pond and when they die, empty into a garbage bag and take off with the trash

We have a water trap out there but need more large-scale. We don't have enough places to put the water traps that the cats wouldn't just lick the bait off. In fact even the one where it is now is iffy.

Apparently that trap comes with a box that *happens* to be water-tight for easy submerg- er, storage.

 

[katsdar]

I have 2 dogs that get my eggs. I just decided to let them have em, or I try to beat them to the eggs, Chickens seem to for the most part lay where they are supposed to but then some just seem to drop them where they stand.