YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

Worming laying hens?

And, GO.

Rooster Booster Triple Action wormer says there is no egg withdrawal time on egg layers. Mix the entire can in 50 lbs of feed and feed them until feed is gone (4-5 days) Amazon has it.

Also, found a wormer that is suppose to kill all internal parasites in chickens. But, you have to put one or two drops of the stuff in the chickens mouth. Supposedly only one day egg withdrawal. It's called Worminator and it's made in England. You can find it at Hake's Twin City Poultry Supply. www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/store I got some at the Newnam Poultry show. I haven't used it yet because I had just used the Rooster Booster One.

 

[carcar80]

Hi. It's me the silent room stalker. I've been afraid to say anything and jinx my chances. A few of you might recall I was previously whining about the sudden lack of humidity control in my Styrofoam genesis incubator. I played with it and reset for test purposes some eggs from my Mottled Cochin pen that I knew had a high fertility rate. I set an even dozen one day and 4 more 3 days later. at day five 2 of the original set were not fertile. Total set 14. I had one hatch last night about 9:30pm and woke up to a total of 7 baby Mottled Cochins stumbling around getting their strength. An 8th is almost out now. I think in my old house the internal humidity level was just fluctuating too much with our weather changes. Since the days have gotten more or less steady so has my incubator humidity. I have not had any drops as in my previous hatch. Everyone looks happy and strong with no apparent issues.

Now comes the um what now as I have (Thanks again Cliff) 11 babies including 3 runner ducks and 3 Blue Copper Maran's from my last hatch (ebay babies). Their new place will be done tomorrow for them to move in to as the chicks are all feathered out. Wow now am blessed with possibly 14 new baby Mottled Cochins e  

Where are the pics of your Cochins (babies AND parents!) ?? I haven't seen any!

Rooster Booster Triple Action wormer says there is no egg withdrawal time on egg layers.  Mix the entire can in 50 lbs of feed and feed them until feed is gone (4-5 days)  Amazon has it. 

Also, found a wormer that is suppose to kill all internal parasites in chickens.  But, you have to put one or two drops of the stuff in the chickens mouth.   Supposedly only one day egg withdrawal. It's called Worminator and it's made in England.  You can find it at Hake's Twin City Poultry Supply.  www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/store   I got some at the Newnam Poultry show.  I haven't used it yet because I had just used the Rooster Booster One. 

Thanks!! I will def look into these. I do wonder though, how are my birds supposed to eat 50lbs of feed in four days??

 

[Flowerbh]

Where are the pics of your Cochins (babies AND parents!) ?? I haven't seen any!

Thanks!! I will def look into these. I do wonder though, how are my birds supposed to eat 50lbs of feed in four days??

Hahaha! I forgot you don't have the herd I do! Mine actually ate it all in less than 4 days! But, you could just add what it says per chicken.

 

[Flowerbh]

So, did you guys see the headlines BYC? What do you think? There is a huge debate over this! Look at the thread!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE​

SAN FRANCISCO, California - For hundreds of years chicken breeders have excitedly worked towards developing chicken breeds that lay a specific unique egg color. Today we're excited to announce the development of a type of feed that can change a white egg-layer's egg-shell color to one of 4 (four) different colors: dark brown, pale green, pale pink, or pale blue.

"We have thousands of amazingly passionate chicken owners on our community forum that wish they could have a more colorful egg basket", said Rob Ludlow, owner of www.BackYardChickens.com. "They just want to get a bit more variety from their nest boxes, but aren't sure which breeds to get or which color eggs they will end up preferring. After years of testing and development, and thousands of trials, we've finally found a solution to this problem, and we're excited to release the news!"

Background: Egg yolk color can be controlled to some extend by chickens' diet. The question then became: "Is it possible to take that a step further and also change the egg's shell color?!" After posing this question to a handful of avian experts that specialize in chicken egg development, BYC management approached a well known feed company with the challenge to develop a feed that will, over time, change a white egg-shell laying hen and transition them into laying one of four predetermined colors.

After years of trials and testing, a recently documented set of 500 White Leghorn hens were separated into the following groups of 100 hens:

1. Group 1: Control Group - Fed a non-adjusted version of the feed
2. Group 2: Dark Brown Group - Fed the Dark Brown version of the feed
3. Group 3: Pale Green Group - Fed the Pale Green version of the feed
4. Group 4: Pale Pink Group - Fed the Pale Pink version of the feed
5. Group 4: Pale Blue Group - Fed the Pale Blue version of the feed

Each group was fed this feed exclusively for a period of 6 weeks. The change in egg shell color was gradual and the examples shown below are from hens that have been fed this feed for 2 months.

(The examples shown below are from the White Leghorn hens from the groups mentioned above.)

Additional details on the product will be posted in a follow-up release tomorrow. We anticipated some of these questions, so here are the topics that will be discussed in detail tomorrow:

1. Which company is BYC partnering with?
2. When will this feed be available?
3. Is the feed safe?
4. How does the feed change the egg-shell color?
5. Is the feed organic?
6. How long will it take for my white egg-laying hen to return to white eggs after I stop feeding this special feed?
7. What happens if I feed the egg-changing color to a non-white egg-laying hen?

Again, these questions, and others, will be answered in detail tomorrow. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to post them as replies to this thread!

YOUR HELP NEEDED: We're looking for a good name for this product and the feed company wants our BYC Members to propose some names. The lucky member(s) who have their suggested name(s) chosen, will receive 5 free 20lbs bags of feed, plenty to convert your white egg-layers into a color of your choice! Please reply to this thread with your proposed product name and also any questions/comments you may

 

[carcar80]

How many birds do you HAVE!?

I switched from horses to chickens to save $$.. In your case, horses WOULDbe cheaper.

 

[OohLaLa]

Tell me about it. I'm at 11 babies and 5 due to hatch next week.Thank goodness Henry County allows 4 birds. Who even does that? 4? Really?

The only person who has 4 is a person who just stepped out of the feed and grain and only got 4 because that is all that would fit in their carry home box.

 

[Flowerbh]

How many birds do you HAVE!?

I switched from horses to chickens to save $$.. In your case, horses WOULDbe cheaper.

Can't remember! The number keeps changing as I buy and sell, but at least 34 in the big coop. There are 6 juveniles: Golden Cuckoo Marans, Delaware, Welsummer, 2 EEs, and a BO. Then, there are about 15 2 week old babies some I ordered with JoshFig. They include 2 Polish, 2 Speckled Sussex, 1 SLW, 2 Black Minorcas, a RIR, a Golden Comet, 2 more EEs, and a bunch of my Naked Necks and a Swedish Flower mix.

 

[Flowerbh]

The only person who has 4 is a person who just stepped out of the feed and grain and only got 4 because that is all that would fit in their carry home box.

You can't even buy 4 at TS, you have to get at least 6!

 

[CliffB]

So, did you guys see the headlines BYC? What do you think? There is a huge debate over this! Look at the thread!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE​

SAN FRANCISCO, California - For hundreds of years chicken breeders have excitedly worked towards developing chicken breeds that lay a specific unique egg color. Today we're excited to announce the development of a type of feed that can change a white egg-layer's egg-shell color to one of 4 (four) different colors: dark brown, pale green, pale pink, or pale blue.

"We have thousands of amazingly passionate chicken owners on our community forum that wish they could have a more colorful egg basket", said Rob Ludlow, owner of www.BackYardChickens.com. "They just want to get a bit more variety from their nest boxes, but aren't sure which breeds to get or which color eggs they will end up preferring. After years of testing and development, and thousands of trials, we've finally found a solution to this problem, and we're excited to release the news!"

Background: Egg yolk color can be controlled to some extend by chickens' diet. The question then became: "Is it possible to take that a step further and also change the egg's shell color?!" After posing this question to a handful of avian experts that specialize in chicken egg development, BYC management approached a well known feed company with the challenge to develop a feed that will, over time, change a white egg-shell laying hen and transition them into laying one of four predetermined colors.

After years of trials and testing, a recently documented set of 500 White Leghorn hens were separated into the following groups of 100 hens:

1. Group 1: Control Group - Fed a non-adjusted version of the feed
2. Group 2: Dark Brown Group - Fed the Dark Brown version of the feed
3. Group 3: Pale Green Group - Fed the Pale Green version of the feed
4. Group 4: Pale Pink Group - Fed the Pale Pink version of the feed
5. Group 4: Pale Blue Group - Fed the Pale Blue version of the feed

Each group was fed this feed exclusively for a period of 6 weeks. The change in egg shell color was gradual and the examples shown below are from hens that have been fed this feed for 2 months.

(The examples shown below are from the White Leghorn hens from the groups mentioned above.)

Additional details on the product will be posted in a follow-up release tomorrow. We anticipated some of these questions, so here are the topics that will be discussed in detail tomorrow:

1. Which company is BYC partnering with?
2. When will this feed be available?
3. Is the feed safe?
4. How does the feed change the egg-shell color?
5. Is the feed organic?
6. How long will it take for my white egg-laying hen to return to white eggs after I stop feeding this special feed?
7. What happens if I feed the egg-changing color to a non-white egg-laying hen?

Again, these questions, and others, will be answered in detail tomorrow. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to post them as replies to this thread!

YOUR HELP NEEDED: We're looking for a good name for this product and the feed company wants our BYC Members to propose some names. The lucky member(s) who have their suggested name(s) chosen, will receive 5 free 20lbs bags of feed, plenty to convert your white egg-layers into a color of your choice! Please reply to this thread with your proposed product name and also any questions/comments you may

Believe nothing on April 1st.

 

[CliffB]

The only person who has 4 is a person who just stepped out of the feed and grain and only got 4 because that is all that would fit in their carry home box.

I find that number to be ridiculous. One thing i have noticed however is the Backyard Chicken Ordinance is specifically that. Chickens. The ordinance at no point mentions a limit to ducks.