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Flowerbh said:
Well, you are lucky.  My hens are just not laying.....even the newbies!  So annoying!  I sell my eggs at the Farmers Market to get $$ for their feed, and I'm only getting like 6-8 eggs a day!  And, there are about 30+ hens out there who are old enough to lay!
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Still waiting on mine to lay too! I've got 1 pullet that started squatting, but no newbie eggs yet! I've got 16 hens and pullets total, plus 4 roos and a chick and I'm only getting about 4-6 eggs a day too! This feed is getting expensive!
 
Flowerbh said:
Well, you are lucky.  My hens are just not laying.....even the newbies!  So annoying!  I sell my eggs at the Farmers Market to get $$ for their feed, and I'm only getting like 6-8 eggs a day!  And, there are about 30+ hens out there who are old enough to lay!
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Last year my new hens started laying right in the heat of the end of July. Laid faithfully. Took a month off in January and started again in February. This year... my new girls are SLACKERS. Took forever for them to start laying. They finally did. Because I've got a load of tiny brown eggs. I think it's the heat this summer. Right now I'm collecting in two days what I was collecting every day back in the spring. My only every day layer right now is my EE hen that is half white leghorn. She lays me a beautiful huge blue egg at least 6 days a week. Everyone else is about every other day now. Even my new girls. Which doesn't bother me. I know when it cools off I will be overloaded again.
 
By now my girls last year were just pumping them out 1 a day. My new girls... they are every other day or every 3 days. Last year I even had a girl that sometimes double laid. Because out of 9 hens I would sometimes collect 10 eggs. None of that this summer.
 
Calling all duck lovers, I need your help,


I have rescued 3 ducks, 2 Peking and 1 mallard well I pick them up tomorrow if I remember right they are maybe close to a year old, maybe not that old, but if you saw where these animals came from you'd cry. Please if you have a pond, let me bring them,or one, or two to your place, I don't have the set up, but could not leave these animals in the situation they are in. I do have one person considering taking them but if that doesn't work out I need a back up.

I also rescued 7 hens and 1 roo, bantam Cochin!! beautiful birds, had to remove the dirt, mess, yuck balls from their toes the size I"m not kidding the size of ping pong balls, my DH had to carefully break them with a pair of pliers, and you can see toes missing from where in the past it must have been left to rot off. I will try to post pics of the chickens tomorrow, oh and another sad part is they have chicks with huge balls stuck on their toes, don't know how they walk, I will try to care for them but the owners will not let them go. They have rabbits and I had to tell them they don't have any water, it is in a small cage, I can't take them, but if anyone would take one I will see if I can get the owner to part with one,two,three,

But on a positive note the chickens are in a nice pen/house and they have a roost off the ground and clean bedding and FOOD and WATER and are not living literally in mud, yes they were kept with the ducks that only had a mud hole to walk in. They seem in good shape, all but one came out into the pen today to see what was going on,
 
Flowerbh said:
Egg count way way down, how about you?
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My RedStar hens are laying 3 eggs a day between the 7. My Dark Cornish all stopped. All My 50/50 Dark Cornish/White Cornish Rock X have stopped. the F2 gen are just now coming onto lay. My only meat hen laying is my 1 1/2 year old 14 pound Murray McMurray white Cornish Roaster hen. Still plunken' down 70 to 75 g eggs 3-4 per week.

Valdosta
 
katsdar said:
Calling all duck lovers, I need your help,


I have rescued 3 ducks, 2 Peking and 1 mallard well I pick them up tomorrow if I remember right they are maybe close to a year old, maybe not that old, but if you saw where these animals came from you'd cry. Please if you have a pond, let me bring them,or one, or two to your place, I don't have the set up, but could not leave these animals in the situation they are in. I do have one person considering taking them but if that doesn't work out I need a back up.

I also rescued 7 hens and 1 roo, bantam Cochin!! beautiful birds, had to remove the dirt, mess, yuck balls from their toes the size I"m not kidding the size of ping pong balls, my DH had to carefully break them with a pair of pliers, and you can see toes missing from where in the past it must have been left to rot off. I will try to post pics of the chickens tomorrow, oh and another sad part is they have chicks with huge balls stuck on their toes, don't know how they walk, I will try to care for them but the owners will not let them go. They have rabbits and I had to tell them they don't have any water, it is in a small cage, I can't take them, but if anyone would take one I will see if I can get the owner to part with one,two,three,

But on a positive note the chickens are in a nice pen/house and they have a roost off the ground and clean bedding and FOOD and WATER and are not living literally in mud, yes they were kept with the ducks that only had a mud hole to walk in. They seem in good shape, all but one came out into the pen today to see what was going on,
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Jason Broome
431 Mathis Road
Rome, GA 30161
P:706-236-4545

It does not say their animal control facility only cares for dogs and cats. Maybe they will see the horrible conditions on this farm and force them to place their animals or get citations for cruelty/neglect. Taking the animals from them leaves a spot for new animals...these kind of folks just want animals. They don't want to care for them. Unfortunately they are farm animals. If raised for food there are few laws protecting them. The Animal Welfare Act does not apply to food animals, but all animals must be treated as humanely as possible. Maybe they can get them on the unsanitary conditions.

Good luck and thank you for caring enough to take action!
 
I'm getting around 2 eggs out of five hens but it's been raining everyday around the time I let them out to get grass that it might be that. (My chickens love grass too)
 
We have mobile pens for the ones in pens. 4x8 ft pens for the bantams and an 8x8 pen for the big ones. I have 4 bantams in each 4x8 and 6 standards in the 8x8. About once a week the grass will be GONE and we just move them to another fresh patch of grass. The good thing is with the chicken poop there... it doesn't take the grass long at all to grow back. Especially if it rains.

I got one silkie egg today. Between my 9 hens able to lay. In the past 36 hours my standards have been in a pen I have gotten 3 eggs from 5 hens. I'm still getting an egg a day from my EE/White Leghorn hen. One great big blue egg, which have unusually thick shells for some reason. The only thing ensuring I'm getting eggs at all right now is I have 9 5 month old hens that just started laying. They are laying better than the year Olds and my 9 month old. Still not an egg a day from them either. The 18 months old are all molting so I'm getting nothing really from them. The EE/Leghorn is also molting but still popping those eggs out. The turkens I could understand I guess as they aren't a production layer. But the the black stars and isa browns? It's got to be this heat. Every time I go outside I just pour sweat. By the time I'm done feeding it looks like I just got out of the shower. Humidity... my hair? Forget it. Lol.
 

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