One of my new pekin chickens has gone broody – toying with the idea of give her some duck eggs…

bluegreen said:

One of my new pekin chickens has gone broody – toying with the idea of give her some duck eggs…

Oh do Bluegreen do:)

You’ll have such a buzz at baby ducklings:)

Lucky1 said:

You’ll have such a buzz at baby ducklings:)

we are toying with the idea of ducks but not sure how they go with chooks. I really like emden geese but don’t have grass for them

drylander1 said:

we are toying with the idea of ducks but not sure how they go with chooks.

We had our ducks run with the chooks for a little while, but then the boys grew up and started terroorising the girls. I have found that drakes are not too particular about where they sow their ‘wild oats’.

we keep both. they free range “together” during the day but have separate pens at night.

Yeah pretty well here is the same as Bluegreen’s place…. ‘cept lately as Peaches keeps raiding the vegie garden.

The only concern is the water…. ducks lurv to make muddy water…..need to be aware of this on warm to hot day…. as chookies love to drink.

Lucky1 said:

The only concern is the water…. ducks lurv to make muddy water…..need to be aware of this on warm to hot day…. as chookies love to drink.

I had problems with the ducks getting into the chook pen during the day and mucking up their water – I now have the drinker suspended at a height the ducks can’t reach, but by a perch so that the chooks can. This is working well now.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

The only concern is the water…. ducks lurv to make muddy water…..need to be aware of this on warm to hot day…. as chookies love to drink.

I had problems with the ducks getting into the chook pen during the day and mucking up their water – I now have the drinker suspended at a height the ducks can’t reach, but by a perch so that the chooks can. This is working well now.

Clever idea there Bluegreen.

I’ve swapped 3 big duck eggs for 2 little bantam eggs under the pekin. She is a lot more sedate than my Light Sussex when it comes to someone looking underneath her on the nest. No attempts at pecking or anything.

bluegreen said:

I’ve swapped 3 big duck eggs for 2 little bantam eggs under the pekin. She is a lot more sedate than my Light Sussex when it comes to someone looking underneath her on the nest. No attempts at pecking or anything.

Sweet…. takes about 25 to 28 days for ducklings to hatch out. Muscovies are just over 30 days.

Lucky1 said:

Sweet…. takes about 25 to 28 days for ducklings to hatch out. Muscovies are just over 30 days.

will be interesting to see if the drake has been effective.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

Sweet…. takes about 25 to 28 days for ducklings to hatch out. Muscovies are just over 30 days.

will be interesting to see if the drake has been effective.

Yes as this will be his first clutch….

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well excuuuuse me!

Very cute Bluegreen:) I have to wait another week and then I’ll hopefully have chicks too:)

My ducklings sound like bluddy seagulls when they are eating lettuce greens:) Elf said I have weird animals as Bundy is sounding like a crow……lol

I’m not sure if the “Blue Rise Set” have started laying this quick or the old girls have felt threatened and spat out some eggs……

I usually get 1 or 2 hen eggs a day…. today I have 4 eggs.

Lucky1 said:

I usually get 1 or 2 hen eggs a day…. today I have 4 eggs.

good news :)

looks like my other LS is going broody – she was sharing the duck eggs with the pekin when I got home…

might have to put her in the sin bin…

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

I usually get 1 or 2 hen eggs a day…. today I have 4 eggs.

good news :)

looks like my other LS is going broody – she was sharing the duck eggs with the pekin when I got home…

might have to put her in the sin bin…

Never rain it pours….lol

Clancey is broody, not sure if I’ll set her or not.

luvly shots BG
a little bit tooo cutesy perhaps – but great shots nonetheless LOL

My ducklings sound like bluddy seagulls when they are eating lettuce greens:) Elf said I have weird animals as Bundy is sounding like a crow……lol
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hehehe – i saw two chooks feasting on something in one nesting box – egg eaters i thought – so in i went prepared to read the riot act – but no – it was the shellgrit i had provided for them – little darlings.

pepper said:

luvly shots BG
a little bit tooo cutesy perhaps – but great shots nonetheless LOL

it’s a cutesy subject :P

Hey Pepe….pepper or just plain (but not plain) Pep….

Would you like a couple of Light Sussex Bantam hens or a rooster when I have to let them go????

I want to keep 1 as its my first clutch……..the parents are pure bred and come from Bluegreen:)

these two (froggy and furball) have been nesting in this box for ten days now

bluegreen said:

pepper said:

luvly shots BG
a little bit tooo cutesy perhaps – but great shots nonetheless LOL

it’s a cutesy subject :P

yeah i know – i have a few shots like that in the family album.

Lucky1 said:

Hey Pepe….pepper or just plain (but not plain) Pep….

Would you like a couple of Light Sussex Bantam hens or a rooster when I have to let them go????

I want to keep 1 as its my first clutch……..the parents are pure bred and come from Bluegreen:)

yes i would – i could accommodate a rooster and a bantam – luv bantams.
thanks for asking .
Pep (as in full of beans)

Do they have eggs under them pepper????

Lucky1 said:

Do they have eggs under them pepper????

no – i’m chicken – used to let Cornla breed – but – i had backup from doting humans – mum, wife and daughter then. We’re just not into breeding at present.

yes i would – i could accommodate a rooster and a bantam – luv bantams.
thanks for asking .
Pep (as in full of beans)
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Oh that is FAB TAB…I am so pleased……they are my most fav breed of chook:)

pepper said:

Lucky1 said:

Do they have eggs under them pepper????

no – i’m chicken – used to let Cornla breed – but – i had backup from doting humans – mum, wife and daughter then. We’re just not into breeding at present.

Fair enough…… I lurv babies:)

Lucky1 said:

Fair enough…… I lurv babies:)

I worked that out a while ago lucky1 did thre bunny rabbits go home today

Hi all – just a quick visit, not time to post in chat as well.

There have been a few changes to the Backyard Poultry forum http://www.backyardpoultry.com/.

There are now a couple of new sub-forums including another one I’ll co-moderate – “What is it?” – for help determining gender and breed of new chooks and growing chicks – should be fun! :) The other new section is for Turkeys and Guinea Fowl.

The New Members Lounge and Technical Helpline have been closed to non-members.

Come and visit sometime! Oh yes, the lady from WA with the “insanity” signature is my co-mod in the new section :D
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Love your Light Sussex pics, Bluegreen.:) My 3 chicks are just over 6 weeks old now – still not sure of what I have – at least one pullet I think even if she is the biggest one. Wasn’t going to have any more poultry to leave white feathers around! But already attached to them…

BBL :)

pepper said:

these two (froggy and furball) have been nesting in this box for ten days now

now THAT’s cute :D

bluegreen said:

pepper said:

these two (froggy and furball) have been nesting in this box for ten days now

now THAT’s cute :D

It sure is – and so are your pics BG. :)

orchid40 said:

bluegreen said:

now THAT’s cute :D

It sure is – and so are your pics BG. :)

thanks o40. it was their first day out of the nursery cage :)

down one duck egg under the pekin :(

must have got pushed out of the nest with too many chooks trying to use it.

bluegreen said:

down one duck egg under the pekin :(

must have got pushed out of the nest with too many chooks trying to use it.

Oh what a shame:(

Today Banjo asked to be let through the boarder gate and has left the babies. Banjo just walked through the gate:)

Twinner had to be convinced to go through the gate. I also cut her wing as I carried Twinner through the boarder gate:(

Babies are now all alone on Freedom Road.

mum and chicks were out and about this afternoon and dad was there helping find food for the babies – a real family affair :)

Either Klinger or Hotlips is broody…. first time for her. Not really settled with it and is easy scared off the nest. Not going to set her as Bonnie had 7 eggs due out in 3 or 4 days time.

seeing as my other Pekin so much wanted to sit on some eggs, I have popped four bantam eggs under her on a separate nest. So now I have 5 two wk old bantam chicks, 2 duck eggs due to hatch in 2 weeks, and 4 bantam eggs due to hatch in 3 weeks. Must have a bout of Cluckyluckyitis! lol!

Must have a bout of Cluckyluckyitis! lol!
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Damn must be time to change the condom again…lol

these two girls are so tolerant. I can pick them up and check the eggs without them even blinking! My LS girls will complain strongly and peck if I go anywhere near them when they are sitting. I have to check them though because the egg count is likely to vary daily. Like today one’s egg count went from 4 to 3, and the other’s 2 duck eggs went up by two bantam eggs! One egg pinched from the other nest and one newly laid.

bluegreen said:

these two girls are so tolerant. I can pick them up and check the eggs without them even blinking! My LS girls will complain strongly and peck if I go anywhere near them when they are sitting. I have to check them though because the egg count is likely to vary daily. Like today one’s egg count went from 4 to 3, and the other’s 2 duck eggs went up by two bantam eggs! One egg pinched from the other nest and one newly laid.

Lurv bantams that don’t chew the hand off when lifting their skirts:)

bluegreen said:

these two girls are so tolerant. I can pick them up and check the eggs without them even blinking! My LS girls will complain strongly and peck if I go anywhere near them when they are sitting. I have to check them though because the egg count is likely to vary daily. Like today one’s egg count went from 4 to 3, and the other’s 2 duck eggs went up by two bantam eggs! One egg pinched from the other nest and one newly laid.

However do you keep track BG ? It’s all sounding like a feathered maternity unit to me. It’s exciting though ! :)

Hey no chance you could sued with all the egg sawping is there BG…..lol

My baby ducklings have started to colour up and I have my eye on one of the babies…. very pretty colouring.

orchid40 said:

However do you keep track BG ? It’s all sounding like a feathered maternity unit to me. It’s exciting though ! :)

I write down the dates I set them :) Babies are always exciting.

Babies are always exciting.
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Oh yes and so cute too.

I have had someone email me about buying some of the ducklings for their place.:)

Thrown Twinner back over with the other ducks, so I could let Bonnie out with her babies…..

Was worried Twinner would hurt the baby chickens.

Off to take baby photos…. back soon

I am devastated…:(

Lost one of the 2 pure bred chickens this afternoon…..

Got into the hen house and I guess a chook thought it was too yummy to leave alone….

Now down to 3. Gee I hope the little pure Sussex is a hen….

sorry to hear that Lucky1, but they are yummy.

pain master said:

sorry to hear that Lucky1, but they are yummy.

Oh you:)

If one of them is a rooster I said to the elf about eating it……..

i ate some chicken last night. it was served amongst some rice in a seafood/chicken paella.

yummy

I had chicken last night too….. little roast thing with mushroom & bacon in the boned out roll….. very moist and yummo.

Lucky1 said:

I am devastated…:(

Lost one of the 2 pure bred chickens this afternoon…..

Got into the hen house and I guess a chook thought it was too yummy to leave alone….

Now down to 3. Gee I hope the little pure Sussex is a hen….

bugger :(

my chicks are coming up to 5 weeks already! They look real smart in their white & black feathered suits. I want to integrate them into the main pen this weekend as in another week I hope to have 2 ducklings and their mum in the nursery pen :)

The plan is to put a cage in the main pen with an opening big enough for the chicks but too small for the adults. I’ll put their chick crumbles and their own water in there and that way they can go in and out as they please with their own supply of food.

it’s looking like I have 2 girls and 3 boys. I’m stocked that there are 2 hens for me to keep, but I promised the others to gardenaholic but I don’t think she will want 3 roosters. Good job I have another 4 eggs coming on. Should get some hens from her from that lot.

Going to keep some eggs for Oprah and if I get 4 over the next week, I’ll set her if she’s still broody. If not the little Sussex sitting can be set, if she’s still broody.

one advantage of having both pekins broody, is that any eggs I find I know are Light Sussex :D

bluegreen said:

one advantage of having both pekins broody, is that any eggs I find I know are Light Sussex :D

Only white eggs I get are from my Light Sussex:D….. sure makes it easy.

the gang were behaving a bit strangely this morning. I looked out the window and the ducks were all standing in the back of their pen. They never go in there together unless it’s bed time so I went outside to have a look around. The rooster was standing stock still and quiet and I couldn’t see the the hen anywhere. I wondered if they had seen a cat or something so had a look around but couldn’t see anything except some birds in the trees. All of a sudden the rooster relaxed and clucked, the hen shot out of the bushes to see what he had found, and they carried on like nothing was wrong. Figured something must have spooked them though. Next time I looked out the window the ducks were out and about as normal too.

something must have spooked them though.
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Next time, have a gander up in the sky BG. Birds of prey overhead give them cause for concern.

Longy said:

something must have spooked them though.
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Next time, have a gander up in the sky BG. Birds of prey overhead give them cause for concern.

I thought of that later what with the ducks going in their pen. I have never seen them do that, but then again I am not always here during the day.

the gang were behaving a bit strangely this morning. I looked out the window and the ducks were all standing in the back of their pen.
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Scary when that happens……. glad all is well though.

I have never seen them do that,
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When i first got my ladies from the egg factory, so they’d never even been outside before, they were onto a pair of osprey straight away. Hiding under the mulberry with one eye on the sky. Instinctive i guess.

I have watched my ducks follow a bird in the sky and they don’t move their heads at all…. only put it to the side….. ducks can see 360 degrees.

Happy Families…

bluegreen said:

the gang were behaving a bit strangely this morning. I looked out the window and the ducks were all standing in the back of their pen. They never go in there together unless it’s bed time so I went outside to have a look around. The rooster was standing stock still and quiet and I couldn’t see the the hen anywhere. I wondered if they had seen a cat or something so had a look around but couldn’t see anything except some birds in the trees. All of a sudden the rooster relaxed and clucked, the hen shot out of the bushes to see what he had found, and they carried on like nothing was wrong. Figured something must have spooked them though. Next time I looked out the window the ducks were out and about as normal too.

Maybe they saw the snake that I saw this arvo. It turned me to a stunned jelly mass. I was weeding in a long grass area and putting the stuff straight into the compost bin as went. I gave a decent tug on the rotting stump of a paw paw tree and out slithered a snake. I know I screamed “Snake” at least twice but nobody heard me. I ran for the gate..left the lid off the compost….left the secatuers on the ground…and I haven’t been back. Aint going back either. Not by myself anyway.

We really have to clean up that area so all surfaces are visible. There are 2 watermelons waiting to be picked and rhubarb to be looked after in that area. It’ll be a while till I pluck up the courage to go back.

Oh how cute are those photos:) Still Have 3 chickens my end. Set Oprah on a plastic egg in the duck shed last night….. hope to get enough Light Sussex eggs to set her with them.

Maybe they saw the snake that I saw this arvo. It turned me to a stunned jelly mass. I was weeding in a long grass area and putting the stuff straight into the compost bin as went. I gave a decent tug on the rotting stump of a paw paw tree and out slithered a snake. I know I screamed “Snake” at least twice but nobody heard me.
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If it’ll make you feel better I had a spider walking on my hand and arm this morning. Walked it outside to let it live in the garden.

sad news for me today. lost one of my almost ready ducklings :(

the hens were out having a dust bath so I thought I would check the progress of the eggs. I noticed that one of the duck eggs had collapsed with a third of the shell missing, but the inner membrane still intact. I think it had abraded against the wooden boards underneath. Anyway I assumed that it was not viable so removed it, and out of curiosity checked inside to see if anything had developed, assuming it would be dead. Anyway there was a live duckling inside, almost fully developed. Of course I had to then kill it having broken it open.

I guess the question is, would it have survived to hatch in another week if I had left it alone? I am thinking it would have had great difficulty breaking through the toughened membrane anyway… Still one egg left intact, and have strong hopes now for a viable duckling, and for successful future hatches.

Thinking I will need to put something over the wooden boards like some rubber sheeting or something to provide a softer base for the nests.

sad news for me today. lost one of my almost ready ducklings :(
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Oh bugger:(

Not sure if it would have lasted out the week Bluegreen. I am wondering if it would have attracted ants to the nest.

Hope the other little egg goes okay and you have a cute little duckling to ooooooow and arrrrr over:)

Lucky1 said:

sad news for me today. lost one of my almost ready ducklings :(
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Oh bugger:(

Not sure if it would have lasted out the week Bluegreen. I am wondering if it would have attracted ants to the nest.

Hope the other little egg goes okay and you have a cute little duckling to ooooooow and arrrrr over:)

there were some ants there so I guess it would have been riddled with them by the end of the week, and the hen may have deserted the nest before then.

Fingers crossed the last duckling is a girl. At least I know my drake is on the job :)

Fingers crossed the last duckling is a girl. At least I know my drake is on the job :)
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Like my only Light Sussex chick…I am hoping its a hen as its the last one from my own stock and I wanted to keep a hen from this clutch.

your chooks look pretty fit BG. i can see why you might be addicted to those younguns.

We really have to clean up that area so all surfaces are visible. There are 2 watermelons waiting to be picked and rhubarb to be looked after in that area. It’ll be a while till I pluck up the courage to go back.
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take the lawnmower and start that up – the noise will send the snake packing.

take the lawnmower and start that up – the noise will send the snake packing.
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I know about this theory and I’m not a total believer. I was working in that area for a good half hour before the actual sighting. Ripping up weeds (large ones) Pulling wire surrounds from old dying carnation plants. When I pulled at them, along came any crawly type plants that had managed to get between the wires. I pulled stakes out and threw them to the edge of the garden. They landed with a heavy thud. Any of that could have scared the snake away but it didn’t. It wasn’t till I disturbed it’s hidy hole that it came out. (mongrel)

Anyway we have accidently chopped them with the mower before so they weren’t scared away by the vibrations or the noise.

Thanks anyway Pepe.

We have picked the water melons now and the whole area will be sprayed before proper cultivating begins.

If it’ll make you feel better I had a spider walking on my hand and arm this morning. Walked it outside to let it live in the garden.
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Oh Lucky…I’d give up next weeks pension if I had only seen a spider. Mind you, a weeks pension isn’t much to give up. LOL.

Anyway there was a live duckling inside, almost fully developed. Of course I had to then kill it having broken it open.
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That would have been hard to do BG. Now it’s big hopes for the one that is left. I have my fingers crossed.

pom said:

If it’ll make you feel better I had a spider walking on my hand and arm this morning. Walked it outside to let it live in the garden.
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Oh Lucky…I’d give up next weeks pension if I had only seen a spider. Mind you, a weeks pension isn’t much to give up. LOL.

ROTFL…… yeah about a bottle of milk and 1/2 a loaf of bread;P

Lucky1 said:

pom said:

If it’ll make you feel better I had a spider walking on my hand and arm this morning. Walked it outside to let it live in the garden.
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Oh Lucky…I’d give up next weeks pension if I had only seen a spider. Mind you, a weeks pension isn’t much to give up. LOL.

ROTFL…… yeah about a bottle of milk and 1/2 a loaf of bread;P

You said it! I’m off to get some smoko. BBS.

I really do wish the “Blue Rinse Set” would stop thinking my purple toenails are worms or yummy tid bits. When I paint them another colour, I wonder if they will still peck at my feet?????

Lucky1 said:

I really do wish the “Blue Rinse Set” would stop thinking my purple toenails are worms or yummy tid bits. When I paint them another colour, I wonder if they will still peck at my feet?????

lol! probably :D

no ducklings for bluegreen :(

all was fine this morning but came home to find the last egg out of the nest and broken, the duckling dead and riddled with ants :(

I think it was a mistake to try and have so many hens setting or raising chicks at one time. Too much competition for the limited nesting space.

I feel doubly bad because I was going to move the hen and duck egg into the “nursery” on the weekend but put it off because I wasn’t feeling well.

I have moved the 4 bantam eggs and both the pekins into the nursery pen now (they insist on sharing) but might move one out tonight once they settle. I don’t want any more accidents. At least I hope they settle or it will be another clutch lost. Once these are hatched and moved into the main pen or new homes I might try again with duck eggs, but put them in the nursery pen from the start.

Aw BG, I’m so sorry. What a disappointment for you :( Hope the rest of the eggs hatch OK.

Oh Bluegreen… both the elf and I are sad to read about the other little duck egg….. try again and hopefully things will be different.

Oprah was set last night with 5 Light Sussex bantam eggs…. due date, the 3rd of March.

Talking to Pepper yesterday, he’ll take the little sussex Bonnie hatch out if it’s a rooster:D If a little hen, I’ll keep her.

Lucky1 said:

Oh Bluegreen… both the elf and I are sad to read about the other little duck egg….. try again and hopefully things will be different.

thanks Lucky. I have one of the pekins settled on her bantam eggs in the nursery where she can brood undisturbed from now on. When they have hatched and they are gone or back in the big pen I will try again if I get a broody hen again.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

Oh Bluegreen… both the elf and I are sad to read about the other little duck egg….. try again and hopefully things will be different.

thanks Lucky. I have one of the pekins settled on her bantam eggs in the nursery where she can brood undisturbed from now on. When they have hatched and they are gone or back in the big pen I will try again if I get a broody hen again.

I hope all goes well with these little chook eggs…….

cackles said:

Did you find a taker for your Light Sussex cockerel, BG? Oh – maybe this stuff should be in poultry prattle…

not yet, I have 3 to find homes for. They are only about 6 weeks yet so early days.

Hi BG :) Oh yes – at least 3 weeks to crowing! Lol Actually probably a bit longer as I think Sussex are a bit slower maturing…At least the big ones, not sure about the bantams, but that might depend on their line too. I saw your ad in Aussie Chook Chat – you could also try farmstock.com and maybe even BYP? I like to keep my cockerels around as long as possible, even though I can’t keep them much past the start of crowing – neighbours are very quick to whinge to council :(.

bluegreen said:

cackles said:

Did you find a taker for your Light Sussex cockerel, BG? Oh – maybe this stuff should be in poultry prattle…

not yet, I have 3 to find homes for. They are only about 6 weeks yet so early days.

sweet:) Now you can really enjoy them as they are leaving home:)

cackles said:

you could also try farmstock.com and maybe even BYP?

I took your advice and I have a taker for one. Not sure which ad he is responding to though.

having feathered kids can be a worry sometimes…

last night when I went to lock them up after a hot day of 35 deg or more, only 3 of the ducks came to be put to bed. Figuring that one of the girls had a clutch of eggs somewhere I did a cursory search before giving up due to it being dark and still 30 deg and I was hot and bothered. When I let them out again in the morning I didn’t try and find her then as I was running a bit late for work and I was very tired due to a hot sleepless night.

So when I got home from work I decided to try and find where she was hiding. Well I heard her quack as the others walked by and what did I see but her head sticking up out of a heap of prunings that had become overgrown. She was jammed under the tangled pile of wood and couldn’t get out. I managed to free her but she was very weak on her feet.

So, she was stuck there all today, all last night and goodness knows how long yesterday in the heat. Thankfully it was cool today and we got 7mm of rain, but other than that she had no access to food or water.

I think she will probably be OK but I think I better get rid of that wood in case it happens again. (sighs)

having feathered kids can be a worry sometimes…
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I am aways counting head out the back and with these not so little ducklings…. too many heads sometimes in the heat.

Might give them netball bibs from Bimbo’s team and that’ll be easier to tick off.

having feathered kids can be a worry sometimes…
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I hope your little duck improves over the next couple of days.

Lucky1 said:

having feathered kids can be a worry sometimes…
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I hope your little duck improves over the next couple of days.

yes. I thinking that the weakness is probably due to her trying to get out but not being able to move so was all stiff. Also she was probably dehydrated. But she got herself to the water dish and I threw some food near her. I checked later and she was wandering around with the others so I expect she will be fine.

Just goes to show that you can’t assume anything with them. I thought that she was just hiding on some eggs and could get out whenever she wanted. :(

Just goes to show that you can’t assume anything with them. I thought that she was just hiding on some eggs and could get out whenever she wanted. :(

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Yes, animals are like little children……..they need their mums & dads.

I think she will probably be OK but I think I better get rid of that wood in case it happens again. (sighs
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they are very inquisitive these birds.
i’ve got one mungrel white chook who flies over the fence somehow and none of the others follow. so come feeding time she wants to get back but can’t. i have to go and catch it at night which is a pain because although she desperately wants to return to the flock she equally doesn’t want to be caught. (sigh)

well the next clutch of 4 eggs has hatched a total of 1 chick. A bit disappointing although the chick is strong and healthy. I was going to give this clutch to gardenaholic seeing as she missed out on some hens from the last batch, so 1 chick is not a good result seeing it well could be male. And I don’t like trying to integrate a single chook to an existing group either.

So I’m wondering if it was due to all the disturbances I had when I lost the duck eggs, or if the new hen I bought is laying duds. I’m kinda hoping for the former so that I can get back to my usually good hatching rates.

how many successful young chooks have you bred this year?
i saw 2 photos of about 13 (pekins and sussexes) – i think?
and you started the year with three – i think.
(froggy and furball are still sitting.)

pepper said:

how many successful young chooks have you bred this year?

started with 1 rooster and 1 hen (after the fox), bought 1 LS hen, got given the 2 pekins, hatched 5 chicks in first hatching (2 pullets and 3 roos) and now the 1 chick (sex unknown). I have given away one of the little roos.

so not a lot through breeding, but gradually building up my flock again.

so – you’ve got ten chooks roaming between the fenced off garden areas on a quarter acre somewhere in melbintown?
are you allowed to keep roosters where you are?
obviously roosters are the downside of breeding your own (no similarity with the male of our species).
i am thinking of letting my two adamant hens sit.
i have an isolation pen – so i might transfer them to it to see what happens.

pepper said:

so – you’ve got ten chooks roaming between the fenced off garden areas on a quarter acre somewhere in melbintown?
are you allowed to keep roosters where you are?
obviously roosters are the downside of breeding your own (no similarity with the male of our species).
i am thinking of letting my two adamant hens sit.
i have an isolation pen – so i might transfer them to it to see what happens.

yep, and 4 ducks :D

no I’m not officially allowed a rooster, but no one has reported me yet so I figure as long as I don’t keep the young fellows long enough to start crowing then I am OK. But I figure if I let them mature and they start having crowing contests and fights then I am pushing my luck.

The hens really can get adamant about being broody, can’t they? lol!

I hatched 5 eggs once and got 5 roosters so I won’t be trying that again. Not allowed roosters here either.
My chooks got a big tub of left over breakfast cereal’s , with honey and creme brulee powder in the mix. Iron Man chooks !

The hens really can get adamant about being broody, can’t they? lol!
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it must be getting close to twenty days now. and there’s two of them so they can work shifts.

chooks are a great way of getting rid of those end of packet things that nobody seems to want.

Happy Potter said:

I hatched 5 eggs once and got 5 roosters so I won’t be trying that again. Not allowed roosters here either.
My chooks got a big tub of left over breakfast cereal’s , with honey and creme brulee powder in the mix. Iron Man chooks !

back on my hills farm i once ended up with seven wellsommer(sp?) roosters. i can see them now – all running around in a tight knit group harassing the old man rooster and all the hens.

pepper said:

it must be getting close to twenty days now. and there’s two of them so they can work shifts.

if I don’t want to set any eggs I try to get them out of it if I can, as they can let their condition run down to no purpose, and of course they stop laying. I have a large cage that the galahs were in before they went into the aviary. It is on legs and has an open wire bottom so is good for getting them off the brood. About 3 days in there does it.

my two adamant broodies are getting up and eating – so i guess they are at an end. is winter a good time for setting eggs? you guys have done it in late summer.

pepper said:

my two adamant broodies are getting up and eating – so i guess they are at an end. is winter a good time for setting eggs? you guys have done it in late summer.

Not a good time in my books… makes it hard for the chicks and for the owner if the chicks are rejected for any reason. Cold weather…..

But this is MHO

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

my two adamant broodies are getting up and eating – so i guess they are at an end. is winter a good time for setting eggs? you guys have done it in late summer.

Not a good time in my books… makes it hard for the chicks and for the owner if the chicks are rejected for any reason. Cold weather…..

But this is MHO

your opinion is highly valued – but i’m just thinking the hot time of year has its own drawbacks.

pepper said:

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

my two adamant broodies are getting up and eating – so i guess they are at an end. is winter a good time for setting eggs? you guys have done it in late summer.

Not a good time in my books… makes it hard for the chicks and for the owner if the chicks are rejected for any reason. Cold weather…..

But this is MHO

your opinion is highly valued – but i’m just thinking the hot time of year has its own drawbacks.

True, I guess it boils down to when the hen goes broody and if you have the time either in the summer or winter to look after the kids…. if it came to that.

Happy Potter said:

I hatched 5 eggs once and got 5 roosters so I won’t be trying that again. Not allowed roosters here either.
My chooks got a big tub of left over breakfast cereal’s , with honey and creme brulee powder in the mix. Iron Man chooks !

What’s Creme Brulee powder? Don’t tell me you can buy an instant mix for that now?

Bubba Louie said:

Happy Potter said:

I hatched 5 eggs once and got 5 roosters so I won’t be trying that again. Not allowed roosters here either.
My chooks got a big tub of left over breakfast cereal’s , with honey and creme brulee powder in the mix. Iron Man chooks !

What’s Creme Brulee powder? Don’t tell me you can buy an instant mix for that now?

I just googled it and came up 5 kilo fatter;)

I’m outta here:)

Lucky1 said:

Bubba Louie said:

Happy Potter said:

I hatched 5 eggs once and got 5 roosters so I won’t be trying that again. Not allowed roosters here either.
My chooks got a big tub of left over breakfast cereal’s , with honey and creme brulee powder in the mix. Iron Man chooks !

What’s Creme Brulee powder? Don’t tell me you can buy an instant mix for that now?

I just googled it and came up 5 kilo fatter;)

I’m outta here:)

LOL Lucky.
Yep it’s a heart attack in a can.. one to avoid.

Happy Potter said:

Lucky1 said:

Bubba Louie said:

Happy Potter said:

I hatched 5 eggs once and got 5 roosters so I won’t be trying that again. Not allowed roosters here either.
My chooks got a big tub of left over breakfast cereal’s , with honey and creme brulee powder in the mix. Iron Man chooks !

What’s Creme Brulee powder? Don’t tell me you can buy an instant mix for that now?

I just googled it and came up 5 kilo fatter;)

LOL
I’m outta here:)

LOL Lucky.
Yep it’s a heart attack in a can.. one to avoid.

Oh I am so proud on my feather kids today:D

5 Isa Brown eggs today….. (first time in goodness knows how many months) and 2 Sussex bantam eggs. Little bantam must be off the brood 100% now:)

Looks like the new Blue Rinse are just about all laying. Eggs are a tinny bit smaller than Peaches or Mango.

Also I was watching the 3 little chickens and they are just so scruffy at the moment.

The little sussex bantam chick is starting to get her (think her) little black collar feathers around her neck. I can see them better when she stretches her neck when looking round.

The 2 Isa Brown X with Radar and still all white, almost all the texta markings on their heads are gone now:) They are twice as big as the little bantam. I am wondering as they get their final adult feathers if there will be any black among them.

Got no idea if they are hens or roosters.

Oh yeah and they run round like Road Runner….. that is their nicknames:)

I have 3 Light Sussex. 2 are cockerels which are still almost tail-less at 12 weeks, unlike their sister.

The Dark Campbell ducklings are now 11 weeks old. There are 2 ducks – front right with legbands, 3 drakes at back. One duck quacked a couple of weeks before the 2nd one so for a while I thought there was only 1 duck, and was very pleased to hear the 2nd one! Yet to be named- obviously :D

lovely healthy looking birds Cackles :)

Why don’t the 2 cockerels have tails yet ? Too young still ?

Happy Potter said:

lovely healthy looking birds Cackles :)

Why don’t the 2 cockerels have tails yet ? Too young still ?

Yes. Pullets feather up more quickly, on most poultry. Not always so pronounced though -lol

cackles said:

I have 3 Light Sussex. 2 are cockerels which are still almost tail-less at 12 weeks, unlike their sister.

I’m sure they will be sporting lovely big tails before too long :)

My lovely brown ladies gave me 7 eggs today:)

Best they have done in one days laying for ages.

Found the smaller of the 2 chickens dead this morning. Other one isn’t too flash… Oprah isn’t like Bonnie… Oprah is a good mum….just I can’t get her to pop the chick under her like I can with Bonnie……:(

Lucky1 said:

Found the smaller of the 2 chickens dead this morning. Other one isn’t too flash… Oprah isn’t like Bonnie… Oprah is a good mum….just I can’t get her to pop the chick under her like I can with Bonnie……:(

Oh thats sad. I hope the last one will pick up.

Happy Potter said:

Lucky1 said:

Found the smaller of the 2 chickens dead this morning. Other one isn’t too flash… Oprah isn’t like Bonnie… Oprah is a good mum….just I can’t get her to pop the chick under her like I can with Bonnie……:(

Oh thats sad. I hope the last one will pick up.

I haope so too… some how it squeezed out of the cage and could be just cold…..

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

you could pop it in a box under a light – or I have even heard of putting them in an oven on low with the door open…

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

you could pop it in a box under a light – or I have even heard of putting them in an oven on low with the door open…

In a box now with a light over her…. tissue over her head to protect her eyes……

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

try the microwave LOL

drylander1 said:

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

try the microwave LOL

Oh you meanie……lol

Little chicken has passed on……. I’ll pop him/her in the compost tumbler….. return him/her and sibling to the earth in a good way.

Lucky1 said:

Little chicken has passed on……. I’ll pop him/her in the compost tumbler….. return him/her and sibling to the earth in a good way.

SO sad… but a useful end ….nature ca be cruel sometimes

Lucky1 said:

Little chicken has passed on…….

oh buggar :(

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

Knowing you, it’ll get warm.

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

Knowing you, it’ll get warm.

Yeah it got warm… but still died.

Lucky1 said:

Little chicken has passed on……. I’ll pop him/her in the compost tumbler….. return him/her and sibling to the earth in a good way.

Just plain buggerdammit! I hate it to end like that.

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

Lucky1 said:

taken the chick from Oprah, very cold… hoping to warm it up against my body.

Knowing you, it’ll get warm.

Yeah it got warm… but still died.

I know now. I’m so sorry.

Oh Lucky, so sorry (: . Thoughts are with you…

cackles said:

Oh Lucky, so sorry (: . Thoughts are with you…

Thanks cackles.

Lucky – I just referred a new member of BYP to your blog. She was asking about getting some ducks – already has rabbits…

http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?p=94999#94999

:D

cackles said:

Lucky – I just referred a new member of BYP to your blog. She was asking about getting some ducks – already has rabbits…

http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?p=94999#94999

:D

I am taking it she’s in Tassie from her name????

Yes – says in her post I think – just joined – I know nothing more – just thought of you…:)

cackles said:

Yes – says in her post I think – just joined – I know nothing more – just thought of you…:)

Thanks…. must say, having ducks, chooks & rabbits out playing and running together is a bit strange to some folks.:)

Gave the ducks a fresh pondie this morning and this made for some very happy little feathery people. I bucketed the water onto the lawn and this made the ducks more egg-cited as they had to wait longer…..LOL

Mum with a bucket near the pond…only means 1 thing…..PONDIE yay…………………………

my chickens had a gourmet treat today – out of date smoked salmon :D

bluegreen said:

my chickens had a gourmet treat today – out of date smoked salmon :D

Gee sounds like they hit the jackpot:D

Really impressed with the girls… 8 eggs each day the last 3 days:D

Lucky1 said:

Really impressed with the girls… 8 eggs each day the last 3 days:D

very nice lucky1 how many chooks u got again?

I think they are relieved as we are that it’s cooler !…mine are laying well too, getting 4 a day out of 5 chook’s. Still enough for us and share some. I may get another 2 chook’s later this year though to replace the one’s gone.

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

Really impressed with the girls… 8 eggs each day the last 3 days:D

very nice lucky1 how many chooks u got again?

8 young layers,
4 bantams
1 rooster
2 older layers

…..the ducks have stopped laying and I am down to my last 4 duck eggs in the fridge. Hard to believe its been 12 months though… time waits for no one. Lots of duck feathers out the back to collect and compost… tomorrow’s job.

Oh yeah… forgot to say as well….. Oprah is back laying her eggs….. on top of the cupboard in the duck shed……must be time she went back into the hen house area.

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day.

so far for march egg count is 39.

feburary was 27.

janurary was 72.

means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day.

so far for march egg count is 39.

feburary was 27.

janurary was 72.

means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

Good idea…… I have been doing this for years now….. gives me an idea of what is happening out in the yards.

How many chooks you got VG???

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day.

so far for march egg count is 39.

feburary was 27.

janurary was 72.

means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

Good idea…… I have been doing this for years now….. gives me an idea of what is happening out in the yards.

How many chooks you got VG???

ok i have 3 isa brown hens and 1 road island red rooster have to ,replace the hens end of this year with some new layers i try and get new ones every 2 years.

ok i have 3 isa brown hens and 1 road island red rooster have to ,replace the hens end of this year with some new layers i try and get new ones every 2 years.
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What do you do with the older hens?? Do you let them live out their retirement as poop makers or do they leave home

Lucky1 said:

ok i have 3 isa brown hens and 1 road island red rooster have to ,replace the hens end of this year with some new layers i try and get new ones every 2 years.
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What do you do with the older hens?? Do you let them live out their retirement as poop makers or do they leave home

they stay here or i give them to one of dads friends who keeps chooks. some1 said with the old chooks that dies at his house he turns them into blood and bone but he wont say

they stay here or i give them to one of dads friends who keeps chooks. some1 said with the old chooks that dies at his house he turns them into blood and bone but he wont say
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Well even if they are made into B&B I guess that is a great way to return the chook to the soil:)

yeah so this lot i may try and make blood and bone means i am not wasting my chooks and they are returting stuff to my garden means i am totally organic and know whats goin into my blood and bone….just need to find out how to make a blood and bone now.

veg gardener said:

yeah so this lot i may try and make blood and bone means i am not wasting my chooks and they are returting stuff to my garden means i am totally organic and know whats goin into my blood and bone….just need to find out how to make a blood and bone now.

Glad its you and not me…. your a brave lad…….

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

yeah so this lot i may try and make blood and bone means i am not wasting my chooks and they are returting stuff to my garden means i am totally organic and know whats goin into my blood and bone….just need to find out how to make a blood and bone now.

Glad its you and not me…. your a brave lad…….

yeah i am brave arent i… i love my animals and i dont like them to leave ,we have to put down animals and dig holes to place them in. spose with my chooks i could but them into my compost bin and let them break down that way all depends on who u r and how u do it.

Oh been meaning to tell you guys……

The other day on Wednesday, my sister was in Burra as #1 son had sports day. Her hubby went down to feed her chooks as she has to drive 125 km to come home afterwards.

Anyyyyhoooowww

Paul found a dead chook in the chook house and trying to eat the said chook… was a 4 foot king brown snake……

He ran back for his gun…(can’t remember what size gun) and got into the chook house to kill it. All the hens went and clambered onto the snake…more scared of him than the snake…….LOL

Paul killed the snake and Deb is now getting only 2 eggs a day instead of 4 or 5 a day…….

Lucky1 said:

Oh been meaning to tell you guys……

The other day on Wednesday, my sister was in Burra as #1 son had sports day. Her hubby went down to feed her chooks as she has to drive 125 km to come home afterwards.

Anyyyyhoooowww

Paul found a dead chook in the chook house and trying to eat the said chook… was a 4 foot king brown snake……

He ran back for his gun…(can’t remember what size gun) and got into the chook house to kill it. All the hens went and clambered onto the snake…more scared of him than the snake…….LOL

Paul killed the snake and Deb is now getting only 2 eggs a day instead of 4 or 5 a day…….

aww how sad…. tell her i know how she feels most of the time my chooks get takin by foxes

spose with my chooks i could but them into my compost bin and let them break down that way all depends on who u r and how u do it.
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This could be a problem when coming to turning your compost…….why not bury the chook under an ornamental plant away from the vegie patch????? It’ll feed the plants around it…. have to be deep enough not to be dug up.

Or you could let the said chookie…. live and be a pooper maker for your compost bins…this is what I do.

aww how sad…. tell her i know how she feels most of the time my chooks get takin by foxes
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Yeah not good when chooks are taken by a fox…. they don’t take just 1 chook… buggers wipe out the whole flock:(

Lucky1 said:

Oh been meaning to tell you guys……

The other day on Wednesday, my sister was in Burra as #1 son had sports day. Her hubby went down to feed her chooks as she has to drive 125 km to come home afterwards.

Anyyyyhoooowww

Paul found a dead chook in the chook house and trying to eat the said chook… was a 4 foot king brown snake……

He ran back for his gun…(can’t remember what size gun) and got into the chook house to kill it. All the hens went and clambered onto the snake…more scared of him than the snake…….LOL

Paul killed the snake and Deb is now getting only 2 eggs a day instead of 4 or 5 a day…….

It’s a wonder the chooks didn’t lay next weeks eggs all at once. I wonder what happens to the eggs that were forming in readiness for the coming days when they get a scare like that.

yeah they can live and be poo makers for me.. think i need to put some straw down in thier pen they go in and out all weekend thats when i let them out one of the hens were standing in my garden waitin for me to come out most of today in the rain.

It’s a wonder the chooks didn’t lay next weeks eggs all at once. I wonder what happens to the eggs that were forming in readiness for the coming days when they get a scare like that.
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Maybe they adsorb the eggs back into their body with shock???

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day. so far for march egg count is 39. feburary was 27. janurary was 72. means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

thats educational – well done. i don’t record much myself. do you keep rainfall stats as well?

pepper said:

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day. so far for march egg count is 39. feburary was 27. janurary was 72. means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

thats educational – well done. i don’t record much myself. do you keep rainfall stats as well?

I keep both……. much busier on the egg chart.

Paul found a dead chook in the chook house and trying to eat the said chook… was a 4 foot king brown snake……
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there goes my theory about snakes not bothering chooks.

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day. so far for march egg count is 39. feburary was 27. janurary was 72. means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

thats educational – well done. i don’t record much myself. do you keep rainfall stats as well?

I keep both……. much busier on the egg chart.

I keep a rain chart – a grand total of 1mm so far this month :(

pepper said:

Paul found a dead chook in the chook house and trying to eat the said chook… was a 4 foot king brown snake……
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there goes my theory about snakes not bothering chooks.

Thing is… they aren’t sure if the snake killed the chook or the heat had gotten to it….. I feel 100% sure that the snake killed the chook and was hungry.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day. so far for march egg count is 39. feburary was 27. janurary was 72. means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

thats educational – well done. i don’t record much myself. do you keep rainfall stats as well?

I keep both……. much busier on the egg chart.

I keep a rain chart – a grand total of 1mm so far this month :(

Doing better than us here……

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

I keep a rain chart – a grand total of 1mm so far this month :(

Doing better than us here……

fingers crossed for those showers, hey Lucky?

I keep both……. much busier on the egg chart.
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sad but true LOL

I am giving the boys a reprieve, I don’t feel up to doing the deed this weekend. And they are not crowing yet.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

I keep a rain chart – a grand total of 1mm so far this month :(

Doing better than us here……

fingers crossed for those showers, hey Lucky?

Oh yeah….. it would be good.

Sent you my egg chart to have a look at Bg, Peps & VG

bluegreen said:

I am giving the boys a reprieve, I don’t feel up to doing the deed this weekend. And they are not crowing yet.

What about a market or a animal farm ?? Any close to you.

Lucky1 said:

Sent you my egg chart to have a look at Bg, Peps & VG

ta :)

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

I am giving the boys a reprieve, I don’t feel up to doing the deed this weekend. And they are not crowing yet.

What about a market or a animal farm ?? Any close to you.

there is an animal farm near by but you have to pay them $10 each to take them – for feed and upkeep supposedly.

pepper said:

veg gardener said:

ive been getting from 3 to 1 eggs a day. so far for march egg count is 39. feburary was 27. janurary was 72. means the total so far is 138 .

i keep this on my computer in a Mircsroft excel spread sheet.

thats educational – well done. i don’t record much myself. do you keep rainfall stats as well?

yeah dad does that

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

Sure no worries….. anyone want to see VG egg chart sing out……..

The thing I love about the egg chart VG and reader:) is I can see what is happening egg wise and also at the end of the month or year… I can appreciate their egg laying so much more.

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

Sure no worries….. anyone want to see VG egg chart sing out……..

The thing I love about the egg chart VG and reader:) is I can see what is happening egg wise and also at the end of the month or year… I can appreciate their egg laying so much more.

I’ll have a look at what VG has done.

Yours is very colourful Lucky! :D

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

Sure no worries….. anyone want to see VG egg chart sing out……..

The thing I love about the egg chart VG and reader:) is I can see what is happening egg wise and also at the end of the month or year… I can appreciate their egg laying so much more.

yep same here i started it half way in last year

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

Sure no worries….. anyone want to see VG egg chart sing out……..

The thing I love about the egg chart VG and reader:) is I can see what is happening egg wise and also at the end of the month or year… I can appreciate their egg laying so much more.

I’ll have a look at what VG has done.

Yours is very colourful Lucky! :D

On its way Bluegreen……. I love clicking on buttons and playing with the programs…LOL

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

yeah thank you BG i update that everyday notice ive already got 1 egg for today.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

Jumps up and down….

Mine was to the far right….. did you see mine…huh huh??? LOL

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

Jumps up and down….

Mine was to the far right….. did you see mine…huh huh??? LOL

yes I did. you have don’t a good job too Lucky pats Lucky on the head

lol!

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

Jumps up and down….

Mine was to the far right….. did you see mine…huh huh??? LOL

yes I did. you have don’t a good job too Lucky pats Lucky on the head

lol!

Thanks Mum:D

bluegreen said:

you have don’t a good job too Lucky

you have DONE a good job too. Geez! get it right girl!

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

Jumps up and down….

Mine was to the far right….. did you see mine…huh huh??? LOL

yes I did. you have don’t a good job too Lucky pats Lucky on the head

lol!

Thanks Mum:D

when u said good job to me i should be saying thanks atuny lucky

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

you have don’t a good job too Lucky

you have DONE a good job too. Geez! get it right girl!

I knew what you meant…lol

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

Jumps up and down….

Mine was to the far right….. did you see mine…huh huh??? LOL

yes I did. you have don’t a good job too Lucky pats Lucky on the head

lol!

Thanks Mum:D

when u said good job to me i should be saying thanks atuny lucky

If you were a year older I could have said “Thanks dad”;P

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

you have don’t a good job too Lucky

you have DONE a good job too. Geez! get it right girl!

I knew what you meant…lol

same here i readed it twice to work out what u mean. =] us gardeners must think in the same way.

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

Jumps up and down….

Mine was to the far right….. did you see mine…huh huh??? LOL

yes I did. you have don’t a good job too Lucky pats Lucky on the head

lol!

Thanks Mum:D

when u said good job to me i should be saying thanks atuny lucky

If you were a year older I could have said “Thanks dad”;P

yeah. it nearly lunch time means ill be in the garden after lunch.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

sent an egg count back to u i just cant find anyone elses email addy to pass it on lucky1 can u pass on my email addy to some more gardeners on this forom for me

nice chart VG. I like the way you have put in a yearly total as well. good work.

the two attachments are similar – thanks for that – interesting to see how thorough youse guys are.
i keep a gardening diary from 1995 – but its largely been replaced by photobucket records now adays.

From: cackles
Subject: re: Lucky’s place in Autumn.
untill the 5 I have got stop laying 4 egg’s a day.

Wow, I am flat out getting 2 eggs a day from 9!! Made the mistake of getting Exhibition line bantam Australorps who have never been very good layers – unlike the larger Australorps, commercial line that I once had and which became foundation stock for local Special school setting up a farm :)

Ducks have re-started to lay though and some of the juvenile ducks should be thinking about it soon too…

Oopps – Sorry Lucky for hijacking your thread – please pretend this post is in poultry prattle. Now I really do have to get outside – they are rattling their feed dish! LOL

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Opps my fault for the thread hijack.
They are in their prime now, the 4 younger ones , Isa Brown’s, now one year old and are all laying really well.
The one older one is 3 and I think has stopped laying.
She is a manure maker though.

mine have all stopped laying for now – something to do with feathers all over the shop and stumpy tails…

My juvenile hens will be well and truly ready to lay by Spring, if they don’t start earlier.

Bluegreen I have finally got some good photos of the 3 little chickens….. I will load them up this evening….. Thought I might thrill my gut and give it an early meal…instead of a late tea…….

Then we may know if they are hens or roosters…I ‘m thinking hens….

Bluegreen here are some photos of my little chickens for you to have a gander at:)

I’m pretty sure I have 3 hens:D

http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/

Be gentle with your answers….lol

very nice lucky1

veg gardener said:

very nice lucky1

Thanks VG:)

I’ll pace my bet’s on the top one being a male and the 2 lower one’s being hen’s. But I hope they all turn out to be hen’s.

Happy Potter said:

I’ll pace my bet’s on the top one being a male and the 2 lower one’s being hen’s. But I hope they all turn out to be hen’s.

LOL maybe I should run a raffle on the odds:D

Lucky1 said:

Bluegreen here are some photos of my little chickens for you to have a gander at:)

I’m pretty sure I have 3 hens:D

http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/

Be gentle with your answers….lol

your Light Sussex I would definitely say a hen. Not being experienced with other breeds I am not going to hazard a guess on the other two.

Happy Potter said:

I’ll pace my bet’s on the top one being a male and the 2 lower one’s being hen’s. But I hope they all turn out to be hen’s.

I wasn’t going to say but that’s what I was thinking too…

Hi Lucky can you post them here please as well :) My 8 Sussex chicks are 19 weeks old on Thursday and I’m still not sure of a couple! One left me in no doubt by crowing this morning. i’d say that our middle pic is of a pullet, bottom is a cockerel, top one I’d give an each way but if pressed is looking a bit boyish – mainly on darker comb colour – but I’m still an amateur with Sussex and almost gave 2 away by mistake last year!

Oh that link to “my” forum lol :

http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewforum.php?f=23 :D

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

Bluegreen here are some photos of my little chickens for you to have a gander at:)

I’m pretty sure I have 3 hens:D

http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/

Be gentle with your answers….lol

your Light Sussex I would definitely say a hen. Not being experienced with other breeds I am not going to hazard a guess on the other two.

Thanks……

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I’ll pace my bet’s on the top one being a male and the 2 lower one’s being hen’s. But I hope they all turn out to be hen’s.

I wasn’t going to say but that’s what I was thinking too…

Guess if it starts to crow we’ll know.

Be gentle with your answers….lol
——
all hens – no worries.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm love roast chook LOLOL

cackles said:

Hi Lucky can you post them here please as well :) My 8 Sussex chicks are 19 weeks old on Thursday and I’m still not sure of a couple! One left me in no doubt by crowing this morning. i’d say that our middle pic is of a pullet, bottom is a cockerel, top one I’d give an each way but if pressed is looking a bit boyish – mainly on darker comb colour – but I’m still an amateur with Sussex and almost gave 2 away by mistake last year!

Oh that link to “my” forum lol :

http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewforum.php?f=23 :D

Sorry cackles… you want the photos posted here or over on BYP???

pepper said:

Be gentle with your answers….lol
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all hens – no worries.

Brown noser…..LOL

Sorry cackles… you want the photos posted here or over on BYP???

Ooops – I can see them just fine on your blog, lucky :D Just that we have a new sub-forum of which I am a co-mod and you are a member and everyone seems to like a guessing game… :) Only if you want to of course…

Sorry, went to bed early last night – pigged out on jubes I got along with other stuff at cheapie shop – didn’t take enough note of the food additives and was so sick that I just crawled into bed early but slept reasonably well. Poultry didn’t even get shut in properly, no TV on or any other dinner – home about 5:30pm and in bed by 8:30pm or so, I think.

More poultry promotion! Not just on the bumper and outside of the tailgate but inside too! After- all this is the only place the feedstore and grocery pick-up people can see them as I always have the tailgate down there! :D

cackles said:

Sorry cackles… you want the photos posted here or over on BYP???

Ooops – I can see them just fine on your blog, lucky :D Just that we have a new sub-forum of which I am a co-mod and you are a member and everyone seems to like a guessing game… :) Only if you want to of course…

Sorry, went to bed early last night – pigged out on jubes I got along with other stuff at cheapie shop – didn’t take enough note of the food additives and was so sick that I just crawled into bed early but slept reasonably well. Poultry didn’t even get shut in properly, no TV on or any other dinner – home about 5:30pm and in bed by 8:30pm or so, I think.

Okay… I’ll pop them up on BYP today:D

cackles said:

More poultry promotion! Not just on the bumper and outside of the tailgate but inside too! After- all this is the only place the feedstore and grocery pick-up people can see them as I always have the tailgate down there! :D

LOL @ the sticker…..love it. Nice coffee mug too:)

And the first votes are in on gender of Lucky’s chickens! My friend, Darleen says all girls!I hope she is right!

Here is the link for checking up: http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?p=104764#104764

:D

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

Be gentle with your answers….lol
——
all hens – no worries.

Brown noser…..LOL

am not – just to show i’m serious – twenty cents each ways on ‘all chicks’

pepper said:

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

Be gentle with your answers….lol
——
all hens – no worries.

Brown noser…..LOL

am not – just to show i’m serious – twenty cents each ways on ‘all chicks’

So if I understand betting…. 20 cents if a rooster and 20 cents if a hen….. oh you do live on the edge…LOL

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

Be gentle with your answers….lol
——
all hens – no worries.

Brown noser…..LOL

am not – just to show i’m serious – twenty cents each ways on ‘all chicks’

So if I understand betting…. 20 cents if a rooster and 20 cents if a hen….. oh you do live on the edge…LOL

oh ok then – 20 cents says that none of them develop a deep voice.

pepper said:

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

Lucky1 said:

pepper said:

Be gentle with your answers….lol
——
all hens – no worries.

Brown noser…..LOL

am not – just to show i’m serious – twenty cents each ways on ‘all chicks’

So if I understand betting…. 20 cents if a rooster and 20 cents if a hen….. oh you do live on the edge…LOL

oh ok then – 20 cents says that none of them develop a deep voice.

LOL……

ScottieK on scribbly has a chook problem.

Referred him to Rickets formula…:) Might not help but won’t hurt.

I really need to go and poop collect and rake up old straw and then get the new bale out of the boot of the car….(wrapped in a tarp, so I don’t have to clean the car) and make like a caring wanna be farmer…….

Rather be in bed and sleep…….. at least the headache is gone…..

Later…green ones….

Lucky1 said:

then get the new bale out of the boot of the car….(wrapped in a tarp, so I don’t have to clean the car)

I got straw bag from my supplier – a zip up bag the size of a hay bale for carrying and storing. Really good for preventing straw getting everywhere once the ties are cut.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

then get the new bale out of the boot of the car….(wrapped in a tarp, so I don’t have to clean the car)

I got straw bag from my supplier – a zip up bag the size of a hay bale for carrying and storing. Really good for preventing straw getting everywhere once the ties are cut.

I have a wool pack from BIL….but that is covering the webber.

Well the chook shed is clean now…just waiting for the elf to finish a couple of running repairs and I’ll spread the straw round in their bedroom…..

Duck shed is cleaned out as well.

Just need to spread the straw round.

Duck bedding went into the no dig area and the chook bedding into the compost bin.

Lucky1 said:

Well the chook shed is clean now…just waiting for the elf to finish a couple of running repairs and I’ll spread the straw round in their bedroom…..

Duck shed is cleaned out as well.

Just need to spread the straw round.

Duck bedding went into the no dig area and the chook bedding into the compost bin.

Good afternoon all!. haven’t caught up on today’s chat yet…

Lucky, now I really am feeling guilty about getting so little done outside today!

Pouring rain a while ago – sun is out again now. Hard to keep things dry! that includes me as I ran out to make sure feed hopper wasn’t getting wet. Definitely needs a proper roof on it although the big compost bin cover works to a degree.

Another duck must have come into lay this morning! :D 6 duck eggs today – only one chook egg!

I am trying, not very successfully to get access to a copy of Australian Breed Standards:

http://vpfa.org.au/?page=book.html

Someone has kindly offered to copy and send me a bit so I can get an idea of quality of my poultry.

Lucky, now I really am feeling guilty about getting so little done outside today!
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Lot more I could be doing Cackles…… need more go-go juice……

Finally located this thread!

I think my chickens have got the pox :(

some of them have scabs on their faces and wattles and combs. but otherwise they seem OK.

bluegreen said:

I think my chickens have got the pox :(

some of them have scabs on their faces and wattles and combs. but otherwise they seem OK.

Oh shoot….:(

Is this easy to fix or do you have to put them to sleep????

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

I think my chickens have got the pox :(

some of them have scabs on their faces and wattles and combs. but otherwise they seem OK.

Oh shoot….:(

Is this easy to fix or do you have to put them to sleep????

it is a virus and it is a matter of sitting it out I gather.

it is a virus and it is a matter of sitting it out I gather.
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Going to have a read up on this, to inform myself…

Lucky1 said:

it is a virus and it is a matter of sitting it out I gather.
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Going to have a read up on this, to inform myself…

looking at them this morning it mainly seems to be the pekins. I gather once they have had it they are then immune.

Fowl Pox is not a big deal usually. Problem when mosquitoes are around. Here is link to sandy’s info that was posted In Good Samaritan index at BYP. From memory, a bit of Betadine dabbed on sores is all that is necessary, if anything at all – and controlling mozzies. I believe that there is conflicting info whether outbreak conveys future immunity, or maybe there are various strains?

http://fowlfacts.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=afflictiondiseaseff&action=display&thread=1120970463

cackles said:

Fowl Pox is not a big deal usually. Problem when mosquitoes are around. Here is link to sandy’s info that was posted In Good Samaritan index at BYP. From memory, a bit of Betadine dabbed on sores is all that is necessary, if anything at all – and controlling mozzies. I believe that there is conflicting info whether outbreak conveys future immunity, or maybe there are various strains?

http://fowlfacts.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=afflictiondiseaseff&action=display&thread=1120970463

that’s a good summary. I’d say that mine have the dry form and they are in the latter stages as they have scabs. Health otherwise is fine and they are eating and drinking without problems. What I need to do is be more diligent than I am in covering containers of water to prevent mossies from breeding, and when the current outbreak is over to give their pen a thorough clean out to get rid of old scabs.

Egg Cam

aawwww babies:)

bluegreen said:

Egg Cam

Cheep! Cheep!

Took me sooo long to bring up this thread again! Wish it was in list on top…

I have planted out my new trees into chookpen and put lightweight wire mesh guards around the 2 tea trees, trialling & hoping the other (larger lilly pilly) will be OK without protection from my feathered friends.

I have decided to swap the ducks and chooks around in the shed. At the moment the chooks are in the biggest (of 4) aviaries which gets a fair bit of air through a mesh wall running length of shed and ducks (at night) have been in the back one. I have been raking out and fluffing up and keeping as dry and loose as I can the shavings from the duckpen. Not being very successful and there is a limit to how much fresh shavings I can keep adding. There are 22 ducks now – all juveniles of course as (city council) limits apply only to adults :P. So – chooks can go back there for a while and their night deposits concentrated in one area will be easier to remove and hopefully keep the litter dry. The ducks have been investigating the chooks nestbox anyway so I think they like the chooks’ area already. Only have to manouvre the free-standing roosts to the back aviary now. This furniture rearrangement is planned for sometime this weekend.

Yesterday had the chookpen/aviary builder back to stabilise some gates and add latch-bolts to both sides of every gate/hatch door – but he didn’t bring enough hardware and has promised to return on Monday. Another adjustment is that some of the “splash barriers” sheets of metal along base of aviary mesh walls need removing from the framing side and replacing on the outside of the aviary mesh wall so that there isn’t a gap that feathers, shavings and near the roosts some poop gets trapped.

Still contemplating trying to get to Brookfield (Brisbane) Show tomorrow as it’s the inaugural show of new waterfowl group I have joined. Awaiting an email from a lady about it…

My goodness Cackles….. you have been busy your end of the feather:)

Still contemplating trying to get to Brookfield (Brisbane) Show tomorrow as it’s the inaugural show of new waterfowl group I have joined. Awaiting an email from a lady about it…
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Good luck:)

my chooks were cold and wet this morning. i didn’t have any cover for them behind the shed besides a dog house for laying eggs. so instead of running out and spending $ and time to build a structure….i put up a 4 person tent i haven’t used for years. they’re now drying off. it’s a bit dark but, better than walking around in cold mud.

aquarium said:

my chooks were cold and wet this morning. i didn’t have any cover for them behind the shed besides a dog house for laying eggs. so instead of running out and spending $ and time to build a structure….i put up a 4 person tent i haven’t used for years. they’re now drying off. it’s a bit dark but, better than walking around in cold mud.

Good thinking aqua :)

Mine are soaked to the bone and only just realised they have a house to shelter in lol..all drying off now.

aquarium said:

my chooks were cold and wet this morning. i didn’t have any cover for them behind the shed besides a dog house for laying eggs. so instead of running out and spending $ and time to build a structure….i put up a 4 person tent i haven’t used for years. they’re now drying off. it’s a bit dark but, better than walking around in cold mud.

Oh I love it:D Recycling at its finest:)

funny thing is…the tent cost about $40, and goes up in no-time. if i went to all the trouble of building a chook shed, it would cost way more. the tent entry, via zips, is not handy though. they’re dry now. it’s been raining all day here. damn cold too.

aquarium said:

funny thing is…the tent cost about $40, and goes up in no-time. if i went to all the trouble of building a chook shed, it would cost way more. the tent entry, via zips, is not handy though. they’re dry now. it’s been raining all day here. damn cold too.

I’m glad it’s you who has to clean it and not me. POOOO.

Bubba Louie said:

aquarium said:

funny thing is…the tent cost about $40, and goes up in no-time. if i went to all the trouble of building a chook shed, it would cost way more. the tent entry, via zips, is not handy though. they’re dry now. it’s been raining all day here. damn cold too.

I’m glad it’s you who has to clean it and not me. POOOO.

wouldn’t be much different to cleaning out the enclosures. poo everywhere. good stuff. only the duck poo smells bad.

aquarium said:

Bubba Louie said:

aquarium said:

funny thing is…the tent cost about $40, and goes up in no-time. if i went to all the trouble of building a chook shed, it would cost way more. the tent entry, via zips, is not handy though. they’re dry now. it’s been raining all day here. damn cold too.

I’m glad it’s you who has to clean it and not me. POOOO.

wouldn’t be much different to cleaning out the enclosures. poo everywhere. good stuff. only the duck poo smells bad.

But the enclosure doesn’t get folded up and packed away.

Bubba Louie said:

aquarium said:

Bubba Louie said:

aquarium said:

funny thing is…the tent cost about $40, and goes up in no-time. if i went to all the trouble of building a chook shed, it would cost way more. the tent entry, via zips, is not handy though. they’re dry now. it’s been raining all day here. damn cold too.

I’m glad it’s you who has to clean it and not me. POOOO.

wouldn’t be much different to cleaning out the enclosures. poo everywhere. good stuff. only the duck poo smells bad.

But the enclosure doesn’t get folded up and packed away.

i’m not going to use it for camping again in the future.

just saw this on TV …I think this was what we were looking for some time ago. I can’t remember if we found it lol .. so here it is

http://www.poultry-feeders.com/

Happy Potter said:

just saw this on TV …I think this was what we were looking for some time ago. I can’t remember if we found it lol .. so here it is

http://www.poultry-feeders.com/

the one I have you mount on the wall but the principle is the same

On my garden blog today I have posted about my egg counting chart I use and keep.

This started off years ago and after a couple of computer crashes and reformats…I know to burn a copy off every so often. Really need to do this again now too.

Anyhow..thought I’d bung up the chart on my blog for folks to have a squizz at.

http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/

Lucky1 said:

On my garden blog today I have posted about my egg counting chart I use and keep.

This started off years ago and after a couple of computer crashes and reformats…I know to burn a copy off every so often. Really need to do this again now too.

Anyhow..thought I’d bung up the chart on my blog for folks to have a squizz at.

http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/

looks good lucky, you reckon you could do me on up like that?

looks good lucky, you reckon you could do me on up like that?
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Nope…. I am sure you can do one yourself and show off your talents……:)

Lucky1 said:

looks good lucky, you reckon you could do me on up like that?
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Nope…. I am sure you can do one yourself and show off your talents……:)

not sure how to.

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

looks good lucky, you reckon you could do me on up like that?
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Nope…. I am sure you can do one yourself and show off your talents……:)

not sure how to.

Learn like I did:)

get a book on excel from your library and read the book and Bob’s your uncle:)

time to search the book cupboard.

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

looks good lucky, you reckon you could do me on up like that?
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Nope…. I am sure you can do one yourself and show off your talents……:)

not sure how to.

Learn like I did:)

get a book on excel from your library and read the book and Bob’s your uncle:)

found it.

wooh hoo 8 eggs today from the big girls:D

I’m only getting 1 duck egg every other day at the moment.

Don’t expect any chook eggs now until August/September, but then I should hve all 6 girls laying :)

bluegreen said:

I’m only getting 1 duck egg every other day at the moment.

Don’t expect any chook eggs now until August/September, but then I should have all 6 girls laying :)

I get the odd Sussex egg from them…… the silkies are laying almost daily now.:D

Check out the country ducks enjoying a fresh subway roll:D

http://luckysduckfarm.blogspot.com/

This is a beautiful spot to stop and rest if driving or even just to walk there, if staying in Burra:)

hey feathery people , I’m getting a new lot of chook’s tomorrow.. 4 isa brown’s point of lay.. and I was wondering can I put them straight in with the other’s ? Or do I need to introduce them gradually ? Any help appreciated :)

Happy Potter said:

hey feathery people , I’m getting a new lot of chook’s tomorrow.. 4 isa brown’s point of lay.. and I was wondering can I put them straight in with the other’s ? Or do I need to introduce them gradually ? Any help appreciated :)

hi HP. It is usually recommended to keep them seperately for a while to make sure they are not introducing any new pests or diseases. Once you are satisfied they are healthy you could allow them to mix for short periods of time, but even then once you start housing them together you will still get a bit of argy bargy until they get their new pecking order sorted out.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

hey feathery people , I’m getting a new lot of chook’s tomorrow.. 4 isa brown’s point of lay.. and I was wondering can I put them straight in with the other’s ? Or do I need to introduce them gradually ? Any help appreciated :)

hi HP. It is usually recommended to keep them seperately for a while to make sure they are not introducing any new pests or diseases. Once you are satisfied they are healthy you could allow them to mix for short periods of time, but even then once you start housing them together you will still get a bit of argy bargy until they get their new pecking order sorted out.

Thanks BG ..mime are getting argy bargy as it is. A few feather’s will fly anyway I suppose! I do have an area they can meet in, so I will try ‘gently’ first.

A distant relative of my gang???

Part of the opening ceremony of the Olympics perhaps?!

Crinkle said:

Part of the opening ceremony of the Olympics perhaps?!

Dunno, but she looks pretty darn spiffy in my books:)

I’d be proud to have her/him as a relative!!!?

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

in other words
-how long does an egg take to hatch?
- how old is a chick when she starts laying?
i’ve had chooks all my life but i keep forgetting these basic facts.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

Early spring……….

in other words
-how long does an egg take to hatch?
– how old is a chick when she starts laying?
i’ve had chooks all my life but i keep forgetting these basic facts.
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21 days for a chicken to hatch out

Depending on the breed of chook. Isa Browns is about 16 to 20 weeks. Pure breeds is different as they aren’t bred for eggs like Isa browns.

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

Early spring……….

Aspro is on the lower perch tonight – the top perch is firmly taken by the 6 most important hens.

21 days for a chicken to hatch out

Depending on the breed of chook. Isa Browns is about 16 to 20 weeks. Pure breeds is different as they aren’t bred for eggs like Isa browns.
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so 23 weeks from fertilised egg to first lay – thats close to half a year
ok thanks. i’ll have to wait to see if the eggs are fertilised in spring.

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

Early spring……….

so end of August that correct?

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

Early spring……….

so end of August that correct?

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

Early spring……….

so end of August that correct?

yep – set the broody on fertilised eggs 6 months in advance of when you want the chicks to lay

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Just out of interest for Pepe….. another 8 eggs again today:)

egg-cellent
if i want eggs say april to june when do i try to hatch the chicks ?
(you told me but i should have taken notes).

Early spring……….

so end of August that correct?

yep – set the broody on fertilised eggs 6 months in advance of when you want the chicks to lay

or incubator :P

New torch lit the area up where it shone, much more gently and the neighbours didn’t think it was daylight in our backyard;)

Out of interest how are people’s chooks going in the egg production.

I have 7 dozen eggs from the chooks in my fridge.

Tonight I collected another 8 eggs from the isa browns.

I’m getting about 2 a day from mine, out of six hens. They really have only started up in the last couple of weeks.

bluegreen said:

I’m getting about 2 a day from mine, out of six hens. They really have only started up in the last couple of weeks.

Are` all your hen Light Sussex’s??? Or have you a couple of other bantams now?? Not sure after the fox raid what you have now Bluegreen.

i am getting 1 eggs a day :( the eggs i put in the incubator i dont think will be any good i got to try and find some fertile ones.

Lucky1 said:

Out of interest how are people’s chooks going in the egg production.

I have 7 dozen eggs from the chooks in my fridge.

Tonight I collected another 8 eggs from the isa browns.

2-3 eggs per day from 8 hens

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

I’m getting about 2 a day from mine, out of six hens. They really have only started up in the last couple of weeks.

Are` all your hen Light Sussex’s??? Or have you a couple of other bantams now?? Not sure after the fox raid what you have now Bluegreen.

4 Light Sussex and 2 Pekin.

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

I’m getting about 2 a day from mine, out of six hens. They really have only started up in the last couple of weeks.

Are` all your hen Light Sussex’s??? Or have you a couple of other bantams now?? Not sure after the fox raid what you have now Bluegreen.

4 Light Sussex and 2 Pekin.

That that was it…just wasn’t 100%

The gang must be bored……

1 chook egg laid out in the mud in the chok run.
1 duck egg under the straw in the walk way in their shed, which I stepped on.

Both no good, so I have beaten them both and nuked and put in the worm bucket. Nothing wasted here:D

Lucky1 said:

The gang must be bored……

1 chook egg laid out in the mud in the chok run.
1 duck egg under the straw in the walk way in their shed, which I stepped on.

Both no good, so I have beaten them both and nuked and put in the worm bucket. Nothing wasted here:D

OMG!!! I thought you loved your feathered friends! ; p

Crinkle said:

Lucky1 said:

The gang must be bored……

1 chook egg laid out in the mud in the chok run.
1 duck egg under the straw in the walk way in their shed, which I stepped on.

Both no good, so I have beaten them both and nuked and put in the worm bucket. Nothing wasted here:D

OMG!!! I thought you loved your feathered friends! ; p

Oh I do, but I think 2 need therapy…..LOL

Lucky1 said:

Crinkle said:

Lucky1 said:

The gang must be bored……

1 chook egg laid out in the mud in the chok run.
1 duck egg under the straw in the walk way in their shed, which I stepped on.

Both no good, so I have beaten them both and nuked and put in the worm bucket. Nothing wasted here:D

OMG!!! I thought you loved your feathered friends! ; p

Oh I do, but I think 2 need therapy…..LOL

No no no no no… I beat the eggs not the chook/duck……….. love them…hug them, pat them soil them………

soil them………
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SPOIL….. and I need to lay down… I’m in shock….LOL

One of the really cool things about having our own chooks, is with the 5 bantams……. I can cook up 1/2 dozen eggs at a time and keep as snack food in the fridge. Nice little size to ward the hunger pangs off.

Lucky1 said:

One of the really cool things about having our own chooks, is with the 5 bantams……. I can cook up 1/2 dozen eggs at a time and keep as snack food in the fridge. Nice little size to ward the hunger pangs off.

and they are tasty too :)

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

One of the really cool things about having our own chooks, is with the 5 bantams……. I can cook up 1/2 dozen eggs at a time and keep as snack food in the fridge. Nice little size to ward the hunger pangs off.

and they are tasty too :)

Oh for sure……. Listening to Dr. Harry on the radio this morning….he wants to know where all the backyard chooks have gone. He’s very passionate about bringing them back.

my egg supply had dropped which usually means that there is a hidden nest somewhere in the backyard, so when I heard a ruckus from the chooks this morning I went and checked out where they were. Sure enough one of my hens was sitting cosy deep behind a shrub. I left her there to get on with it and just went out now to collect what eggs may be there – and found 11 eggs!! Boy is she going to be pissed off when she goes back tomorrow and finds them all gone! lol!

LOL! She’ll be after you with her beak sharpened BG !

bluegreen said:

my egg supply had dropped which usually means that there is a hidden nest somewhere in the backyard, so when I heard a ruckus from the chooks this morning I went and checked out where they were. Sure enough one of my hens was sitting cosy deep behind a shrub. I left her there to get on with it and just went out now to collect what eggs may be there – and found 11 eggs!! Boy is she going to be pissed off when she goes back tomorrow and finds them all gone! lol!

ROTFPIMP

Lucky1 said:

One of the really cool things about having our own chooks, is with the 5 bantams……. I can cook up 1/2 dozen eggs at a time and keep as snack food in the fridge. Nice little size to ward the hunger pangs off.

hard boiled?

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

One of the really cool things about having our own chooks, is with the 5 bantams……. I can cook up 1/2 dozen eggs at a time and keep as snack food in the fridge. Nice little size to ward the hunger pangs off.

hard boiled?

Oh yeah…….peeled and gone with in a couple of days.

oh! oh! oh!

I have chickens hatching! One out so far :)

Well done! :) Always exciting isn’t it :)

I have eggs in incubator just about due – a couple pipped last night but not out…

bluegreen said:

oh! oh! oh!

I have chickens hatching! One out so far :)

kool

2 chicks and another egg pipping. Not sure if the rest are going to hatch.

bluegreen said:

2 chicks and another egg pipping. Not sure if the rest are going to hatch.

Good.

4 ducklings out, another part out and I think one more pipped…:)

still only two chicks. I suspect that is going to be my lot. I guess that is what happens when they start sitting while you are on holidays – you have no control of how many you let them sit on. I suspect that the other hens have been laying in the nest since and she hasn’t been able to cover them properly. I’ll take any unhatched eggs away when I get home this afternoon and transfer them to the “nursery”.

bluegreen said:

still only two chicks. I suspect that is going to be my lot. I guess that is what happens when they start sitting while you are on holidays – you have no control of how many you let them sit on. I suspect that the other hens have been laying in the nest since and she hasn’t been able to cover them properly. I’ll take any unhatched eggs away when I get home this afternoon and transfer them to the “nursery”.

Oh – a bit disappointing for you but still 2 better than none – hope they are both pullets, BG :)

Oh I do hope these little chicks go well and are hens for you.

A have a duck that set herself and is very fierce but it is now past her due date – now my dilemma is to decide whether to give her more eggs or the babies that are hatching at the moment – they won’t be from any of her eggs – 7 so far clambering around the incubator. :)

I have to go and buy more starter or grower crumbles this morning – they all have good appetites!

cackles said:

A have a duck that set herself and is very fierce but it is now past her due date – now my dilemma is to decide whether to give her more eggs or the babies that are hatching at the moment – they won’t be from any of her eggs – 7 so far clambering around the incubator. :)

I have to go and buy more starter or grower crumbles this morning – they all have good appetites!

Some days its tough being a nanna….:)

Lucky1 said:

cackles said:

A have a duck that set herself and is very fierce but it is now past her due date – now my dilemma is to decide whether to give her more eggs or the babies that are hatching at the moment – they won’t be from any of her eggs – 7 so far clambering around the incubator. :)

I have to go and buy more starter or grower crumbles this morning – they all have good appetites!

Some days its tough being a nanna….:)

lol

cackles said:

bluegreen said:

still only two chicks. I suspect that is going to be my lot. I guess that is what happens when they start sitting while you are on holidays – you have no control of how many you let them sit on. I suspect that the other hens have been laying in the nest since and she hasn’t been able to cover them properly. I’ll take any unhatched eggs away when I get home this afternoon and transfer them to the “nursery”.

Oh – a bit disappointing for you but still 2 better than none – hope they are both pullets, BG :)

I won’t be keeping them but I’m sure the person I have offered them to will hope they are pullets :)

cackles said:

A have a duck that set herself and is very fierce but it is now past her due date – now my dilemma is to decide whether to give her more eggs or the babies that are hatching at the moment – they won’t be from any of her eggs – 7 so far clambering around the incubator. :)

I have to go and buy more starter or grower crumbles this morning – they all have good appetites!

I’d try her with the ducklings.

I’d try her with the ducklings.

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juggling pens & brooders as this is 3 lot of ducklings about 1 month apart this season…they need to be in secure aviary-meshed enclosed so adults are being displaced – the youngsters are still coming inside at night – and the drake from trio of setting/brooding ducks has his own pen…and so on – decisions, decisions

cackles said:

I’d try her with the ducklings.

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juggling pens & brooders as this is 3 lot of ducklings about 1 month apart this season…they need to be in secure aviary-meshed enclosed so adults are being displaced – the youngsters are still coming inside at night – and the drake from trio of setting/brooding ducks has his own pen…and so on – decisions, decisions

I know what it is like :) I am currently preparing an area for my drake and second duck so that my nesting duck can have the space to herself and her ducklings if/when they hatch.

well knock me down with a feather but a third chick has hatched and another 3 eggs are pipped!

Trouble is I didn’t realise the other eggs had pipped until after I moved mum and the 3 chicks and now I don’t think she will settle on them again in the new cage as the oldest chick is now well over 24 hours and will be moving around soon, and these might take another 24 hours to hatch and she might leave the eggs in favour of the chicks.

Soooo….

I have popped the remainder of my eggs in the steamer insert in my rice cooker with water in the bottom and the heat on low. I will keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t get too hot but I figure that they just need enough warmth and humidity to finish hatching and then I can give them back to her. I successfully finished hatching a clutch of eggs in an electric frying pan before but I don’t have that anymore. Actually I think the rice cooker might be safer…

bluegreen said:

well knock me down with a feather but a third chick has hatched and another 3 eggs are pipped!

Trouble is I didn’t realise the other eggs had pipped until after I moved mum and the 3 chicks and now I don’t think she will settle on them again in the new cage as the oldest chick is now well over 24 hours and will be moving around soon, and these might take another 24 hours to hatch and she might leave the eggs in favour of the chicks.

Soooo….

I have popped the remainder of my eggs in the steamer insert in my rice cooker with water in the bottom and the heat on low. I will keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t get too hot but I figure that they just need enough warmth and humidity to finish hatching and then I can give them back to her. I successfully finished hatching a clutch of eggs in an electric frying pan before but I don’t have that anymore. Actually I think the rice cooker might be safer…

Sweet & sour chicken with a side of rice.:)

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

well knock me down with a feather but a third chick has hatched and another 3 eggs are pipped!

Trouble is I didn’t realise the other eggs had pipped until after I moved mum and the 3 chicks and now I don’t think she will settle on them again in the new cage as the oldest chick is now well over 24 hours and will be moving around soon, and these might take another 24 hours to hatch and she might leave the eggs in favour of the chicks.

Soooo….

I have popped the remainder of my eggs in the steamer insert in my rice cooker with water in the bottom and the heat on low. I will keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t get too hot but I figure that they just need enough warmth and humidity to finish hatching and then I can give them back to her. I successfully finished hatching a clutch of eggs in an electric frying pan before but I don’t have that anymore. Actually I think the rice cooker might be safer…

Sweet & sour chicken with a side of rice.:)

Lucky! You surprise me!

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

bluegreen said:

Sweet & sour chicken with a side of rice.:)

Lucky! You surprise me!

Oh Bluegreen it got to 29 here today…. suffering from heat stroke;)

Hey eith Klinger or Hotlips is broody….. collected my first sussex egg for her tonight:)

>Oh Bluegreen it got to 29 here today…

It got to 11 here today!

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60801/IDW60801.95621.shtml

So chin up, that is heading your way…

colliewa said:

>Oh Bluegreen it got to 29 here today…

It got to 11 here today!

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60801/IDW60801.95621.shtml

So chin up, that is heading your way…

Bless you Collie:D

I can hear cheeping coming from my rice cooker :)

bluegreen said:

I can hear cheeping coming from my rice cooker :)

Turn it up…… your not cooking them right;P

Sought and received advice on transferring ducklings to broody – so that’s where I’ll be in next little while…Oh a couple of pics posted in my thread and as I didn’t make them thumbnails they should be viewable without logging in to BYP. :)

http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?t=7963513

cackles said:

Sought and received advice on transferring ducklings to broody – so that’s where I’ll be in next little while…Oh a couple of pics posted in my thread and as I didn’t make them thumbnails they should be viewable without logging in to BYP. :)

http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?t=7963513

My goodness what an interesting saga, Cackles…you weren’t meant to get those little ducklings under the broody after all (but isn’t she a clever broody??!!).

Just did a rough calculation, what a lot of ducks you’ve got coming on!

No joy from my attempts at hatching the eggs :(

I’m not sure why as the temp seemed about right and plenty of humidity, but maybe it was just a bit too hot. No sign of life now from the pipped eggs. Don’t feel like doing much today now but probably should just get on with it anyway.

Aw BG – sorry. It was worth a try anyway. Did you have a thermometer in with them. I only tried it once – hot water in a yogurt maker and think I cooked mine too…Hope the other 2 are doing well :)

bluegreen said:

No joy from my attempts at hatching the eggs :(

I’m not sure why as the temp seemed about right and plenty of humidity, but maybe it was just a bit too hot. No sign of life now from the pipped eggs. Don’t feel like doing much today now but probably should just get on with it anyway.

Oh what a shame……:(

How are the other 2 chicks going????

cackles said:

Aw BG – sorry. It was worth a try anyway. Did you have a thermometer in with them. I only tried it once – hot water in a yogurt maker and think I cooked mine too…Hope the other 2 are doing well :)

I didn’t think of a thermometer, even though I have one. I did end out with 3 hatched under the hen in the end. I was just too impatient to move her as where she had the eggs was not suitable for keeping the chicks. I am kicking myself now.

“I am kicking myself now.”

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I have done plenty of that to myself too.

A couple of ducklings pipped but didn’t make it out of shell – can’t help wondering if it had to be…one pipped at pointy end rather than airsac end of its egg so probably did very well to get that far.

But I get a bit upset when I let a plant die too

Glad you got 3 chicks though! Will your friend take all 3?

cackles said:

“I am kicking myself now.”

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I have done plenty of that to myself too.

A couple of ducklings pipped but didn’t make it out of shell – can’t help wondering if it had to be…one pipped at pointy end rather than airsac end of its egg so probably did very well to get that far.

But I get a bit upset when I let a plant die too

Glad you got 3 chicks though! Will your friend take all 3?

I think so, haven’t heard back from her yet.

If not there is always the poultry auction at the Caribbean Markets…

Wow Cackles, it’s all happening at your place ! Congratulations!

bluegreen said:

No joy from my attempts at hatching the eggs :(

I’m not sure why as the temp seemed about right and plenty of humidity, but maybe it was just a bit too hot. No sign of life now from the pipped eggs. Don’t feel like doing much today now but probably should just get on with it anyway.

Aw that’s a shame BG. Was worth a try though. ((Hugs))

orchid40 said:

Wow Cackles, it’s all happening at your place ! Congratulations!

Thanks :) D2 left nest with 6 today. I left it a bit late to check the 5 remaining eggs which had cooled by then (late afternoon). 2 were peeping strongly, one had pipped, one no good broke in my hand, may have been damaged, other 2 also in incubator – just checked no progress.

I took the 9 9incubator-hatched) bubs out to show her today & she attacked me furiously. I don’t think she would hurt the babies but not quite sure about trying them with her given that comments in that (BYP) thread about the window for imprinting and it would be no good if the kids don’t respond to foster mum. 15 or maybe a couple more might be too many ducklings for her to cover, especially as she is a more “deep-dish” nester. Then again, ducklings tend sit more around than under the broody, unlike chickens.

Ducks are such characters, especially when broody!

One little girl last year kept adding material to her nest, getting higher and higher- reminded me of The Man from Snowy River poem (at least I think it was in that one!) – “bulwarks for and aft” about saddles, or as if making sure it would be above flood level – others are not too fussy and will sit in a bit of an indent in the dirt!

cackles said:

One little girl last year kept adding material to her nest, getting higher and higher- reminded me of The Man from Snowy River poem (at least I think it was in that one!) – “bulwarks for and aft” about saddles, or as if making sure it would be above flood level – others are not too fussy and will sit in a bit of an indent in the dirt!

that is what mine has done – just about all the bedding in the cage has become nest material :)

Ducks are such characters, especially when broody!
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I’ll say:)

I get to bond with Banjo when she’s on the nest.

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp

My vet sent me this :)

Happy Potter said:

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp

My vet sent me this :)

WOW!!!

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

do they have crushed oyster shell available to them Veg? This helps with both their digestion as grit and as a source of calcium.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

do they have crushed oyster shell available to them Veg? This helps with both their digestion as grit and as a source of calcium.

they have shell grit in there coop.

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

do they have crushed oyster shell available to them Veg? This helps with both their digestion as grit and as a source of calcium.

they have shell grit in there coop.

has she only just started laying? it might improve as her system settles in.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

do they have crushed oyster shell available to them Veg? This helps with both their digestion as grit and as a source of calcium.

they have shell grit in there coop.

has she only just started laying? it might improve as her system settles in.

nope this is her second year laying same as all of them.

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

Is she new to laying?? Do you have an idea who it maybe?

Shell grit helps and also if they are coming back into lay after a moult….. she should settle down.

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

do they have crushed oyster shell available to them Veg? This helps with both their digestion as grit and as a source of calcium.

they have shell grit in there coop.

Good Lad:D

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

Is she new to laying?? Do you have an idea who it maybe?

Shell grit helps and also if they are coming back into lay after a moult….. she should settle down.

nope have know idea which one it is.

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

do they have crushed oyster shell available to them Veg? This helps with both their digestion as grit and as a source of calcium.

they have shell grit in there coop.

Good Lad:D

its been in there for 2 weeks now, think i love my feathered friends to much now, they had a hot breaky because it was cold.

its been in there for 2 weeks now, think i love my feathered friends to much now, they had a hot breaky because it was cold.
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Starting to sound like me….LOL

Lucky1 said:

its been in there for 2 weeks now, think i love my feathered friends to much now, they had a hot breaky because it was cold.
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Starting to sound like me….LOL

LOL

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

they have shell grit in there coop.

Good Lad:D

its been in there for 2 weeks now, think i love my feathered friends to much now, they had a hot breaky because it was cold.

can’t love them too much :D

Hopefully your chook is just a bit out of rhythm and will settle down to laying proper eggs soon.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

they have shell grit in there coop.

Good Lad:D

its been in there for 2 weeks now, think i love my feathered friends to much now, they had a hot breaky because it was cold.

can’t love them too much :D

Hopefully your chook is just a bit out of rhythm and will settle down to laying proper eggs soon.

yeah i hope she does stop it as well.

All the advice you got here and at BYP about the soft-shelled eggs is good Veg. Nothing to be too concerned about at this stage – only if all her eggs in the future are like that…

I decided that I needed to get my records of this season’s ducklings a bit more sorted! – Results are as follows:

Hatched 23/7 Age at end of September -10 weeks – 3
“ 27/8 “ – 5 “ -3
“ 9/9 “ – 3 “ -9
“ 25-26/9 “ – 1 “ – 17

Total on hand at end of September 32 Ducklings :)
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No wonder they are getting through the crumbles and water and keeping me a bit busy. need to get photo record too as they grow so fast. I see the one week olds beside the 5 week olds and find it amazing the increase in size. The 10 week olds are like smaller versions of the adults!

I think my Speckled Sussex, Freckles is broody :)- she has been a bit clucky off and on lately – but won’t sit anywhere but the communal nestbox. I gave here a couple of sacrificial duck eggs for the time being and am collecting the chook eggs every hour or so as she gathers them under her as soon as the others lay…She is only 9 months old. I have her as my desktop and Avatar on BYP so you can guess she is a bit of a favourite.

veg gardener said:

one of my hens has been laying soft shelled eggs, this is the second day now yesterday it layed in the nesting box and today it laid it in the straw that’s in there coop.

The eggs cackles gave me have the strongest shells I’ve come across.

i am trying to find a fact sheet over in GA the one where Josh Creates the big chook pen. can someone help me

veg gardener said:

i am trying to find a fact sheet over in GA the one where Josh Creates the big chook pen. can someone help me

Talking to yourself there veg lol.. can you do a search on the GA site for it ?

Happy Potter said:

veg gardener said:

i am trying to find a fact sheet over in GA the one where Josh Creates the big chook pen. can someone help me

Talking to yourself there veg lol.. can you do a search on the GA site for it ?

it wont let me do a search and yeah i been talking to my self a bit.

veg gardener said:

Happy Potter said:

veg gardener said:

i am trying to find a fact sheet over in GA the one where Josh Creates the big chook pen. can someone help me

Talking to yourself there veg lol.. can you do a search on the GA site for it ?

it wont let me do a search and yeah i been talking to my self a bit.

Arh I looked too and the fact sheet tells you to go to joshbyrne.com.au and when you go there, then it says the site is being updated.
Search chook pen in google images Veg.

Happy Potter said:

veg gardener said:

Happy Potter said:

veg gardener said:

i am trying to find a fact sheet over in GA the one where Josh Creates the big chook pen. can someone help me

Talking to yourself there veg lol.. can you do a search on the GA site for it ?

it wont let me do a search and yeah i been talking to my self a bit.

Arh I looked too and the fact sheet tells you to go to joshbyrne.com.au and when you go there, then it says the site is being updated.
Search chook pen in google images Veg.

yeah i will, i got a friend after the thing because he is after some info, its 1m form all fence and for netting or is that just the coop?

any ways of keep your chooks cool in hot weather ment to get to 30+ today i put a tarp out there any other things?

veg gardener said:

any ways of keep your chooks cool in hot weather ment to get to 30+ today i put a tarp out there any other things?

ice in water container, any shade you can, also dampen their dust bath site perhaps – there are lots of good tips in at least one thread on BYP – the subject comes up every summer. Also Lucky hass talked about it here and on her blog – I believe – maybe even earlier in this thread?

Did you get you AP mag? Mine came yesterday. ;)

cackles said:

veg gardener said:

any ways of keep your chooks cool in hot weather ment to get to 30+ today i put a tarp out there any other things?

ice in water container, any shade you can, also dampen their dust bath site perhaps – there are lots of good tips in at least one thread on BYP – the subject comes up every summer. Also Lucky hass talked about it here and on her blog – I believe – maybe even earlier in this thread?

Did you get you AP mag? Mine came yesterday. ;)

yeah i went to the shop the day before.

get vines growing on fences, trellises around pen – eg things like choko – good feed too – about the main green my get daily as I strip about half leaves off and pinch out any growing tip that I see – like the fruit for everyone tip I see there are at least 1 that I don’t! The more you trim the vine the more shoots grow! My main vine has a compost bin at its feet so is rampant.

Didn’t you end up subscribing to it, Veg?

cackles said:

Didn’t you end up subscribing to it, Veg?

na not yet i will most probly subscribe when its my birthday.

veg gardener said:

any ways of keep your chooks cool in hot weather ment to get to 30+ today i put a tarp out there any other things?

(just ducking in for a sec while I have a break from packing)

I keep some soft drink bottles of water in the freezer then I can put them in their water to keep it cool. Otherwise change their water regularly so it doesn’t get to warm for them and make sure there are shady places for them. If you can water down some of the shady spots then that will help too.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

any ways of keep your chooks cool in hot weather ment to get to 30+ today i put a tarp out there any other things?

(just ducking in for a sec while I have a break from packing)

I keep some soft drink bottles of water in the freezer then I can put them in their water to keep it cool. Otherwise change their water regularly so it doesn’t get to warm for them and make sure there are shady places for them. If you can water down some of the shady spots then that will help too.

yeah. i put some ice cubes out there in a contair full of tank water.

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

any ways of keep your chooks cool in hot weather ment to get to 30+ today i put a tarp out there any other things?

(just ducking in for a sec while I have a break from packing)

I keep some soft drink bottles of water in the freezer then I can put them in their water to keep it cool. Otherwise change their water regularly so it doesn’t get to warm for them and make sure there are shady places for them. If you can water down some of the shady spots then that will help too.

yeah. i put some ice cubes out there in a contair full of tank water.

good oh. just keep an eye on them during the day and they will be fine :)