thought i might start this here as well, may be we could get a another type of chat thing going for poultry as well as the Normal December chat.
one of the old girls laid a white colored egg which is bigger then normal and feels a bit like sandpaper. it wasn’t in the nesting box as well.
as chooks get older they can lay the odd looking egg. I wouldn’t worry too much about it as long as she still has access to the shell grit.
bluegreen said:
as chooks get older they can lay the odd looking egg. I wouldn’t worry too much about it as long as she still has access to the shell grit.
yeah they do mixed in with there food.
today I took three of the 6 wk old ducks and the eight 4 wk old bantam chicks to the markets for auction and got $50 for them! I thought it was 1 male and 2 female ducks because only one had a green bill, but the auctioneer pointed out that only one could quack. So it was 2 males and 1 female and they were sold individually. I am going to have to check that the 2 I kept can quack or they might be males too! If so I can take them in next week. The chicks generated a lot of interest even though unsexed so selling them that young was a good plan as I got more for them than older ones I have sold.
bluegreen said:
today I took three of the 6 wk old ducks and the eight 4 wk old bantam chicks to the markets for auction and got $50 for them! I thought it was 1 male and 2 female ducks because only one had a green bill, but the auctioneer pointed out that only one could quack. So it was 2 males and 1 female and they were sold individually. I am going to have to check that the 2 I kept can quack or they might be males too! If so I can take them in next week. The chicks generated a lot of interest even though unsexed so selling them that young was a good plan as I got more for them than older ones I have sold.
Well i have learn’t something today….Male ducks can’t quack….is that because the female one never shuts up enough to let him speak….. :-)
Well done in selling them also bg
Rook
Rook said:
Well i have learn’t something today….Male ducks can’t quack….is that because the female one never shuts up enough to let him speak….. :-)Well done in selling them also bg
Rook
I knew it, but didn’t apply it. I assumed that because only one had his bill turned green that he was the only male, and trying to catch them this morning was such a stressful event that I didn’t think about which ones were quacking and which ones weren’t. The males have more of a hiss than a quack.
Well done BG!
orchid40 said:
Well done BG!
thanks. I must say that most of the birds there can be pretty sorry looking specimens. Mind you there were a couple of peacocks there today. Would have been tempted if I had the space.
bluegreen said:
orchid40 said:
Well done BG!
thanks. I must say that most of the birds there can be pretty sorry looking specimens. Mind you there were a couple of peacocks there today. Would have been tempted if I had the space.
Oh peacocks are beautiful, but their cry is mournful. Maybe you will have the space soon ?!
orchid40 said:
Oh peacocks are beautiful, but their cry is mournful. Maybe you will have the space soon ?!
maybe :)
talking about peacocks…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article675635.ece
There’s a pub near the Mundaring weir near Perth with peacocks. When you park your car they clean the bugs out of your radiator!
well done BG.
New Hampshires are very prone to go broody good thing is i have a rooster hopefully they wont break eggs as i wouldn’t mind having one of my hens go broody.
good video http://thebluemountainsmenagerie.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-heart-was-in-my-mouth-whole-time.html
veg gardener said:
New Hampshires are very prone to go broody good thing is i have a rooster hopefully they wont break eggs as i wouldn’t mind having one of my hens go broody.
I love it when my hens hatch some chicks. It’s a real sight seeing a fluffed up hen with all these little heads peaking out through her feathers. But often my hens go broody when I don’t want them too!
bluegreen said:
veg gardener said:
New Hampshires are very prone to go broody good thing is i have a rooster hopefully they wont break eggs as i wouldn’t mind having one of my hens go broody.
I love it when my hens hatch some chicks. It’s a real sight seeing a fluffed up hen with all these little heads peaking out through her feathers. But often my hens go broody when I don’t want them too!
yep.
veg gardener said:
good video http://thebluemountainsmenagerie.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-heart-was-in-my-mouth-whole-time.html
Thanks for sharing that vg
Well I have done bugger all today as we were out getting a few things for the lad’s Christmas pressie.
But I am happy to say, I ran into my old egg customer who left her job from where I’d drop her eggs off. We’ll each Monday we will drop eggs off at her house as she missed my chook’s eggs. Been buying bought eggs and she said they are yuck.
She lives a few streets away from us…..nice and close.
Now I’ll try and do some cooking.
getting 2 more New Hampshire hens same age as mine.
456 eggs from my 3 isa brown hens pretty good for them being in there second laying year.
73 eggs in January and 64 in October being the highest and the lowest two where 15 in June and 24 in august.
sounds like your girls are being productive VG :)
at the moment we have more eggs than we know what to do with. Usually when they start to build up I will make some eggy things like frittatas and zucchini slices, but because of my broken wrist I haven’t done any cooking so they aren’t getting eaten. When I am back in action again I will bake a whole lot for the freezer I think.