Recent content by TexasNette

Aren’t packing peanuts corn starch??

Well, the “feels like” temp today in Central Texas is 120. I just walked out to my coup and my Wyandotte is dead in the run. Totally healthy, laying eggs up until now-dead! I’ve been giving them ice water, they have plenty of shade. 😭

So informative but now that I’ve read everything that could go wrong I am wondering how chicks ever hatch being brooded by a hen. 😂 We more often than not, have temps well over 104!

I am definitely wanting to do this but confused about providing vegetables yet, maintains a dry environment 🤷🏼‍♀️

My chickens sleep in the nests too-I always clean it out in the morning before they lay just because of the poop accumulation-we had chickens for 20 years and they slept in the nests. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Loved this especially the hint of straw! Mine have already decreased laying! Bummer! Will it stop Totally until spring?? Sure miss all those eggs!

What color are their legs/feet?

I had a chicken eat a lizard-one gulp gone-would that cause diarrhea?

Mine has black diarrhea-eating layer food, oyster shells, water. Not acting abnormal. Not sure if she is laying yet or not-have three EE and I know two are laying- One Wyandotte laying one not.

I have an EE that takes literally FOREVER! I keep going back, still there. Two hours later, still there! The others seem to pop in there and pop out. She isn’t broody, just seems to take forever!

The egg was in the coop but the chickens are fully out during the day. Not sure though how I could get more ventilation-it’s surrounded in chicken wire. I have to admit the egg was wedged between the coop and the fence-so, maybe. But an egg will definitely cook at 120. Not safe to eat, but it...

Oh I am dead serious!

Yes.

I’ve got one for you, it is so hot in Texas right now that the last egg I collected(after being gone for three days to the lake) the yolk was totally cooked! Firm and yellow!😂

Wow! 4-5 WEEKS! I am glad mine didn’t start that early. Mine are 5 mos old and I caught two of the Wyandottes sitting on top of the fence gate! So, grabbed some sharp scissors and went to clipping. Was fast, easy and they had no idea what happened-except they could no longer fly!