MoonMoon

MoonMoon

Chirping 20 From Vietnam, now living in Bratislava, Slovakia
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    Duck's egg. Lots of chicken eggs.
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    I’ve start selling eggs to recoup feeding cost. We get 12-14 eggs per day.
    I had since realized the Golden Comets is unfit as free ranger. They suffer almost immediately from shortage of food. WISH I can convince my parents to not buy these anymore...
    They prized themselves in buying these because they’re 50 cents cheaper than mine...
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    My parents plan to buy 50 more Golden Comets despite their health failing very fast when malnourished. And they plan to only feed them with kitchen scraps lmao, they think they’re so smart, capitalizing on free food to make eggs to sell. Well, not like we didn’t lose 10 birds from malnutrition already. Oh, but they’re 50c cheaper! Smh at least my 9€ leghorn can dig, the 8,50€ GC is something else.
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    Parents saved 5€ but also lost 10+€ due to dying/dead bird, if not counting last year’s losses. The Golden Comets is not looking good this year.
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    Had been coming home late daily since taking a new job. Saw broken eggs evidence, what was left of a shell-less egg. So it wasn’t pullets just laying odd eggs, it was my fault, oops. The chickens were definitely short on calcium, it’ll prob take a few days to resolve. Fam is deffi not feeding the chickens well, some crop full some lacking. I’m hopin’ nobody gets egg peritonitis, or we will get some premature broth ☹️
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    Yeah we have too many chickens and we can’t consume all of the eggs but at least not be my chickens. The golden comet is very fat and yummy and ate much 😭

    It’s funny how immediate the consequences of me having to go to work echoed in the birds. Not good to keep their health up, though. Also, their eggs is getting smaller??? I didn’t think nutrition would affect egg size! But I think that makes sense.
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    Egg eating is not a concern yet because I’m sure it’s not intentional, but if the calcium problem get resolve and they still eat the eggs that’ll be a different story. However, it could be not the chickens eating the yolk, too. Most of them refuse to eat the broken eggs except for a very few(wyandotte)
    But the shell is definitely ate by them. Tossed a few whole shells out today and no shells left afterward.
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    Frustrated today because I have to go home late due to work. Found a rat because I put feed in the run today because it was cold out. Couldn’t kill it, too quick. Lesson learned, no more kitchen scraps just tossed in the garden willy nilly, too, because the bones I toss in the garden disappeared. Fox? Cats? i hope not. Even crows and magpies are not welcome. Really gotta stick this lesson in.
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    Usually I would just throw the kitchen scraps and feed out for the chickens in a corner but after several times I am sure something else was eating it. I wish I invested in a better feeder before buying these. I will also be buying and setting up cage-style rodent traps. I was losing sleep over the thought of pests in my garden.
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    Really shouldn’t attract predators into my yard. No incident yet since the first two but I don't want to learn by blood(of my birds)
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    Shell-less egg. I’ve found ~5 so far, 4 this week.
    I think it was from a golden comet because the egg was big and yolk was thick. The golden comets lay eggs with thick yolk.

    The GCs had laid tons of double-yolked eggs, so I know they can have weird eggs. Suspected one shelless layer and today I found two eggs, under the roost. There was only one golden comet in there.
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    One egg had broke already but seems like no membrane was found? Both were laid at midnight at least, as I've checked the coop before 8 pm(I couldn't sleep)

    So super late eggs, shell-less, one broken and maybe even membrane-less (maybe someone ate it?), thick yolk which I still found weird, and, so far 95% of the eggs I check are fertilized including the intact shell-less egg.
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    Today confirmed that more than one is definitely laying these. Saw two today but sadly I didn’t pick up the other one before a hen broke it. Will break out the calcium lime because I haven’t been refilling them as I should’ve. I only gave the chickens their eggshell back lately and by the lack of crumbs today, they in fact, needed it.
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    Most of the chickens have short, dull claws and almost no pin feathers then there's my poor single Wyandotte with almost full claws and tons of pin feathers
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    (Just letting her hang out in the bathtub, not bathing her)
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    Studies/pictures of my wyandotte, just because I can
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    In case she died and I lose my phone data, I believe this site will hold up her memory.

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    Some notable things is she have double the fluff and have feathers around her cloaca(the rest doesn’t, very easy to tell where theirs is)compared to the others. She sounds different and just very unique compared to basically every other chickens I ever have. Huh.
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    13 eggs from 19 hens, in the middle of winter, 8 hours of daily sun, while I suspect everyone have coryza, and they breathe raspily like a grandma who had 30 packs of cigarettes, and they free range in the frozen weather. I don’t get it. And they don't lay smack in summer, when it was still super hot(hot enough chicks didn’t need incubator)
    I don’t get it.
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    So...this is happening.
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    Sadly, a chicken has finally, truly, got sick. Her sister is still active, but this one is lethargic and barely can eat. She may not make it...we’ll see. Currently, I’ve put her indoors because it’s very windy and cold out but everyone but Shadow here is fine...ish.(Some had pasty butt, I’ve been trying to resolve that by switching feed)

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    I’d also butchered Stormy a while ago. She had a pale comb. I suspect she wouldn’t come in lay soon enough and the suspicion was confirmed when her egg follicle was found to be tiny still.

    So now we have 21 chickens...if Shadow doesn’t die.
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    Nope. She ded.

    So 20 chickens in total it is.
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    Eggs. So far 9 per day for 20 hens/pullets. Not bad for winter, though they laid later than expected(expected laying 5 weeks after purchase and it had been 15 weeks at least.)

    For 8 hours of daylight, not bad.
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    And yeah, I suspected coryza and they still breathe raspily, but the chickens are surviving and laying, so I will keep them till they drop dead I guess, they don't show any signs of flesh growths or stuff...yet. We’ll see.
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    Cracked 9 eggs today, 8/9 is definitely fertile, only the deformed, huge one with giant yolk was hard to tell. So the rooster have been doing his job very well even in winter. 🤔

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    Also Strippy’s eggshells is pretty thin. She’s new to laying so...but still, not sure if that would be optimal for incubation, but she had an egg that was good weight and size to hatch. I also got a few “overabundance of calcium” eggs, which was thick and dusty, and way too dirty to incubate.
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