You did an excellent job with him! Thank you so much for sharing your story, it's been such a help to me. I have a Polish hen, Nora, who hid outside overnight in -8 degree weather with almost 3 feet of snow, and both her feet are frostbitten. I'm waiting for them to fall off and will get her...
I have English orpingtons. They go broody all summer. My lavenders are on their 2nd brood this summer and my chocolates are on their 3rd. You can have the 2 chocolates if you want. Seriously.
I'm surprised no one mentioned parasites as a cause for not laying eggs. I have tons of wild birds here and when my laying slows or I see bare butts, I treat them for mites. It works well, the laying increases after. It is a pain, since I have over 50 chickens ( I retire my old ladies to an old...
I have several sets of hens who choose to brood together and raise chicks together. This hasn't happened in the last 8 years I've been raising chickens. One pair hatches out the eggs and her partner takes the chicks. I don't separate broodies who brood together.
I have 5 banty english orpingtons who brooded together last year and raised the chick together. Then 4 of them went broody again and raised those chicks together. They are broody this year also in a group. Weird.
You should hear the one crow, lol. He sounds like an old squeaky door closing. At first I didn't know what the noise was, until I saw him trying so hard to crow.
Yes, I am familiar with blood spots. She was saying that there was up to half the contents of the egg and a 7 or 9 day old embryo in 2 of them. (I sent her a video of egg incubation). It doesn't make sense that there would be both a lot of blood and an embryo in 2 eggs, and just a lot of blood...
Yes, I agree. I think she was looking for me to replace her frying pan too. I am going to drop her as a customer. I would rather give eggs away to people I like than deal with a problem person every week. She got free eggs last week too since she didn't see the post that I would be an hour late.
One of my egg customers who is quite odd let me know that 3 of my eggs had blood in them. She said two of them had "a lot of blood" and she saw what looked like an embryo. I didn't ask her how much blood was a lot to her because I envisioned an egg that was 75% blood and told her her next dozen...
PM me and I'll give you my address. You tell me when you want to come and I'll have him ready! Wednesdays are egg day so I won't be home in the am but other than that anything works.
I have 7 Black Copper Marans cockerel chicks to give away. I'm in Goldendale, WA. They are 8 weeks old and living outside. I also have a beautiful Lemon Cuckoo Orpington roo that needs a home. I was going to breed lemon cuckoos but it gets too hot for the orpingtons here so I'm slowly reducing...