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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 10:06:16 GMT -5
The neighbor that took some of my hens asked for some eggs because she had a broody hen. Well, 3 weeks later out pops my grandbabies. She had 4 eggs, but broke one and one was a dud.
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Post by busymom on Feb 10, 2015 10:09:52 GMT -5
Awww!
So, how are YOUR chickens doing?
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Post by The Captain on Feb 10, 2015 10:16:03 GMT -5
I got sooooo worried about the thread title until I remembered you had chickens...
Yea!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 10:16:35 GMT -5
Awww!
So, how are YOUR chickens doing? They are doing good. They slowed down laying when it was super cold, but are back up to about 6 a day. They're just as good as a dog for getting rid of table scraps and come running to meet me all excited when I get home hoping I have treats. They started using the nest boxes and I have one hen (Louise) that is broody and won't get off her nest for anything. Maybe this spring I'll let her hatch out some chicks. I think they're tired of being penned up in the barn, but they won't walk in the snow either, so they're stuck there until Spring.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 10:19:57 GMT -5
Awesome. More pictures wouldn't be objected to by any of us. Hint, hint, hint.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 10:21:27 GMT -5
That's all I got of the babies. She texted it to me. I should get some of mine now that they're full grown.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 10:23:54 GMT -5
That's all I got of the babies. She texted it to me. I should get some of mine now that they're full grown. Yes please.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 10:27:08 GMT -5
This is the hen that hatched them out.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 10, 2015 10:31:24 GMT -5
Wiiimmmmper! I want chickens!
How adorable!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 10:34:57 GMT -5
She has to keep them in her living room under a heat lamp. Way too cold for baby chicks outside. Not sure why she wanted to hatch them out in the winter, but I'm sure they'll be the most spoiled chickens around.
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Post by mmhmm on Feb 10, 2015 10:36:35 GMT -5
Yaay, Fluffybutt! His "chosen" is a right pretty hen, too. Darling little ones! Fluffybutt done good!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 10:38:55 GMT -5
Yaay, Fluffybutt! His "chosen" is a right pretty hen, too. Darling little ones! Fluffybutt done good! She wasn't the chosen. She was the surrogate because this woman doesn't have a rooster. I gave her some of the fertile eggs from my hens (which are sisters to her). eta: Actually, I guess they're technically half sisters...or they could be full sisters. The eggs I hatched had the same Dad, but from a bunch of hens. Now that I think about it there were two roosters too. Chicken genetics...very confusing! ROFL All I know is that FB is the dad of these two for sure. No clue who the mom is!
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 10, 2015 10:59:19 GMT -5
Awww!
So, how are YOUR chickens doing? They are doing good. They slowed down laying when it was super cold, but are back up to about 6 a day. They're just as good as a dog for getting rid of table scraps and come running to meet me all excited when I get home hoping I have treats. They started using the nest boxes and I have one hen (Louise) that is broody and won't get off her nest for anything. Maybe this spring I'll let her hatch out some chicks. I think they're tired of being penned up in the barn, but they won't walk in the snow either, so they're stuck there until Spring. Do you have any double stackers? Growing up, one of my friends had ALL double stackers, they had 3x as many nest boxes as hens, but for some reason, they always insisted on sharing... Weirdos My grandparents had two that went in side by side.... also Weirdos Then there were the ones that shared the big nest box with the cat... They might actually have been smart. The cat 'went to bed' with the hens and chicks at night. Came out when you let them out in the morning. Sometimes the hens would try to incubate the cat. Somehow nothing sinister ever crept in to the coop
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They are doing good. They slowed down laying when it was super cold, but are back up to about 6 a day. They're just as good as a dog for getting rid of table scraps and come running to meet me all excited when I get home hoping I have treats. They started using the nest boxes and I have one hen (Louise) that is broody and won't get off her nest for anything. Maybe this spring I'll let her hatch out some chicks. I think they're tired of being penned up in the barn, but they won't walk in the snow either, so they're stuck there until Spring. Do you have any double stackers? Growing up, one of my friends had ALL double stackers, they had 3x as many nest boxes as hens, but for some reason, they always insisted on sharing... Weirdos My grandparents had two that went in side by side.... also Weirdos Then there were the ones that shared the big nest box with the cat... They might actually have been smart. The cat 'went to bed' with the hens and chicks at night. Came out when you let them out in the morning. Sometimes the hens would try to incubate the cat. Somehow nothing sinister ever crept in to the coop Yes. I have 12 nest boxes and 8 hens and there are always a couple boxes with two eggs. I'm not sure if they go in at the same time or it's just that hen #2 likes having a "starter egg" in the box. Now, up until a few weeks ago they wouldn't use the nest boxes at all. There is a dog house in the coop and they would ALL lay in there. I'd send the 4 year old in to fetch them every night. The broody hen sits in there all day and night and the others used to go in and sit next to her and then miss broody hen would pull the eggs in with hers. I guess they got sick of sharing or too many were laying at the same time because they moved to the boxes. I kind of liked it when they all used the dog house. Now I get at least one egg that freezes every day. Before the hen kept them all toasty warm until I gathered them up.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 11:20:45 GMT -5
I was just wondering if you were heating their space in the barn or what.
And I told finnime about this thread and your old one. Maybe chicken pictures will help her a bit.
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Post by midjd on Feb 10, 2015 11:22:10 GMT -5
Yaay, Fluffybutt! His "chosen" is a right pretty hen, too. Darling little ones! Fluffybutt done good! She wasn't the chosen. She was the surrogate because this woman doesn't have a rooster. I gave her some of the fertile eggs from my hens (which are sisters to her). eta: Actually, I guess they're technically half sisters...or they could be full sisters. The eggs I hatched had the same Dad, but from a bunch of hens. Now that I think about it there were two roosters too. Chicken genetics...very confusing! ROFL All I know is that FB is the dad of these two for sure. No clue who the mom is! I obviously need to brush up on my knowledge of the chicken reproductive process. So Fluffybutt did his thing with those eggs, and then the neighbor's hen laid on them until they hatched? Adorable chicks!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 11:44:41 GMT -5
She wasn't the chosen. She was the surrogate because this woman doesn't have a rooster. I gave her some of the fertile eggs from my hens (which are sisters to her). eta: Actually, I guess they're technically half sisters...or they could be full sisters. The eggs I hatched had the same Dad, but from a bunch of hens. Now that I think about it there were two roosters too. Chicken genetics...very confusing! ROFL All I know is that FB is the dad of these two for sure. No clue who the mom is! I obviously need to brush up on my knowledge of the chicken reproductive process. So Fluffybutt did his thing with those eggs, and then the neighbor's hen laid on them until they hatched? Adorable chicks! The rooster did his thing with my hens, then they laid fertile eggs. Neighbor doesn't have a rooster around so all the eggs hers are laying won't hatch, but she had one that wanted to be a momma real bad. It's not common to get broody hens these days because it's been bred out of them for better egg production. Easier to mass produce chicks by hatching in an incubator then having a hen be out of commission for weeks on end while she sits and takes care of chicks.
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Post by justme on Feb 10, 2015 13:43:06 GMT -5
So how do you know which ones are fertile?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 13:54:06 GMT -5
So how do you know which ones are fertile? If there's a rooster running with the hens, you just assume he's getting to them all...usually several times a day. Or, you can crack the egg open and see if it's got the tiny blood spot. Of course, then it's not good for anything but breakfast!
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Post by justme on Feb 10, 2015 13:59:23 GMT -5
Ah, so the assumption is they all are, you just normally eat them before they're baby chicks.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 10, 2015 14:04:38 GMT -5
Ah, so the assumption is they all are , if you have a rooster, you just normally eat them before they're baby chicks. fixed. No rooster = not turning into baby chicks. I'm assuming that the farms that produce eggs for public consumption don't keep roosters around. Then again, I'm also assuming that the chicks to replace the hens that lay are raised in a separate facility. And I'm not going to look for it because I'm pretty sure I'm going to get images that I cannot unsee and I like eating eggs. The things we learn here! LOL.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 14:06:41 GMT -5
Yep. They won't start to develop unless they're kept really warm (like 95-100 degrees). Gather them the day they're laid and put them in the fridge and no danger of seeing beaks and feathers when you crack them open.
The ones I hatched last summer were in the fridge for a week and a half before we had accumulated enough to incubate. They all hatched within 24 hours of each other after being put in the incubator.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 14:10:09 GMT -5
Ah, so the assumption is they all are , if you have a rooster, you just normally eat them before they're baby chicks. fixed. No rooster = not turning into baby chicks. I'm assuming that the farms that produce eggs for public consumption don't keep roosters around. Then again, I'm also assuming that the chicks to replace the hens that lay are raised in a separate facility. And I'm not going to look for it because I'm pretty sure I'm going to get images that I cannot unsee and I like eating eggs. The things we learn here! LOL. Nope. No roosters. The commercial egg farms keep each hen in individual wire cages barely big enough for them to move in with automated egg collectors. It's a pretty sad life.
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Post by justme on Feb 10, 2015 16:08:37 GMT -5
Ah, so the assumption is they all are , if you have a rooster, you just normally eat them before they're baby chicks. fixed. No rooster = not turning into baby chicks. I'm assuming that the farms that produce eggs for public consumption don't keep roosters around. Then again, I'm also assuming that the chicks to replace the hens that lay are raised in a separate facility. And I'm not going to look for it because I'm pretty sure I'm going to get images that I cannot unsee and I like eating eggs. The things we learn here! LOL. I thought having a male around for fertilized eggs was implied! Lol
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Post by justme on Feb 10, 2015 16:11:02 GMT -5
Oh that's kinda cool. Simple version of freezing eggs! Lol
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 16:17:02 GMT -5
Oh that's kinda cool. Simple version of freezing eggs! Lol Hens just lay an egg a day, so if left to their own, they'll build up a clutch of them for a week or so before settling in to sit for three weeks. Then they all hatch at the same time.
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Post by finnime on Feb 10, 2015 17:15:50 GMT -5
Yep. They won't start to develop unless they're kept really warm (like 95-100 degrees). Gather them the day they're laid and put them in the fridge and no danger of seeing beaks and feathers when you crack them open. The ones I hatched last summer were in the fridge for a week and a half before we had accumulated enough to incubate. They all hatched within 24 hours of each other after being put in the incubator. I had no idea that you could control for hatching this way, or that refrigerator-cold wouldn't eliminate any possibility of chicks developing. Amazing.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Feb 10, 2015 17:18:04 GMT -5
Yep. They won't start to develop unless they're kept really warm (like 95-100 degrees). Gather them the day they're laid and put them in the fridge and no danger of seeing beaks and feathers when you crack them open. The ones I hatched last summer were in the fridge for a week and a half before we had accumulated enough to incubate. They all hatched within 24 hours of each other after being put in the incubator. OMG those chickies are soo cute!
So I profess to know absolutely nothing about chicken reproduction so I have to ask this. You can keep eggs in the fridge for a week and a half and still have them hatch into chicks?
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