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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2355721
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It has been below zero up here every night for over a week with highs in the single digits. My birds have been fine they go out and lay in sun during the day. Water just freezes is it.

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Funny, right before the cold snap, my hens had been laying again...not as much as usual, but for several months during the hottest part of the summer, they'd quit entirely!


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mine quit this last summer too, laying some right now, but I had a long talk with them while I was holding a frying pan....


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2356298
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HA! We use the same motivational tactics!


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Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2357583
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Mine got real lazy about laying late in the summer too but they were all in different stages of molting, so I chalked it up to that. Talked to an old timer and he told me they just were not getting enough sunshine and to put a light in the coop. I did and boy howdy, got great results. Even though I was letting them free range daily, they simply did not get the required hours of sun they needed.

Mine are all laying great now and with all the cold weather, I've had on two heat lamps and a radiant heater in the coop. I keep one of the water cans by the heater to keep water available. Even so, every morning I carry fresh water out for them to insure they have plenty.

Recently, they were free ranging and one of my old Brown Leghorn hens, who had a propensity of flying over the fence into the backyard where the German Shepherds roam met her end. It was only a matter of time before it happened and we knew it. My female Shepherd, Roxie, was out and before I could snap my fingers, that dang hen jumped the fence and Roxie got her. My hubby went out, picked up the hen and smacked Roxie with the hen!!! Don't think he realized the hen was not totally dead, so after he chunked her over the fence, I went out and rung her neck. It was a mess but everything wants to kill a chicken.

Speaking of killing...my neighbor had four mallard duck chicks she got a while back. A few days back she text me and said she thought the hawk that had recently gotten two of her chickens got one of her ducks. Well....about two days later I let the dogs out that evening and remarked to my hubby..."There was some large bird in the backyard...could not see what it was but it was not a songbird."

Later that night the Germans were a total pain in the arse...we kept thinking they had a possum or something the way they were going in and out. Hubby got up the next morning to take out the garbage and said he thought there was a dead possum in the yard, which we did not find a surprise. What we did find surprising was it was a mallard duck! Pretty sure the neighbor's pet duck came home from a walk about and got confused on the yard where it landed. Oops...


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2357781
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I pushed my chickens to lay through the winter a few years back by putting a light on a timer in the henhouse with them...it can be any light, mine was a regular old 60w bulb...it worked fine. I didn't do it anymore after that because we had more eggs than we needed during that time, plus I suspect it'll cause the birds to lay out early. They're born with a finite number of eggs inside them, and once those are gone...


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Quit laughing...I think I broke something.

Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...

I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: DEADorALIVE] #2359487
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Originally Posted By: DEADorALIVE
I pushed my chickens to lay through the winter a few years back by putting a light on a timer in the henhouse with them...it can be any light, mine was a regular old 60w bulb...it worked fine. I didn't do it anymore after that because we had more eggs than we needed during that time, plus I suspect it'll cause the birds to lay out early. They're born with a finite number of eggs inside them, and once those are gone...


I've done necropsies on a few 1000 laying hens. There has never been one, nor will there ever be one that will lay up all she's got in there the day they reach sexual maturity.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2359489
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Maggie, your rooster is cutting the backs of your hens with his back toenail, not his spurs. He's too heavy. Put him on a diet before spring and then feed him back up to a lighter weight if you want fertile eggs. Or just kill him and raise another and don't let him get as heavy.


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Thanks Fur...his arse is gone as soon as we can make it happen. He is a HUGE Black Australorp rooster and a complete jerk to boot.

I have threatened to shoot him several times but my husband keeps asking me not to do that. He wants to take him to another home and give him a chance...me, I could care less he has attacked me so many times.

Hubby is having bad back/neck problems right now, so I am waiting till he gets better to give him a chance at relocation before blowing that roosters head off...I say waiting...that bird could meet the end of my .410 before all is said and done if he grabs my damn finger again. Almost yanked my middle finger off the other day when he came at me.

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2360547
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The BA roo we had until last year was the most gentle and tame of all of our birds...but I'm like you, had he ever attacked me or anyone else, he wouldn't have seen the sun set that day! I hope when we eventually replace him that we get as lucky as we did with him.


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Originally Posted By: Maggie123
Thanks Fur...his arse is gone as soon as we can make it happen. He is a HUGE Black Australorp rooster and a complete jerk to boot.

I have threatened to shoot him several times but my husband keeps asking me not to do that. He wants to take him to another home and give him a chance...me, I could care less he has attacked me so many times.

Hubby is having bad back/neck problems right now, so I am waiting till he gets better to give him a chance at relocation before blowing that roosters head off...I say waiting...that bird could meet the end of my .410 before all is said and done if he grabs my damn finger again. Almost yanked my middle finger off the other day when he came at me.

my wife shot our rooster while I was on a dove shoot because he flogged my little girl. That was the hardest I've ever laughed!
Those production reds are great egg layers but the roosters are freakin mean.

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When I was 5 or 6, my grandmother had a RIR rooster that was as mean as the day is long! She kept a rake by the back door and when you stepped outside, you'd better be reaching for it, because he was coming! I swear I remember that damn thing as being 6' tall and having fangs!


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Originally Posted By: DEADorALIVE
When I was 5 or 6, my grandmother had a RIR rooster that was as mean as the day is long! She kept a rake by the back door and when you stepped outside, you'd better be reaching for it, because he was coming! I swear I remember that damn thing as being 6' tall and having fangs!


I carry a rake everywhere with me when I am outside the fenced yard!! I've beat this roo with the yard rake, the garden rake, the hoe, a plastic bat, a wooden tomato stake and shot it with the BB gun...he just comes back for more...


He stands two feet tall and is mean as a snake...he fights the 100 pound German Shepherds through the fence and when he sticks those neck feathers out around his head he looks HUGE!



Took a couple of pics while I was just out in the yard...he would crow at me and then do this growl thingy in his throat...jerk. If you look close you can see his longggg spurs.


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I think my game roosters know better. I've never had one offer to flog anybody. I had an old turkey gobbler that tried flogging our daughter years ago, he didn't live 5 more minutes.

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I have a RIR rooster that is good as gold, never bothers anybody. He will run to you and follow you around waiting for a handout.

I used to have a White Leghorn rooster that flogged me, the wife, and my grandson. I shot his azz with my longbow.

Had a banty rooster that would leap up and spur yer hand, hip, sometimes yer back. I ran him out of the pen and let him fight the dogs. He lost.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2360728
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Maggie, he looks just like the roo we had...great looking bird!

Timbercruiser, I've had Bourbon Reds and Royal Palms and never had a turkey try to jump on anyone! The Royal Palm gobbler I had was convinced he was supposed to be a lap dog!

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Had a banty rooster that would leap up and spur yer hand, hip, sometimes yer back. I ran him out of the pen and let him fight the dogs. He lost.


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my oldest hen, a game hen, died yesterday. I'm thinking she was around ten years old. Easy keeper and laid a medium size egg. I'm going to have to get a couple more game hens.


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Sorry your old girl passed but dang, she lived a long time. Was she still laying at that age? Good luck with finding some new game hens.


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game hens are pretty hard to find around here Maggie.

She was laying this summer, but not regular, kind of a small off white egg.


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