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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2705056
01/13/19 08:28 PM
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Between the coosa and cahaba
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My chickens are on strike! Egg production is wayyyy down. I evidently have an egg eater in the flock too .Guess I'll have to isolate em one at a time to figure which one it is.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2705246
01/13/19 10:32 PM
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my egg production is way down, maybe 2-3 eggs a day, just barely ahead of my egg eating. grin


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2706890
01/15/19 04:55 PM
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Heck, my egg production is zero at the moment. Hopefully they will fire back up when it starts to warm back up. I need about 2-3 more hens

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2706968
01/15/19 06:50 PM
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Between the dang hawks, possums, owls and every other chicken eating varmit I am down to 3 hens. I give up, can't enjoy them locked up in a pen so I'm quickly going out of the chicken business.

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2707246
01/15/19 10:29 PM
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I'm down to three, as well...couple dogs from a ways down the road aren't going to make it home when I catch them.


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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] #2709265
01/17/19 04:24 PM
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My hens went into a hard molt and eggs stopped. They are finally pulling out after the molt and weather changes but I am pretty sure I have one egg bound. Cleaned her up twice and still not good. Ugh.


Be kind to one another and tell the ones you love that you love them often. We never know what tomorrow will bring.
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2716272
01/24/19 09:10 AM
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Maybe more trouble than it's worth, but wrapping the coup less a few air holes with visqueen and putting some heat lamps through the coup does wonders. Obviously you could experiment and maybe shield only the sides which face the north.....at the very least, try running the heat lamps at least at night. My parents do this and get tons of eggs.....sometimes I think their hens lay better in winter than summer.

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2719763
01/27/19 05:42 PM
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Between the coosa and cahaba
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Opossum got after my chickens again last light. sat a couple dog proof's and a live trap up. hope that will get em


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2720410
01/28/19 11:24 AM
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nighttime coops have to be made coon/opossum proof if yer chickens are going to last. Make it coon proof, update the proofing, then do it again. You would be amazed at how a coon can get into a coop. Also put tin around the base of the wire to prevent coons from reaching in a pulling the chicken thru the wire. It took me a year and four upgrades to make mine coon PROOF. Coons are evil bastages when they smell chickens.


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

proud Cracker-Americaan

muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2734779
02/11/19 02:31 PM
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Finally got a gut full of that mean rooster of mine and gave the whole stinking flock away. Fortunately, they all went to a good home. Rounding ten hens and that bad azz rooster up in the coop was a sight! The ole egg bound girl passed thank goodness. Think I will take a break from the chicks for a while. Need to do some things in the coop before any others come around & think we will plant some tomatoes in there this summer!


Be kind to one another and tell the ones you love that you love them often. We never know what tomorrow will bring.
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2734899
02/11/19 05:06 PM
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Dang Maggie..no chickens.....


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

proud Cracker-Americaan

muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2735054
02/11/19 08:01 PM
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I know, right? My day was all screwed up without them....


Be kind to one another and tell the ones you love that you love them often. We never know what tomorrow will bring.
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2738300
02/14/19 09:11 PM
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Mine are really laying good right now

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2738476
02/15/19 03:38 AM
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I'm getting 4-6 eggs per day. Most of mine are young, though. Around April should have eggs out my ears. I've got 4 buff orps, 3 Rhode island reds, 5 easter eggers, a crested creme legbar, and 2 barnyard mixed hens.

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2738537
02/15/19 07:47 AM
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getting 6-8 a day right now


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

proud Cracker-Americaan

muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2744375
02/21/19 03:32 PM
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Getting 8-10 a day right now

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: DEADorALIVE] #2750836
02/28/19 09:21 PM
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I've got 10 beautiful hens that will be 1 year old in April.

Them ol' gurls is pumping out the eggs right now.

I'm getting 8 to 10 eggs a day every day! thumbup


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Slim1026] #2750916
02/28/19 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Slim1026
Just a curiosity question... If you were to get rid of your current flock and start over, which breeds would you choose? And how would you distribute the different breeds in your flock?


I have had just about all of the most popular breeds of chickens over the years.

I got my current birds, the Sapphire Gem and the Calico Princess, last year in April.

Both are new breeds to the USA that were developed in the Czech Republic, both are brown egg layers and both are a moderately sized bird.

They are not flighty birds at all, very quiet and docile.

They may be the prettiest birds I have ever owned and they are the most proficient egg layers for sure that I have ever owned!

They consistently lay large brown eggs with many of them being double yolked.

Have even had a few triple yolked eggs.

I have 5 hens of each of these two breeds and 1 Sapphire Gem rooster.

I may never own another breed of chicken after having these.

Hands down, the best I've ever owned! thumbup

https://hoovershatchery.com/sapphiregem.html

https://hoovershatchery.com/calicoprincess.html


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2751190
03/01/19 11:29 AM
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picked up six more chicks yesterday, 3 ea Ameracuanas and Golden Comets


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

proud Cracker-Americaan

muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2751597
03/01/19 09:26 PM
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Love reading this. I got rid of my birds about a week ago. Went to a good new home.

Not missing that arsehole rooster one bit!! Not missing lifting those 50 pound bags of feed..... it is what it is.


Be kind to one another and tell the ones you love that you love them often. We never know what tomorrow will bring.
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