hippowife primitive lays an egg

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=268x1888

Oh my.

This, from the rural forum on Skins's island.

hippywife  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:18 PM
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Woot!
   
We just got our very first egg!

You know, I really kind of sort of like the grandmotherly nature of the hippowife primitive, but how the Hell she has the politics she does, I have no idea.

SmokingJacket  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:20 PM
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1. Congrats!
   
We got our first egg a year ago and the fun has still not worn off. A dozen a day for a year, and it's still cool!

We got the first egg from our second batch of chickens last week: so cute and tiny!

hippywife  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:25 PM
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4. This one is small and we expected them to be at first, but not tiny. I tried to take a decent pic but couldn't get it in focus. Just a small brown egg with white speckles.

Congrats on your girls, too!

pansypoo53219  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:49 PM
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6. my uncle gets a ton of free pullet eggs.
   
nobody wants small. go figure. they are cute.

and i don't eat them.

GregD  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:21 PM
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2. Yumm!
   
I'm going nuts. Out of 9 layers, 2 are broody and won't do squat except sit on their golf balls (no rooster = no chicks), and of the remaining 7 we're getting 4 eggs a day. Me thinks they are hiding them again dangit!

hippywife  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:24 PM
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3. We have 11 layers but only the five Jersey Black Giants are old enough and that's where this one came from. It was in the nest box right next to the golf ball. They have been ignoring those nest boxes up to now.

Of the remaining hens, five are one month old Buffs and one is a RIR that's probably close to being four months old.

GregD  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:38 PM
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5. We have a very mixed flock
   
Our older flock are:
2-Silver Laced Wyandotte
2-Buff Orpington
1-Barred Rock
1-Maran
1-Australorpe
1-Red Sex Link (my favorite along with one of the BO's)
1-White Ameracauna

We also got 9 chicks earlier this summer. 3 each
Partridge Ameracauna
New Hampshire Reds
Rhode Island Reds

They live in lavish luxury (really!) and have the run of our property daily - very happy girls. Just wish I could get then to stop getting up to my work bench and knocking everything over.

hippywife  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 09:09 PM
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7. That is a really diverse little flock! LOL
   
We chose the ones we did based on winter hardiness for the most part. Plus I love how pretty they are. The RIR was given to us by a neighbor and was the only one we didn't choose ourselves.

Ours don't get to roam around too much on their own due to our dogs, the other dogs that roam up and down the road, and the coyotes. We do have them in a chicken tractor that we move around frequently so they can graze.

How did you acquire such a group?

GregD  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 09:29 PM
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9. We also chose ours based on their ability to deal with winter
   
We are in Mount Shasta, CA so we get plenty of snow and cold weather. My wife researched the breeds and chose the first flock based on hardiness. I really enjoy them. Every time I go outside I have a chicken parade as the follow me around the property.

This summer when we thought we had lost one of the hens, I went up to the Grange in Medford and was going to replace her with a few chicks. I came home with nine... The last nine they had for the season. Wife thought I was nuts but didn't complain.

We are really fortunate. Even though we are in the country, our neighborhood is far enough from the wilderness boundary and have never had any predator problems. Even the neighbor dogs show no interest in messing with the girls, so they literally wander around our un-fenced property. It's pretty cool.

hippywife  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 09:17 PM
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8. Here it is! LOL
   
I had to wait for the hubband to get a good pic. He's better with the camera than I am.

after which a photograph of an egg

[delilahmused]

GregD  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:21 PM
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2. Yumm!
   
I'm going nuts. Out of 9 layers, 2 are broody and won't do squat except sit on their golf balls (no rooster = no chicks), and of the remaining 7 we're getting 4 eggs a day. Me thinks they are hiding them again dangit!

Greg hon, this isn't rocket science. If you take the golf balls away the hens will stop being broody. It will take a few days but keep the nesting boxes clean and they'll have no reason to set. It will actually improve production and be healthier for your hens. Setting hens eat and drink less which makes them more susceptible to disease. If broodiness is important to you then at least find them some fertile eggs. It's rather cruel to allow a hen to set for weeks on end for no reason.

Cindie

[jtyangel]

This all makes me hungry. I love eggs.

[NHSparky]

This all makes me hungry. I love eggs.

And watching on FNC Sunday yesterday, the doc they have every week stated that eggs are actually BETTER if you want to try to lose weight and no, they do NOT increase cholesterol because they are low in saturated fat.

[jtyangel]

This all makes me hungry. I love eggs.

And watching on FNC Sunday yesterday, the doc they have every week stated that eggs are actually BETTER if you want to try to lose weight and no, they do NOT increase cholesterol because they are low in saturated fat.

Oh, absolutely! I normally have a hard-boiled or two every other day and this am I'm about to throw some olive oil in a pan and put in some mushrooms, onion, green pepper, and tomato and make an omelette. I LOVE eggs. Good stuff!

[dutch508]

When I was a kid, growing up in western Nebraska we had 100 fryers raised every summer. One of my chores was to clean out the chicken coop every saterday morning.


It was an experience that changed my life.

I still hate chickens. HATE THEM. Nasty little creatures.

That's why I eat eggs every morning. One (in my case two) less chickens to be born into the world...

[DumbAss Tanker]

GregD  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-10-08 08:21 PM
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2. Yumm!
   
I'm going nuts. Out of 9 layers, 2 are broody and won't do squat except sit on their golf balls (no rooster = no chicks), and of the remaining 7 we're getting 4 eggs a day. Me thinks they are hiding them again dangit!

Greg hon, this isn't rocket science. If you take the golf balls away the hens will stop being broody. It will take a few days but keep the nesting boxes clean and they'll have no reason to set. It will actually improve production and be healthier for your hens. Setting hens eat and drink less which makes them more susceptible to disease. If broodiness is important to you then at least find them some fertile eggs. It's rather cruel to allow a hen to set for weeks on end for no reason.

Cindie

That was pretty damned dumb, wasn't it?