Re: Chickens was: Re: Dazor UREKA!

Liz from Humbug wrote:
On Dec 30, 4:47 am, lucretia borgia <lucretiabor...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:32:32 -0800 (PST), Liz from Humbug
snip
Our hens didn't care what we did with their eggs. We tried letting
them set but they would get bored after a week or so and we would find
ice cold eggs in the morning when we went out to feed and check the
water. :-)))))) Since we have an incubator in the house if we really
want to hatch, it was to our benefit to have chickens who didn't mind
when we reached under them to remove the eggs. :-)
Liz from Humbug
Do you have a rooster as well ? Are they fertilised eggs they are
leaving ?

Well, we did have roosters - those were the first to go. We realized
a week after the first "feed" that the hens had been less stressed by
the bear than they had been by all of the extra roosters! The egg
prduction went UP that week. We eventually ended up with four hens
and one rooster until the last serious attack when the little black
hen (now named "Hickety") was the only one to make it back into the
corner in the space under the hen house. When we get the new batch of
chicks, we'll probably end up with about 50/50 again. If anything, it
always seems as if we get more males than females. We could get sex-
link chicks but we don't want whatever kind of chicken it is that
comes that way. :-))

Liz from Humbug


To have happy hens you need one rooster to 15 hens. You'll have your eggs fertilised and no (or little) fighting between roosters.

Catherine
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