chicken coupe ideas? (sorry don't know where to post this)

whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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NaturalFarmer said:
I raise chickens from egg and Ill tell you that an exploding bad egg leaves shrapnel wounds and an awful taste in your mouth for hours.

Have you floated the eggs? Best to do this around day 15 then again around 21. Make sure no beaks are poking through first. I raise easter eggers so candleing doesn't work too well but if you have white eggs, you should see veins at day 7.

Warm water and any that sink are duds (at 21 days) Any that list on their side and don't wiggle are potential exploders. Don't always assume that a non wiggler is dead, may just be asleep.
What temps are you using? Cool nights may prevent success.

21 days on chicken.....29 on turkey poults.

Best way to do it is to have a broody hen do the work. Watching motherhood on the farm is an added treat and helps keep them alive with much less $$$. heat lamps are expensive but so is losing chicks to rats. A good mother will defend them at any cost.
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." James Joyce

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They float because of loss of fluid.

If eating them you want them to sink. Or half float means they are on the edge.

Don't eat a floating egg.
 
NaturalFarmer

NaturalFarmer

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whitebb2727 said:
They float because of loss of fluid.

If eating them you want them to sink. Or half float means they are on the edge.

Don't eat a floating egg.
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I was referring to incubating and doing an float test to see the egg wiggling.
It is a good way to make sure any eggs that didn't hatch are viable the day after. Any non developed eggs sink and bad ones usually float sideways and don't bob up and down. Dead ones don't wiggle.
 
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NaturalFarmer

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I had two planted rows of fir that run about 50' that someone planted about twenty or thirty years ago and decided to make a coop for my turkey and meat birds by hollowing it out to give them sun and rain protection. I cut off all the lower growth and tacked up steel wire and it protects from rain for the most part unless its really heavy. Not much for shelter but I don't use this coop/run in the winter or for my pickier egg layers.IMG_20180712_115405306.jpg
 
Lordhooha

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NaturalFarmer said:
I was referring to incubating and doing an float test to see the egg wiggling.
It is a good way to make sure any eggs that didn't hatch are viable the day after. Any non developed eggs sink and bad ones usually float sideways and don't bob up and down. Dead ones don't wiggle.
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I use a homemade viewer to see if the eggs have chicks. Simply to make with a light and a shoebox. My chickens are still broody atm.
 
too larry

too larry

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whitebb2727 said:
Lol. Yea. They can be annoying at times.

They do love to eat ticks. When we had guinea fowl we had very few ticks.
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Sister and BIL kept some for several years. They loved getting on top of the house, and would make a terrible racket. They liked to sleep in the trees, and over the years the varmints ate most of them, and they sold the last few when they got rid of the peacocks.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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there's a back road here called "boogertown road"...no shit.....here's a map..
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7755004,-83.4902327,15.25z
they call it that because it's dark as fuck, and a lot of people used to keep guinea fowl. you'd be walking down the road in the dark and a whole tree full of guineas would start squawking and scare the shit out of you, sound like every booger in the holler was coming after you
(i used to live on treebeard way)
 
NaturalFarmer

NaturalFarmer

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Lordhooha said:
I use a homemade viewer to see if the eggs have chicks. Simply to make with a light and a shoebox. My chickens are still broody atm.
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I raise Marans and Easter eggers so viewing makes it difficult because the color. The Chocolate and blue eggs are near impossible even with the brightest light. I do have a few white layers now and it certainly makes it easier.
 
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