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Another Poultry Post

Another Poultry Post

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ***This is more of a compilation post~~of chicken sub-topics….. Just some recent occurrences that have happened in my World-of-Poultry…(said with a diminishing echo response)….. ***I thought this would be an interesting follow-up to our unidentifiable hen and/or rooster….. *****(Click Here for the Mystery Chicken Post)***** The hen (or maybe the rooster) has changed again….. …..kind of like the Horse-Of-A-Different-Color from the Wizard Of Oz….. I don’t know what breed of chicken they are……..

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Mister Possum–Re-visited

Mister Possum–Re-visited

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~~~Try My Posts on SubStack/Click Here~~~~~ Mister Possum is still in the neighborhood….. …..he’s now considering our little homestead his tromping grounds….. Even as possums go…he’s nasty looking….. …..he’s been around the block a few times…tripped off the curb…gotten run over…but he keeps coming up swinging….. I’ve got to admire his chutzpah…I’ll give him that….. …..but he’s a flea-bitten limping geriatric nuisance….. And I can’t shoot him….. …..because Doctor Brigid said so….. He’s…

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~Hot Biddies~(and détente)…

~Hot Biddies~(and détente)…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s Hot!….. It’s now July in Sunny Subtropical Florida….. We are all miserably hot…and sitting in puddles of sweat….. …..and the chickens aren’t laying as many eggs in the heat….. My biddies are protesting…I don’t blame them….. The Runner Ducks stopped laying awhile ago…but that’s to be expected…because they’re only seasonal layers….. So…to attempt jump starting the chicken egg laying…I’ve started my old time-tested egg production enhancer….. I’m sprinkling cayenne pepper on their…

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The Mystery Chicken

The Mystery Chicken

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* There’s an odd chicken in our flock….. Unlike the additional (7+) surplus roosters who were recently & secretly flung over our fence (by a nearby/newbie neighbor)….. *****(!A. M. Cacophony! Explains How We Ended Up With Too Many Roosters)***** …..this Mystery Hen was raised here….. I buy my chickens as young chicks from several mail-order catalogs…I can pick the breed & sex of the babies I want…. I pick up the two-day old chicks…

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Brooding Hens & Broken Trucks

Brooding Hens & Broken Trucks

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  *******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’m still having on-going truck problems…but this time specifically with the steering….. This has been an issue since last Spring/Summer…after I went to get new tires….. My daughters and I got “sketchy vibes” when we were at the garage…and I’ve always encouraged my girls to trust their instincts….. …..my truck has NOT been the same since….. This post is about our most recent attempt at figuring out what happened and trying to…

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*Another Bumblefoot*

*Another Bumblefoot*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The last post I wrote about bumblefoot (pododermatitis) was in May of 2023….. *****(Click Here For:  Remind Me What’s Bumblefoot?)***** I wonder what it is about the month of May?…and why our roosters keep getting this affliction(?)….. …..but it happened again….. I noticed that our French Black Copper Maran rooster had problems with his feet a little while ago…but then I went into the hospital…… …..(and maybe I don’t have my priorities in…

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Another Chick Saved!

Another Chick Saved!

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’re thinking something might not be right with our incubator….. This last attempt at hatching eggs was not very successful….. A few brave souls made it through the hatching process…but not many….. My younger daughter and I were able to successfully save another struggling chick-let….. So far…everyone who tried to break out of their shells were able to…(but there were so many who didn’t make it to that stage)….. I’m sure it had…

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~Saving A Chick-let~

~Saving A Chick-let~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** In my last post I wrote about incubating poultry eggs….. I’ve got an incubator full again, and they are “supposed” to start hatching in a couple days….. I do have good news to share….. My older daughter and I were actually successful at helping one cheeping chick out of her shell….. …..(honestly…that hardly ever has a happy ending)….. But this time it did!….. I followed the suggestions in the article I sited in…

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Egg Hatching Impatience

Egg Hatching Impatience

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Hatching eggs in an incubator is a waiting game….. Depending on your incubator…you mark the hatching date on your calendar…you mark two sides of each egg…and you keep the water reserves filled….. …..and you wait….. I’m not the most patient person in the world….. In some ways…I like the older…more basic types of incubators….. …..the ones where you have to turn the eggs manually about four times every day…rather than having the “turner”…

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Hatching Eggs

Hatching Eggs

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** When I started this round of eggs in the incubator…it was a combination of mostly duck eggs with some accompanying chicken eggs….. Duck eggs typically take 28 days to hatch…chicken eggs take about 21….. Surprise…you silly old woman…(she says to herself)…do the math….. If you put them in together…I don’t know…maybe the chicken eggs will hatch first(?)…by about a week(?)….. …..and that’s what’s been happening….. I’ve had four little chicks hatch…and they’re now…

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