Good Morning

[lolotsung]

We could not afford to buy a house if we did not already have one. I'm not spending 1 million on a shack. This reminds me of the 1990s when people bought condos at Palace Pier west of Toronto, Lakefront, and Bramalea Corp went bankrupt and Citibank was selling 300 condos. Low end ones were 150k that used to sell for 350k. Condo owners were so angry because they could have waited eg. 1 day and saved 200k. I hope this doesn't happen again...

[Blizblaz]

My chickens are driving me nuts! I have a broody hen who refuses to move to a different spot where the others can’t bother her, and of course the other hens want to go in that particular nesting box. I let her have some eggs after my fox mishap, and every few days there seems to be one less, and today there was a crushed egg with a little feathered body in it…then when I put something up to stop the one that crushed the egg from getting at the nest again, she proceeded to bully another hen off her nest and start a huge feather pulling and neck twisting fight!
I’m hoping to pick up some day olds in a couple of days and that she will take to them, so maybe I can move her and give the remaining eggs to one of my less particular broodies.

[lolotsung]

I'm not so sure broodies are easier than an incubator after reading this...

[Ontario Chick]

Broodies are easier then an incubator in as much as broody will mother the chicks, incubator won't, and you are It

[lolotsung]

Olaf says good morning

[lolotsung]

Is there any way to get Olaf to start crowing at 6 am instead of 4 am?

[Killerbunny]

@lolotsung Nope! Have you tried balckout windows on the coop?

[Killerbunny]

Broodies are easier then an incubator in as much as broody will mother the chicks, incubator won't, and you are It

Well you aren't talking my last broodies @Ontario Chick! 2 turkeys, admittedly first timers, sat on a clutch of 6 eggs. Regularly played footbal with them. Hatch day down to 2 of which 1 hatched and the other got steamrollerd (not uncommon for crushing with turkeys). Little "plastic" after the shed they are in has managed somehow to survive to 4 weeks despite his 2 Mummies! They are sort of "oh now I'm sure I had a kid here somewhere". Little Plastics lungs are good fortunately LOL.

[Ontario Chick]

Sorry, I meant chickens, turkeys are a complete mystery to me :)

[Killerbunny]

Mystery to most people. SOmeone described them as "puppies disguised as birds"