Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Chicken Story

I am a Hen that is very sad.
I am cooped up in a cage all the time.
All see is four walls a Roof and my feeding master.
One night my feeding master forgot to lock my cage so I pecked at the cage door.
I ran out as fast as I could over the cabbage patch through the orchard.
I was amazed how much more to the world there was.
Then I came to a road.
I ran across it.
Just then a lorry came.
I beat my wings as hard as I could.
I couldn't fly very well because I was a battery Hen.
But sure enough I took off and landed on the back of the lorry.
I looked pretty silly on the back of the lorry but I didn't mind, all I wanted was Freedom.
I whizzed along.
I went through a long tunnel I came out going cluuuuck cluck cluck for about a minute, then the truck stopped for some gas.
I jumped down and ran as fast as I could.
There was snow so I was camouflagged.
Then I saw some thing in a bush.
It had its eyes fixed on me.
Then I saw it was a fox.
He opened his mouth licking his lips.
Thinking chicken for breakfast.
I started to flap my wings.
I was off the ground, he pouched. He missed and Hit his head on a tree.
It went all the way down his front.
I clucked to myself, but my feeding master cought me and now I am back in my cage.
I keep dreaming of the world outside.
Please help me. What can I do?

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Problem of Hatching Eggs

This story about his hobby of chicken breeding, he just bought a very basic incubator for christmas and want to know the in and out of hatching eggs. To understand how to use egg incubator actually there is a guidance book should read on the appliance you may buy. My advice after reading and doing is to ignore the incubator other than checking temperature, humidity and turning eggs. It will mesmerize you for days at point of hatch.

Here is other story of Michele that use incubator for her eggs:
Hello my name is Michele and I am a incubating addict. I have 4 different settings as we speak. One incubator in lock down with BCM's. Second incubator with Wynette's BCM's, Silkies, Bob whites for a neighbor and a hen that has resigned herself to sit on eggs no mater what happens, still has not hatched any and she's been trying all summer. I just got done with a hatch on Tuesday, another hen hatch 4 and I got 4. (Michele)

My husband said after the last hatch I did "This is the last one for the year right?" I said yeah, of course it's getting cold don't want to have chicks in the house all winter. Then I set 12 more eggs.

It would just take that one batch of eggs that did really well in shipping and you would have a ton of chicks. I started out with 14 chicks. I did 10 eggs my first hatch and got 5 chicks, then I did a second hatch with 36 eggs and got 12 chicks, then I did 42 eggs and got only 7. I am just thinking if by some chance I get a really good batch of eggs I would be over run. My only problem now is my ratio of boys to girls. Out of the first two hatches I have 9 boys. Not sure about the last one yet they are too young but I am sure that half or more are boys (it seems like a year for it).