Sue, I absolutely LOVE reading your posts!! Keep 'em coming!!! Got my second small egg today from one of my 10 chicken "chicks"!! They're all just about 4 1/2 months old. I've got 4 Amerucanas, 2 Buff Orps, 2 Blue Laced Wyandottes, and 2 Cuckoo Marans!! I Love my girls!! They're hilarious!! One of the Cuckoo Marans layed a thin shelled, small egg the day before Irene( she's now renamed Irene), and made LOTS of noise announcing it's arrival! Today I went out to them with a watermelon and when they came out into their enclosed pen I went and checked the nesting boxes. Lo and behold, there was another egg , alittle larger, much darker brown and speckled, and a thicker shell. The first egg she layed was layed above the chicken door on a ledge of about an inch and a half wide! Isn't that the hard way to do things??!! She must have been standing on one foot while laying her egg!! :^ ) There's no end to what we females can do! Haha!! I know these are the immature eggs that Barbara from Midsummer Farm in Warwick told me about when I purchased the pullets from her. All very exciting and rewarding!!!
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On Aug 28, 2011, at 4:47 PM, "wildliferescue29" <wildliferescue29@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I agree. Winter lock up is bad enough without overcrowding them :(
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> As you know Cathryn, even in my BIG chickenhouse, I had to give `Ollie The Toe' (guinea boss) and his partners in crime their own digs for winter, the chickens were threatening a strike if I didn't. NO eggs until the guineas were GONE.
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> Every fall the guineas would huddle together giggling and scheming with their plans for winter lock up. The chickens would look at me wild eyed, 'You're NOT planning on leaving them in HERE with US?!'
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> 5-6 months locked up with guineas that are not on a Valium drip is an exercise in mayhem; not to mention, dust and feathers flying that would exceed the dust bowl of the 30s in Texas and Oklahoma combined.
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> Hence, the chickens have regained exclusive `chickenhouse' status in the winter; if you're not a card carrying member, you won't be allowed access.
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> I'm expecting the guineas to hire an attorney claiming that their civil rights are being denied.
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> Sue
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