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Post by dawg53 on Sept 10, 2018 10:06:39 GMT -5
I made a bigger nest box for my Jersey Giant and Light Brahma as you recall. The Light Brahma isnt laying eggs yet and the Jersey Giant is laying eggs in the small nest box. My EE is the smallest of the bunch and uses the big nest box to lay her eggs.  Here's the JG squeezed in the small nest box this morning. You can see the bigger nest box above her.   |
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Post by maryellen on Sept 10, 2018 18:30:49 GMT -5
Hahaha. Dont you love it? You build specifically to help the birds and they decide to reverse it lol
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 10, 2018 18:36:52 GMT -5
They are all weird. Especially when roos warm the nests up for them!
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 11, 2018 5:38:57 GMT -5
They are all weird. Especially when roos warm the nests up for them! Yes. I had a Delaware roo stand next to a hen in the nest box "talking" to her while she was trying to lay an egg! I wouldnt have believed it if I didnt see it with my own eyes. He was a darn good rooster with his hens, he really cared for them. I went outside one night to check on the chickens with the flashlight and this what I saw looking through a vent, one of the RIR hens cuddled up next to him. I went and got my camera and took a pic. In the 2nd pic he is showing his girls where some food is. In the 3rd pic he is watching them eat the food.    |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 11, 2018 10:39:25 GMT -5
Good roos are fun to watch. They are so sincere and husband-like, LOL. I still have silkie roos that never eat a treat. I kinda wish they would.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 11, 2018 11:02:28 GMT -5
Well said Karen, you are right.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 12, 2018 16:14:47 GMT -5
LOL. I just caught the Jersey Giant in the LARGE nest box laying an egg. Finally!  |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 13, 2018 21:37:33 GMT -5
Yea!!! I loved my Jerseys. I have one left that's the heaviest one I've had. She must weigh about 12 pounds.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 14, 2018 12:47:41 GMT -5
Yea!!! I loved my Jerseys. I have one left that's the heaviest one I've had. She must weigh about 12 pounds. Where did you get your JG's Karen? |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 15, 2018 20:11:15 GMT -5
I got the first 3 as chicks from My pet chicken. Then I hatched some and most were rehomed . I wanted blue but these were black. The lady said they cross to blue. And the rooster did. He bred blue babies.
I finally got some blue Jersey eggs from a member named Kathy.... She got chicks from Maria's Blue Jerseys, and promised me that she would send me the first eggs and she did. I got all blues and splashes. 3 Hens (I still have 1) and 2 hens went to the barn I ride at. I had 5 roosters. The splash roo died from Marek's before I knew what it was, one went to live next door , I kept one, and 2 went to ?dinner? supposedly.
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