[Ag-eq] Chickens

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Jewel:

It's good to see you on the list again.  I was starting to wonder what had
happened to you.

How are things in New Zealand?

Has it been very wintery there?

We still have a couple more months of the heat and then it should start cooling
down.  It reached 108 today and I think it is suppose to be 105 to 110 for the
rest of the week.

A couple of weeks ago I got an egg out of the hen house and when I cracked it
part of the white had actually started to cook!  One of my neighbors said she's
had that happen before too.  I joke that the hens will lay boiled eggs.

Take care.

Nella






Quoting Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>:

> Jody!  Chooks can be, extremely, flock-oriented and have a very strict *
> pecking order, and * peck
> they do!
> Have you got a crate with wire sides that you could put the new birds in for
> several days until the
> resident birds become accustomed to them?
> If you do, after a few days, if the crate is large enough, let the new kids
> on the block out while
> putting some of the old birds in it so that possible aggression to the new
> ones will be reduced.
>
>        Jewel
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jody W Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 8:17 AM
> To: "Groups" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Chickens
>
> Hi all
>
> We have 4 chickens. How do we introduce new chickens without upsetting the
> flock?  Should we add one
> at a time?  How does the flock react to a new member?
>
> JODY
> "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!" Thomas Jefferson
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