Laying eggs twice in one season!

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Dan Katz - 22 Jul 2003 14:50 GMT

This is insane! My hen has layed eggs twice this season and I'm
worried for her since I've read that it's incredibly hard on her
little body.

(They're not going to hatch again since she's a single mom.)

She's in good spirits and I've got a mineral block as well as a new
cuttlefish bone in her cage but I wonder what's up.

Any thoughts?

-dan

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Josh - 22 Jul 2003 15:43 GMT

This is insane! My hen has layed eggs twice this season and I'm
worried for her since I've read that it's incredibly hard on her
little body.

Any thoughts?

-dan

Dan,
Try cutting her day light hours and keep offering the calcium. And some
humidity when she's laying will help eliviate the egg binding
possiblility. She's probably just hormonal. Good excessive egg laying
in the net and read up on it. It is hard on them but feed her well and
again the calcium is important. I"m no breeder but wanted to be at one
time and read up on it quite a bit.

Good luck and I'm sure other's will have more info for you.

Seems to me 12 hours of daylight (or artificial light) helps promote egg
laying in the ladies. Cut it by a couple hours. YOu might trick her
system into thinking it's winter or fall.

Josh in DC

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oldmolly - 23 Jul 2003 13:22 GMT

> This is insane! My hen has layed eggs twice this season and I'm
> worried for her since I've read that it's incredibly hard on her
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>
> Josh in DC

how come, when you reply to Dan's posts, there are no quotation marks to
show quoted text???????

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Josh - 24 Jul 2003 20:22 GMT

> humidity when she's laying will help eliviate the egg binding
> possiblility. She's probably just hormonal. Good excessive egg laying
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Josh in DC

how come, when you reply to Dan's posts, there are no quotation marks to
show quoted text???????

NOw you miserable old bitch! Was I talking to YOU at all?

No. Get bent.

Josh

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The Head Winkle - 25 Jul 2003 00:42 GMT

>> humidity when she's laying will help eliviate the egg binding
>> possiblility. She's probably just hormonal. Good excessive egg laying
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
>
>Josh

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Josh - 25 Jul 2003 14:42 GMT

WHOA, Wait just a cotton picking minute! And before you start, I
don't give a rat's butt if you were writing to me or not. If you put
it in the group, it's fair game to get and answer from anybody who
reads it and feels like answering. I think whoever that was, has a
legitimate question. Were the quotes added by you or are they somehow
a function of your new reader where selected quoted text gets quotes
while including the whole post does not? Perhaps it is something
she'd like to have in her new reader. Seems to me you overreacted
there a little bit fella.

Because about 98% of what oldmolly has to say is nothing but garbage
bantering to give her miserable existance some tiny meaning.

And I have no idea what she was talking about. This is a bird group not a
'how does your news reader do that' group.

If she wants tips there are groups for that. And you can not argue she
rubs most people the wrong damned way.

Josh

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oldmolly - 25 Jul 2003 21:20 GMT

> WHOA, Wait just a cotton picking minute! And before you start, I
> don't give a rat's butt if you were writing to me or not. If you put
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> If she wants tips there are groups for that. And you can not argue she
> rubs most people the wrong damned way.

You sad little twerp. It was a genuine enquiry as I have never seen that
before, but seing as how you have no idea yourself I will ask elsewhere.
As for the rest, you are talking nonsense as usual.
Please provide proof of your statement that:
"Because about 98% of what oldmolly has to say is nothing but garbage".
What advice have I posted which was not valid?
And I argue that I rub most people up the wrong way. I may rub *you* up
wrong, and *you* may not like what I post, but no need to stamp your feet
and throw a paddy simply because I asked a civil question.
Silly boy.

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Mamabird - 25 Jul 2003 22:18 GMT

>"The Head Winkle" <jayfl3@nutscrape.nut> wrote...
> WHOA, Wait just a cotton picking minute! And before you start, I
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
>
> Josh

She asked a legitimate question. It's very hard to read and separate where
one post (original) leaves off and another (reply) begins without indents.
It's a courtesy to use them in Usenet postings.

For example, Winkle's post above should have a double set of indents (>>)
and Josh's should have a single set (>). As you can see it looks like it's
one continuous post without the indents/quotes properly set. Your news
reader should have an option for applying indents.

I also had to C&P "The Head Winkle" <jayfl3@nutscrape.nut> wrote..." as it
was missing in Josh's reply so we had no way of knowing who he was replying
to.
HTH

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The Head Winkle - 26 Jul 2003 04:14 GMT

>WHOA, Wait just a cotton picking minute! And before you start, I
>don't give a rat's butt if you were writing to me or not. If you put
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>And I have no idea what she was talking about. This is a bird group not a
>'how does your news reader do that' group.

Then in that case, you're in the wrong group too. You want the
"oldmolly is a cantankerous old curmudgeon" group.

>If she wants tips there are groups for that. And you can not argue she
>rubs most people the wrong damned way.

And with these responses, you are as well. No, I can not argue that,
I've had a few disagreements with Molly as well. She politely asked a
question of you, why not give a polite, but not necessarily lenghty,
answer instead of flying off the handle over something that happened
in the past?

>Josh

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Josh - 28 Jul 2003 17:03 GMT

>Well it was the OVER use of punctuation that gave it her usual air of

holierthanthou(ness).

Hey it's a bird group not a newsreader support group and oldmolly I never
said your advise wasn't good, it's the filler fluff you put in that puts
people WAY down (which accounts for a lot of your posting). Who made you
the Usenet police? I've told you before you are a rude sad woman with
nothing better to do than pick on people. Period.

Josh

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oldmolly - 23 Jul 2003 13:20 GMT

> This is insane! My hen has layed eggs twice this season and I'm
> worried for her since I've read that it's incredibly hard on her
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Any thoughts?

It is summer, she is in breeding mode. Cuttlefish and mineral blocks will
not stop her from becoming eggbound and killing herself.tart her on a proper
calcium/vitamin D supplement, and start reducing her daylight hours and
restricting her diet to something more basic and she will come out of it.
http://www.wctropicalbird.com/bird%20education/egg_laying.htm

http://www.cockatiels.org/articles/breeding/eggs.html

http://www.aviannetwork.com/articles/eggs.htm

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Laying eggs twice in one season!