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deluba:
Let create whatsapp group for this so our chatting will be more closer. Not all of us we be on nairaland everyday unlike Whatsapp

You sent a PM. I’ve responded.

Hullcity:
This was in port harcourt oh. It made me to stat contemplating going to kano state to buy those local chicken in large numbers and coming bak to sell them at good prices in ph. Becos i have lived in kano state before and knw where chicken merchants nomally come to sell their birds to retailers at very cheap prices.

Pls can you kindly give like two places in Kano there where chicken merchants nomally come to sell their birds to retailers at very cheap prices as stated by you above?. Thank you.

juri:
Pls can you kindly give like two places in Kano there where chicken merchants nomally come to sell their birds to retailers at very cheap prices as stated by you above?. Thank you.

yankura market but u will have to go as early as possible in order for you to buy directly from the poultry merchant . .

Hullcity:
yankura market but u will have to go as early as possible in order for you to buy directly from the poultry merchant . .

Thanks.

You can also go to janguza market Thursdays or Sundays. Go early so as to buy directly from merchant.

juri:
Pls can you kindly give like two places in Kano there where chicken merchants nomally come to sell their birds to retailers at very cheap prices as stated by you above?. Thank you.

Manofhappiness:
You can also go to janguza market Thursdays or Sundays. Go early so as to buy directly from merchant.

Thank you. I appreciate.

kay29000:
I think the bolded is the scenario that played out. Because, the same rats had been moving around the chickens and chicks with no issues, til they went all out and killed 9 chicks in one week. I saw how desperate the rat was after I stoned it, it dropped the dead chick that it was holding in its mouth, but tried to come back for it even when I was still standing there. I guess it desperately needed to feed its babies too.

oga nothing concern you and the mama rats. Buy indocid capsules and use it generously on chicken food,or soaked garri or rice or anything food other than fish and crayfish (rats avoid fish and crayfish nowadays)

stanvesco:
oga nothing concern you and the mama rats. Buy indocid capsules and use it generously on chicken food,or soaked garri or rice or anything food other than fish and crayfish (rats avoid fish and crayfish nowadays)

Rat avoid fish? Interesting.

kay29000:
Rat avoid fish? Interesting.

The normal black rats you know would avoid anything that smells of crayfish or fish. They have evolved naa

My last comment here was that my last local hen (after I'd lost the rest somehow someway) also died on eggs during brooding mysteriously. Now, I've relocated to a more better place, just me and my family alone inside a very big compound. I bought another five set consisting of a roaster and 4 hen. Here is my concern now, 2 hen are laying together, I saw it late, it was around 6 eggs when I did. When it was 8 eggs I tried to separate 4-4 not far from each other but any time I check one(I don't know which one) would have joined everything together again, now, as of today, the eggs are 17 in number and they haven't stopped laying. What if they didn't hatch them at all or they hatch like 30% of it? Or, maybe I should kuku pack them inside and start eating them myself.


I can't afford wastage!

truthhurts2:
My last comment here was that my last local hen (after I'd lost the rest somehow someway) also died on eggs during brooding mysteriously. Now, I've relocated to a more better place, just me and my family alone inside a very big compound. I bought another five set consisting of a roaster and 4 hen. Here is my concern now, 2 hen are laying together, I saw it late, it was around 6 eggs when I did. When it was 8 eggs I tried to separate 4-4 not far from each other but any time I check one(I don't know which one) would have joined everything together again, now, as of today, the eggs are 17 in number and they haven't stopped laying. What if they didn't hash them at all or they hash like 30% of it? Or, maybe I should kuku pack them inside and start eating them myself.


I can't afford wastage!

Leave them, let nature take its course.
You, just observe.

I've read here how chickens can be surrogate, as well as adoptive mothers for chicks.

Local chickens are smart.

Mariangeles:
Leave them, let nature take its course.
You, just observe.

I've read here how chickens can [url][/url] tobe surrogate, as well as adoptive mothers for chicks.

Local chickens are smart.

the way I am looking at it, when it's brooding time it's only one that'll want to sit on those eggs, and it'll be more than what one hen can sit on cos she won't cover it all.

truthhurts2:
the way I am looking at it, when it's brooding time it's only one that'll want to sit on those eggs, and it'll be more than what one hen can sit on cos she won't cover it all.

The question is, is the other one willing to sit on her eggs?
You should be thankful one is willing to sit on the eggs.
Just make up your mind to accept what is hatched at the end.

Mariangeles:
The question is, is the other one willing to sit on her eggs?
You should be thankful one is willing to sit on the eggs.
Just make up your mind to accept what is hatched at the end.

both of them are actually willing to, but once one sit on it she won't allow the other. The question now remains how many eggs will one be able to hatch? Cos the eggs are much. But like you said, I should accept whatever the outcome.

truthhurts2:
both of them are actually willing to, but once one sit on it she won't allow the other. The question now remains how many eggs will one be able to hatch? Cos the eggs are much. But like you said, I should accept whatever the outcome.

Na wa O!
They're acting like nwunye-di [co-wife]. 😀

What won't one see with these birds.

Mariangeles:
Na wa O!
They're acting like nwunye-di [co-wife]. 😀

What won't one see with these birds.

I'll keep updating

truthhurts2:


I'll keep updating

I had two sister hens like that. They both sat on the eggs and hatched them together about 18 chicks. All were doing very fine until soldier ants cleared them one night. Hen used to do raise chicks together and they will be fine

truthhurts2:


I'll keep updating

Okay.

Although, oga lukuluku69 once suggested here how you can eat some of the eggs and allow the rest hatch, to avoid wasting.
It was a brilliant suggestion, but I've forgotten.

Oga lukuluku69, would you be kind as to remind us again?

truthhurts2:
both of them are actually willing to, but once one sit on it she won't allow the other. The question now remains how many eggs will one be able to hatch? Cos the eggs are much. But like you said, I should accept whatever the outcome.

Once you noticed that two or more hens choose to lay at the same spot, you can do the following to make the best out if the situation.

1. Let them continue to lay but get a marker or a pencil to just put a dot on the egg that are already laid.

2. Changing the spot by removing all the eggs cam make them abandon that spot and gonlay in your neighbour's compound. So, let them lay.
3. It is always good if the space between the hens laying is not more than 3 days( for instance an hen already has 6 eggs in that pool amd another hen come tonlay on that same clutch, if that happens remove it and keep)

4. So, when brooding starts, make sure you give the hens the eggs that are newest and not the older eggs in the clutch( usually an hen lays between 9-13 eggs on the average in any given circle).

5. If you want them to brood together, you can expand the brooding area by dividing the eggs equally or almost equally. Once they are hatched provided that the eggs are ferterlised, the chicks will be raised together.

As for the older eggs, you can eat them.

truthhurts2:
both of them are actually willing to, but once one sit on it she won't allow the other. The question now remains how many eggs will one be able to hatch? Cos the eggs are much. But like you said, I should accept whatever the outcome.

Expand the brooding area and share the eggs between them. They will still sit on it.

I have had this experience dozens of time.

kay29000:
Rat avoid fish? Interesting.

I genuinely confirmed this. Though I inserted it in a mouse trap. They didn't even eat it.

Lukuluku69:
Once you noticed that two or more hens choose to lay at the same spot, you can do the following to make the best out if the situation.

1. Let them continue to lay but get a marker or a pencil to just put a dot on the egg that are already laid.

2. Changing the spot by removing all the eggs cam make them abandon that spot and gonlay in your neighbour's compound. So, let them lay.
3. It is always good if the space between the hens laying is not more than 3 days( for instance an hen already has 6 eggs in that pool amd another hen come tonlay on that same clutch, if that happens remove it and keep)

4. So, when brooding starts, make sure you give the hens the eggs that are newest and not the older eggs in the clutch( usually an hen lays between 9-13 eggs on the average in any given circle).

5. If you want them to brood together, you can expand the brooding area by dividing the eggs equally or almost equally. Once they are hatched provided that the eggs are ferterlised, the chicks will be raised together.

As for the older eggs, you can eat them.

Thanks for sharing your wealth of experience.

truthhurts2:


I'll keep updating

These hens can't stop surprising...smiles

They've have finally shared these eggs, can I even say shared? No! They've divided them into two, but none is permanently sitting/brooding on one, they're doing it interchangeably (i.e if the white hen sit on eggs A now and the brown hen sit on B, after like 3 hour you will see the white one sitting on B while the brown sitting on A).

In my mind I was like...why are you using the lives of these chicks to gamble? If they sha born you well make you no hatch them, na inside pot both of Una go end.

Iamsane:
Thanks for sharing your wealth of experience.

Also, you may experience older hens (in some cases) pecking and trying to drive away a younger hen should they share a laying spot (remember there is a pecking order) it is normal. All you need do is to allow it at the LAYING STAGE but when it happens during brooding, you have to either physically drive away the older hen or seperate/divide the eggs between them.

Driving away another hen already brooding usually leads to delay in the hatching days/cycle or death of the embryo (prolonged heat delay will kill the growing embryos)

So, if you notice it, separate the eggs immediately. You can restrain any if the hens too by using bog basket to cover them up while you forcefully make them sit on it. In a day or two, it will accept the eggs.

truthhurts2:
These hens can't stop surprising...smiles

They've have finally shared these eggs, can I even say shared? No! They've divided them into two, but none is permanently sitting/brooding on one, they're doing it interchangeably (i.e if the white hen sit on eggs A now and the brown hen sit on B, after like 3 hour you will see the white one sitting on B while the brown sitting on A).

In my mind I was like...why are you using the lives of these chicks to gamble? If they sha born you well make you no hatch them, na inside pot both of Una go end.

Lol

It is not gamble but a survival instinct engraved in their DNA. I have had dozens of hen do that a number of times and what is beautiful in this is that, the chicks will be raised together. The chicks will recognise the calls of the two hens.

No aggression towards the chicks while feeding and moving around.

I once had three hens do that once. Altogether, the had 25 chicks between them.

It was just beautiful to behold. And you know there is a pecking order, sometimes, the older hen will peck and try to chase away the other two hens, they will just Puff up in reverence and submission but they will never abandon the chicks and neither will the older hen attack the chicks.

Lukuluku69:
Lol

It is not gamble but a survival instinct engraved in their DNA. I have had dozens of hen do that a number of times and what is beautiful in this is that, the chicks will be raised together. The chicks will recognise the calls of the two hens.

No aggression towards the chicks while feeding and moving around.

I once had three hens do that once. Altogether, the had 25 chicks between them.

It was just beautiful to behold. And yiunknow there is a pecking order, sometimes, the older hen will peck and try to chase away the other two hens, they will just Puff up in reverence and submission but they will never abandon the chicks and neither will the older hen attack the chicks.

that's cool though...

The one I experienced before was when my 2 hens brood and hatched together, the next day was a heavy down pour and it swept all their chicks away without any one left.


And you're right about them not showing aggression towards the chicks raised together.

OP, may the God of Wike punish you severely, if you ever end this hen series on nairaland.
I love you all

truthhurts2:
My last comment here was that my last local hen (after I'd lost the rest somehow someway) also died on eggs during brooding mysteriously. Now, I've relocated to a more better place, just me and my family alone inside a very big compound. I bought another five set consisting of a roaster and 4 hen. Here is my concern now, 2 hen are laying together, I saw it late, it was around 6 eggs when I did. When it was 8 eggs I tried to separate 4-4 not far from each other but any time I check one(I don't know which one) would have joined everything together again, now, as of today, the eggs are 17 in number and they haven't stopped laying. What if they didn't hatch them at all or they hatch like 30% of it? Or, maybe I should kuku pack them inside and start eating them myself.


I can't afford wastage!

Updates on my brooding hens...

The two hens brooding together finally hatched on Sunday. @Mariangeles told me to allow nature take place and it actually did, out of 19 eggs they hatched 16 and I'm really happy. I moved them into cage immediately to keep them safe from predators like the reptiles and/or the birds. The other two hens (hope you guys remember the hens are 4 in total) will soon hatch too (both of them are also brooding together), they are both sitting on 20 eggs. So I hope by next week they should hatch. At least If I can get 16+ chicks from them too I'll be really happy. I will try all possible best not to lose any chick from both sides.

truthhurts2:
Updates on my brooding hens...

The two hens brooding together finally hatched on Sunday. @Mariangeles told me to allow nature take place and it actually did, out of 19 eggs they hatched 16 and I'm really happy. I moved them into cage immediately to keep them safe from predators like the reptiles and/or the birds. The other two hens (hope you guys remember the hens are 4 in total) will soon hatch too (both of them are also brooding together), they are both sitting on 20 eggs. So I hope by next week they should hatch. At least If I can get 16+ chicks from them too I'll be really happy. I will try all possible best not to lose any chick from both sides.

Wow! That is awesome.✨
I'm glad everything turned out well.

To rear local chickens seem easy.
Only that they attract predators, and I don't know what I would do if I woke one morning to find my chickens all gone.

Aside them free roaming, do you feed them something else?

More chickens to your coop.

By the way, check out this video I stumbled upon: https://youtube.com/shorts/NYxWRVQblOo?si=VdTXXQYn6SZA6a36

Mariangeles:
Wow! That is awesome.✨
I'm glad everything turned out well.

To rear local chickens seem easy.
Only that they attract predators, and I don't know what I would do if I woke one morning to find my chickens all gone.

Aside them free roaming, do you feed them something else?

More chickens to your coop.

By the way, check out this video I stumbled upon: https://youtube.com/shorts/NYxWRVQblOo?si=VdTXXQYn6SZA6a36

you don't need to have that fear in you, and if it eventually happens you start all over again like it happened to me. I lost all my hen within the space of a month then, it really discouraged me completely but I never gave up, I believe it will work out and here I am.

I really want to make them a flock of hen by this time next year. I will improve their breed by introducing Noilers With them, majorly
to improve their sizes. And yes, I do feed them every morning with finishers feed, corn, kitchen waste and I do give them multivitamin and antibiotics too.

No activities on this thread again, it will soon be forgotten if it continues this way. People won't see or know the benefits it offers anymore.


Let's keep updating pls

I started with just five (4 hens and 1 roster) like 7 months ago, now, I have more than 60 of them apart from the 7 of them that died.

@mariangelese