Flock Mama Farms

04/07/2024

Wishing Each and everyone of you

Peace ✌🏼
Love ❤️
Prosperity 🇺🇸

Thinking of those who gave their All ~ Thank You 🙏

01/07/2024

Hello Dolls,
It’s that time of year again & what a scorcher many of the states are already seeing.
Keep your eyes open and pay attention

What is wrong with your Feather Babies?? 😫
Wings are out away from their body
They’re laying down
Egg production is dramatically lower
P**p is runny
Comb is floppy now
Their red parts look pale or pink
They’re not walking as much
They sound like there’s fluid in the lungs 🫁

— After you have ruled out the usual suspects
They might Be suffering from Heat 🔥 Stress 😢

You Need to Know - Chickens Don’t Sweat & like a Dogs Snout helps them,
Poultry uses lifting wings and their non feather parts as a part of their body temperature regulation system

When does heat stress occur? 🤷‍♀️

Heat stress occurs when the bird’s core body temperature increases to fatal temperatures because of poor heat loss and limited coping means. Environmental temperature and humidity play a role in heat stress. Thus it is key to measure both the temperature and humidity

When air temperature increases towards 100 F, the birds’ core body temperatures will increase to lethal temperatures unless relief is provided.

Humidity 🥵

High humidity decreases poultry heat loss from the lungs, which makes the birds more prone to heat stress. For older turkeys, temperatures at 85 F with humidity above 50 percent places turkeys in the danger zone. At 90 F and 50 percent humidity the risk increases to extreme.
If misting or fogging at low humidities, monitor relative humidity to prevent excess moisture in the air that can worsen heat stress conditions.

Feeding 🍽️

Most often, birds are hungriest in the morning and will tend to fill up. This will make them more prone to heat stress in the afternoon. Birds can then feed during night time hours when we expect cooler temperatures to occur. You can use lighting during nighttime (midnight) feeding to allow intake. You may notice some body weight loss depending on how often you use this feeding method. Thus only follow this feed method when you expect heat stress temperatures.

Water 💦

During heat stress, birds will increase their water intake by 2 to 4 times their normal intake. Sufficient water space, operating waterers and cool (NOT Cold 🧊) water temperatures will encourage the birds to drink. Heat stress causes increased loss of several minerals including potassium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium and zinc. Potassium chloride electrolytes appear to increase water intake when provided in drinking water at 0.6 percent concentration. You should start providing electrolytes prior to the heat stress period. - Note *** Be cautious with how much Sodium you are adding as Salt levels are quite sensitive in poultry. **

Providing sodium bicarbonate

Sodium bicarbonate (AKA - Baking Soda) in the feed or use of carbonated water is especially useful for hens in egg production. Panting and carbon dioxide release can change the acid-base balance in poultry, but also the bicarbonate available for eggshell formation. Thus sodium bicarbonate can help lessen these changes.

Supplementing vitamins

Supplementing drinking water with vitamins (A, D, E and B complex) can be effective at tackling heat stress mortality in broilers. In breeding poultry, vitamin C can effectively moderate warm temperature declines in egg production and eggshell quality in laying hens, and s***m production in breeder males.

Rachel at Dine A chook AU
What to do with a heat stressed chicken
Chickens suffering from heat stress will pant and hold their wings away from their body. They will show decreased appetite and have watery droppings.
Chickens with extreme heat stress requiring immediate attention may be listless, droopy or pale in the wattle or comb. If you are unsure whether your chickens are coping with the heatwave, it is better to err on the side of caution and act, as chickens can die of extreme heat.
In the case of extreme heat stress, there are 2 options:
1. Bring the chicken inside to air conditioning for the remainder of the heatwave
2. Partially submerge the chicken in water. Only wet the underpart of the hen in cool, not icy, water: feet, legs, belly (along the keel) and under the wings. You should not wet large areas of feathers, for example the neck, back, wings or chest.
In both cases, the affected chicken/s should be offered plenty of cool water, ideally with electrolytes, and monitored closely for the duration of the heatwave.

Remember Stay Alert 🚨
Watch the WWC- Wings, Comb & Wattles
> for heat stress in birds

XOXO - Flock Mama

29/06/2024

PSA : Random thoughts 💭
That face you make when you see social media posts of friends who’ll run to someone else and support “them” - VS asking you…. 🤔?

Them : Oh I’m an expert (doing this for 1 minute)

You: Uhm - been doing this like forever but hey - It’s cool 😎

16/06/2024

From Our Flock to Yours - Wishing You All

Happy Father’s 🐓 Day ❣️

28/05/2024

Meet Piper , Payton, Pryce

The newest lil darlings on the Farmstead 😍

23/05/2024

I knew it !

I’m not the only one who talks to their eggs for 🐣

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14/05/2024

Hey Dolls,
As things wind down for our Spring
Set the last eggs for the season, my Mother’s Day hatch batch. 💝

Many are shipped so 🙏 praying for an eggcellent hatch.

Interesting enough each of these groups are 2+ years in the making and planning for birds I’ve longed to have on our homestead. 🥹

Please send positive vibes our way

XOXO ~ Flock Mama

12/05/2024

30/04/2024

Yall Be sure to check this one out

$10 Charity Waffle 🧇

Go to the Bissonnette Acres page for all the details on entering

Best of luck and let’s Show Sara Church some BIG Love!❤️

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29/04/2024

Ok my fellow Egg Dealers
Putting this into Perspective for y’all

Table Eggs , cost a lot for your birds ~ they’re not cheap by any means

But then someone wants to stress about paying the same for them as they would for a Gumball 🤔

Have you ever thought about that

29/04/2024

Something about terra-cotta & speckles 🫶🏼🙌🏼🧡🤎

25/04/2024

Babies 😍

18/04/2024

Patience

Persevering

Prosperous

Don’t give up your Goals 🌈

12/04/2024

😍 Swoon 😍

That’s all 🥳

08/04/2024

This is not a Push my beliefs onto you forum ~ you have yours & I have mine. 🧡

With that said; I Do Believe in the Power of Prayer 🙏

So I’m asking for yours to rally around a dear friend of mine, someone who’s become like a Sister to me as she Begins her journey & treatments today.

Please 🙏 send prayers over her and surround her as well as countless others with our support.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate
It affects us all & has touched so many lives as it will continue until there’s a Cure.

06/04/2024

Bwahaha 🤣

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03/04/2024

💯 Yasss ❣️😍

31/03/2024

Sending Easter 🐣 ✝️💖 blessings
💛 from our Flock to Yours 💚

25/03/2024

Hey Dolls 👋 ,
Whether new to this life or a seasoned 🐥 tender
All are welcome but know the Rules—>
PSA :

🚨 1st Rule of Chicken Club 🚨

~ We Don’t Talk about/ Count the Chickens ❣️

Second Rule

☝🏼 See Rule 1

🤣🤣🤣

Have a Marvelous Monday

21/03/2024

Not chicken related

I just cannot get over how beautiful 💚🧡💛💚 my nails look right now. 🥹

When you can walk into a salon with a picture in your head, which the artist can transform into a masterpiece, simply priceless. 😍

Y’all go and see them to get yours done

19/03/2024

Excited about our Lil Laced Project Group.

They’re so sweet and fluffy ❤️💙❤️💙

Lots to still work on but they’re first Gen.

17/03/2024

“May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
That pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.”

From our Hearts 💚 & Home to Yours 🌈 🍀
~ Happy St. Patrick’s Day ~

A tribute to our Gingers who lay Green 😍🙌🏼💚

07/03/2024

A new boy, Video is dark but he’s enjoying tuna 🍣 for the first time 🥰

03/03/2024

Hey Dolls ,
Grow Out Post on our Farm 🤠

Slowly building up our Darker Shade groups.

These babies hatched in late November and are enjoying their new life together in the grow out pen.

EGGcited 🤩 to watch them fill out more.

If you’re near Houston and seeking Deep Olives 🫒 bred for their diversity in plumage + egg color genetics 🧬 ~> Go hit up our girl Jolie Godfrey and get yours. 🫶🏼

Pic of the eggs they hatched 🐣 from

03/03/2024

Did yall know we have Several Breeds / Varieties of Ducks 🦆—>
Go check out their own page and You Tube Channel
Be sure to ✅ follow , Like 👍 & 🔔 Subscribe

This episode features my beautiful 😍 Ancona babies

I just love the way they look 👀 like an Orca Whale
My own lil Shamo’s running around 😝

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28/01/2023

Y’all I’m already making out my Valentine’s ❤️🤍🖤💚🤎💙💝 wish list …. Any guesses 🤣🤣

27/01/2023

If you’re curious 🤔 about the Stars 🤩 of the
Chocolate 🍫 Fire 🔥 Video

Then wonder no more … go 💃🏼🕺🏻💃🏼🕺🏻 Flock to Alexander Farmstead for some of the BEST hidden secrets around.

They’ve got a Bangin Setup 🤯

Aaaaamazing Marans (we snagged these fellas 😉)

SUPA D**A Dark Chocolate 🍫 Eggs 🥚

Aaaand sooo much more ! 😍😍

26/01/2023

🧡🧡🤍🤍🫶🏼🫶🏼🧡🧡🤍🤍

Finally achieved one of my egg color goals

It’s Orange with white spots ❤️‍🔥

NFS ** just wanted to share as I’m EggCited!!

Xoxo- Flock Mama

25/01/2023

These 18 will be making their way to another farm’s incubator real soon 🌈🤎💙💚💛🤍💖

A lot of research, hard work and dedication going into these & what you don’t see are the Olive 🫒 Green variations that will come from several of these babies 🐣 too along with Speckles and Blooms … oh my 🙌🏼

Btw: The crazy 😜 things we do for ensuring the hatching 🐣 eggs aren’t eaten 🤣 🤣🤣

Xoxo- Flock Mama

25/01/2023

Who says Olive 🫒 Eggers only look 👀 one way? 🤔

You ain’t seen nothing like these babies 😜

Xoxo- Flock Mama