Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome! - Page 3714

I keep the main supply well away from the main area. So when I bring up hay-8 bales aday-- the chickens sure like to make use of sitting on the bales or trashing open ones. THe buggers. Finally decided to give them their own to play in!

well...took 41 birds, all but 5 of those were chicks of various ages and the last of the cuckoos, which by the way, Donna, I've got a PM coming to you here in a couple of minutes. I'm feeling much better having thinned out the third hatch of the year and made some more space for the silvers by removing the cuckoos. Will take more over the week after the 4th. I didn't stay over only because I have plenty of other stuff to keep me busy at the moment, including sorting out meets for the show in november..which is going pretty good so far!

Well it was a pleasant day today..... perfect temp to mix 3 55gal barrels of feed for the chickens.  86 was the projected high.  Tomorrow 96 so I will do some moving and cleaning to thin my brooder boxes out. Going to get water from the creek always a good way to cool down.  I don't think I will be going this weekend or next to sell chicks under this heat.  Last I saw Sat and Sun 100 and 99 respectively.
 

 

I got the PM sent you one back.

I hear ya...it ended up being right on the cut off for me takin birds, but decided to go for it. took extra containers for water and spaced them out in the provided pens a bit more than usual to give them some breathing room. luckily the birds are in the shade the whole night.

 

pmed ya back...hope it helps

We have Anatolian Sheperds and no they are not trained .... it is genetic.  They bond with their herd/flock and protect them.  We have a female that decided on her own that she was to guard our chickens.  She spends most of the time in the chicken yard.  We bring her in to the house in the late afternoon early evening to eat and socialize with us.  By 9:00 she insists on going back out to her chickens.  We have some longhorns in the area around the chicken yard and if the bull comes near the pen Amber goes bullistic on him.  Yet if we open the gate and let her out she'll walk right by the bull with no fuss.

My rotties are the same way; in the house everyone is friends. OTherwise no one approaches their pen. 

My son brought his mixed pit/ lab up here to stay for a while. I will say he does not like cats.... But so far he hasn't looked at the chicks to hard. But then again every time he gets within 20 feet of the coop I tell him to go lay down. He listens pretty good.

Yikes - we lost a lot of barns and indoors in our area, too.

I really hope they at least had insurance to replace the barn....

 

THREE cuts?!? 

We're working on our FIRST cut right now!

We always count ourselves lucky, if we can get done with two cuttings here!

I WISH we could get in three!!

 

On a good note -  we just got 70 more acres to hay from a local guy who is retiring!!

 

 

Hope everyone's weather settles down!

 

Vicki - rest up and be sure to take time to heal!!

awwww....how sweet! you got 70 acres for me to come be your neighbor?! hahahahaha 

 

My foot's doing great! only hurt once today when i accidentally bumped it! 

That is an understatement!