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I NEED ducks for a customer he wants what he calls "Buffs" how do get those much less incubate them...how cute would that be?

Pictures of our birds are in my photo albums... Totally open to side swaps......CLUK-N-BUK FARM
Rescued horses ( need homes) Goats,Donkeys, guineas,chickens,rescued dogs,HAVE a home..( no more dogs!) several crazy cats ( no more CATS!) Did I mention chickens? NEED more chickens!!
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Pictures of our birds are in my photo albums... Totally open to side swaps......CLUK-N-BUK FARM
Rescued horses ( need homes) Goats,Donkeys, guineas,chickens,rescued dogs,HAVE a home..( no more dogs!) several crazy cats ( no more CATS!) Did I mention chickens? NEED more chickens!!
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post #6812 of 11360
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Good morning my hatching friends.  It's Friday Eve!

 

It is going to be a GORGEOUS DAY and a MARVELOUS WEEKEND!

 

 

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Looks like we'll be turning on the AC until next Monday.


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I may actually take a dip in the pool on Saturday once chores are done!

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I so appreciate the prayers. My burns are slowly healing.  THANKS!

 

Have an awesome day.  Luv y'all, M 

 

 

Keeper of 26 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Mama Olive Eggers w/ 15 chicks each, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucana pullets, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and 41 juvies of various breeds. YIKES!  Time to SELL some chickens!

 

 

"With God, ALL things are possible."

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Keeper of 26 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Mama Olive Eggers w/ 15 chicks each, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucana pullets, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and 41 juvies of various breeds. YIKES!  Time to SELL some chickens!

 

 

"With God, ALL things are possible."

                 ...

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post #6813 of 11360

Good morning all!

 

I'm working overnights right now for a few days (generally call my own schedule, this is a couple of times a year) and I'm just pooped! It's Spring Break and the kids are home, and I still have daytime responsibilities, so  I'm very winded. After 3 days of rain, the world is as soggy as it's ever been, and the animals are all indignant and cranky.

 

I can't wait for a few weeks of mild, wonderful spring...but its Kansas, so it's more likely to be dry and 90. 

 

I'll be getting a ton of hay to put down everywhere, because almost all of the runs are at least 2 inches deep. It's a good time to throw down birdseed and grass seed prior to the hay and leaves to seed the runs, but it's so mucky I'm just sad.

 

 

 

               ৲(⎠    ~Renée~ *MyHints* NPIP&AI 48-0346 Incubation Cheat Sheet ~t~ SickPage ~f~

 (`-.     _.-⎠̸   I dream of a society in which no one questions a chicken's motive for road crossing. 

*` (_.}  ,' Orp~Amerau~d'Uccle~Konza~Aubergine~Silkie~BantyCochin~Chantecler~Marans~Rock~Pea

     _ . /       

      _/  \ _ O

 

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               ৲(⎠    ~Renée~ *MyHints* NPIP&AI 48-0346 Incubation Cheat Sheet ~t~ SickPage ~f~

 (`-.     _.-⎠̸   I dream of a society in which no one questions a chicken's motive for road crossing. 

*` (_.}  ,' Orp~Amerau~d'Uccle~Konza~Aubergine~Silkie~BantyCochin~Chantecler~Marans~Rock~Pea

     _ . /       

      _/  \ _ O

 

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post #6814 of 11360

Here is a pic of what I set, though it may be hard to count them. I'll take another when I get them separated into the now empty incubator.

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And here is some Iowa Blue cuteness:

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Dark Horse Acres

NPIP 42-618

Iowa Blues and a mixed flock of a wide variety.

http://www.iowabluechickenclub.com/

 

 

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Dark Horse Acres

NPIP 42-618

Iowa Blues and a mixed flock of a wide variety.

http://www.iowabluechickenclub.com/

 

 

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post #6815 of 11360

Renee--send that rain my way!!! the weather report for the weekend has decrease the rain event and I'm watering the lawn for a second day. I never water! ANd if I do, it's July and AUgust. NOT March. A few brush fires locally due to the extra dry conditions.

 

Kari--WOW   ep.gifthats a lot of eggs!!

NPIP Tested Clean

 

           Eggs available:   Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

             Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex    

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Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

 

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NPIP Tested Clean

 

           Eggs available:   Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

             Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex    

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Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

 

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post #6816 of 11360
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Originally Posted by chick-among-us View Post

I NEED ducks for a customer he wants what he calls "Buffs" how do get those much less incubate them...how cute would that be?



Check out Metzer Farms website.  They are a BYC sponsor and I believe purchased Holderead's flock of Buffs.



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Originally Posted by karimw View Post

Here is a pic of what I set, though it may be hard to count them. I'll take another when I get them separated into the now empty incubator.

IMG_0711.jpg

 



Kari, How many are in there?!  I see some Icelandic eggs!!  With that many eggs, maybe the old Farm Master does need to move to Iowa!  Of course, then you'd just be filling it up!  lau.gif

 

 

 

 

suum cuique

 

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suum cuique

 

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post #6817 of 11360

Finally caught up. 

 

Don't want to get started on horse horse rescue.  We just took in one pregnant, starved mare and have sererval more possibly on the way in.

 

 

 

 

3 horses, 5 cats, Frizzle and smooth standard cochin,  lots of BLRW, , Light sussex, Wheaten and  blue wheaten Ameraucana and and a pair of  coronation sussex,  a brooder full chicks and a bator full of eggs and 1 very understanding husband, who tells everyone I've gone broody   NPIP and AI free  NC 55-978

         my swap page        http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/greeneacr...

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3 horses, 5 cats, Frizzle and smooth standard cochin,  lots of BLRW, , Light sussex, Wheaten and  blue wheaten Ameraucana and and a pair of  coronation sussex,  a brooder full chicks and a bator full of eggs and 1 very understanding husband, who tells everyone I've gone broody   NPIP and AI free  NC 55-978

         my swap page        http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/greeneacr...

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post #6818 of 11360
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Originally Posted by tazcat70 View Post

 

ETA: 22 are eggs from the swap and 23 are from my Violet Laced Wyandotte project.



There WILL be pictures of these somewhere along the way right?



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Originally Posted by debs_flock View Post

Most Ingenious Chicken Design Contest

 

 

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It's a couple of inches of black foam pipe insulation.  It slips right over the end of the flashlight and the egg just barely fits into the hole so I get a good seal to the egg.  It cost .97 cents for a six foot length, so the piece I used costs about .04 cents.  It cuts easily with scissors and literally took a second to fashion into what I needed.

 

The insulation comes in many sizes, I plan to experiment with using it to cushion eggs for shipment.

 

Deb


Simply brilliant! I'm going to have to give this a try. Thanks!!!

 

 

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
Join the Easter Hatch-A-Long http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Join us for fun and prizes........ MAP is HERE

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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
Join the Easter Hatch-A-Long http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Join us for fun and prizes........ MAP is HERE

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post #6819 of 11360
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Got stung on the butt-shelf 4 or 5 times last night by this little guy. My bottom and leg were electrified all night!!

Laree 
Giving you the stink-eye.  Yeah, you.   

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Laree 
Giving you the stink-eye.  Yeah, you.   

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post #6820 of 11360

Yes, I read it. Thank you for the information. Have you tried "Minnesota Midget Melons" , they have a 60-75 days rather than the 90-100 days. They might be small, but they are delicious.
 

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Originally Posted by SunnyDawn View Post

Oh I just remembered.  Someone had asked about my starting Cantaloupe and Pumpkins inside this year and I meant to explain that when I had more time but got distracted and forgot.

 

My plan, which may not be successful (this will be an experiment), is to build a cold-frame with "heat sinks" in the corners that will warm up the plants enough to give them their early start.  My season is even shorter up here in Red Rock than it was down in Reno proper so finding a way to get an early start is important to me.  Plus I would like to extend my harvest time so I can enjoy fresh produce even longer.

 

I'm going to build a few raised beds this weekend with bales of straw (which I can wet and cover with plastic to produce composting heat later if needed).  I will line them with plastic, punch holes in the bottom, fill them halfway with our cruddy DG soil, put a couple inches of chicken manure mixed with shavings on top of this and then fill the rest of the way with cheap potting soil.  In the corners I plan to place jugs of water, painted black or covered with black garbage bags, as solar collectors.  Depending on how big my cold frames are I may place a collector in the middle too.  Then the whole thing will be covered with either polycarbonate sheets or with a clear fiberglass composite material.

 

There are some fantastic ideas like this on the net but I got this particular design from Mother Earth News - Wiser Living Series (Spring 2012).  I decided I better figure out a different method for getting an early start to my gardening since with my back I just can't be hauling pots or buckets in and out of the house like I tried to do when we first moved here.  And waiting for Hubby to get home to do it when it's starting to snow at 11am just doesn't cut it either.  A friend said they had their last "hard" freeze up here on June 26th last year!!!  It killed all of her tomato plants which she had in large heat collecting buckets so that would not be enough protection out here for sure.

 

The frames will be BIG!  Big enough to leave the pumpkins and cantaloupes in for the remainder of the season.  Unless it's freezing the panels will be left off.  It is easier to put them back on than to haul buckets or pots in and out of the house for months!  The seedlings I just planted should germinate in 5-10 days and then they will go right outside to the cold frame since these types of plants need lots of sun and get "leggy" quite fast if left inside.  The plants can just spill over the sides of the bales as they get bigger.

 

Hope this explains my silly notion of planting squash and melons inside.  I'm pretty tired so I hope it made sense.  Hope the person that asked me about it reads this post...     hmm.png

 

Anyway goodnight all!  Sleep tight!



 

Chickens : YES!

Dogs: Siberian Husky, Schipperkee, and 2 Icelandic Sheepdogs

Goats: A small, fun herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats

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Chickens : YES!

Dogs: Siberian Husky, Schipperkee, and 2 Icelandic Sheepdogs

Goats: A small, fun herd of Nigerian Dwarf Goats

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