I need to work on downsizing my flock a bit. Chicken math got the best of me. I have no problems getting rid of the boys, but I would hate to cull a pullet. Is there anyone in the Columbia area looking to get more birds?
Wow, I did not know that. I will have to look at the thermometer I have in there, it keeps track of the Temp and humidity of the last 24 hours. If it doesn't work in the coops with the extra humidity, then I'll let my husband use it in the shop.
yeah, I had a fan in there too, and I'm working on getting a swamp cooler out there, but teh shed they are penned in doesn't have good air flow even with the doors open, so I need to fix the ventilation issue at the top of the shed, I'm actually going to be doing it to all my chicken sheds. I...
Now that this heat wave broke, I need to start freezing corn for the chickens to throw out there in the morning. The free range birds do okay, but my orpingtons are struggling in the heat. I'm gonna try to fix the air flow in their coop so that it's not so bad until they have access to their run.
I had my tomato starts outside and lost about 1/2 of them even covered *sigh* I really knew better. We always seem to get a late frost in April when I try to garden.
I've decided to take off a day at work and get my garden set up. I have some peppers and tomatoes that want to be outside very badly. And I would love to get my beans and vine plants planted.
Chick fever hit me hard. I have an almost overwhelming amount of chicks. Now I'm going to have to rush and make some chicken tractors to move my adult birds around in and keep my breeding groups so that my new babies can have the coops.
I got my F1xF1 Freedom Rangers in the incubator. I'm...
I got 2 incubators full of eggs and I keep slipping in silkie eggs lol…it’s been a week and I have candled them. There are 3 possible non developing eggs out of 34.
I managed to move 1 inside the coop, hopefully it starts to thaw and the other I moved towards the coop, but I couldn’t get it inside cuz the cord was covered in a sheet of ice. I’ll try to mess with it more tomorrow since I have the day off and daycare is opened.
-8 here, feels like -27 with the wind. Waiting for my mom to come visit so I can take water out to the chickens since it’s gotten so cold, the warmer pads I have for the water tanks can’t keep the water from freezing. It’s a good thing I have Monday off. I think I’ll move the water into the...
I got to see a few last night when putting the chickens up after I put the baby down for the night. Took me a minute to figure out what they were cuz I wasn't really paying attention. lol
Has anyone had eggs shipped to them recently? I'm interested in buying some but I am worried about them being damaged in the post. If you have, what side of the state are you on and what was your experience?
All straight run except the Whiting True Blues, there are suppose to be 7 pullets and 3 cockerels. I am a bit worried that I have more than 3 cockerels though, time will tell.