5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[michaelf]

Good morning peeps! Have an eggcellent day! Thanks for the comments on my olive egg!

 

[abmaddox1981]

Good morning! Gonna be busy busy around here today. Gotta go to 2 schools, my (deaf) daughter is performing a dance routine at her school then have to go to my son's pre-k Christmas party. Plus check the egg is, feed the ungodly number of chickens and see if any of my rabbits are actually knocked up or just faking it. Again. It's too early!

 

[abmaddox1981]

Oh, and I have to keep from pulling my hair out because my father in law wants to give me "advice" on my chickens. Ugh. Anyone want a free father in law? He's house broken and everything!

 

[Gardeningmama]

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[Blarneyeggs]

Oh, and I have to keep from pulling my hair out because my father in law wants to give me "advice" on my chickens. Ugh. Anyone want a free father in law? He's house broken and everything!

Does he do processing?...if so, send him on over! After searching for just the right piece of land for close to 5 years, my proud husband drove his father out to view the property...my FIL's response.. 'What the hxll ya gonna do with this?' Nice, Pop.

Have fun at the Christmas shows today! My goal is to finish shopping for the kids and their teachers as they will be done school this Friday.

 

[MontanaDolphin]

No you would be SOL there too. I had 3 Pygmies and they could clear a 4 foot fence. The only way I was successful in keeping them in a 4 foot fence was to run a hot wire across the top. Of course the moment it failed the Boer billy I had would jump it. I just have sheep now. If I ever get goats again it will probably be Fainting Goats or Silkies because they can't jump due to the myatonia.

Bleh. I don't know anything about "hot wire", so I'm still at a loss. I do NOT want to keep them on a tie-out...I've had so many people tell me NOT to tie them up that I'm paranoid now. Crap.

Friend of mine has livestock protection dogs and added a radio fence when they kept jumping the fence. It kept the dogs in so well she added collars to the goats, which were also jumping out, and now they stay in too! She uses a Stubborn Dog fence. I have the same thing. You add the wire to your existing fence, attach to the controller, place collars on the animals and train them what to do when it beeps at them. My dogs have never once tried to leave once they got what the fence meant, and I'm seriously considering running it through our woods (it is unfenceable with standard fencing) so I could put goats in the woods.

I'll have to do some research on this. If it is expensive, I won't be able to...money's tight right now (just bought this home...our first...less than a year ago).

This is such a nice set up! We had ours in an electric netting fence powered by first a solar charger, then we jumped to a 100 mile serious 'jolt' charger and yet, they kept escaping... Now we have the 4 foot no climb fence, it's doing the job, I'm quite pleased.

What is a "no climb fence"? I'm so intrigued!

 

[SilkieSensation]

There is no such thing as goat proof fence...lol I tie my little monsters out on dog chains every day and lock them in 6 ft high chainlink with a tarp roof at night.

So far my goat fence seems goat proof(knock on wood). We built a wood fence first using Oak wood posts and cemented each post a foot under ground then stapled cattle fence to the inside of the wood fence. The fence is 4ft tall and they cant get over they also jump against the fence often and the fence doesn't budge. We put the fence up 7 months ago with no issues...yet.

This is such a nice set up! We had ours in an electric netting fence powered by first a solar charger, then we jumped to a 100 mile serious 'jolt' charger and yet, they kept escaping... Now we have the 4 foot no climb fence, it's doing the job, I'm quite pleased.

I don't even bother with trying to fence mine. I just tie them out in a different spot each day & let them munch. That way they eat where I want them to & don't get anything they shouldn't (garden, flowers, strawberries, etc.) Works great for us. My aunt always did it that way too.

 

[SunnySkies]

Sorry, iPad is acting up and won't let me delete properly.

Stubborn Dog in ground fence by Petsafe was under $300 for a 5 acre kit off eBay with two large breed dog collars. I bought extra line at Home Depot and a different style of line connector at Ace Hardware. Installed it myself.

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[MontanaDolphin]

I just realized I'm in on all this goat talk on the hatchalong part of the forum. Sorry everyone! Those without goats are probably thinking "Move the conversation somewhere else!" LOL

So, back to egg hatching.


I'm on day 6. At first turn this morning, I candled two...and those little kidney beans are doing flips...LOVIN' IT!!! I'm going to have to learn to sit on my hands or I'll be candling at EVERY TURN...which I do 5 times a day!

 

[Chase Family]

Good Morning Everyone.
Does anyone ever have chicken play dates?