A Bielefelder Thread !

[Red Banks]

Quote: I think this thread is extremely helpful and I apologize for always going off topic, I know I am guilty but what I find is some threads don't have this kind of participation and you can wait days between posts. When you need a friend/advice you can't wait that long. Thanks everyone!

 

[Coop de Grass]

I think this thread is extremely helpful and I apologize for always going off topic, I know I am guilty but what I find is some threads don't have this kind of participation and you can wait days between posts. When you need a friend/advice you can't wait that long. Thanks everyone!

Ditto that! Thank you!

 

[Sylvester017]

Quote:
Eggshell is just calcium so it won't hurt a garden - flowering plants need lime or calcium. Anything that grows buds or flowers will like calcium for nourishment whether it's a veggie garden or a flower bed. I turn over my fallow raised beds to the chickens to scratch, forage, and dust-bathe in it at the end of growing season every year and they love finding the eggshell powdery bits. I also toss the chicken poops and straw into the fallow bed and turn it over so by the next Spring I don't need to buy fertilizer - processed bags of garden chicken manure is EXPENSIVE:

Diapered Silkie pullet taking a stroll past the netted Spring garden bed. We have to net the young plants from the scratching chickens!


Depleted garden bed at end of growing season and the chickens have a blast in it. They practically live in the bed all day long! The little Partridge Silkie is digging a hole to China and you can only see her little round fluffball tail on the right (inside the raised bed). These girls did a great job of constantly turning over the soil for me! It was very easy for me to plant veggies after they did their job.


The chickens absolutely love the soft soil and eggshell powder they find in the fallow garden bed - especially after there's a light rain. Their scratching helps to mix their drying poops back into the soil as fertilizer for next growing season.

 

[Sylvester017]

No offense taken. I just thought that some of the things you discussed will be missed by other users who may need the info. If it were in the correct catagory it would be more useful.

Every once in a while all BYC threads go slightly off-topic and it's mainly the reason I follow more than one thread. The most interesting things come up and had I not followed so many threads I'd miss so much of the helpful off-topic info. Sometimes an off-topic isn't noteworthy enough to post in another section yet just one unaware sentence can be so helpful to a passing reader. I follow the threads that discuss my particular breeds and follow other threads of breeds I'm interested in. So much great info and helpful people on BYC! I don't like any of the popular social media and find BYC my one-stop-all for just chickens. Sometimes I laugh, or I cry from the sad posts, or get curious enough from some BYC posts to further research info that caught my attention. I don't own a Bielie but love the breed just from reading about them and the kind of flockmate they make around other breeds.

 

[DesertChic]

I'm down to getting only 4 eggs per week from the two of my Biel hens combined. My poor girls simply despise this heat. It hit 109º with max humidity of 26% yesterday, but at 7:00 a.m. today it was already 88º and 46% humidity. I usually leave the chicken cabin that contains the Biel pen open until almost noon so fresh air can blow through it, but I've already closed all the windows and the door and cranked up the A/C. My Biel girls are laying in the bedding right in front of the portable A/C unit while my other breeds remain outside, scratching in the dirt. They're saying we have about 30 more days of this kind of heat. I'm dreaming of winter......

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm down to getting only 4 eggs per week from the two of my Biel hens combined. My poor girls simply despise this heat. It hit 109º with max humidity of 26% yesterday, but at 7:00 a.m. today it was already 88º and 46% humidity. I usually leave the chicken cabin that contains the Biel pen open until almost noon so fresh air can blow through it, but I've already closed all the windows and the door and cranked up the A/C. My Biel girls are laying in the bedding right in front of the portable A/C unit while my other breeds remain outside, scratching in the dirt. They're saying we have about 30 more days of this kind of heat. I'm dreaming of winter......

I myself could not handle that heat! I don't do heat very well at all..I feel for those birds, and you!

 

[Cynthia12]

Have to share..I'm posting this in a few different places. We know how a chicken can be therapeutic .. right? At least I do.

The world is learning how good chickens can be for us, in many different ways.

 

[DesertChic]

Have to share..I'm posting this in a few different places. We know how a chicken can be therapeutic .. right? At least I do.

The world is learning how good chickens can be for us, in many different ways.

That's fantastic! I know my chickens help to relive a lot of my stress. My two Biel roosters wait impatiently by my chair every morning until I sit down and they can jump up on my lap for snuggles. My life has improved exponentially thanks to my birds.

 

[Sylvester017]

I'm down to getting only 4 eggs per week from the two of my Biel hens combined. My poor girls simply despise this heat. It hit 109º with max humidity of 26% yesterday, but at 7:00 a.m. today it was already 88º and 46% humidity. I usually leave the chicken cabin that contains the Biel pen open until almost noon so fresh air can blow through it, but I've already closed all the windows and the door and cranked up the A/C. My Biel girls are laying in the bedding right in front of the portable A/C unit while my other breeds remain outside, scratching in the dirt. They're saying we have about 30 more days of this kind of heat. I'm dreaming of winter......

Our temps in SoCal are not as high as yours but hot enough that it is preventing my breeder from USPS'ing the chicken I have on order! We're missing all that lovely juvenile socialization with the pullet. She'll be 8 or 9 months old before we get her at THIS horrendous rate!!!!!

 

[Coop de Grass]

I'm down to getting only 4 eggs per week from the two of my Biel hens combined. My poor girls simply despise this heat. It hit 109º with max humidity of 26% yesterday, but at 7:00 a.m. today it was already 88º and 46% humidity. I usually leave the chicken cabin that contains the Biel pen open until almost noon so fresh air can blow through it, but I've already closed all the windows and the door and cranked up the A/C. My Biel girls are laying in the bedding right in front of the portable A/C unit while my other breeds remain outside, scratching in the dirt. They're saying we have about 30 more days of this kind of heat. I'm dreaming of winter......

I would send you

s, but I have a feeling it's too hot there! Good luck with the air conditioners.