building paradise for the birds

[birdman55]

I just cant do it...I will let nature do its thing...ol boy has survived this long so he can prolly eat and drink by himself...he will make it to freezer camp tho...well out to the coops to do work....just got back home not to long ago...have a great day everyone

 

[Tony K T]

You guys have to remember the cold weather effects breeding so you are lucky you are getting them at 50%.If your getting 50%now,come spring time you'll be close to 95% or better..Then you will learn to shut your incubator off for the winter when you have 500 chicks around.I learned my lesson hatching button quail thru the winter.Never again.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[birdman55]

You guys have to remember the cold weather effects breeding so you are lucky you are getting them at 50%.If your getting 50%now,come spring time you'll be close to 95% or better..Then you will learn to shut your incubator off for the winter when you have 500 chicks around.I learned my lesson hatching button quail thru the winter.Never again.
In N.H.,Tony.

tony...im going to be a breeding machine this year...don't forget to save me a pair of temminicks...don't they need more requirements then most pheasants....ie grass, rocks and such...gotta be prepared...

 

[Tony K T]

You got it.Hopefully I get a few this year.She only laid 4 eggs and then went to setting on them.I was hoping she would lay 5,and the male would set on them and then she laid 5 more and she started setting like the year before,but that didn't happen.Same as most pheasants,but rocks and stumps keep them happy as they love to sit up hi and look around.
How about some lewis silvers?You can get them now.I have 3 pairs left.Adults in pics.and my temminck male breeder.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

thanks Kathy for the chit chat...hope everything goes well with hawk....here is some pics




see what I mean with the eye lids.....she does open them very quick to see whats going on but then shuts them immediately and then the head starts to go down...she is warm to the tough....(next to the fireplace helps)....and she was just fine just today she just went boom im sick...hope the pics help...

well I took her out of the small cage and she started walking around clucking...then I caught her and gave her about 25ml of a warm sugar solution...here are some pics




this is her poo forget the dirty carpet



I don't see any worms in it...it was greenish and white...liquidy.....I did try and feed her some feed by putting some in my hand and then placing it by her mouth and she opened and closed her mouth...I also did this with the sugar solution and got some in her mouth she raised her head and swallowed....but I will redo and post some pics now that I am used to doing this...its really not that hard...to tube feed...just gotta take your time...make sure there is no resistance...and make sure the neck is extended so It can go down with ease..she is resting now....

I have had 40-50 chickens for the last three years....they get butchered at about year to year and a half...I always seem to just loose two chickens every winter..and they seem fine weight wise...but just drop and I find them in the morning...this girl was just standing out in the cold while the others were walking around...she actually came up to me so I picked her up and brought her into the house and put her by the warm fireplace.....she just kinda nods off...any help on what it could be...she was on her last day of worming with safeguard...I put the safeguard in the water for all the birds to drink...I did find roundworms in the poop from one of the 40 chickens....after day one...hope this helps

I use valbazen now 2x a year on all the birds. It does cover roundworm too, I am soo very sorry she is ill.

 

[birdman55]

she is all good now and back in with her flock....doing great

 

[ChicwannaB]

Hey, I just found you in the Michiganders, do you have any quail??
I built a quail pen last year and then the eggs didn't go so well, I'm looking for some fertiles to try it again but would like to find something closer that perhaps I can go pick up myself and save the post-office mishandling.
Hope to hear back, I'm in Munger. Only got a few chickens right now but have some new babies on order for early April.

 

[Ilene]

I have 7 hens with a coop, an attached run and a chunnel leading from the run to a protected area of my yard.
My problem is the rain. I notice many people do not cover their run. When it rains, I have an inch of water in my run.
How do you and everyone else handle the rain?

 

[MinxFox]

It is probably a low spot in your yard, so you need a bunch of dirt or sand to pile up in the run to make it a higher spot in the yard, that way the water will stream out of the run. You could also put a tarp over your run when it rains, but just building the ground up higher might be easier to do than always having to put on the tarp before a rain.

 

[perchie.girl]

I have 7 hens with a coop, an attached run and a chunnel leading from the run to a protected area of my yard.
My problem is the rain. I notice many people do not cover their run. When it rains, I have an inch of water in my run.
How do you and everyone else handle the rain?

Like MinxFox said.... raise the level of your run.... depending on how much run you have... But I have seen a couple of things done... The best by far is filling it up to about five or six inches of river sand... With a border of wood around it to keep it in. It still gets damp but you wont have standing water.... And being sand The water drains away.... I used to buy it five yards at a time from a gravel and sand company for my horse's corral. pretty cheap when delivered by dump truck.

But the different sizes of granuals in river sand or construction sand are perfect for chickens...

here is a calculator for top soil.... http://www.kelenytopsoil.com/howmuchdoineed.html






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