Hey Northern CA BYCers
Anybody know where to get fish meal locally? I'm in Madera and I haven't been able to find any... trying to mix my own feed. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/920808/feed-nerds-opinions-wanted-re-whole-grain-feed-recipe Thanks!
Hey Northern CA BYCers
Anybody know where to get fish meal locally? I'm in Madera and I haven't been able to find any... trying to mix my own feed. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/920808/feed-nerds-opinions-wanted-re-whole-grain-feed-recipe Thanks!
LOL! Forgot about this - Too funny!Because chicks sleep in piles... a little dab will do ya!
Messy food coloring
Now that is a box of CUTENESS!We had a bad Cocci outbreak in the brooder. I'm hatching weekly and the entire family had the stomach flu last week. So, we have temporarily abandoned our brooder until it can be re-vamped and sterilized. Rather than put more chicks back in that Cocci-laden environment, I built a chick condo out of boxes. The main box in the middle doesn't hold food or water. It is the heated area. The boxes on the ends are the food and water boxes. I use those heavy duty shop paper towels, on top of paper bags, for layers of fresh floor, it can be rolled up and disposed of every two or three days. All I have to do is lay new shop towels in one box and sprinkle some food. The chicks will then mostly go to that box and I can change the bedding in the next box over. I took some pictures this morning because it was kind of comical. I think there must be close to 50 chicks all shoving themselves into this box! They are all within 3 days of each other in age.
Since this is in the house, an old fashioned incandescent bulb works well for heat. You can see I'm gearing up for the next hatch (starts tomorrow). All the new babies will go in the plastic bin until I get to costco for some new boxes. I rather like the condo idea. The chicks zip from end to end and all the water mess is kept away from their bed. DH is going to have a new brooder box built in the garage by the end of the weekend. This will buy us some time to figure out what to do with the old one, it is outside and won't work for winter babies very well, although it will work fine as a grow out pen. We'd like to get away from the shavings and I think we are going to put in a new floor with 1/4" wire instead of 1/2" wire. This way we will never need shavings again. Meanwhile it is chick condos in the office! If that isn't motivation to fix the outdoor situation, I don't know what is!
That's horrible! Glad no people got hurt but it sucks about the birdsThis happened down the street from me last Saturday. No homes were lost, but several pigeons and their coops were.
Picture from https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gilroy-Fire-Department/115450808610635
On Saturday, E47 and Batallion 47 assisted South Santa Clara County Fire Department and CalFire on a structure fire near the intersection of Godfrey Ave and Ferguson Road. Unfortunately, multiple barns and pigeons that were used for breeding were lost in the blaze.
-Kathy
Please keep us posted on the adventure! I'm planning on getting our little one into 4-H when she's old enough and would love to hear all about it.
Same here.
I use the rubber maids, but my DH also built a bigger brooder. It holds much more for longer and I love it! Nice having handy husbands in this line of work
I like my eco glows. I wanted to get the premiere and they were supposed to adapt it with a switch to adjust the temp, is what I heard. I was holding out for that, since some say the premiere got too hot.
This happened down the street from me last Saturday. No homes were lost, but several pigeons and their coops were.
Picture from https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gilroy-Fire-Department/115450808610635
On Saturday, E47 and Batallion 47 assisted South Santa Clara County Fire Department and CalFire on a structure fire near the intersection of Godfrey Ave and Ferguson Road. Unfortunately, multiple barns and pigeons that were used for breeding were lost in the blaze.
-Kathy
