CHICKEN SWAPS OF NH SWAP LISTINGS

[ChickenPrnces]

haha yeah i really only intended on buying eggs....there werent any so i had to improvise

You are a bad influence!!!! I am waiting on those chicks still and already tried to convince Mike to let me bid on an auction on here for Polish Eggs! I lost the arguement when he said "you are not paing 24 dollors for 6 polish eggs that probably won't even hatch cuz of shipping when we can wait and get a dozen from Brandy that will hatch without question"! I had no leg to stand on!!!!!!

 

[jeepchick]

Bad day today! Through all the excitment of babies almost here I lost 2 babies today! They were 2 months old and had been living outside in a nice little coop that I got them! Had a heat lamp rigged up! Should have been fine! One baby snuck through a small gap in the spot where the retractable ramp meets the floor and froze to death in the run! The other somehow managed to freeze in the coop with the heat lamp! Sooooo bummed I could actually cry!!!!!

Sorry about your babies Even with the heat lamps inthe chicken camper its stupidly cold in there......waters froze last night for the first time since putting them in. Im worried about the girls out in the Banty Coop most of all. There are a ton of them in there to cuddle for warm but they are so small. Even the **** stubborn call ducks that will NOT sleep inside waddled into a coop for the night.....so we tucked them in with the bantams and so far noone has killed each other.

 

[jeepchick]

You are a bad influence!!!! I am waiting on those chicks still and already tried to convince Mike to let me bid on an auction on here for Polish Eggs! I lost the arguement when he said "you are not paing 24 dollors for 6 polish eggs that probably won't even hatch cuz of shipping when we can wait and get a dozen from Brandy that will hatch without question"! I had no leg to stand on!!!!!!

Gonna have to side with Mike on that one hahaha

 

[ChickenPrnces]

Sorry about your babies Even with the heat lamps inthe chicken camper its stupidly cold in there......waters froze last night for the first time since putting them in. Im worried about the girls out in the Banty Coop most of all. There are a ton of them in there to cuddle for warm but they are so small. Even the **** stubborn call ducks that will NOT sleep inside waddled into a coop for the night.....so we tucked them in with the bantams and so far noone has killed each other.

Oddly enough my Muscovy are the opposite! I have 3 that are still refusing to go inside tonight! They are making me crazy!!!!!!!

Scratch that! They finally just went in to go night-night! Thank god!

 

[countrychickens]

Does anyone know the "rooster guys" or someone who would be interested in 6-8 roosters? I brought 4 to the rooster round-up but the rest were too young. They are good sized now. Some are 7 months old and some are 4 months old. They hang around the hen houses waiting for the hens to come in and lay their eggs do the same at dusk.. Now my hens are laying eggs anywhere but in the nesting boxes. I found an egg on the ground yesterday...frozen of course! I cannot wait until spring. These roosters must go! They are just too much for my hens. Thanks

 

[blackbirds13]

Hello all,
I'm in Southern New Hampshire and have a question about rooster combs. Last year I really did not have any concerns about the combs because my roosters were all Ameraucanas but this year - YIKES! I still have 2 Ameraucana boys - Black and Lavender but it's my Black and Splash Copper boys and especially my Cream Legbar boy that is really concerning me. The Legbars comb looks awful - I will take pics to show when I go let them out. I've tried vaseline but i think he's gonna loose the points on there as they are all miscolored. Is there anything that can be done for their combs. I cannot insulate or heat the coop at this time but was wondering if there was anything anyone did to help protect the combs. The girls are all fine it's just the boys. Thanks.

Sorry about the little babies - it is sooooo cold out there I do worry about the 14 I have so they are all in 1 single coop - 5 roosters and 9 females (I lost one of my Black Copper girls to a hawk a couple weeks ago). Very jealous of all the incubating - nothing going on here until at least March...good luck and wish you many successful chooks!

Maria

 

[aceschix]

Avoiding frostbite is also about keeping the moisture down. I have a vent in each of my coops and use bagbalm or vaseline on the larger combs and wattles. It keeps the frostbites to a very minimum.

 

[laughingllama75]

girls tuck their heads, the roos do not. thats why they are the only ones. And except for the vaseline, there really is nothing you can do (oter than heat or insulate). unless you are showing them, then it wont matter if they lose their points. come springtime, you wont even notice.

 

[blackbirds13]

So this is what the Legbar looks like - it's even on his wattles. I do have vents and have used the vaseline. I am expecting a second pair of juvenile legbars from Greenfire in a couple months so I hope your are right laughingllama75 becauses right now I cringe every time I look at him. Guess I should get used to it since it won't be the last time as I will be breeding these birds this year. Is there anything I need to be doing or should do come spring for these affected areas?
These are my Bev Davis Coppers - they don't look so bad today (sorry about the large pics) -

 

[1Chick Magnet]

I love the big pictures.
I have a boy that minds the cold. I have put vaseline on his comb for 2 years. the little bug likes the rub down. he tilts his head and closes his eyes. anyway, this year I tried something different. I am in the coop after dark with a tiny flashlight. He is a banty--I pick him up and stuff his fuzzy butt between 2 fat and fluffy large fowl girls--this is the first time ever that his comb is not horribly discolored.
I seriously would check after dark to see where your roo is sleeping. he may be somewhere where there is a tiny draft. windchill does that to combs. they stand still all night with a cold breeze on the comb and they loose circulation in that area. I had one guy that I put in a small pet carrier full of hay,covered most of the carrier with an old coat and put it in the center of the coop. I only do this stuff when it gets to single digits. it's alot of trouble but it seems to help.

So this is what the Legbar looks like - it's even on his wattles. I do have vents and have used the vaseline. I am expecting a second pair of juvenile legbars from Greenfire in a couple months so I hope your are right laughingllama75 becauses right now I cringe every time I look at him. Guess I should get used to it since it won't be the last time as I will be breeding these birds this year. Is there anything I need to be doing or should do come spring for these affected areas?
These are my Bev Davis Coppers - they don't look so bad today (sorry about the large pics) -