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[Mtn Margie]

Quote: LOL!!!!

I have never known a bale of shaving to be anything but unwieldy and a pain to deal with. I think I would rather store the chickens up there!

 

[krcchickens]

Ok

Moving to the garage with outside time during the day will make an easier transition for them, but don't give them too long, by the end of a week they should be outside full time.  The sooner they are exposed to fresh air and sunshine, the healthier they will be in the long run.  The more we coddle them, the weaker they are and the less capable they are of withstanding all our climate offers.  We never know when we will lose power or have a late spring storm, so getting them accustomed to the weather while it's relatively nice out will help them toughen up.  If you are in the path of this weekend's storm, let them sleep in the garage until it passes, but after that I'd get them outside scratching and maturing.

ok I'm going to turn off heat totally!! And ill move them to the garage without heat. I still have to secure some fencing on the run

 

[wsmith]

I feel old. Only had time yesterday afternoon to put in 14 8 inch lag bolts to secure the stud walls to the foundation on the feed shed. I even drilled pilot holes. My pects and shoulder are sore. Wah Wah Wah.

OK I'm done boo-hoo-ing now.

As soon as the tax return comes in we will get the rest of the building materials for this years projects. (BTW, I got to claim Windy Ridge Dominiques as a farm, which got us some more money back from our taxes!)

Adam came over yesterday evening and picked up his eggs. Hopefully we'll get some development, unlike the first couple of batches. All the eggs from the first batch were duds.

We have put Abe on vitamin suppliments, and traded places with the breeders / non-breeders. All the Breeders are now together in the main hen house, while the non-breeders are split up in pens 3 & 4. Plus with the warmer temps we have had, we should see better fertility.

New batch goes into the incubator on Saturday evening......

 

[Pozees]

I feel old. Only had time yesterday afternoon to put in 14 8 inch lag bolts to secure the stud walls to the foundation on the feed shed. I even drilled pilot holes. My pects and shoulder are sore. Wah Wah Wah.

OK I'm done boo-hoo-ing now.

As soon as the tax return comes in we will get the rest of the building materials for this years projects. (BTW, I got to claim Windy Ridge Dominiques as a farm, which got us some more money back from our taxes!)

Adam came over yesterday evening and picked up his eggs. Hopefully we'll get some development, unlike the first couple of batches. All the eggs from the first batch were duds.

We have put Abe on vitamin suppliments, and traded places with the breeders / non-breeders. All the Breeders are now together in the main hen house, while the non-breeders are split up in pens 3 & 4. Plus with the warmer temps we have had, we should see better fertility.

New batch goes into the incubator on Saturday evening......

Ah, good idea! Fingers crossed for you!

 

[jgurshtein]

I feel old. Only had time yesterday afternoon to put in 14 8 inch lag bolts to secure the stud walls to the foundation on the feed shed. I even drilled pilot holes. My pects and shoulder are sore. Wah Wah Wah.

OK I'm done boo-hoo-ing now.

As soon as the tax return comes in we will get the rest of the building materials for this years projects. (BTW, I got to claim Windy Ridge Dominiques as a farm, which got us some more money back from our taxes!)

Adam came over yesterday evening and picked up his eggs. Hopefully we'll get some development, unlike the first couple of batches. All the eggs from the first batch were duds.

We have put Abe on vitamin suppliments, and traded places with the breeders / non-breeders. All the Breeders are now together in the main hen house, while the non-breeders are split up in pens 3 & 4. Plus with the warmer temps we have had, we should see better fertility.

New batch goes into the incubator on Saturday evening......

x2

 

[Pozees]

LOL!!!!

I have never known a bale of shaving to be anything but unwieldy and a pain to deal with. I think I would rather store the chickens up there!

LOL Yeah I know what you're saying, just compared to 50lb bags of feed they seem light

 

[krcchickens]

Do you guys switch to from starter to grower feed before 8 weeks? Btw I moved the girls to the garage

 

[Pozees]

Do you guys switch to from starter to grower feed before 8 weeks? Btw I moved the girls to the garage

I actually just switched the 6 week old pullets over to grower this past Sunday. They don't even seem to have noticed.

 

[gardendufus]

Been awhile since I posted, here's what's new at my place:

Finally all my hens are laying again. Once the EE started laying, she kept it up all winter, but with the exception of my Dominique who layed an egg every week or so, all my others quit and just started back in the second week of March.

I had 7 chicks ordered from Kiowa CC to arrive tomorrow. Last year they called a day early to say the chicks were in, so in order to beat the 'early chicks' and I'm not ready yet, I set aside yesterday to do my coop division to allow for the new chicks. Well my phone rings at 9 am yesterday. It's Kiowa and my chicks are in. LOL, guess next year I'll get in gear about a week early.

So I have now added to my flock 2 Delawares, 2 Partridge Rocks and 3 Speckled Sussex. Oh, and then the 2 Austra Whites that Kiowa had left over from last weeks delivery. I'm only glad I resisted the Turkens they had left over too.........they were really kinda cute, but I'm trying not to base my flock on 'cute'. I have high hopes for the Speckled Sussex. Have heard lots of good things about them on the boards, and I'm wanting a breed that may occasionally go broody. I don't want to get involved in incubating (at least not now), but I wouldn't mind setting some fertile eggs under a broody hen just to have that experience, and because I hope to NEVER have to brood chicks myself again. I love chicks, but the problems of coop segregation and flock integration is one I do not enjoy. Chickens I love. In the future I hope they will be doing their own flock integration.

 

[krcchickens]

I actually just switched the 6 week old pullets over to grower this past Sunday.  They don't even seem to have noticed.

I have enough starter for maybe another week or so and they are 5 weeks so I hate to buy more starter if I can go ahead and switch them to grower. Don't eat to waste it.