Consolidated Kansas

[chicken danz]

Cute picture ! Two questions,Danz a few days ago you posted something about tilling one of the pens if you don't mind can I ask why ? and
I'm starting to do FF again , I've heard that you shouldn't put ACV in the galvanized Waters, is there any problem putting FF in a galvanized feed trough ? I took the top part off and just use the bottom part.
So glad most everybody got some rain, yay..

When I move birds out of pens or every now and then I like to till up the soil. The reasons for this are:
The soil gets all packed down and makes it hard for the chickens to scratch in.
This mixes the poo in better so it can compost.
It aerates the soil so if I don't put birds back in right away some grass can grow.
I often spray with oxine or tek trol as well to kill any organisms or germs left behind from the previous birds.
The vinegar in the FF will eat away your galvanization. I have never had a bird get sick from that but I am sure it isn't good for them. I just use plastic pans or about anything I can come up with for feed with the FF. The birds don't really care if it isn't made specifically for them.
Some of my so called feeders are pretty insane.
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What a great picture! I hope they're all doing well.

They are all doing great and having a fun summer! Sera made Medawinks promise to come back soon.
I am being awful today. I've done nothing but feed just a few birds. I have a lot more to do. And candle eggs. The heat must have taken it's toll cause I had a lot more eggs that weren't fertile than normal. I have some ducks, chicks, turkey and a peafowl hatching today.
I really need to get busy.

 

[dudleyspinner]

Hello all you Jayhawkers! Greetings from Hillsboro. I am smack dab in the middle of nowhere here, 60 miles from Hutch,Emporia,Salina, Wichita. just joined the BYC and am learning quite a lot. I am setting some BCM eggs this week and this is my first experience with such dark eggs. I have convinced my husband that we should make the old truck bed trailer that is sitting unused into a chicken tractor. He is busy with getting cars ready for the Marion Co fair figure 8 race and demo derby. So the project is on hold. I have some old windows that were taken out of our over 100 year old house. I am thinking that at least one should be put into the chicken coop. If you were building such a project how would you do it?

 

[cleansquared]

I got another blue egg today still not in nest box she used a ba

sket this time lol-

 

[chicken danz]

Welcome Dudley Spinner. You have a couple of people here very close to you. Like in the Mcpherson area. Several of us have been to the mexican restaurant in Hillsboro. I think the trailer would make great chicken house..
That's great cleansquared. I'm glad they are laying for you.

 

[cleansquared]

Omg that is the best da... Mexican place ever i did a show up there last year and ate got a margarita the size of texas for 8$ needless to say i was staggering a little after i left they dont skimp¡ also a uv material or tarp is well worth the money you dont deed to necessarily cover every square inch i just string 10+10 uv tarp up under my 20+10 tent in the middle so even if you could only afford 1 yard of uv material or one uv tarp i gaurentee thats where they will be when its 110 degrees out other wise with normal material or normal tarps it can "hot box people or chickens and yes danz im so excited they are laying! I had my bf buy some hole oats (horse feed) i cant grind it up but they are eating that along with gamebird starter (how i delt with baby /layer food delima) im attempting to sprout some oats i have no idea if it will work we will see..

 

[Polishpal]

Another chicky hatched its a white silkie but it douse have splayed legs but we taped them up so I'm sure they will fix soon because its only a few hours old

 

[chicken danz]

Cleansquared sounds like you are doing a good job spoiling them. I never handled them so maybe you can get them a lot tamer.

 

[cherwill]

Hello all you Jayhawkers! Greetings from Hillsboro. I am smack dab in the middle of nowhere here, 60 miles from Hutch,Emporia,Salina, Wichita. just joined the BYC and am learning quite a lot. I am setting some BCM eggs this week and this is my first experience with such dark eggs. I have convinced my husband that we should make the old truck bed trailer that is sitting unused into a chicken tractor. He is busy with getting cars ready for the Marion Co fair figure 8 race and demo derby. So the project is on hold. I have some old windows that were taken out of our over 100 year old house. I am thinking that at least one should be put into the chicken coop. If you were building such a project how would you do it?

Welcome!

We used my niece's old playhouse to make our coop. The roof and door are kid-sized. My advice is to make your coop tall enough to stand up in; you'll appreciate it when you're cleaning. DH also cut a drop door in the back, right behind the nesting boxes, so we could collect eggs from the outside.

 

[ChooksChick]

So, I'm positing a message I'll be putting on other threads, too- it's really hard to post this, but I'm just stretched tooo thin, and it has to happen for a bit. I'll be keeping my favorite hens in my backyard, and I'm keeping the R-Com and the Sportsman...for those who know about my home-made incubator, I'm keeping that (the FarmGirl NQB8R), too.

It's tough, but temporary.


"Well, folks, at long last, I'm back...but I have rotten news.

My job has whipped me up and down the block for the last year or so, and that's in addition to having relatives here, being a caregiver, and home-schooling teen daughters. I'm strung out.

I have to liquidate. I've said it before, but this is really it. I have to get rid of everything that isn't legal within city limits, because the farm at which I have my breeding facility is also closing down. I have a deadline now.

So: I'm listing in BYC threads initially because so many of you are like-minded and I'd love some of my projects to go on...I'd like to get back into them eventually! I mean, these kids will be going off to college, and perhaps someday I'll have my own farm! Having a farm on someone else's property kinda stinks, really...I'd like to be able to go outside to care for all of my birds...not have to get in the car!

Anyway...

I have a flock of banty Cochins, which were moving toward Chocolate. I have a Blue hen, a Mottled trio, a Chocolate pullet, three black cockerels split to Chocolate, and a Black trio.

I have a flock of d'Uccles that were moving toward Chocolate: 5 Chocolate pullets, a split cockerel, a Black Copper roo, a 6 pack of Isabel chicks and lots of Black and Chocolate chicks.

I have a flock of Marans: a trio of FBCM, 2 Chocolate Copper pullets, a Black roo, a Blue hen, a Splash hen...and tons of chicks, many of them split to or fully Chocolate.

I have a flock of Silkies: 3 Black hens, a Blue roo, a Splash hen, and a White hen. Tons of varied chicks.

The Konzas. Here my heart breaks. I have 5 roos and 10 pullets and a bunch of chicks. They are magnificent. I may just try to keep them locally somewhere if someone around here will foster the project for a bit. They are everything I wanted them to be.

I have a Chocolate Rock project, but need to inventory them...

I also have a trio of Bourbon Reds, a pair of Royal Palms, and 4 or 6 poults of varied lineage.

*sigh*

Message me if you're interested. I will ship."

 

[cleansquared]

Well they still dont like to be held but when they go in the garage at night they dont mind being petted the little ees have even started hanging out with the big girls the last few days before the two groups would just stay away from each other.. Also danz my brother in ok offered to give me all the organic wheat i can use i see him next weekend if he has it ready do you want some for our roos?