@chicken danz and @Deerfield Acres , thank you for helping me identify the Buckeye! Danz, I should have remembered about the autosexing sexlink colors/non-true-breed thing. Everyone I know who owns a Red Star calls it something completely different! My father 'n law bought his Red Stars as started pullets from a lady in Yoder, and I can't even remember what she called them. None of the names I had heard before, but yet they, too, were the red sexlinks! LOL! I also agree with you on the Silver Spangled Hamburg. Looking at her head in that front-on picture reminds me of the Silver Spangled Hamburg roo we raised and lost.
Danz, that is some serious mold and damage there in Austin. They have really gotten it in Texas and Oklahoma. I remember how I thought it was so weird, when we were house-hunting in Louisiana, that most of the houses had hardwood or tile floors with very little carpet. When I asked the realtor, she said that it is simply because of the humidity, and carpet could even get moldy without floodwater, just due to all the humidity. Different world down there. I also loved your story about playing in the sandbox with the roly polies.
Our sandbags have continued to hold water out of the silo coop completely. My husband, whenever the weather dries up, is going to pour a permanent concrete lip at the bottom of the door frame to make it a permanent fix. Our last week of May and first weeks of June are filled to the BRIM with 4-H and church camps, swim meets, and other random stuff. Which brings me to a question. We are going to be gone a couple of weeks this summer. How do y'all handle your chickens when you are gone? Do you have someone come 2x a day to let them out and collect eggs/shut the coop door each day, or leave them in the coop and just have someone come over daily for egg collection and food and water? We generally have family come over and take care of our cats when we are gone, and our dog usually stays with our in-laws. Our chickens were young the first time we left them (over Christmas), so they weren't getting let out of the coop silo yet anyway. My father 'n law just came and fed and watered them every-other-day then.
Danz, that is some serious mold and damage there in Austin. They have really gotten it in Texas and Oklahoma. I remember how I thought it was so weird, when we were house-hunting in Louisiana, that most of the houses had hardwood or tile floors with very little carpet. When I asked the realtor, she said that it is simply because of the humidity, and carpet could even get moldy without floodwater, just due to all the humidity. Different world down there. I also loved your story about playing in the sandbox with the roly polies.
Our sandbags have continued to hold water out of the silo coop completely. My husband, whenever the weather dries up, is going to pour a permanent concrete lip at the bottom of the door frame to make it a permanent fix. Our last week of May and first weeks of June are filled to the BRIM with 4-H and church camps, swim meets, and other random stuff. Which brings me to a question. We are going to be gone a couple of weeks this summer. How do y'all handle your chickens when you are gone? Do you have someone come 2x a day to let them out and collect eggs/shut the coop door each day, or leave them in the coop and just have someone come over daily for egg collection and food and water? We generally have family come over and take care of our cats when we are gone, and our dog usually stays with our in-laws. Our chickens were young the first time we left them (over Christmas), so they weren't getting let out of the coop silo yet anyway. My father 'n law just came and fed and watered them every-other-day then.
When does a person with chickens ever get to be gone?
