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[Hawkeye95]

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OMGoodness!!! Those baby chickies are the cutest things! I love them! Wow, your boy is a great looking kid, too! So funny! My youngest loves her picture taken and wants to see as soon as I take it.

How fun that you got new babies! That is great that your broody is happy with the new chicks! How did you know you were getting EE's on the others? I have no clue what I'd be looking at. I can recognize the barred rocks and the wynadottes now.. but that would be about it. When I asked my Atwoods if they had silkies, they didn't know. I had them go thru the bantam bin and lift them up for me so I could see their toes and count them! LOL

 

[Ivywoods]

Hi everyone! So nice to see some of you back.

TNT- adorable pics. I'm so surprised to see places that sell chicks this time of year. Always where I have been they have their "chick days" in the spring, then that is it.

Danz-you've been a busy lady. Time to take a needed and deserved break.

Hawkeye-WOW! I'm envious of you electrical skills. I am pretty good at a lot of things, but there are two things I purposefully ELECT NOT to do, and that is anything to do with electricity or anything to do with PLUMBING!

I know I would be capable but.... Anyway, my "choice" has also made it so that my coop is not wired, nor are several other things that I would like to have done. Last winter I had an extension cord (Oh, yes, I can almost see you cringe right now!) running from the shop about 100 feet over to my coop so I could at least heat their water. DH has the barn in the beginning stages of wiring, so that means he has a light and ONE outlet.

I am going to be going to my first APA/ABA show Saturday. I have decided to show some black cochins. They are all I have that would be in show condition right now. I hope to have more by the time the spring shows roll around.

Wish me luck!

 

[Hawkeye95]

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SO funny!!! You ran an extension cord 100 feet!? LOL! Ah well, whatever works.

But yeah, it sounds like it might be easier to just wire it later on. And you're right, it is something you could do and it is easy once you kind of know what goes to what. And if all else fails- both my DH and my dad are EE's and can help me out. So what is this show-- the apa/aba? Sounds like it could be fun? I take it it's not a county fair type deal, but something else? Anyway, I hope you have fun and that your birds do well! Good luck!

 

[sharol]

Sure, I can post pictures. It is fairly simple. A box that encloses the add a motor and the pull cord and the aluminum door when it is raised, inside there are grooves to guide the door and then a little lintel at the bottom to protect the bottom of the door from curious predators. If I ever get home while it is light, I'll take some pics and post them. It is a very solid construction -- make of some of that plastic wood stuff that is heavy as lead and supposed to pretty much weatherproof.

When I open the people door the sparrows fly out it, and there are little holes in the foam insulation at the corners of the ceiling (the side insulation is all covered with plywood to keep the girls from eating it. Maybe the sparrows will fill up on it and "disappear"???? I was thinking about using some strips of light weight cloth to hang down over the pop-door to discourage them, but I don't want to use anything that the chickens will eat. And they eat pretty much anything.

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[Ivywoods]

Sharol-I don't have sparrows in my coop, but the first thing my chickens do (if they manage to get into the storage part of my coop is head for the insulation. It is that styrofoam type stuff and in that part of the coop it is not covered. Sheesh. Looks like I've had some big mice in there!

The show is the MO state Poultry show in Sedalia. American Poultry Association/American Bantam Association sactioned double show. I've done quite a few smaller shows, but this will be the first time I've shown in an APA/ABA show. I'm kind of excited to get my feet wet no matter how my pullets do. My cockerell is not mature enough to show, so he gets to stay home. I will be going with my two sisters, so we will have fun no matter what happens with the chickens.

 

[tntblake]

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OMGoodness!!! Those baby chickies are the cutest things! I love them! Wow, your boy is a great looking kid, too! So funny! My youngest loves her picture taken and wants to see as soon as I take it.

How fun that you got new babies! That is great that your broody is happy with the new chicks! How did you know you were getting EE's on the others? I have no clue what I'd be looking at. I can recognize the barred rocks and the wynadottes now.. but that would be about it. When I asked my Atwoods if they had silkies, they didn't know. I had them go thru the bantam bin and lift them up for me so I could see their toes and count them! LOL

You can tell by their colors and they both have a pea comb and the little white one has puffy cheeks and greenish legs.

 

[sharol]

I had a little white one that looked just like that. This is what she grew into:

Lily at about 9 months of age. She is molting now and really looks ragged.

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OMGoodness!!! Those baby chickies are the cutest things! I love them! Wow, your boy is a great looking kid, too! So funny! My youngest loves her picture taken and wants to see as soon as I take it.

How fun that you got new babies! That is great that your broody is happy with the new chicks! How did you know you were getting EE's on the others? I have no clue what I'd be looking at. I can recognize the barred rocks and the wynadottes now.. but that would be about it. When I asked my Atwoods if they had silkies, they didn't know. I had them go thru the bantam bin and lift them up for me so I could see their toes and count them! LOL

You can tell by their colors and they both have a pea comb and the little white one has puffy cheeks and greenish legs.

 

[tntblake]

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You can tell by their colors and they both have a pea comb and the little white one has puffy cheeks and greenish legs.


She is beautiful! Does she lay a colored egg? I'm really hoping I get at least one that lays a blue or green egg!

 

[Ivywoods]

Sharol-she is a very pretty bird. Who says white chickens aren't pretty? I would bet she would make them rethink that statement! I have so many chickens molting right now. Some of them look downright terrible, and there are so many feathers blowing around out there it looks like there's been a chicken massacre.

One of my golden lakenvelder hens has been molting really hard, but her new feathers are starting to come back in. They are coming in dark and mixed where they should be a golden color. She looks TERRIBLE. She is not even going to look like the same chicken at all. I hope they don't ALL do that! I guess if they do I'll have to live with it. They have been really good egg layers for me, so they will probably just have to stay in the layer pen from now on.

 

[sharol]

Yes, light green.

Hers is the green one 5th from the left. It is a clear green though the color isn't as bright as when she was younger. She was attacked by my miniature Doxy right after I got her (the dog), and lost some feathers around her neck (no real injuries, though) and those feathers just haven't come back in. She is losing more feathers around her neck, and I haven't seen anyone pecking (and I've looked for it) so I'm blaming a molt of some sort.

In addition, she developed bumble foot this summer. We treated her with Tricide Neo soaks twice a day for 3 weeks (until I had to leave), dug out what we could from her feet while my daugher was here to help, and have been spraying her feet (both were involved) every night with Vetericyn(sp?). The swelling is almost completely down, but there are still smaller scabby plugs. The surgery was less than successful -- almost no pus came out and no hard centers -- so I suppose I'll lose her to it at some point. I just can't bring myself to cause her more pain. She has never limped with it even when her feet were pretty swollen, so she doesn't seem to be suffering with it. I found the source of the problem (I had 3 chickens with lesions but the other two are healed and clear). Of course she is my favorite.

Who would have thought I'd spend that kind of money ($150 and rising) to save a $2.50 chicken.

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She is beautiful! Does she lay a colored egg? I'm really hoping I get at least one that lays a blue or green egg!