d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

[Backwoods Bntms]

Spectacular!! I love that, JJ. I want something like that for my main flock, just on a larger scale since the birds are bigger. Looks awesome, buddy. Will you leave the pop doors open 24/7 or have a small door for them? It looks really tight against predators.


Angus is settled down for the night in the cage by the window. He's had plenty of massages and his poop shows something is being pushed through since it's not completely watery or green. He's had only plain yogurt mixed with olive oil for food all day long. If his crop is down in the morning, he may get some cooked egg yolk mashed up in there, too, but we'll see. He's been pretty good. He obviously likes me better than Tom because during the massages, he calms down when I talk to him and closes his eyes.

First of all thats good news about Angus. I will get around to building pop doors. I like building the sliding ones that I can operate from outside with a rope.
That way You can shut it if you want to catch a bird and the can't run in the coop or when cleaning out the coop and not have them under foot. Normally I don't shut them up every night, only when cold and windy.

If I just had 4 more like it done.

 

[mccaff mama hen]

Speckledhen, I hope Angus is doing much better and well on the road to recovery.

JJ, I need one of those Looks great!!! How many more are you going to build? LOL

 

[speckledhen]

I need Angus to be okay. Too many other things are going on right now to lose that little man, but will do what we can and if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.

I like the sliding doors with the pulley systems. Saw one at ACE hardware the other day. I have a slider on the bantam coop, but it slides sideways and I slide it from inside the storage area of that coop.

 

[mccaff mama hen]

Shoot I forgot to post a couple of pic of my porcelain and millie babies I took yesterday. Sorry they pics aren't any better

 

[speckledhen]

Aw, I just love porcelain babies, especially!

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

mccaff mama hen - Thanks, hope to get one built with 6 pens before winter and a few mpore next year. Nice lookinf chicks.

Cynthia- I just use those plastic pulleys the make fro clotheslines like 2 bucks a piece.

 

[speckledhen]

JJ, I know exactly the ones you mean. May try that if I rework a door on one of these coops or if we do eventually build a new one where I want to build it.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I hatched 9 chicks with that "Kentucky Leg Fungus".

Must be the humidity. But the strange thing is The site wont let me post a pic. Must be the leg foliage.

 

[mccaff mama hen]

I need Angus to be okay. Too many other things are going on right now to lose that little man, but will do what we can and if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.

I understand what you mean, but I hate it when I lose any esp when it's one of my favorites. The Silver Phoenix with me in my avatar, is one of my favorites and i had a mean game roo that got in his pen and beat him up so bad it blinded him. I was about to put him down he looked awful and didn't want him to suffer, until I saw how depressed his girlfriend was with out him. I brought her inside with him and as soon as I did they started talking to each other and snuggling up together. He is still blind, but he gets around very well in his pen and she's always right next to him and he's still mating with her. I know many wouldn't agree with keeping him alive, but if you saw him, he seems pretty happy and gets really excited when he hears me coming up talking to him. So with all that said, I know you can only do what you can, I know it can be hard to lose them. Hope he keeps getting better

 

[NanaKat]

I had a blind hen that I kept in the layer house with her friends for three years. Angel was never picked on by the other hens and knew her way around the roost where her food and water feeders were located. She loved being placed on the grass for free range. Angel also successfully adopted a chick to care fo in her last year. Loved thatbeautiful white hen that laid robin's egg blue eggs.