Dixie Chicks

[chickwhispers]

Alaskan do you sell the chicks? or will you add on?

 

[chickwhispers]

Thanks @chickisoup !

 

[minihorse927]

Awesome Alaskan on the new eggs! Boo they're not that dark. The blue and black copper Maran eggs that were given to me are hatching. Those are kinda ugly chick's when wet. I seen one hatched and I was like wth is that?!?

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan do you sell the chicks? or will you add on?

I have been selling chicks all spring... but the fertility rate of my Marans rooster BARFS. So, I have to set double the eggs for the number of chicks I want. So, I have 2 batches to sell that are currently cooking, one more batch that will go in the second there is room and I have gathered enough, and then if anyone wants to buy chicks from me, they will have to pick a breed that I have that has a GOOD rooster!

My Dominique and Leghorn roosters have great fertility.

My Ameraucana pair have been OK, but they have produced more clears than I would have liked too....

And I haven't tried to hatch the rest.. but I am set up to also churn out pure Blue Laced Wyandotte bantams, but NO ONE WANTS THEM!

Awesome Alaskan on the new eggs! Boo they're not that dark. The blue and black copper Maran eggs that were given to me are hatching. Those are kinda ugly chick's when wet. I seen one hatched and I was like wth is that?!?

They are cute once they fluff out. Big slow fluffy teddy bears.

 

[chickwhispers]

Congrats AL on the chicks! And yeah boo on the color.

Hope you get some soon that are of good color. Sorry about no one wanting bantams.

 

[perchie.girl]

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You might invest in a microscope and learn to do AI.... I hear its not too difficult. But the microscope will tell you if you have active sperm or if hes shooting blanks.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

Yeah, that's true... but what's a few bunnies when they're already handling a zoo?

sound like 50 with his zoo kepper comments..... he was trying to tempt me to get another turkey at the feed store today!!! and what did they have in AGAIN gold laced wyandottes.....they so suck lol.........or How outright Irritated and upset I was got thru and they are working on it..red bourbun turkey....

 

[Outpost JWB]

DHs English setter got out of her pen last night or sometime early this morning and attacked my chickens. That darn dog killed my only 2 CCL hens (that I got from @minihorse927 ), she also killed one of my barred rock hens and badly injured the other barred rock hen and one of my CCL roos (King Tut). I put peroxide on their wounds and put them together in a cage. They are both badly traumatized. They will not eat or drink. Gotta give them time. Hopefully they make it. I am super sad and super mad. I went to work this morning not knowing anything had happened and when I got home this afternoon there were bodies and feathers scattered all over the yard. It sucks.

In other (better) news..............today is lockdown day. I have 4 CCL eggs to go in the bator after this hatch. The ones due to hatch are mostly random mixes. Also, we got a WHITE egg today!!! I don't know who laid it, but it was a beautiful pearly white egg

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Well I have like 100 posts or so to catch up on. Have a good night.

 

[BriardChickens]

Yay on new chicks!

We spend the morning doing errands, dh bought me a real chainsaw too so we spend the afternoon both cutting up trees for fire wood. Got a fair chunk done but lots to go.

I plucked my previously been broody Orpington hen into a box. She'll be getting 7 duck eggs when it's dark. Right now she isn't quite sitting. Still wants out. Might have to put her into the dark shed on her own.

 

[Amberjem]

Hi Hennible!
for future reference, if you get any "crawlies" again, Sevin garden dust will kill anything, red mites, northern fowl mites, lice,,,, that get on your birds. I just do the old "shake and bake" method. Just be sure, as with any powder, that you or the birds don't breathe it in. Sevin can be used to de-bug the coop as well by two methods. Either sprinkle it under the bedding etc. and don't forget the nest boxes! I always sprinkle a little under the nesting material and under the woodchips in the catchboard under the roost every time I clean as a preventative measure. In the case of red mites I recommend using the liquid Sevin in a sprayer, locking the birds out till it dries of course. I know many folks are against chemical use and I try very hard to keep it to a minimum but honestly when it comes to mites, especially red mites, organic methods just are not that effective.
If you have questions or need more info on proper, aka safe, usage etc. you can pm me.

Seriously, people are that stupid. Of course, a Darwinian approach might work, but that idea never seems to be all that popular...

We haven't had any issues with mites or other crawlies yet (knock on wood), we mainly try to keep the litter dry in there, and Karin does a light DE treatment on the run every few months, whenever it starts looking like the straw in there needs to be changed, we take it out and dust a bit. We don't use DE inside the coop though. I'm not a big fan of preventative poison use, it's not that healthy on the chooks, and it might help build up a tolerance. Keeping a close eye on the coop is a better idea in my opinion, and then killing everything at first sign of trouble. I know some people use that corrugated cardboard as a mite indicator (the stuff with a wave shape between two flat surfaces, it provides an excellent home for crawlies, so having small pieces of it in a few places in a good way to monitor the situation.

I wouldn't use wormers without indication of trouble either. Then again, our climate sort of keeps the pest population slightly lower.

I think we might go buy a trail cam tomorrow. Turns out, they're not really all that expensive after all... If I can get the store to do price matching, it would be cool. I found one that seems OK for 120e close by, or 90e on the other side of the country + 10e shipping. 20e for impatience isn't that bad, but if I can get them to match the 90, I would even save the shipping charge. We'll see what they say.

I've given up at being surprised at how dense some ppl can be...though surely it's any wonder we've managed to become as technologically developed as we are as a human race..but then there are some amazing hearts and spirit to humanity which is how we've made it...lalala...lord I am turning into a hippy