Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

It's so dang hot here. On a good note I got all the Ancona juveniles moved. They are now outside in a bigger pen with 24 hours access to a pool. They made a mud pit, dirtier the pool to a lovely brown, and are looking like drowned rats now.

Take care with that heat.. I'd like to suggest professional help for the electrical issues. Better let someone who knows stuff fix that.. You know, better safe then sorry.

We only had 22c today, but the fire was too hot. Kinda a stand back 15 ft minimum.

Yay for moving ducks, they sure like to make a mess.

 

[Alaskan]

BC ow! Glad it was no worse

Mini, you and these floods! I don't think that you have a had a dry week all summer! The electric barn is funny... We once somehow electrified the horse water once... They sure didn't like that. We had to water them out of buckets for a LONG time before we could get them to drink from that water trough again.

Bama, more coops huh? Awesome!!!!

 

[Alaskan]

Oops! I missed you Ravyn! So, how many are hatching?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Oops! I missed you Ravyn! So, how many are hatching?

lol... all good... I miss some too... feel guilty each time...

Have at least 10 Araucanas (but also Araucana/Ameraucana cross too), couple Araucana bantams and Self Blue OEGB's...

Bad pic, but these so far...

Several more Araucanas, Cream Legbars, and bantams due for next couple days too...

I pulled an Alaskan and set eygs for 3 days straight...

 

[seminolewind]

@seminolewind all I can say is...

Got my first test batch of Araucanas hatching now...

Araucanas-are they the tailless ones?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Araucanas-are they the tailless ones?

Yes... supposed to be... mine have tails (except 1 and don't think she's laying), and only a couple have tufts so far... they're a project, but I love them...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Storm

Tempe (tailed)

Kahn (tailed roo)

@seminolewind these pics are a few months old now, but some of what I'm working with... they are more like dogs in temperament and intelligence too...

 

[seminolewind]

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Eww rats, you're right. Nothing really wipes them all out. But I cover all the feed at night-none available. No messes. Then I have 3 bait stations. They work great. The bait gets eaten regularly, then nothing, which is good. Then they get empty again. They run off and die. I think I've seen 2 that died outside the coop in 7 years. I shot one in the scro tum once, and hit one with a rake once. I just happened to uncover a hiding place . But the best is to always lock up the feed at night. I'll be doing it earlier now. The chickens all have a chamber pot they eat out of with no mess. They have a Home Depot bucket hanging upside down over the food and get lowered over the food at night onto a cement patio stone. The end of the rope is outside the pen, so you just unhook it and lower it. I have 4 of them. And 2 with lids.

 

[seminolewind]

Storm


Tempe (tailed)


Kahn (tailed roo)

@seminolewind these pics are a few months old now, but some of what I'm working with... they are more like dogs in temperament and intelligence too...

Really that much different in temperament and intelligence? They look nice. I didn't know it was your project.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Really that much different in temperament and intelligence?  They look nice.  I didn't know it was your project.

Thanks... love your food stations, btw...

Yup, night and day difference in these... we moved them to a new pen and they refused to stay, they fly extremely well... we were covering the pen as as we finished, Tempe watched the net go to the top edge of the gate... instead of flying up into the net, she climbed the gate and squeezed between it and the net... I pinned it down and she hasn't tried it again since... and none of them have ever flown up into the net (it's black and hard to see too)...