EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

@casportpony congratulations Kathy on your flapper

 

[dan26552]

Yep. Never had them change this early. They haven' gone into boy voice completely yet, still some peeping, but they sound hoarse, and the other one is already making honk/quack sound, though she has been for a couple weeks now. I wonder if the fact that I didn't use artificial heat really has anything to do with their early maturity.

I have a three week old Pekin that is getting quite hoarse I've never had one change at three weeks before, six weeks yes but not three. Mine did have a lamp.

 

[Janie hall]

Any of you ever kept chickens on shavings-covered concrete? How'd you like it?

I've been thinking about going that way, for a couple of reasons. For one, I could fence a level surface far better than an uneven one, making it more secure & better looking to boot. Secondly, it should cure an ongoing rat problem. From the looks of an increasing number of burrows, there are either multiple rats or one very determined one burrowing under the apron from the outer edge, helping themselves to free eats at will during the day.

if u put a bowl of water out the mice will climb in and drown I have seen 15 meet their demise this way. And I had them getting into my gravity feeders and building nests I put cayenne pepper mix it in with the feed no more problem. Mice have the heat receptors like humans chickens do not

 

[duluthralphie]

Captain, if you don't mind

My memory is slowly leaving me after the bump on the head, Sorry Cap't!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

 

 

  

Like minds.

I have lots of land and all my birds are nestled on 1/2 acre because I am not carrying water to the back 40. My birds could free range for miles and rarely get over 50 feet from the coop. Guess they have everything they need close to home. Although I do plan on building a large chicken tractor on a hay wagon with 55 or 110 gallon water storage/rain barrels. I have areas of pasture with old cannery grass the beef don't eat off. Mostly because the beef have 50 acres of pasture so they can be picky. I am hoping if the chickens clear the old out the beef will like the new.

That's why they make good backyard livestock. They are homebodies.


I wouldn't hold out hope for them to eradicate the grass unless you fence them around it.

When I move chickens into different paddocks, they wipe out everything but the tough grass.

Those land acreage make me dizzy! Me and my 1/12 of acre garden!

But that's why your garden is so nice - because it is manageable.

 

I don't need them for broodiness, and I don't intend to breed. I just *like* the silkies for pets, and want enough girls/flock big enough to replace the silkies every 3-4 years as needed.


Despite only having a couple girls out there, the roosters don't fight over them and get along well with each other and let the kids handle them all.

Try Estes and Heartland hatcheries on the list I sent you. They may vent sex.

I really could use a 1-2 acers of forest! It is a wonderful resource for keeping animals!

digging holes in a forest sucks big time though   and you need more than one or two acres, trust me I KNOW!

I never wanted a full scsle farm like you! I KNOW what I and what are my limits, chicken math don't works on me!

 

[Akrnaf2]

This cow will sell. I had four calls in an hour on my last one. I just need a better picture than this one of her last fall at two.
Lady is almost three now and over 1300lbs.

How much I would pay for it? PM the price pleas, if you don't want to post it! It is very interesting to me!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

 

 

  

Like minds.

I have lots of land and all my birds are nestled on 1/2 acre because I am not carrying water to the back 40. My birds could free range for miles and rarely get over 50 feet from the coop. Guess they have everything they need close to home. Although I do plan on building a large chicken tractor on a hay wagon with 55 or 110 gallon water storage/rain barrels. I have areas of pasture with old cannery grass the beef don't eat off. Mostly because the beef have 50 acres of pasture so they can be picky. I am hoping if the chickens clear the old out the beef will like the new.

That's why they make good backyard livestock. They are homebodies.


I wouldn't hold out hope for them to eradicate the grass unless you fence them around it.

When I move chickens into different paddocks, they wipe out everything but the tough grass.

Those land acreage make me dizzy! Me and my 1/12 of acre garden!

But that's why your garden is so nice - because it is manageable.

 

I don't need them for broodiness, and I don't intend to breed. I just *like* the silkies for pets, and want enough girls/flock big enough to replace the silkies every 3-4 years as needed.


Despite only having a couple girls out there, the roosters don't fight over them and get along well with each other and let the kids handle them all.

Try Estes and Heartland hatcheries on the list I sent you. They may vent sex.

I really could use a 1-2 acers of forest! It is a wonderful resource for keeping animals!

Sure is; hawks & owls have all kinds of cover, & are under the canopy where they can see the birds.

I will find solution!

 

[BantyChooks]

I never wanted a full scsle farm like you! I KNOW what I and what are my limits, chicken math don't works on me!

That's what they all say....

Wish some rich old uncle would die and leave me a million or so, I'd have a few milk cows, goats, horses, poultry, and a larger garden...

Current land is absolute rot for growing. Took about 3-4 years to get a harvest worth more than feeding it back to the chooks, and it took hours of sifting dirt, prying boulders big enough to break a shovel out of the ground, mixing in compost, and several soil tests.

 

[daxigait]

How much I would pay for it? PM the price pleas, if you don't want to post it! It is very interesting to me!

I listed her for 1650 which is over market value for the sale barn, but she is worth more than those cows.

 

[Akrnaf2]

How much I would pay for it? PM the price pleas, if you don't want to post it! It is very interesting to me!

I listed her for 1650 which is over market value for the sale barn, but she is worth more than those cows.

And a stir(?)/ox/bool (don't know the difference ) for meat around 1000-1200 pounds will cost more? The same?