Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[scottcaddy]

zip ties

Or does Oz use toe punch?
Nice Avatar Again my dear scare me lady!
Scott

 

[perchie.girl]

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our next door neighbors had a passle of children. there are boarding stables all over this town... and one really close by. they bought a dairy Cow. And quickly found out why she was for sale. She could clear a five foot fence....

She got out three times and the very last time we found her three miles away....

So Rex the husband put a logging chain around her neck and a longish rope and at the end was a chunk of six by six about six feet long. the rope was attached in the middle. What it did was act like a watch fob... shed jump the fence and the chunk of wood would lodge in place and she was effectively tied...

Last time I saw her she was loaded in the back of a Ford Ranger pickup with a home built walls packed in with a bunch of their stuff heading for Washington state.... He had worked the oil pipe line in Alaska and made a boat load of money.... Their new house was on fifty acres...

deb

 

[kwhites634]

It looked good but I know nothing about all the particulars...

My 2nd horse was a yellow TWH mare that I pulled to KY to breed to my uncle's stud. We were in the barn, with the mare in the chute & the stud on a chain lead, & my cousin volunteered me to be the "rod man"! Took me a couple seconds to pick up on what he was saying, but I respectfully declined.

 

[kwhites634]

The guy has had east more chances than he should have.

Too westernized? Sounds like he kids around here.

 

[kwhites634]

The last one hatched this am. The whole time I was worried about the ones near the door. I was opening it 5x a day. Well, when I went to increase the humidity I realized that the inner glass had a bad seal. 8 of the 12 near the door hatched. The other 4 were full size but lifeless. One pipped but bled. I was impressed since the eggs came from a hatchery 3 hours away.

Of the 12 near the window. 3 hatched. 1 was clear and the other 8 had something in. The poor little 3 are a day younger and I don't know if it matters they are black. I can't put them in with the other because the little yellow chicks peck at them non stop.

I had no idea this was going to work so we never set up a brooder or bought food. Yesterday was busy getting all that done. The kids are enjoying the chicks!

"I need better compost; I think I'll build a cabinet incubator, get some eggs, and raise chickens" Talk about jumping off the deep end! I'm impressed.

 

[kwhites634]

i think so

we really need to focus on the chooks for now

Have you ever given any thought to other types of quail, like the bobwhite, for instance? At least when the cocks call they don't sound like a crow with a sore throat, like the coutornix, plus they're far better looking. I kept both years ago when I raised bird dogs. Just a thought.

 

[ozexpat]

Yep, lay them down and fill with dirt and they make good planters that the dirt won't will not hold water.  You can also cut them in various ways and turn inside out and wire the ends together and make all kinds of plant containers.  I'm sure Oz has seen them in the Philippines.

Jimmy

You bet. The way they repurpose tires in the Phils is amazing

 

[anjovi6]

Oz,

Here is a website I found. Can't find out much about them. Check it out and see what you think.


http://www.nchuatuo.com.cn/productgrouplist-215168548/Incubator.html

Jimmy

 

[ozexpat]

Jimmy

There are a couple of incubator manafacturers in the phils on facebook

those on the website will cost triple landed

https://www.facebook.com/highbreedersdigitalincubator?fref=ts

 

[Fowling around]

Ozexpat I was told to seek your advice. I am attempting to raise quail but am failing my little ones just up and die no signs of distress will literally look great and in hours dead. They are Georgia Giants. I am down to 2 and have 101 in the bator