Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[mzstre]

when it is hot here I dont put in heat packs. Heat kills quicker than cold (usually). When I did herduccks and BM6's box I did no heat packs for that fear. The box was packed with babies though, and had foam pads in the floor for insulation. For two I might add it to one end of the box so they can move towards and away from the heat source in the box. I like to place in the floor under the flap or make a false wall on the side with cardboard and tape the heat pack there.

It looks like the low there will be 19°. The boys have only experienced 30° here, but they did just fine. What will happen if the box is a hair over 8 lbs? Is the USPS that strict or will they allow an ounce or 2?

 

[babymakes6]

chickens?

Probably between all of us addicts we do!

She don't tell my neighbors I have 170,000+ chickens

No Rachael, they already THINK that!

Hi everyone

I am trying to catch up and MIL is sleeping, so I can read what I have missed.

Good morning everyone, well I bid on the bielfelders, but did not win them. Maybe next time! i had another night of almost no sleep, I just don't know why! It was 12 degrees! When is spring again? I am really looking forward to being able to go outside and enjoy it! I think the chickens and ducks are over this colder weather too!

Always reminds me of this sign, seen at greenhouses at times:

Hear, hear! Hey, did I tell you what CPL did? She let me take home the eggs I found while cleaning coops

I have three little olandsk dwarf eggs happily developing, whee!!! Along with a couple of Russian Orloff eggs and some basque/sfh mutts -- I figure they can go in my layer flock (or freezer, if they're roos)

And on the subject of wonderful gifts, I just drank the last of the milk last night

That was so good!!! I'm going to need to find a source around here -- I'd forgotten how good real milk tastes. Thank you!

Tomorrow is lockdown for my silkies from WVstruttin, my orps and Ams from kraftyladies, and my beautiful basque eggs from msztre. Which means Thursday I have to move my NYD chicks out to the barn -- I'm running out of room.

How is Lemonade doing?

Lemonade is a spoiled rotten goose!

If he hears me talking he starts chattering, and if I happen to walk past the brooder so he can see me, he comes running!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

dont go a more than a pound over when shipping lives (for what the box is rated) and you will be FINE. The boxes are actually rated for more than the published weight by a bit

BM6 so glad you are enjoying him! Cant wait to send CPL her fluffy goslings and your next one too!


.......................ok so the Bresse auction is for 20 2 week old CHICKS!!! Anyone want in on this as I dont NEED 20 of them lol (PM me if so)

 

[cluckitall]

Hee! He should be spoiled rotten -- he's such a cutie! I can't get geese yet -- the chickens are a mean enough thing to do to my neighbors -- geese and ducks would add too much racket :-( Turkeys are quiet, though! Well, relatively speaking...

 

[pysankigirl]

I did a spreadsheet of chickens and eggs I am getting in, how many I want my end state to be. remembering not to count them before they hatch, but trying to plan a bit.
I shouldn't have done that.

but now I know I need more housing!!! (like I didn't know that before, but now I have quantified it)
but the good thing is I kinda know how many breeds I want eventually so I can make bachelor housing for the roosters. the girls will free-range mostly when I am not actually breeding them so their housing can be alot smaller.

thanks you guys for all the enablling!!!!

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Ok first time shiping live birds!! Need advise from experts. We love him and want him to arrive safely, It is a 1 year old Roo about 7-8 lbs(have not weighed him yet) going to LA, temps should be fair we will be in the 30s at night and 50s during the day and slightly warm at destination?

Educate me please.

 

[mzstre]

Ok first time shiping live birds!!  Need advise from experts.  We love him and want him to arrive safely, It is a 1 year old Roo about 7-8 lbs(have not weighed him yet) going to LA, temps should be fair we will be in the 30s at night and 50s during the day and slightly warm at destination?

Educate me please.

If you read back over the last 24 hours, I asked the same question and received a wealth of information. Today is my first time shipping lives as well. We can be nervous together!

Is he going to Louisiana or Los Angeles?

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Louisiana

 

[chiqita]

He would be based out here, but they have data centers across the globe, so there would be a lot of travel initially. That part will be hard. We have too many kids to look at anything that would require a relocation...the company is based out of Sunnyvale, and that is as much as I know.

That is about 20 min from here. There is some great food in Sunnyvale. But crazy busy and super traffic good your not moving it would be a shock. All the houses are from the 50s and have tiny tiny rooms. We once did a 4 bedroom that was 900 sqfeet you could not turn around in any of them.

I can pretend your my neighbor instead

I just heard that, I guess in Ventura there are only 13 homes for sale and the price up 100,000k per house. Looks like we left 2 years 2 early. Oh well gave us time to get settled in her before MIL and FIL needed us.

Yeah. Good to be were you are needed. Kisses to you!

Hee! He should be spoiled rotten -- he's such a cutie! I can't get geese yet -- the chickens are a mean enough thing to do to my neighbors -- geese and ducks would add too much racket :-( Turkeys are quiet, though! Well, relatively speaking...

I love our turkeys. They are loud but not piercing . Its more like ambient noise. They are very fragile while young however and you have to know if there is blackhead in your area if you have other birds.
Turkeys really imprint however so if you are raising a few they are hard to eat.

Stuffing is trying to train our new hen pumpkin to fly up on the roof. She run up and down on the roof crying to them and they ran up and down on the ground telling her she is nuts.

Now those girls need to start laying!

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Well, had a small chat with hubby about the future new chicken house he offered me. He now says he doesn't recall saying that. I pointed out that it doesn't matter if he remembers...I Do! But I reminded him that I don't want it this year. I'm planning ahead. So I think I'll have him take one small section of pasture, and build a "strip mall" type sectioned set of breeder pens. It'll be easier to care for later, and in the long run easier to build than nickel-and-diming together individual pens. And I can also use them to separate any birds I want in show condition. A 5x6 section of coop for each breeder group would work okay, with a run. And if I can get him to build enough sections, then I can keep grass growing. And they can still rotate back into the free range groups, so everyone will get pasture time.

Whatchathink?

We are planning on starting a strip set up this year, still trying to settle on style but basically I will have a run on both sides so I can let them into one side while I replant or let the other recover, this will have 6-8 ft fences around it, and then they will be a 4 ft security/bio security area around it with 6-8 ft chain link fence with barbed wire on the top and electric on the bottom. Yeh I am bad for over kill.