INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Pensmaster]

I have an advantage many don't; 50+ acres of nothing behind me, except a big bulldozed brush pile the property owner pushed up on the line between us so I can't see if any of his deer are headed my way....he's a prince of a fellow. That brush pile makes a great coon depository.

Boy I'll say. I was burying them. But didn't get to it this time. So the vultures came in. We used to have that barrier but it's being slowly developed. The area where the vultures are doesn't have a house yet but it's taped off. Won't be long.

 

[deserteggs22]

Yep, when starting a thread click "add BYC poll" at the bottom of the page.

Thank you!

oh yer young yet no worries

nice avy!

Thanks Sally! I had to stand on 2 stools to get that picture of my peacock on the roof of my hen house.

 

[deserteggs22]

WE NEED PEOPLE!

Come join us on the Games for Eggs thread!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...6-game-is-poop-bingo-prize-6-ayam-cemani-eggs

We have all sorts of fun games and amazing prizes!

 

[BantyChooks]

WE NEED PEOPLE!

Come join us on the Games for Eggs thread!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...6-game-is-poop-bingo-prize-6-ayam-cemani-eggs

We have all sorts of fun games and amazing prizes!

Ohh boy..... Tempting...... Someone smack me.... Coop and bators are full!!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I wanna catch a cat.

Rofl!!!

What's up with your murderous attitude towards cats?

Evil pure evil, and some places have feral cats but not in my area, but mine are still evil

I like cats better than dogs. MY cats never would dare jump on a table. They were kept in the house WHERE THEY BELONG!! If I had a lot of property, I would have a barn cat (two. They need company). Three cats is always too much.

Agreed, and I NEED a barn cat so bad!!!!!

So my husband was mowing by the cockerel cages and we had 33 mix breed cockerels in there separated by chicken wire and there are 2 separate coops. While he was going past one spooked and jumped through the wires and the he's 5 weeks the others are 4 months, so at least 1/2 the size and he doesn't know how it got through but it did and we think between the wire and the dozen young roosters jumped on him and scalped him... We had to cull him I'm really upset because we have a small homestead and it's not like we have to cull many chicks and this was so preventable... And grotesque and sad. I feel kinda sick about it, farming is hard and I hate this part of things. I haven't been on in a while because I've been so busy but I thought y'all might be able to tell me that these things do happen and that I just need to come to terms with that. Clearly I can tell myself but that doesn't really cement it. Also my young rooster had a band on (I don't band the boys cause big legs) and when we thought we should take off the bands his was cutting his leg a bit, it was a day of injury but his leg is so swollen... Feeling like a bad homsteader today... Will the swelling just go down, I've been keeping it clean and treating with non pain relief neosporine.... Oh and I left chicks in the bator for about 30 hours and one got messed with and I think it's got a cross beak, they're olive eggers and some of the shells were a little too round I think, maybe and being messed with while they were hatching plus having Easter egger genes... I've had some I assisted hatch get cross beak and I'm sad because I think it might be two of them actually... Sad what a cruddy week for homesteading/ chicken keeping

no fun I have had scalped babies no fun

I like grass.

Wrong kind

Or Acorn mash. Must say I've tasted acorns and I'd starve even with an ample supply. Guess I didn't know how to process them

Might find dandelion for that salad.

depends on white kind of oak and the tannins in it

Just checked the Altsteirers chicks. Looks like 4 hens 2 roosters.

good ratio!

Does anyone know how to start a BYC poll?

Banti answered but hey u chgd your avy!

The moms are in the main coop and a new girl is in the box.

Oh geez!!

Just locked up. She was just laying very late.
Gross, but... "Here, Moose! C'mere Moosey Moosey Moosey Moose!"
I'm old.

few!! Lol

Quail nuggets, 13 out of 21 made it so far.

Time for bed so I can be responsible and go to work. Ewwwwww!

awwww cute babies

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Ohh boy..... Tempting...... Someone smack me.... Coop and bators are full!!!

go join

 

[Pensmaster]

Ohh boy..... Tempting...... Someone smack me.... Coop and bators are full!!!

I was waiting for your response.

 

[BantyChooks]

go join

I can't!! *Sniffle*

Seriously, the cockerels are starting to argue, I've gotta sell another 10 birds from my existing flock, not to mention the eggs hatching!! I have a bear of a time rehoming chicks. Free barely gets them outa here.

I was waiting for your response.

That bad, am I?

 

[Pensmaster]

I have an empty coop.

Well not for long. Altsterier chicks are going into it. Then the project bird will go into theirs as I sort thought the hens to keep for the rooster. This is him and some of his girls.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I have an empty coop.

Well not for long. Altsterier chicks are going into it. Then the project bird will go into theirs as I sort thought the hens to keep for the rooster. This is him and some of his girls.

I like the hen front left she's pretty