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

[lozerface79]

What is the percentage of protein in their feed and do you feed them snacks.

Not sure. Dont have the bag to check.
About everyday the grocery store gives us the expired produce and produce they cant sell and we give it to the hens

 

[fire370]

Catching up again after the Super Bowl
ONLY 7 pages behind
8 now in the time it's taken me to type this

That was tonite?

 

[lozerface79]

Hang some CDs, they like the mirror!
Use honey or - if it's cold enough where you are to keep it from melting - you can use bacon fat. Squish in some millit seeds, cracked corn, sunflower seeds… Whatever to make a treat cake. Or, you could just buy one. Feed stores often sell yellow balls that you put feed in as well. It's like a Kong for birds.

They wont peck the CDs?

 

[lindalouly]

Not sure. Dont have the bag to check.
About everyday the grocery stores give us the expired produce and produce they cant sell and we give it to the hens

Protein shoulnt fall below 16 percent.. sometimes it an easy fix, just raise the protein in their snacks until you buy your next feed bag. This is especially true if they dont get a good chance to free range and in the winter.

 

[TJChickens]

Whats with everyone and coffee? I get sick most of the time i dribk coffee

I think if you try to drink it instead of dribking it, maybe you won't get sick?

Coffee is best when filtered through a Bounty paper towel; it's then the Quicker Picker Upper

Maybe I should try this tomorrow...coffee hasn't been picking me up enough lately!

I believe in levitation here I've personally experienced it Once while stepping off deck I catch a rattle snake out of the corner of my eye below me. Yep I can fly, in mid step I literally went a foot higher. Snake is dead btw.

I did the same thing last summer. I stepped off a tall step and just in time, I saw a rattlesnake right where I was going to land. I somehow ended up a few feet away.... don't know how.

I've heard that most of the snakes in CA walk upright & tend to congregate in the larger cities. Any truth to that?

As Local would say..."Trufax"!

OK, humidity holding well and regulating appropriately now, no more funny noise, and I have calmed down. I thought I was going to be so COOL about this hatch - nope. Let's see how many times I freak out during lockdown....

Meanwhile, @Sally Sunshine you wanted photos. I finished the new coop today, and moved the Naked Necks in this evening. They are a little freaked and huddled on the floor of the run in a corner in a pig pile (that's how they've been sleeping in the tractor). They'll be grumpy kept in there for a few days to "learn" it's their new home, since they're used to roaming a lot, but it is pretty nice in there. I assume they'll figure out that they have a sheltered henhouse with roosts eventually.

Still have lots of cleaning up of stuff in the yard, and I need to start building tractors now (growout for the chicks) and some A-frames (for solo roosters). But it's nice to get it done. And Dumbledore is back outside with his girls - his tail feathers are growing back out. I don't have it in me to set up the brooder right now - I'm about to drop. I'll set it up after work tomorrow...



Busy week at work next work. I just know I'll be a wreck while at work worrying about the hatch/chicks - I can't take off to watch them. I just need to have faith - what will be, will be...

I'm going to try to do a read back of the stuff I missed before heading to bed.

- Ant Farm

Love it!! What is the roof? Lexan? Fiberglass..?

Guys any ideas on how to keep my hens and roo from gettng bored? They are picking feathers so we built them a swing but they think its a death trap

If my Guineas start eating the peacock's tails, I give them a flake of alfalfa. Keeps them busy and has calcium and protein.....My chickens love it also.

 

[lindalouly]

Protein shoulnt fall below 16 percent.. sometimes it an easy fix, just raise the protein in their snacks until you buy your next feed bag. This is especially true if they dont get a good chance to free range and in the winter.

meal worms are a quick fix and doesnt take many to raise the protein when you feed them those.

 

[lozerface79]

Protein shoulnt fall below 16 percent.. sometimes it an easy fix, just raise the protein in their snacks until you buy your next feed bag. This is especially true if they dont get a good chance to free range and in the winter.

Alright ill check our protein in the food as soon as possible and theb get back to ya.
But the wheb we switched their feed to what we are using now egg production spiked!

 

[TJChickens]

On my way out to say goodnight to the horses...and set the game cam.
Goodnight all.

Goodnight Sally.

 

[lozerface79]

I just realized i have 5 alltogether wasbt counting the roo

 

[BantyChooks]

I just realized i have 5 alltogether wasbt counting the roo

How big is the coop?