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[BantyChooks]

This is not true I just typed this whole thing without reading any of it.

No, not what I mean..... How do you navigate around BYC if you can't read the buttons and stuff? Huh?
(And a little proof reading is essential now and then)

 

[Chaos18]

I never, ever use voice type. Voice type does not like me...... It has me saying the strangest things!
-Banti

Like you need help with that.

 

[BantyChooks]

He has voice type all the time, but doesn't always work I have to admit. But I am using it right now, and it seems to be doing an OK job. I just hate that it says OK instead of Okay.

It must like you!

 

[Chaos18]

No, not what I mean..... How do you navigate around BYC if you can't read the buttons and stuff? Huh?

(And a little proof reading is essential now and then)

pitchers

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not at that house. Knowing what I now know regarding Hawks and Owls - I was probably lucky. At the time they were roosting on the trampoline there was unfortunately 3 roosters in the mix - up about 9 feet off the ground, and they were LOUD, all night long. Worst problem I had there was rats. My new place (about 4 miles away), I have Owls, Hawks, Raccoons and Coyotes. Only the hawks have succeeded in killing anything.

If there are raccoons where you live now, there were raccoons 4 miles away.
You also likely have opossums, skunks, weasels, mink. badgers and possibly fishers, stoats and martens.
If you live anywhere in California, or for that matter, anywhere from the Panama Canal to the southern provinces of Canada, you have raccoons.


Ever see the PBS documentary - Raccoon Nation?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/raccoon-nation-video-living-for-the-city/7540/
If you haven't seen them, don't be misled. You aren't out using night vision glasses when they are active.
Raccoons are very adaptable and occur throughout North America in almost every natural, agricultural, suburban, and urban habitat type except high elevations and near the arctic.
The density of raccoon populations is much higher in urban than rural areas. Studies over the last few decades show that there are anywhere from 4 to 200 times as many in cities in the same area as there are in rural settings.
As an example, it is estimated there are 8,000 living in Washington D.C., Toronto is considered the raccoon capitol of the world with an estimated 140 per square kilometer. Raccoons are more common in Chicago metro than any other part of the state.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74116.html

We dont have big predetor problem where I live, but the worst are the mongooses, if they enter your coop you are doomed! They will kill each and every bird!
I saw once a coop withe more than 20 chicken killd in one night!

Weasels and mink will do the same thing. I had 7 flocks of chickens. Each night mink targeted another coop and killed every bird in the building. They can squeeze into a 1" opening. (2.5 cm)

So im sorta running out of chick starter feed and i ordered some more but it aint here yet. Can i feed them like scratch or anything? what can they eat?

If it will be there in a couple days, you can feed virtually anything from the fridge, pantry, scratch, other chicken feeds. Make sure they also have grit, especially if feeding any grain or other things that need to be ground up in the gizzard.

Give them some oats meal, or wheat, some shreded chees, or boild egg,( abaout 20%) and a lot of finley choped vegis! DONT GIVE THEM LAYER FEED YOU WILL KILL THEM!

Layer (approximately 4% calcium) will overwhelm the kidney of young birds and even adults not building shells.
However, it is a cumulative effect. While not ideal, 2 days of layer feed won't kill chicks.

That is MEAN looking! I wouldn't want to run into one of these at night. I don't think we have them around here. I'm in the middle of a city, so we are limited in what we have to deal with.

No mongooses in California. I did encounter them in the Virgin Islands. We took a picnic lunch for a day of snorkeling. When we came ashore, the mongoose had eaten our entire lunch.

I suddenly remembered opening day for the Detroit Tigers.... Yay!!!

Go Tigs, bless you boys.

They say we'll hit 85 today, but drop to the high 60's the rest of the week. Our low all week is 48.

Friday night is supposed to be 32 or lower. It's usually about 3 or 4 degrees lower at my house than the city forecast temps. I don't want to lose a fruit crop.

15 minutes after being told there was 1 baby hatched and just 1 pip, my mother texted me that there were 2 babies, no pips. But, 40 minutes later she said 3 babies, and that she never saw that one pip. But then 15 minutes later, I get a message 4 babies, no pips. Why do I not believe her that there are no pips? I think she doesn't consider anything pipped until they actually start to zip (or in some cases finish zipping).

But good news, 4 babies hatched, and who knows how many pips!!!

Cause you know she doesn't have that trained eye.

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Great picture, thanks for posting.

Hi Sally Mike and everyone else.
Well my wife just told me they are calling for another 10" of snow tonight....

Whoa!!!

first the one thermometer u gave me reads 99.5 and the probe one I have now shows 37.9. And I only have three troughs full and it shows 53% humidity

I don't consider that a problem - at least not temperature. That's a difference of 0.7F. Both will work. It could also be a difference in how slowly each type of thermometer sample. One could be sampling when the heat element is off and the other when it is on. If you think that drives you crazy, try an instantaneous read thermometer and watch it bounce all over the place as the thermostat cycles on and off.

When do most cockrels start trying to crow? Most everybody I have asked calls the white OE a cockrel except the EE sexing tips and tricks thread. They say pullet.

Under 3 months to over 6 months, depending on breed.

Hey could somebody give me some help here, so I picked all my eggs out a few days prior. I'm hatching eggs in school and when I was putting them in today after school I noticed the one egg had a slight deformity, would it be okay to throw that egg out tommorow and put a new one in?

What kind of deformity?
1 day difference shouldn't matter. Just recognize it will be late.

 

[BantyChooks]

Like you need help with that.

pitchers

Okay then, you can't read. Happy now?


Case closed!

 

[Chaos18]

Okay then, you can't read. Happy now?

Case closed!

Why would I be happy I can't read?

 

[BantyChooks]

Why would I be happy I can't read?  

Because you seemed strangely insistant to prove to me you couldn't read.....
-Banti

 

[Chaos18]

Because you seemed strangely insistant to prove to me you couldn't read.....
-Banti

I was just proving Mc right.

 

[mrleeroy]

Good Morning!