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

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DwayneNLiz said:
So my polish hen is MIA, good thing I set 5 of her eggs. I only had her a week today was her first outing, I think the other birds ran her off
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she was the only nice one
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:hugs sorry to hear that. :fl Hope she shows up.
 
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Whites if your still looking for an inner tube try a tire shop. They may have some blown out ones you could have. Assuming they still have inner tubes. When we were kids we'd go to them to get our tubes for snow tubing. Fix them up and away we'd go. Free fun.
 
Fire Ant Farm said:
OK, so you all probably realize that my "handle" here has some basis in reality - the thing that grows best here is... fire ant mounds. It's bad enough that I actually have developed a sort of immunity to their stings/bites. I'm surprised at all the anti-ant solutions - are my chickens really that different? They LOVE eating ants! My Cream Legbars found mound and scratched the thing into oblivion, eating all the larvae. Ants crawling up their legs, they didn't really care (though they'd step back every once in a while to shake it off). It was a food orgy!!!

Next time I find a mound in my garden beds, I'm bringing out the Cream Legbar hens - best ant exterminators ever!

I build every coop assuming that if I go outside at night, this is what I'll find. Not a bad approach, as they pull the side of my house off to climb into my attic. This morning I found raccoon scat near the coops, and the fly traps dragged all over the place (one opened). All chickens completely safe. I'm not an idiot - one may eventually find a way in. But all my coops are very secure for a very good reason...


I cull/process in a little alcove near the hose faucet that cannot be seen from almost anywhere else, in my yard or from the neighbors, for this reason.
You bad boy...


I had an abacus as a toy when I was a small child. I'm only 45, but my mother was a teacher and my father was an engineer. It was inevitable...

I want dairy goats - BADLY. (I make cheese and other dairy products.) I originally said to myself "I'll wait until I retire." Then I took stock of what my back, neck, and left knee feel like NOW some days, and decided that I may not be all that interested in that work when I'm 65 or 70 (everyone in my family is very healthy and lives a long time... with lots of artificial joints in place). So, I'm getting goats either next year or the following (depending on how long it takes me to stabilize the chicken math situation).

Oh, man, I had a HAND HELD Texas Instruments calculator - SUCH a big deal - with glowing red numbers (that you have to hold at the right angle to read). It was amazing how much fun a kid could have with a calculator, just playing games with numbers. (Ummmm.... Yeah, geek. Did I mention the father-an-engineer thing?)

You know, CC, I SERIOUSLY considered just starting with Penedescencas before I bought my first chick (I was doing all that breed research). I opted not to because I didn't have experience with chickens, and surmised (rightfully, I think), that they'd be hard for a beginner. I'm now up to my ears in my own project(s), but every time I see your birds, I am tempted to set up a space and coop for them in the back of my property and let them be free and see how they do...

You have an outstanding dry wit.
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Thanks for the reminder - it was 91F today, I need to start making these for my peeps...

The other suggestions were more durable sounding, but I thought I'd share... My first thought was Gorilla tape. Bet it'd work.

Have I mentioned lately that you are my hero??!! Such a guardian angel for everyone's chickens and flocks, always making yourself available, accepting of the concept of "being on call" all the time. So glad you are here (on this thread and on BYC).
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

(BTW, I know you don't read back - here are the paddock pics I posted for you - finally switched the poor grass starved Naked Necks, they are SOOOOO happy now!)
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Hurrah!!!! Congrats, CH! Good job, and good job letting them do their thing and hatch on their own! They are lovely chicks.

Yeah, I was way back in the back and couldn't get in fast, and I also thought it would stop (it went on for much longer than I expected or had experienced before). Recently we had 4.5" hail that broke car windshields. I didn't know if it would get worse, and didn't want the chickens to have to deal with that - the ones that didn't take shelter were mostly the young ones who didn't know better. You can BET they know better now!!!!
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Where were you & your Gorilla tape before I found & ordered EPDM rubber sheeting from Amazon in something less than a full roll? Probably laying in the grass making "hail angels"
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Sounds like a great idea, though; I'll keep it in mind for next time.
 
Ur-ur-ur-urrr said:
Oh wow, Liz... I hope she comes back, or you find her soon!   :fl
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Chaos18 said:
:hugs sorry to hear that. :fl Hope she shows up.
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Thanks guys!! I do too, hopefully she'll be in the barn where I last saw her but it's unlikely, my daughter even named her sweetie, she would cuddle and wait for you to scoop her up and carry her around more like a cat

Ugh she was free, hopefully my napa friends keep being overly generous with free birds n eggs
 
Pensmaster said:
@kwhites634

Whites if your still looking for an inner tube try a tire shop. They may have some blown out ones you could have. Assuming they still have inner tubes. When we were kids we'd go to them to get our tubes for snow tubing. Fix them up and away we'd go. Free fun.
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I know my DH still does tubes in cars/trucks but you'll have better luck at a tractor store
 
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