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[Chaos18]

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[BantyChooks]

Omg!!!!! Looky looky my first ever chick!!! I'm so excited I can hardly bare it

CONGRATS!!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Marking my spot....

Good night all!

 

[Chaos18]

Marking my spot....

Good night all!

G'night

 

[ChickenCanoe]

awwwww Paddler I am so sorry, she had cancer as well? My friend passed away last year, wasnt feeling good took off work and found her in her bed, ovarian cancer spread.

Do they sell this in large quantities or you purchase that in those little bags? I have to buy Amish made layer feed and chick crumbles in100lb bags or I would go broke. I purchase dog food the same way, its winner high prot. I will have to switch when my dogs start to get fat lol.

NOOOOO must have Phila Cheesesteak sliders!!!!! yums!!!

YUCCAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The community drink of the 90's!!!! sugar lemons limes VODKA!!!!!! I forgot about that drink1!!!!


Louly such a great family!!!

My mom had aplastic anemia. She started with bruising but felt fine. Then the bruising got worse. She went to the doctor, he put her in the hospital and she was dead 3 days later.

Tomorrow night, my family is meeting at one of the restaurants my son cooks at for burgers. It is called 'The Range'. One of the 8 Bailey's restaurants in town.
Options are incredible.
Meats used to make burgers are beef, smoked beef, sirloin, pressed sirloin, bison, chicken and veggie. Those can be had with a topping of beef brisket, andouille sausage, bacon or pork belly.
Cheeses are gouda, cheddar, emmenthaler, goat, fontina,



That pickle juice drinker must be pregnant.

X2. I'll admit that when we built our coop, we insulated it but were only thinking of the cold. It really does work for heat too.
Our coop is just inside the edge of the tree line with trees on all sides. We argued for a couple weeks over where we'd put it. I think we picked the perfect spot.

ETA: I have 2 goofy broodies sitting on nest boxes right now. I don't know how they can stand it! Their eggs are developing nicely though.

Always put coops in the shade.

dang quote!!!


Sorry Paddler.... Good Luck with your hatch and keep cool

Just stuck the 15th new egg in there that I found in an unused coop. No idea how old it is but it was gorgeously dark and almost 70 grams.

Well i had a chicken hawk attacked that took most of them so i decided to sell off a few others and get them all in a single coop thats more secured , one morning i had 7 chicken hawks lurking on my fence and an coops so i had to do something

That is a lot of hawks lurking.

They were hawks , it was crazy , with all the wild chickens here in town the chicken hawk population isnt lacking

Do you know what kind of hawks they are or are they several different species? Most will eat chickens given the chance and driven by hunger.

 

[BullChick]

Thanks, Benny!
Hmm I guess she had access to the compost, but I've never seen the ducks over there. I should cover it, though; botulism sounds horrible!

And good night to everyone! 

Good night!

Omg!!!!! Looky looky my first ever chick!!! I'm so excited I can hardly bare it

Marking my spot....

Good night all!

Good night!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I said, "I don't think people can handle that. I took off maybe one inch" It was supposed to be funny since you can't really notice an inch on a person who's hair is about 2 1/2 feet long. I later realized what had happened. Ha ha!
Although, until now I have never bothered cutting my hair unless I cut it to my shoulders or chin. I was going to cut it all off this time, but that tine of night was a bad time to make that kind of big decision.

You and I must be on totally the same wavelength. My hair was/is REALLY long - I keep it in a bun mostly, but it was getting heavy and a bit harder to brush out, so I just had about 3 or 4 inches taken off the bottom to even it up, then she did this thing called "invisible layers" that lightened it up a lot. So glad I found her - oddly enough, it's hard to find someone who knows how to cut long hair properly (I sure can't!). Now I have someone to go to when I get it cut every two years...

(Last time I cut it, I donated 11" to Locks of Love...)

Quote: Oh goodness, the duck spamming has begun again. I thought we were over this...

(Off to go find that syringe...)

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Last time I had a hen who insisted on making nests in the wild (so to speak), I would collect them but leave behind a fake egg in her "chosen" wild nest. That way she kept going back to lay there and I knew where to go to get her egg every day. (It was so hard to find each new nest, I did this so at least I knew where she would lay...)

Roo damage and possibly beginning to molt on the neck. Do the other feathers look neat or a bit scruffy?

Trios will always have that kind of damage. I try to only have hens in trios for about a month at most. I can't do that now because my hen to rooster ratio is way off due to predation. I have one pair and a house with 9 hens and 2 roosters. Those are all problems for that kind of damage. I might try to separate all hens with damage from the flocks and let the roosters override their less favorites till I can grow out some more pullets.
Trouble is, my oldest batch of chicks is mostly cockerels.

Ideally you want 10-12 hens or more per rooster to prevent that kind of damage. If you go too far above that, you could have fertility issues.
My goal is to have trios and a couple flocks of 1:7 ratios and a house just for hens where I can rotate in and out of the other units.

Alas, this trio is in a sort of "lifetime" separation from other or new chickens. Jenny has what I'm pretty sure is ocular Mareks, and Lissa and Jenny grew up with the hen I lost to Avian Leukosis, so they are both potential heavy shedders of one or both (and the rooster is heavily exposed). They are like pets, don't eat much, and still lay, so I am keeping them in a trio rather than culling. Their rooster is pretty well behaved with them given that there are only two of them.

Well, my roo runs when I even reach for it so - score one for an effective deterrent.

I was living in Samoa back in the early 90's. I had gotten a local drivers license. One day I got a ticket for running a stop sign. But, it was a stop post - there was no sign (hurricane took it). They told me - when I got my license, I should have looked at the map, showing all stop signs, and memorized it. Some time after I moved away, they got their first traffic light in the middle of the city. First night - it was torn down. Second night - it was torn down. I am not sure how many times it was torn down, but it took a long time for people to actually pay attention to it. Drivers just didn't stop. Sometimes technology is not welcome.....

I visited the Lajes Air Force Base on Terceira in the Azores (middle of the Atlantic). Severe weather for about half the year (fortunately not when I was there). The stop signs were concrete.

- Ant Farm

 

[bcfpilot]

I said iwould post a link toy hatch along thread here when it started so here it is!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1122581/our-first-hatch-27-barnyard-mix#post_17308441

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Oh, and regarding the read back? Yeah, I want mini cows now.

Curse you all...

- Ant Farm

 

[Chaos18]

Oh, and regarding the read back? Yeah, I want mini cows now.

Curse you all... 

- Ant Farm