INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[julie0477]

Mother2Hens - I agree with you completely. I don't agree with hunting for sport or trophy. Not at all. I would never have considered killing the coyote until it started coming right up to the house. I still didn't do it, but I admit I was relieved when someone else did something about it. Part of it was my fault because I didn't have adequate fencing for day time - just my front yard picket fence. I always put them up at night but before long that wasn't enough. I wasn't prepared. I was naive and thought as long as I put them up at night they would be out of danger, so my inexperience was definitely part of the problem. We are putting up better fencing this year in case it happens again. I like to let my girls free range, but first sign of trouble they will go in the fence. We still don't have guns and although I'm not against having one to protect your livestock, etc., now is not the time for us to start with little kids in the house. Not worth it.

Darthlayer - thanks for the update on the hen! I've been wondering how she is doing!

Welcome pginsber!

Crafty Chick - I have a friend in Nashville with 40 or so layers? Anyway, her eggs are always fertilized. If you'd like to get in touch with her send me a PM and I will hook you up. She has all sorts of layer breeds. I got my adorable RIR frizzle cross and my silkie EE cross from her.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I will be playing catch up hopefully tomorrow at work... So.. Before I do, throwing this out there...

Looking for a bantam Cochin rooster, either blue, splash or mottled.. Would prefer he was close to or mature, may consider younger if the colours were good. Would not say no to a few more girls either.

Found one digging through the Internet but the lady wants $50 a bird which I think is rather salty.

it must have won a blue ribbon somewhere. I have heard that a full grown heritage show bird can cost upwards of that, so maybe it is a fair price but not if it is $30 more than every one else is asking.

Lol no its not a riddle and yea there dirty I have a light brahma that got pooped on and a white Japanese that has yellow stains and a Leghorn hen that has dirty feathers

let them stand out in the rain for 15 minutes no the bath recommendations were good.

Do overly amorous teenage roosters chill out with age? Gus is not buying them dinner first, if you know what I mean! I have been hearing hen screams for a couple of weeks off and on now. My poor new hens haven't layed an egg since we got them from Cluck. I am thinking they are afraid of Gus. He is also taking his job as flock protector a little too seriously and will follow anyone who walks up our drive all the way up and down the fence line. He went after my friend the other day and she picked him up and held him. He walked away after and didn't bother her again. (I think it embarrassed him in front of his girls). He doesn't ever come at me or my husband since we started holding him under our arm while doing coop stuff. He will occasionally wing dance at me but gets scooped up immediately. He is very humiliated by that I think. Any way, I have no plans on re-homing or killing him. I just hope it's hormones and he relaxes with age. If anyone decides to respond to this, please no freezer camp or stew pot etc.. advice. I've definitely heard enough of that. I would love to hear if anyone has had good experiences with their roos though. Thanks!

Maybe get more girls. But if he has enough girls then only time will help how he treats the hens or a meaner rooster maybe. As for people we used a hose on our roosters and it worked.

Nice info about the roosters and their loving ways (pun intended). We are having a rooster dilema here, my vote is to not get ours back but I don't have everyone in the family convinced. I like our quiet mornings again and all I can see in the future is for Merlin to get more aggressive.

What happened to grabbing an extra cleaned chicken and not telling the family any different Children can be persistint. I should know, mine talked me into getting a replacement rooster for our owl eaten one. And I will never think of owls or hawks as friendly fuzzy flying creatures ever again. Up close they look really really mean. Their eyes are something else.

anyone near columbus have some fertile eggs? i have an orp girl go broody, andwould like to add new blood to the flock. any LF would be good

I need to check. Our Buster rooster broke his isolation last night. He just flew over my DH right out the garage door and marched over to the girls. He then started walking around the pen and crowing like he was king. DH let him into the pen and he has mated. I just have not used any of today's eggs to know yet.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Hi, Fellow Hoosiers! Thanks to TooFast for making me aware of this thread.
I'm a first-time-chicken-mom and though I researched the bejezus out of everything before I started, it's all new to me.

We live in the city, and have a small coop area with totally fenced in chicken run. 8 pullets ranging from 12 weeks to 18 weeks, 7 of them planned and one surviving packing peanut. 3 Cream Legbars, a Dominique, a Golden Cuckoo Maran, a Delaware, Bantam Black Orpington (the packing peanut), and what's supposed to be a Gold Laced Wyandotte, but is not. Who knows what she is, but she's very big.

Aretha, our oldest Crem Legbar, laid our first egg on Sunday and as of this morning (Wednesday) we had not yet got another from her. If she doesn't get busy soon, I'll be forced to have cereal for breakfast on Saturday, instead of eggs!

and our thread!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Mother2Hens - I agree with you completely. I don't agree with hunting for sport or trophy. Not at all. I would never have considered killing the coyote until it started coming right up to the house. I still didn't do it, but I admit I was relieved when someone else did something about it. Part of it was my fault because I didn't have adequate fencing for day time - just my front yard picket fence. I always put them up at night but before long that wasn't enough. I wasn't prepared. I was naive and thought as long as I put them up at night they would be out of danger, so my inexperience was definitely part of the problem. We are putting up better fencing this year in case it happens again. I like to let my girls free range, but first sign of trouble they will go in the fence. We still don't have guns and although I'm not against having one to protect your livestock, etc., now is not the time for us to start with little kids in the house. Not worth it.

Darthlayer - thanks for the update on the hen! I've been wondering how she is doing!

Welcome pginsber!

Crafty Chick - I have a friend in Nashville with 40 or so layers? Anyway, her eggs are always fertilized. If you'd like to get in touch with her send me a PM and I will hook you up. She has all sorts of layer breeds. I got my adorable RIR frizzle cross and my silkie EE cross from her.

We don't have a gun for the same reason.

 

[racinchickins]

Hi everyone,

I thought I would throw this out again. I had a single chick hatch last week. I'm looking for a buddy for her. Does anyone have any new hatched chicks under two weeks old they would be willing to part with? I'm only looking for one or two.

Thanks,
Racin

 

[kabhyper1]

We got our first actual egg today!! Not soft and in the nesting box. Not sure who did it. EE, Australorp, sl/wyandotte, standard cochin. Any guesses?


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[Crafty chick]

oh, thanks sally. i know you are closer than a lot of other indiana BYCers. what kind would thhey be, and how much would you want for a dozen or 2? might fill the incubator while i'm at it

 

[bradselig]

I have an ameraucana/orpington mix as well as possibly a white silkie that are about a week old (as well as the male legbar chick). Of course im pretty far away though.

 

[bradselig]

The above post was directed towards racin. Stupid phone didnt quote.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Hi everyone,

I thought I would throw this out again. I had a single chick hatch last week. I'm looking for a buddy for her. Does anyone have any new hatched chicks under two weeks old they would be willing to part with? I'm only looking for one or two.

Thanks,
Racin

I'd have a few silkies if nobody is any closer.