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[Too Fast]

Thank you for your well thought out response, M2H! Yeah, it would seem most of my hens blend in with our current Autumn-esque atmosphere here in the woods. Lots of fallen leaves and red-to-brown-colored hens.

I had a lot of pretty neat pictures that I rejected for mostly the same reasons--one of my favorites, my dear partridge Plymouth Rock named She Who Sleeps Standing Up, looked nice except her beak blended in completely with the background!


And then I had a couple really neat, but not exactly calendar-worthy shots, the first of Margaret and the second of Poggy:

This second picture scared the crap outta me at first. Wasn't sure what it was....just a chicken head looking up from a bloody soup bowl?.....a head and neck in a scene from a slasher movie?......oh wait, it's a reflection. Now, that's a cool picture!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

i know the feeling! i just ordered 4 pairs of modern game bantams that are a couple week old!
haha the only thing im really excited about is the sale prices on supplies. im hoping rural king has their gallon waterers and 7# feeders for $5 again like they had this spring!
im not sure what color your interested in or if its just white, but i MAY have an extra pullet in the near future. i have some blue and spash chicks that i am not sure if i wwant to breed those colors. i think im just going to stick with partridge/ blue partridge and white silkies especially since i just added a new breed to the flock.

i dodnt know they pit their seven poind hanging feeders on sale! I am glad i havent got around to buying a bumch uet, right now i only haave two.

 

[Leahs Mom]

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At this point, my thought is that...Generally speaking, if this bird hasn't been changed to a different environment, it likely isn't cocci and I don't think the symptoms match well.

This is just my thought and I may be wrong!

I did send some info via pm that I hope is helpful regarding some information that matches the symptoms. There are several possibilities that have symptoms that are similar to what you're seeing which can make it hard to figure out what's going on. I hope what I sent will take care of it!

 

[racinchickins]

im about ready to give up trying to hatch shipped legbar eggs! its getting very frustrating with these horrible hatch rates. i set 9 eggs, 6 made it to lock down, none have hatched! and were due to hatch yesterday. i had quail eggs in with them in lockdown. i get more than a 90% hatch rate with them (from my own flock) but never higher than 20% hatch rate with CCL. I have another batch of CCL eggs from a guy ive bought from 3 other times and had good hatch rates. lets hope his CCL do just as good as the other breeds ive gotten from him!

I haven't had much luck either, and I picked up all my eggs. Didn't ship at all. Hopefully we will get better results when our birds are providing the eggs. I'm going to have to do a hatch of another breed just to get my confidence back.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

For those interested:

Central Indiana Poultry Show
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds
Lebanon, IN 46052
(I-65 at exit 138)
765-482-0750
For more information, please contact Doug Akers

I plan to make the journey. The 3 1/2 mile trip will be grueling, but with my pioneer spirit, I think I will make it.

John

 

[bradselig]

I haven't had much luck either, and I picked up all my eggs.  Didn't ship at all.  Hopefully we will get better results when our birds are providing the eggs.  I'm going to have to do a hatch of another breed just to get my confidence back.

it definitely is frustrating. you you want i can ship you some quail eggs at no charge! these guys have been doing very well with hatching here and it sounds like janet had a good hatch too from the eggs i sent her.

For those interested:

Central Indiana Poultry Show
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds

Lebanon, IN 46052

(I-65 at exit 138)

765-482-0750
For more information, please contact Doug Akers


I plan to make the journey.  The 3 1/2 mile trip will be grueling, but with my pioneer spirit, I think I will make it.

John

thanks for the reminder! illl have to double checkk to see if i am off that weekend. id love to go!

 

[Webechickens]

About how far is that from Muncie IN? Would love to come to this. Wish there was a way to recognize the different BYC people there.

Webechickens

 

[racinchickins]

it definitely is frustrating. you you want i can ship you some quail eggs at no charge! these guys have been doing very well with hatching here and it sounds like janet had a good hatch too from the eggs i sent her.

Although tempting, I'll have to pass on the quail eggs. Had to promise my SO that I'll get my winter housing completed and under control before I even think of adding any more birds. On a brighter note, my winter housing will also be my breeder pens for next year, so I'm excited to start on that project.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

My winter housing will also be my breeder pens for next year, so I'm excited to start on that project.

If you used the feedlot panels 50" x 16' with a covering of 1" opening chicken wire, it would make for some modular building of the breeder pens.

Panels are $20 each. Poultry netting is $75 for 48" x 150'.

Put it together with zip ties or wire. http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/sto...ectric-fence-wire-1-4-mile-spool?cm_vc=-10005

If you butt them against the North wall of the barn, 3 panels give you a 16 x 16 pen; 6 panels would give you 4 4x16 pens. They would only be 50" high.

If you prefer, you could stack an additional 6 panels, making it 8' high. If you did that, I would recommend overlapping the panels by a foot or so and wiring them to one another so that you would have self supported 7' high x 16' long panels and use those for the build. If you do that, you will definitely have to use the wire mentioned below to attach everything. Zip ties probably wouldn't be strong enough.

That way you can rearrange it at a whim. You will have to cut the end panel to make entry doors, but leave the top row wire and the bottom 1 or 2. Use an extra panel to make the doors so that they can overlap the holes you cut in the end panel.

If you are using the 4 4x16 plan, you could take an additional panel, cut it into 4 4' sections and use them to further divide the runs into 8 4x8 pens with doors on either end. Of course, doing this you couldn't use the barn wall as one end of the pens.

John

 

[Old Salt 1945]

About how far is that from Muncie IN? Would love to come to this. Wish there was a way to recognize the different BYC people there.

Webechickens

65 miles, if you come accross US 32. It would be a bit farther if you take 69, 465, 65, but much faster.

John