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[Leahs Mom]

And...one of my hatchery BR's...my former bumblefoot girl!




The BRs always remind me of Aunt Bee

 

[BackyardBitten]

i am CLAH at that "morons" chicken post on CL

i'm telling my DBF there's a new breed sweeping Indiana and i have to get some lololololol!

have a good night y'all

 

[racinchickins]

Had to post a few photos

Broody mom and 5 week olds:


The 2 black babies are SFH/BA mix.

New SFH Baby 5 wks.



SFH Baby parents:

Mister @ 9 mos. old.






Miss Gray @ 9 mos old

Gorgeous. Very distinctive chickens.

 

[bradselig]

Leahs Mom- beautiful SFH! I love that hen!

SallyinIndiana- I meant to comment earlier on your water heater question. While I've yet to do it myself, I would suggest that while it's drained, consider swapping out the elements while you're at it. Kinda kill 2 birds with one stone. Also, when refilling it, give it several hours to completely fill up before turning it on. If it's not filled, and elements not under water you I'll fry the elements. From working at lowes, I can tell you we sell a good number of elements just due to that reason. Once you drain it so far, you could open up the relief valve at the top to allow air in to drain faster.

 

[bradselig]

So my latest quail hatch. I set 60 eggs and didn't touch them until lockdown (which I was about a day late on that as they had already started to hatch). I only set the older eggs that I don't sell. I set 60 eggs. 2 chicks died hatching (weak chicks?), 4 died later during incubation around day 10, and 7 were clears, non fertile eggs. I have 47 little chicks running around like crazy with zero hatching troubles! I'll take these hatches anyday! I'm liking the still air hatcher!

 

[PeacefulWalls]

So my latest quail hatch. I set 60 eggs and didn't touch them until lockdown (which I was about a day late on that as they had already started to hatch). I only set the older eggs that I don't sell. I set 60 eggs. 2 chicks died hatching (weak chicks?), 4 died later during incubation around day 10, and 7 were clears, non fertile eggs. I have 47 little chicks running around like crazy with zero hatching troubles! I'll take these hatches anyday! I'm liking the still air hatcher!

Congrats on all your little quailies!

 

[PeacefulWalls]

So I'm needing to start clearing out some of the garden. My green bean plants are still green and have a few beans hanging on that got too big to pick. Can I feed the plants (with the attached beans) to the chickens? I have a vague recollection of discussion here or somewhere else about perhaps not feeding raw green beans? Also, what about sweet potato vines? We need to dig them soon and the vines are not dried up yet. If I can't feed them they'll go in the compost.

 

[bradselig]

Picture time. Just a few pics, but mainly wanted to show off the first chick i hatched from my flock, a naked neck chick. I'm loving its color!

Start with the little monsters, the quail.

How about a little game of name the breeds? Lol. There are 5 breeds in here. Winner gets a free rhodebar or legbar roo lol! I'll even let you have one of each!

And now my favorite. I'm not sure what the color would be called but it's from a buff NN hen X Birchen Marans roo. It's like a barred pattern with red/buff thrown into the mix.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

day 8-9 for my momma hen sitting on her 10 eggs. I snuck out to candle a few tonight, Looking good for the most part, I did see one i think may be clear. Ill wait and recandle next week just to see. First time to hatch chicks and the suspense is killing me, But I am sure I love it... I do have 2 Questions if anyone can answer them.
First: when you candle an egg what do the ones that will explode look like. I would like to try and keep that from happening if possible.
Second: If an EE Roo Is the Father of any of the eggs under momma Will the Tuft Gene Death thing come into play with the offspring? None of the eggs are from an EE hen.. If it is so at what point does it,(DEATH) happen.. When i candle the eggs i can see large dark masses moving a little. All of the eggs are Dark Brown so it is hard to see a lot, but i did see some movement and dark masses in most of them.

Thank you, Jeremy

sending good broody vibes!!! Its hard to describe, but a "bad egg" will often have fluid in the air sac, moves around easily and you can usually smell it

I cant answer your second question, someone with Auracana (sp?) experience will have to answer that.
In EEs I have had no problem, and have hatched about 80+ EE eggs this season.

chickenlover28~ Welcome to the Indiana Thread!
Click on the Indiana Members link at the bottom of this post to see who lives in your area. That seems weird that the Asian guy would want to eat a fancy, more expensive rooster. A related story-- I talked to a guy recently who said that he sells his unwanted roosters to Mexican people. He said that they don't want white ones to kill/eat since white roosters are considered good luck.
jchny~ How is Cassy doing after her car accident? Did they find the dumb guy at fault I hope?

Thanks for the satellite input -- Max is moving out, so I will actually have an empty nest, which might be nice. He moved home after graduating from Purdue in bio. He has been doing an internship at Vectren, our power company while he finishes his electrical engineering degree. They offered him a job today, which will pay for the rest of his school. He and his girlfriend are moving in to a newly renovated historic place downtown and they were discussing television options. I told him that I remembered that several BYCers did not like satellite, but I wasn't sure why.

Btw, I can just see my DH's face when I mention getting turkeys-- "But they're miniature! And our nest is empty!"
I think I'll probably stick with having my miniature orp, Bonbon. I never thought I'd be interested in Bantam size, but we are all crazy about her.

She is doing ok, really frustrating for her. Still no final decision on the accident OR the car. Seems its all up to ins companies now, the police don't decide? Wow...
Its been a real headache for us from the beginning.
Tell Max cable is the only way if in the city, DSL would be my 2nd choice. Satellite is a huge headache and waste of money.
Hehe, Turkeys are truly personable, but are very different from chickens. I do plan on mini whites next year.
So many small families these days, big turkey dinners don't fit the average family anymore.

I also heard something about their beleifs tht roos have healing power. Reguarless I wont eat chineese again. They loaded up their trucknto take all these birdsctontheir restaurant. Kinda gross. Some ofbthese birds looked sick. Their feeding them to the public.

Unfortunately, different cultures see things differently.. Very good example, a family member married a girl while stationed in Korea.
When she came home with him, the poor girl was TERRIFIED to see a dog in the HOUSE! They are considered a food animal.
The people you mention see the birds as a food source, and in this case, without thought of their health, or their customers from the sounds of it.
Not all Asian restaurants are that way. I am sure they have a regular health inspector and will eventually get caught!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Here's a pic with my largest chicken egg. Her smallest egg weighed 68 grams, next is my largest Chicken egg weighing 74 grams. Her egg yesterday weighed 96 grams.

I don't have any ducks for comparison, nor have I seen any duck eggs lol. Hope the weights help. These are my first turkey eggs also, so I have no clue how big they will get.



Edited to make this post make sense lol
The first year I gather they are smaller, but don't get much bigger than a jumbo egg. Will let you know next year how Lila does!

So I'm thinking one of my on a 2 month laying strike molty oldies started laying again. Got three whoppers this week (ouch, must have seriously hurt to pop those out!). Here are some pictures of one of them sitting next to jumbo sized eggs. My total noob guess is that they have been "cooking in the oven" for such a long time while she was molting, they got really large. Is that really what happens or did a T-Rex sneak in the coop and lay a dinosaur egg? Also, I am thinking it is either my Barred Rock or Welsummer, which of those breeds lays this color and which lays the speckled eggs? Just trying to figure out who is finally back to laying! Our egg production has been miserable since getting them in late July. After adding 7 more hens we are finally slowly creeping up in numbers, but are still only getting 2 or 3 a day (out of 10 hens). Boo!

My strike is still going, only girl laying regular is my Pekin, and one of her daughters has joined her now

And my guineas, every other day like clockwork.

We tried for 6 weeks to break our young broody without success.
18 days ago, we relented, and got 3 hatching eggs from Vickichicki. (Thanks, Vicki!)
Aretha has been a good sitter. Hope she's just as good of a mom.
Waiting anxiously--should be any day now!!!

sending broody vibes!

Pipd - also, I forgot to mention, I know a lot of people have coops and runs for their turkeys. I do not. They free range 24/7. My dad's idea was to let them decide whether they wanted to venture out in the woods or whatever.

They roost on top of the chicken coop every night. I have lost chickens to a raccoon (which we did not relocate...not with my sharp shooter father around...((we lost 12 chicks/pullets in 2 nights)) but I haven't lost a turkey. I think that even though we feed them and they are "backyard" turkeys, they still have some wild instincts.

And I just saw this will be my 50th post. Finally!

If I didn't see a coyote occasionally I would do the same. One I get a LGD here I wont be so worried.
Congrats on #50