INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[lilmizscareall]

Will be getting chicks in late February. I can't wait!!! Will be first time raising chicks. Finally got a good snowfall ( not thanks to global warming though as I think that is fake don't hate me)

That's why they don't call it that anymore. The scientists realized that something very different is going on. It's now called global climate change. It is very real!

Congrats on the birds!!!
I am also a glutton for punishment and might be getting more chickens....



In other news... I had a go at making my own felted, wool dryer balls. So far, unsuccessfully. I also tried to get a friend to color my hair. She's been blowing me off for 6 weeks, I even booked an appointment at her salon, which she canceled and after planning my whole day around my hair and my daughters nap, she canceled again. ARRRGGHHHHH!!!!

:END RANT:

 

[goatluver20]

Umm was the thing about global climate change sarcastic?

 

[lilmizscareall]

Umm was the thing about global climate change sarcastic?

Nope! It's really true.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Will be getting chicks in late February. I can't wait!!! Will be first time raising chicks. Finally got a good snowfall ( not thanks to global warming though as I think that is fake don't hate me)

I planted some trees in my front yard just in case it was real. I just know my trees which are close to 10 yrs old will suck up all of the carbon and make great air for me. Not really but they do get pretty red leaves in the fall. And they like water so they are helping with our slow drainage issue in heave spring rains. I need lots more though. But the dry summers make it hard to plant young trees. We lost 3 a couple years back. I'm hoping the roots cause the trees to pop up this year. 1 kind of almost came back last spring so maybe there is hope.

I'm getting in some BR chicks this Friday. It is hard to pass up new chicks. And of course I'm hatching in small quantities too.

Now for the question that will make many heads spin. I have a BR laying hen and a RIR rooster. Can I create a sex-linked (color coded) chick from them? If so what will the rooster chicks and the pullet chicks look like or better yet how do I tell them apart?

 

[racinchickins]

I planted some trees in my front yard just in case it was real. I just know my trees which are close to 10 yrs old will suck up all of the carbon and make great air for me. Not really but they do get pretty red leaves in the fall. And they like water so they are helping with our slow drainage issue in heave spring rains. I need lots more though. But the dry summers make it hard to plant young trees. We lost 3 a couple years back. I'm hoping the roots cause the trees to pop up this year. 1 kind of almost came back last spring so maybe there is hope.

I'm getting in some BR chicks this Friday. It is hard to pass up new chicks. And of course I'm hatching in small quantities too.

Now for the question that will make many heads spin. I have a BR laying hen and a RIR rooster. Can I create a sex-linked (color coded) chick from them? If so what will the rooster chicks and the pullet chicks look like or better yet how do I tell them apart?

• The black sex-link (also known as Rock Reds) is produced by crossing a barred hen with a non-barred rooster. The male offspring are typically barred like their mother and the female offspring are a solid color, typically black. Typically the black sex-links are produced by crossing the Barred Plymouth Rock hen with a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire rooster. At hatch both sexes have black down, but the males can be identified by the white dot on their heads. As previously indicated, males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers, while females feather out solid black with some red in the neck feathers.

Not my knowledge. I just googled it......I believe it would work with your Dominique hens too.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Now the Dominiques I would like to try. I'm kind of interested in the comb crossing since I could use more rose combs or shorter combs in my layer flock. I'll have to wait on those to start laying and get past the pullet stage, most likely I try setting eggs in April. I have lots of wishes for setting in April, these sex linked, some BLRW, the HRIR, maybe a few sumatras, and of course just standard barnyard mixes using my red stars. My roosters are going to be busy and rotating quite a bit.

 

[lilmizscareall]

Just a thought.  You may want to use hardware cloth instead of chicken wire. It's much stronger and chicken wire can be forced and broken by raccoons.

Google & BYC is a fountain of info. I learned that hawks can strike and kill your birds through fence and chicken wire.
Chicken wire=keeping chickens in or out
Hardware cloth=keeping your birds safe from predators
Raccoons can pull out staples and make quick work of any fencing not properly secured. They(and opossums) also climb and dig.
My birds have a back yard surrounded by privacy fence. It is not considered safe or secured from predators.
Their run and coop are. Well... I lie. We haven't put any hardware cloth around the bottom of the run. Technically our coop isn't even finished, we just ran out of time before the bad weather hit.
I check my yard everyday for signs of new pests. Nothing yet, but I know they are out there.

 

[Odumchickenfarm]

Joining late but I am from NW Indiana (Crawfordsville area) and have had our chicks just under a year now. We are lvoing it and have to say we have learned a lot this winter about chickens and what they need during this time (I know we have had a bit more difficult winter than normal). Glad I found you other IN chickens lovers

 

[racinchickins]

Now the Dominiques I would like to try. I'm kind of interested in the comb crossing since I could use more rose combs or shorter combs in my layer flock. I'll have to wait on those to start laying and get past the pullet stage, most likely I try setting eggs in April. I have lots of wishes for setting in April, these sex linked, some BLRW, the HRIR, maybe a few sumatras, and of course just standard barnyard mixes using my red stars. My roosters are going to be busy and rotating quite a bit.

After this winter, I'm with you on wondering about combs that aren't so exposed to the cold.

I have a mix that is proving interesting. He is a Polish/Brahma mix. So he gets v-comb from dad and pea comb from mom. He started crowing this week, so I'm watching how his comb grows with much interest. If the weather ever cooperates again, I'll try to take some pictures.

 

[goatluver20]

Nope! It's really true.

Lol