INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[goatluver20]

Kab - oops I meant to write Gus

 

[BackyardBitten]

Well, I visited two Indiana BYCers in one weekend. phewwww! It has been a busy weekend! Got to visit LittleAmericanaMom yesterday to pick up some muscovy ducks for Jchny and myself. Loved seeing all of LAM's animals,including her sebastol (i think that's how you spell it) gander who was standing guard at the fence! No one shall get past him! Then we visited Jchny today to drop off her scovies. And we got to see her menagerie! Ohhh Moo her cow is so cute and getting big! her goats are adorable and we also got to see Wilbur the pig and then all her chickens,ducks, and geese. I never knew a flock of geese could produce so much noise! Anyway it was such a fun weekend visiting and talking!

I do know this.... we are gonna have to find a home with at least 5 acres so I can build my own menagerie! P.S. DBF doesn't know this part of the plan yet....hehehehe

Pictures to come of the scovies. they are currently "re-cooping" in our garage for now.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

PBeesChix and I are using coconut oil on the frostbitten chickies. Its working wonders!

So she is going to hatch some of my flocks mixed eggs with my styrofoam incubator. We are having thermometer calibration issues. There is a digital, a mercury, and the gauge thermometer that is on the incubator that we are using. They are all reading different. Any advice? This is the first time it has been used since my broodies have been doing all the work. I'm really excited she is hatching Lavenders (blue standard cochin) first confirmed egg (meaning the first one I can say is for sure hers) I'm hoping for a blue laced cochin since Gus (sl/w) is most likely the father. I really don't want to screw this incubation up to terribly since I'm helping set it up. Blind leading the blind over here.

I never go off the thermometer that is on the top of the incubator. My incubators are cheap ones, but one must bators the built in one isn't correctr. Mine is a good 10-15 degrees off. I bought a few $.97 thermometers at walmart and put them inside the incubator on the "floor" and they work good.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I hope you get feeling better soon.
My cats while they would eat a chick the same as a mouse have never touched my adult chickens. But my black cat can and will kill those pesky wild birds. He also kills rabbits, ground squirrels, mice, and some bugs like grasshoppers. He eats most of what he kills but not the bugs. He has been killing extra lately to feed the gray barn cat. I'm hoping come spring the gray cat will join in on the killing.

On a different note I still have a black sex linked MALE chick that needs a home, if anyone is interested. If not I will try to raise it up for soup, depending on how many of my RIR chicks turn out to be roosters.

 

[ChickCrazed]

I hope you get feeling better soon.
My cats while they would eat a chick the same as a mouse have never touched my adult chickens. But my black cat can and will kill those pesky wild birds. He also kills rabbits, ground squirrels, mice, and some bugs like grasshoppers. He eats most of what he kills but not the bugs. He has been killing extra lately to feed the gray barn cat. I'm hoping come spring the gray cat will join in on the killing.

On a different note I still have a black sex linked MALE chick that needs a home, if anyone is interested. If not I will try to raise it up for soup, depending on how many of my RIR chicks turn out to be roosters.

Thanks! There is nothing worse than taking care of outside animals in the winter while sick. I have thought about the cat thing but I live about 100 yds from Michigan Rd, have a ton of coyotes and my dogs wouldn't hesitate to kill a cat (they would really enjoy it). I just feel like I would be bringing a cat to certain doom. If only you could train a cat to stay in the barn, but they tend to wander and don't obey fences. I keep hoping a barn cat will show up (happens to my parents all the time) because then I wouldn't feel responsible if it met its doom.

I also will have a birchen maran cockerel available if anyone wants to grow some olive eggers He is about 6 weeks old now. I will post him on craigslist in a few weeks if no one here wants him, but I thought I'd put it out there!

 

[bradselig]

My first modern chick! Look at those legs! Lol

 

[racinchickins]

My first modern chick! Look at those legs! Lol

Nice!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

My first modern chick! Look at those legs! Lol

Awesome!

 

[minmin1258]

Oh how cute!!! Are you trying to enable us again? I just love those little chicken nuggets!

 

[minmin1258]

 
PBeesChix and I are using coconut oil on the frostbitten chickies. Its working wonders!

So she is going to hatch some of my flocks mixed eggs with my styrofoam incubator. We are having thermometer calibration issues. There is a digital, a mercury, and the gauge thermometer that is on the incubator that we are using. They are all reading different. Any advice? This is the first time it has been used since my broodies have been doing all the work. I'm really excited she is hatching Lavenders (blue standard cochin) first confirmed egg (meaning the first one I can say is for sure hers) I'm hoping for a blue laced cochin since Gus (sl/w) is most likely the father.  I really don't want to screw this incubation up to terribly since I'm helping set it up. Blind leading the blind over here.

I never go off the thermometer that is on the top of the incubator. My incubators are cheap ones, but one must bators the built in one isn't correctr. Mine is a good 10-15 degrees off. I bought a few $.97 thermometers at walmart and put them inside the incubator on the "floor" and they work good.

That's what I use also. And I picked up an old fashion mercury thermometer (the kind your Mom used to use on YOU) at a 5 & Dime a few miles from here. Taped it on a piece of paper, at an angle it can b read w/o opening th bator, and it's laying on the turner at egg level. It is pretty accurate! I bought a hygrometer from my local hardware store and it is just above the therm. On th turner. So far they are working pretty good for me.