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[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Awesome, thanks! I use allrecipies too, it gets pretty funny

The seasonings now have me humming Scarborough Fair! Simon & Garfunkel singing in my head

Quote: If you do, be very careful. I do not let craigslist people come to my house, period! I will meet them at a public location.

@Mother2Hens ~ "First, I'd like to comment that although I've been a life long cat lover, your avatar scares me a little!"

I have a life long love of cheetahs. I like that picture in particular, because it's rare that you see them threatening. They're relatively small and weak for a big predator, and they have to run from pretty much anything that isn't dinner.

There's an old African proverb that goes, "If you are being chased by a cheetah, you don't have to be faster than the cheetah. You only have to be faster than the other people who are running away."

Glad I can run fast! LOL I love white tigers Saw one as a child in Florida at a buffet place. Bush Gardens, maybe?
It was very cool, you walked across a rope ladder to the restaurant. far below was a creek, and the tigers were swimming and playing.
that tiger was on a rock, just sitting and watching I can't get the image of that beautiful animal out of my mind, its been about 40 years ago.

My first turkey poult hatched yesterday.

Actually, the first I have that was hatched by me. It is a BR from Jchny2000. It was the only one out of 3 eggs that made it. I have a lot more turkey eggs in the incubator, so he won't be alone for long.

Congrats! They are so exceptionally sweet as newly hatched babies

I have had just one hatch so far.
Locked down 2 tonite, and 1 more is looking good in the incubator. She is plastered to the nest, looks like 2 eggs under her.
If she does it, thats 2 more, She is very determined and does not want touched.

So my Easter hatch didn't happen in Easter but that's ok because most if our company ate and ran anyways

So the kids and I got to see our first baby hatch this morning and I have a couple more working on it.

Chicken tv for us today!


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IS this the first hatch? Congrats to you

That was the most exciting moment to have, I just love to watch hatches

Ugh, am so sorry. Know exactly how that feels too! My DH hauled steel for months. He got really fed up waiting to be unloaded! After doing the math, some loads were coming in minimum wage by time he was getting home

He went back to driving a tri-axle locally after that. Not worth his stress and the heavy Chicago/steel area traffic.


I'm a 3rd generation milk hauler I don't know anything else. I usually go to Schenkels and that is always quick. Goshen gets a lot of milk on holidays, but after waiting 3 hours I get 25 bucks an hour. I was there for 8 got paid for 5 thankfully.

Wow, that's fantastic! That's what a good employer should do.
They didn't pay standby time so he left. It was very poor scheduling IMO.
Once in a while was OK, but it was happening a few times a week towards the end.

I had my first chicken dream last night. I was taking fuzzy little chicks out of an incubator and handing them to my wife. It was really joyful and fun!

I may be doomed.

Oboy, I am sorry to tell you, you have it. Chicken math has just kicked in. Yes, you are doomed .
There is no known cure. Some relief is found when chatting on BYC, or setting eggs in the incubator.
Quick fix is a farm store with chicks or a local breeder... it doesn't help for very long.
You will find yourself talking chickens nonstop, your cell phone and facebook buried in pictures of your birds.
Dreaming about them. looking at peoples yards to see a if there is a coop.. it gets worse!
We are out running errands and i blurt out "HEY there's a shed just sitting there empty, wonder if they still want it!"
Joking aside, it really does give me a lot of joy. My parents just love seeing the new chicks, and grown adults too.
My mom barely walks now, so I bring her in whoever she wants to see. 20+ pound geese can be a challenge to carry if they don't wanna go!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Hello again everyone! I finally got the chance to come back to the forum. I don't know if anyone even remembers me but grad school and two jobs started to get in the way (pesky responsiblities) so I had to take a break.

Of course and welcome back! Just hop on when you have time. My youngest DD works and is in school too, its a lot to handle.

I don.t know why but it seems that the favorites are the ones that something happens to. Sorry for your loss.

you are so right.

I let the kids help lol. So the trim is covered with splotches of purple paint and Pete, who turns 5 tomorrow yay, decided to knock the 30 dollar gallon of paint over. So now I have expensive purple grass. Sigh.

kids will be kids.. its looking great!

Quote: Me too, I am not so good at it.

 

[number9]

Check out www.whatbird.com and use the search menu at the top of the page. You can search by bird size, color, beak shape, legs, etc to help identify the birds you see. I used this site a lot when I was identifying all the ducks on our pond a few weeks ago. The National Audubon Society's site, www.audubon.org, is also helpful. Just from what you said about it being white with red on the head and long legs would suggest something in the crane family. If it was more gray than white I'd be thinking sandhill crane. If it was truly white with red on the head that would suggest a whooping crane. However Indiana is nowhere near being even close to their migratory path.
Could you tell how much of the head was red? What was the beak like? How tall? it would be fun to discover what you saw!

According to the people at the wildlife refuge whooping cranes migrate with the sandhills in the same flock. The bird may also be a cattle egret. They sometimes make it to Indiana.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Would anyone have cochins for sale around terre haute In. / paris Il. Area..I need cheep priced.show quality cochins

I am pretty far. Hope someone canhelp you.
Welcome to our thread

Newest hatch! 7 modern game bantams and 2 showgirls. I'm loving the showgirls and so glad I had more than just black moderns hatch lol.

Love the showgirls too! Adorable hatch

My catch up post PART 2




my 8 week olds and 14 week old Silkies that need some ladies..... hint hint...

I was trying to coax my 11 week olds out of the coop they had been inside for 3 days, they didn't see my point of view at all... lol

1 of the Silkie chicks from TSC letting the red know she don't like whatever it just did. ( hoping for female ) Feathering out white so far.
ok got more but am tired and going to bed good night all.

Nite, babies are adorable!

Quote: Very interesting! Seeing a lot of unusual birds this year.

Quote: Congrats! Watch the tracking, I often get deliveries early.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Off to bed, nite everyone!

 

[Mother2Hens]

According to the people at the wildlife refuge whooping cranes migrate with the sandhills in the same flock. The bird may also be a cattle egret. They sometimes make it to Indiana.

number9 & chick rookie ~ I'm no bird expert, but an egret is what popped into my mind when I saw that picture. There are several species of egrets in Indiana. When I was young/growing up, my Dad had a sailboat, which he named Egret after the Great Egret, a waterbird. He was an artist and carved an image of an egret out of wood and attached it to the back of his boat. Sailboating for him was like chickens are to us.
All that talk about making vanilla reminded me of Quinstar/Erin who was one our a regulars and a volunteer, too! She made vanilla and always had other interesting projects going on, but she had to take over a family company or something like that. I'll have to check in with her.

 

[chick rookie]

number9 & chick rookie ~ I'm no bird expert, but an egret is what popped into my mind when I saw that picture. There are several species of egrets in Indiana. When I was young/growing up, my Dad had a sailboat, which he named Egret after the Great Egret, a waterbird. He was an artist and carved an image of an egret out of wood and attached it to the back of his boat. Sailboating for him was like chickens are to us.
All that talk about making vanilla reminded me of Quinstar/Erin who was one our a regulars and a volunteer, too! She made vanilla and always had other interesting projects going on, but she had to take over a family company or something like that. I'll have to check in with her.

you are right I looked it up they were Cattle Egrets... So cool.

I am pretty far. Hope someone canhelp you.
Welcome to our thread

Love the showgirls too! Adorable hatch

Nite, babies are adorable!
Very interesting! Seeing a lot of unusual birds this year.

Congrats! Watch the tracking, I often get deliveries early.

thanks. I have only seen these 2 this year.

According to the people at the wildlife refuge whooping cranes migrate with the sandhills in the same flock. The bird may also be a cattle egret. They sometimes make it to Indiana.

yep that's what they were. I just wish I could have got a better pic, although the flight pic is kinda cool I think.

I let the kids help lol. So the trim is covered with splotches of purple paint and Pete, who turns 5 tomorrow yay, decided to knock the 30 dollar gallon of paint over. So now I have expensive purple grass. Sigh.

Kids are great ... even when they cost allot lol great color too. pretty grass... lol

So my Easter hatch didn't happen in Easter but that's ok because most if our company ate and ran anyways

So the kids and I got to see our first baby hatch this morning and I have a couple more working on it.

Chicken tv for us today!


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is there any better TV ???

this has been a really odd "Easter" day. Didnt even seem like Easter around here at all. My youngest Grandchildren were at their other Grandparents home, so there was no Easter Egg Hunt this year. The older kids think its "dumb" to get Easter Baskets so their candy was just poured into a plastic bowl and it was a chocolate/ Jellybean free for all.
My Granddaughters FFA ham sold at auction for 3grand so she has $ in her college account so we had Roast Beef for our dinner. My adult children all had other places to be so they were in and out at different times all day. I had chicken chores t do and my H had sleep to catch up on (nothing new there). Left the girls out of the Pen to free range and opened the littles grow out pen so they could "kinda" take over the big girls pen for a while. Waddles ( my duck formerly known as Armelia) and Blinky along with Diamond and Earl were all out with the Big girls too. When I went out to close everyone up in their respective coops I noticed a suspicious amount of black and dark brown feathers all over the big girls pen right by the enterance to the grow out pen. I did a headcount and I am missing 4 babies

. Two of my favorites (White crested Polish) a Black Copper Maran chick and one of my Welsummers. I dont know if a cat got in there or they got in a tuffle with the big girls somehow and ran off or if a Raccoon or possum got in there before I got out to close everyone up.

Its a big dissappointment to know you do everything you can to protect your babies and they still get hurt or end up where you do NOT want them to be. Easter was no fun this year!!!! Im going to have to wait until early morning to go out and check if any of my other babies suffered any injuries. GRRRRRRR!!!!

Hope everyone elses day was better than mine!!!
The End (of another chapter in the Soap opera that is my life!)

I'm sorry for everything

, kids grow up and seem to just not need us any more, I didn't get to see my kids or my grand kids this year, oh well I did get to talk to them and my daughter broke the news that she was getting married

Need advice from experienced broody owners, please.
I started thinking about after Bonbon hatches the eggs-- I'm afraid the chicks will fall down the stairs. I thought about putting Bonbon's nest at the bottom floor, but I figured she'd feel safer up high. I could switch poop drawers so that the drawer with the solid bottom (instead of the one with the cut-out for the steps) is at the top, and she could get out during the day by using the little door on the top right if I left it slightly open. So basically, she'd be using the top floor. Or would it be better just to keep her at the bottom level? The coop is just a few steps outside the back door, up against the house. Or should I wait to move her until closer to the hatch date? She went out for her daily fresh air today by running down the hill and out the gate to the front of the house where their favorite dust bath is located. She took a long bath and did some free ranging and then started going into the big coop. I picked her up (growling) and put her on her nest in the little coop. She settled right in. Luckily, so far we've missed the notorious poop of the day that broodies are known for.

Here's my original post about the cage:
Broody Bonbon
This is a rabbit hutch that I bought last summer for a quarantine coop (original CL ad photo). I bought it from a guy on CL for $100 who handmade it out of cedar from his uncle's tree. (He watched Rabbit TV). It's so nicely crafted (for a cage) that I had to have it. After I got it, I cleaned and steamed it, painted some interior parts that weren't cedar, and covered the existing wire windows with hardware cloth. It has two pull out poop trays and the top floor had a cut out section where DH added a chicken ladder that he made (I guess rabbits just hopped to the second floor!) Then, it sat empty for a year, but after CCCHICKENSand Sally's suggestion today to move Broody Bonbon, DH and I cleaned it up and made a door with lock. After dark, I relocated Bonbon and the five hatching eggs to her new private coop that sits a few feet away from the big coop. I figured that if she wants, she can watch and listen to the other chickens, but at least not be bothered with them wanting to lay an egg where she's brooding.

Ardizzone ~ You're a lucky duck to get a 100% hatch-- they are adorable!

What breed?
CCCHICKENS ~ Thanks for posting a photo of your beautiful blue Ameraucana bantam hen! Loved the other photos although they weren't labeled for the uneducated viewer like me.

I had a broody hen this last winter, it didn't go well.. got 2 chicks for Brad to put under her ( is how I got started in Silkies, now I love them ) but she tried to eat them

. I just put her back out with the others after letting her sit in the house for 2 weeks and broke her. I tried the put them under her in the dark trick.

I have one, so does my parents.. where? LOL but I sure love vanilla home made ice cream. put cherries, strawberries, blueberries on it.. YUMMMM.

See dont touch is an easy safe way to introduce birds. Try supervised. Sounds like they are ok already. If not, you can split up and try again in a few days.

X2, on the side is a natural way to hatch.

X2

Odd to see. Who knows what that was! Look white.. did u see any marking at all, hear any sound?
May be doves.
Your bantams may be too cold. up the heat for them, pasty butt is too cold or hot normally. ACV in the water.
Congrats on NORMAL! I need it BAD. Things are too hectic here and I really need some quiet time.

Your flock is just gorgeous! Congrats! I will be doing breeding pens myself prolly too. DHs work schedule is really kicked in. Grateful for the cash flow of course! But I have so much going am about lost where to start. Like you, am going to focus on the breeds I want to work with the most. We have that fencing and several 4x4 posts so am going to start with them.

I put ACV in the water, they were moving away from the heat so I drooped it till they got comfy, I fought it up till 4 days ago they are all better now. they just aren't growing!!!! I just don't get it. They are the same size as when I got them, and they will be 3 weeks old Fri. They are getting feathers, but no size.
I had a get back to normal day today. It was great, quite and on time. DIDN'T HAVE TO HEAR THE TV BLARING IN MY EAR... lol love him to death but so glad he went back to work. Hope you get your relief soon.
The birds I saw were Cattle Egret's.

Ok I just put most of the girls from the big baby brooder out into the tractor with the big girls. Cross your fingers...

I did that last week and it went well, it will be ok.

I put chicks under my broody hen the first time she was broody. She had set a nest and only 1 hatched. I knew it would be better for them to have a group so I decided to try to add to the brood.

I bought three day-old chicks. Put them under the mamma at night in the dark with the one that hatched. No light except just enough for me to see what I was doing. (Used a very dimmed flashlight.)

Then I got up early - before sunup - and went out and sat in the dark until the sun came up to observe if she would take them because I wanted to be able to rescue them before she killed them just in case she rejected.

They had been under her since around 10:00 pm the night before so got a lot of her scent and the scent of the one baby on them I imagine.

When they woke up she took them as if they were her own. Raised the whole brood to about 13 weeks old!

Glad to hear it does work for some folks, who knows I probably did something wrong.

It was so nice today. Yesterday we put up a protection run for the silkies. Just for hawks. It's deer and garden netting. It works really well so far keeping the silkies in a enclosed area, and the netting above deterring aerial predators. The 6 week old bantams got some sun in their new coop. Just a visit though. They came in for the night.




Miss Suki brooding and Dolly my handicapped hen who makes beautiful babies hanging out in the coop.







My favorite pullet Lumi, who happens to have a pink comb. grrr. Although I think it makes her look girly.



The lazy pacas it got warm today and they haven't been sheared yet.

Miss Lavender

The littles checking out the little red coop.

My EE girls are getting big!



Nitey night silkies

Fluffy momma hen

great pic's, love Miss Lavender, Why is your Silkie handicapped? Just nosy, she looks great in the pic.

Stop it.

They lay everyday. Its just keeping them from wanting to sit on them that is the tricky part. I know what tribbles are. lol

I have to admit I know what tribbles are too.....

 

[ChickCrazed]

@Mother2Hens ~
I have a life long love of cheetahs. I like that picture in particular, because it's rare that you see them threatening. They're relatively small and weak for a big predator, and they have to run from pretty much anything that isn't dinner.

There's an old African proverb that goes, "If you are being chased by a cheetah, you don't have to be faster than the cheetah. You only have to be faster than the other people who are running away."

hoosiercheetah ~ Oh, I just thought that you must love to eat Cheetos!

Kidding!

I hate, hate, hate yew bushes. The common kind you usually see are also poisonous, and also in almost every yard in America. The house I moved into was surrounded, literally, by dozens of them. I’ve been on a campaign of annihilation that is finally drawing to a close. There are only about a dozen left, and their days are numbered.

[jchny] I’m very sorry for your loss [of your calf from eating yew] Prayers going out to you.
If you have any more yew, and you want them exterminated, just let me know. I delight in their wholesale slaughter, I’d love to see them extinct, and I’d be happy to carve out some time to come destroy them for you.

hoosiercheetah ~ You sound like me and my personal battle with Euonymus in its many forms including Winter Creeper and Burning Bush. They’re banned in some states and are on invasive plant lists in many others. Euonymus will overtake your yard, trees, fences, house, and maybe your chickens! For the past two years, I’ve been digging up roots on a daily basis. I started doing that out of necessity and because my chickens enjoy the worms. It turned into an obsession, and I truly enjoy digging in the dirt (with my chickens). I’ve been a human roto-tiller (it’s ruining the joints in my hands), and have dug up ridiculous amounts of roots and vines only to have them reappear practically overnight! My DH recently burned some roots that I’d dug up plus some winter creeper vines. A couple of weeks later, I turned over the soil when the burn pile was only to find green vines that has survived the fire!! Scary!

Aaaaahhhh. What's wrong with Burning Bush? I just ordered 10 of them and was going to put them around my house! So pretty!! Please don't give me bad news!!!

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Lol I think I'm going to need some cyber hand holding. I've gotten babies in the mail before but it was 10 years ago!

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Aaaaahhhh. What's wrong with Burning Bush? I just ordered 10 of them and was going to put them around my house! So pretty!! Please don't give me bad news!!!

http://mistkits.com/Blog/2010/10-re...ing-bush-and-what-you-can-plant-in-its-place/

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3082/

http://www.btny.purdue.edu/weedscience/2005/weedlaw05.pdf

http://www.entm.purdue.edu/iisc/pdf/IISC_Plant_List_by_group.pdf

It's terribly invasive and has become a real problem in Indiana. Purdue and the DNR have been campaigning to get it banned for some time. I strongly recommend you try to cancel your order. You should also chastise the nursery for selling burning bush in the first place; it's irresponsible of them. There are other ways to make money.

If they won't give you a refund (and they should), I'll pay you half of what you paid for them if you'll agree to destroy the plants with fire as soon as you recieve them. I'm not kidding. That's how strongly I feel about invasive species.

I used to spend a lot of time in a tree service company cutting down sawtooth oaks and white mulberry.