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[PeacefulWalls]

Hello all Indiana Chicken People. I have been on here for almost a year but just found this forum. Ive been on a couple of the others.

Im from nothern Indiana in Goshen and have a couple chickens Im trying to find.

My flock consists of the following:

2 Black copper marans (pair) love my rooster, only mature i have, pic below
8 young Blue laces Red Wyandottes not yet laying and unfortunately all splash (2 pullets and 3-4 cockerels for trade or sale)
3 blue eggers, not sure if true americana but one looks the part
1 bared rock
3 isa browns
1 Tolbunt polish (after this weeks Elkhart Co fair ends)
and a couple young ones that were to be blue coppers and one olive egger pullets but they all SEEM to be roos, not cool.

anyway, here is what Im looking for:

Black (or maybe Blue) copper maran hens/pullets
Black/dark Blue laced Red Wyandotte cockrel (maybe roo) to balance my 2 splash hens
Olive egger

If anyone has any of these and is relativley close by, let me know
thanks all

Here's "Big Guy"

Welcome to our group from another Goshen-ite!

 

[BryLT3]

Pistol, the oldest cockerel of all my chicks.

Pippy, the oldest pullet of all my chicks.

The ones that have aged enough to go to their "halfway house"

 

[kabhyper1]

I am so glad to hear that everyone else is, too.  I thought it was just me.  My flock has just gotten the run area beaten down to bare dirt, and the number of flies congregating on the poop has been incredible.

I threw down some old litter from the coop into the run, and that has really helped.  But they're still pretty bad!

Lavender essential oil on the coop framing and the vanilla car tree air fresheners, fans,and spraying the floors if concrete with fly spray helps. Dont let the chickens on it until it dries though. We also got the super stinky fly traps from tsc. They work great, just dont hang them in your barn. They smell like rotton death.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

I'd love to add a few BLRWs down the road.


I love the smell of rotten death. Maybe I could bait stray cats with it.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

we tried out the stinky jar style traps from TSC last year. They worked I guess but wow that smell, it took our breath away. I did enjoy the meter guy not trampling through my yard as much last year though. He seemed to avoid the traps and spent less time "glancing" in our windows.

 

[raisinemright]

Lavender essential oil on the coop framing and the vanilla car tree air fresheners, fans,and spraying the floors if concrete with fly spray helps. Dont let the chickens on it until it dries though. We also got the super stinky fly traps from tsc. They work great, just dont hang them in your barn. They smell like rotton death.

True the stinking plastic jar traps work great! We get the ones with black lids they seen to work best for us!!
On another note we finally got our goat herd to our new farm!!! It's nice to look out the back window and see pigs, goats, and horses (cows will be next year)! Our chickens will be transferred here soon. My in laws bought my pallet coop from me. Kinda bittersweet, but got enough to buy a new shed (8x8 shed/coop) and some left over to do a concrete pad for our boar hogs. So it worked out. Our new place is coming together nicely!!!

 

[Urbanmom519]

Does anyone know of any bantam faverolle breeders?

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

@jchny2000 Happy to hear about your dad's progress. Best of luck. I lost my dad 24 years ago, but mom is still kicking!

Thanks! Dr says another month, thats ok. Rather safe than sorry. Just glad Dads still with us

Quote: X2.. If any more of mine go broody I will be eggless!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

How's everyone's morning so far? It's really windy here right now.

It was a nice day once the clouds cleared, lovely evening.

They only get better from there.

Lil baby is telling you all about it too

So today we go out to the run and discover a dead Welsummer pullet. Her head and guts were missing but don't look like much of a struggle happened as there were 0 feathers around. Whatever ate it also didn't go thru the breasts but from the back. Then we realized another Welsummer pullet was missing. Anyone have any idea what could have gotten them? We had a falcon last year, but he didn't eat the heads. And then he disappeared ;-) any input would be much appreciated


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My first thought is raccoon. They get them at night, and its a total surprise to the hen. I have seen some losses where there were little or no feathers lost from raccoon.

 

[bradselig]

Well my Cochin hen did not make it. She died this morning due to a prolapsed vent. Don't tell the other chickens but she was easily my favorite hen lol.