INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

By your description I am thinking we use the same weed killer. And all my animals are still alive and healthy.

Recipe is
1gallon vinegar
2cups Espom salt
Half cup of dawn dish soap

 

[lilrider]

Dinkys auction is all on one day unless its changed. There's like 5 different auction areas. There's the miscellaneous one sometimes two of those. Then there's large farm animals (cows adult goats sheep horses etc) then there's small animal (poultry rabbits some baby goats sometimes exotics) then there's the furniture and out in the big barn is hay, machinery, building material, tools, fencing, etc.

 

[Birdylady3]

Evening all! I was to NEVER burn poison ivy because it can do some real damage if inhaled. So when I encounter it, I pull it up roots and all( with gloves on of course) and spray the whole area with brush killer. I repeat when necessary.

 

[lilrider]

Question for the Indiana people as you know our weather. I have a 4 x 6 or slightly larger milk house I want to turn into a coop. I have 4 chickens now and plan to get about 6 more so 10 total but probably 3 or 4 will be banties silkies. I will have a 10 or 15 ft by 4 or 5 ft run attached with probably half of it covered so I can put their food and water outside. This is for non snow months only. Once the snow comes I have a 14 x 12 ft horse stall where they are currently and have two other larger stalls I could also use. So they would not have a run just the stall areas. I mean really I could just give them full run of the bottom of the barb (basement barn) if I wanted. Anyways any hens who will go outside in the cold I can keep in the milk house and the rest in the barn for the winter months. So knowing that the milk house coop is only for spring summer and fall and they will always have access to the run... Is that too small?

 

[atrueb00]

I didn't know Dinky's had chickens? What day is chicken day? I have only been 2x but didn't see chickens either time.

They have a large poultry barn in between the livestock barn and the outdoor goods barn. They sell guineas, turkeys, peacocks, and chickens of all types, ages and sizes. They start every Friday night at 6 and can go very late in the night depending on how much stuff they have to auction.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Question for the Indiana people as you know our weather. I have a 4 x 6 or slightly larger milk house I want to turn into a coop. I have 4 chickens now and plan to get about 6 more so 10 total but probably 3 or 4 will be banties silkies. I will have a 10 or 15 ft by 4 or 5 ft run attached with probably half of it covered so I can put their food and water outside. This is for non snow months only. Once the snow comes I have a 14 x 12 ft horse stall where they are currently and have two other larger stalls I could also use. So they would not have a run just the stall areas. I mean really I could just give them full run of the bottom of the barb (basement barn) if I wanted. Anyways any hens who will go outside in the cold I can keep in the milk house and the rest in the barn for the winter months. So knowing that the milk house coop is only for spring summer and fall and they will always have access to the run... Is that too small?

I have less than the recommended coop space but more than the recommended run space for my chickens. I would try to make the run at least 15 x 5 if you are going to have a tight coop. Myself I prefer the large heritage birds but 10 of them would need at least 10 sq ft of roosting bar space. The roosting bar space is more important in the summer time than the coop floor space in my opinion. They need to be able to get on the bar and not be squished. In the winter the chickens will share body heat so splitting the flock between the small coop and the basement barn might not be the best for the small ones staying warm.

 

[lilrider]

OK the milk house is pretty tall so I should be able to get plenty of roosting. Maybe staggered. Also I plan to make some roosts out in the run. Would you recommend doing sand in the run? The milk house has a cement floor.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I like the tree trimmings I get for free. tree trimmers tend to enjoy dropping them off too.

 

[EurekaChic]

For the FIRST TIME EVER I got poison ivy this year.  I believe it is because I'm exposed to it on an almost daily basis and I just reached overload.  I've never been in the place before where I was exposed daily like I am now.

In the small wooded area where my chickens hang out in there is PI.  So any time I pick up a chicken or brush up against a chicken I am exposed.  Probably even reaching into the nest box to get the eggs I'm exposed. 

I got a case of PI a couple weeks ago and it was pretty much done...had it on my chin and neck and left side mostly.

Then..............


Last weekend I was mowing into an area in the woods that hasn't been cleared yet.  There was a downed branch and some brush.  Got off the tractor and pulled them all out where we could load them.  I was totally sweating - it was one of those humid, hot days with sweat pouring off my face.  I kept wiping the sweat from my face.

Husband noticed that the area was FULL OF POISON IVY.  Then I mowed through it probably stirring it up into the air too.

Wednesday night my face and eyes started swelling up....one eye swelled almost shut ever since.

I hate the idea of taking a steroid...have some waiting but I keep holding out using a couple of other things in the meantime...hope I don't have to go that route.



I'm going to try the vinegar and salt method to kill it.  Can't (and really don't want) to use any chemical pesticides since that's where the birds hang out.

A friend of mine sat in clothes covered with Panamanian poison ivy on the flight home from Panama (not on purpose, of course) and when she arrived home she had a horrible rash all over that itched so bad she was in tears. She tried several things but found soaking in a cool oatmeal bath to be the most helpful. We even moved a tv into the bathroom so she could spend hours in the tub. She just used an oatmeal soak purchased at the drug store. The nice thing about oatmeal is I bet it would be ok even near your eye. Good luck with whatever you try!

 

[flyladyrocks]

I like the tree trimmings I get for free. tree trimmers tend to enjoy dropping them off too.