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[Chaneys Ranch]

just started this year purchased 23 back in April, just now getting eggs

and our thread

 

[kittydoc]

Well, I made two homemade "crow less" collars for my lav Orp roos, 8" long × 1" wide. LaRue is actively crowing. I can get a full finger, and I have big hands, between the collar and his skin, and it reduced the loudness by about half. Roo Two's is loose, 2 fingers, just so he'll be used to it when he decides to provide harmony.

I am reading about some deaths due to collars catching on objects, and I also think the original instructions about only being to slip in the tip of a pinky finger is too tight. If you are a woman who wears a size 6 or 6.5 glove, I think you will need to allow a full finger. A man wearing a size 7.5 to 8.5 glove might only need a pinky, but down to the first joint. Be happy with quiet, not silence.

Check your coop, runs, yard for items the collar can get caught on, and remove them. I also told hubby no more feeding whole cherry/grape tomatoes or grapes to these roos. If they swallow one whole, it could put enough pressure on the trachea to cause suffocation.

Don't know if you recall, but Greenies dental sticks had to be reformulated for dogs several years ago for causing suffocation if some dogs swallowed them whole. Same issue. Too much volume of stuff in the esophagus can put enough pressure on the trachea to cause choking or suffocation.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Good morning everyone!

Yesterday's update; my hens are starting to figure out that when I mow the yard, there will be crickets and other bugs hopping up all over the place in my wake. I was wondering how long it would take them. One of my RIRs is particularly fearless, and I had to pause several times to wait for her to get out of the way. I have an electric mower that's not nearly as loud as the gasoline kind, and I'm sure that helps.

In OT news, I've been scanned for AAA and all is well, so I'm very happy that I'm not about to fall over dead. Now I get to research vascular health and find out that I have to watch what I eat and exercise more. If only it were that easy.

In other back yard farming news, I found out I have a free source of scrap lumber, and rumor has it there are massive quantities of the stuff. My wife is going to have a very hard time convincing me not to build a rabbit hutch and double the size of my chicken run now that it's free.

:-D

That's the news.

I hope everyone had an awesome weekend!

 

[kittydoc]

I think our Brahma pullet, Pepper, has started to lay. We're getting small eggs, and she is about a week short of 5 months old. Does that sound about right to you Brahma folks? Nicely pointed, narrow, light brown eggs.

Our black/lav split Orps are darling. I definitely have a favorite that practically runs into my hand and just loves to be picked up and cuddled. If any lav breeders are interested, we may be selling some, singly or maybe in pairs with our May hatched lavs. The splits were 2 weeks old on Saturday. PM me if interested. Totally different lines/breeders, so great genetic diversity between the two groups.

 

[Indyshent]

Jchny2000, yes, Bacon is our tom! He's calmed down a lot as he's aged, but he can still give our 100lb puppy a whack when he needs it. No more attacks on the ducks, so I think it was a pecking order thing, and he may just have gotten used to them standing up not being a sign of defiance as much as a need to see something further away (hope, hope, hope).

This is a two-month-old photo. He's likely 40lbs+ now. He's all wet, and I can't find my USB cord to update the pictures (all our phones and such use the same cord, so everyone steals mine!).

 

[Indyshent]

Sounds like a Brahma alright!

 

[Indyshent]

OOOOOOO!! So lucky they are sweeties!
I have a tom that may not see spring for that very reason. I have a few "mutt" chicks running about that hens hatched. He killed one that got into their pen! I am very surprised by it, Snoodles has never been aggressive to other birds before. Hoping it was accidental, he is a pretty heavy bird.

Bacon tried mounting the little Rouen hen a couple weeks ago. There has to be an invisible sign on her saying "Mount Me! to all male birds in the area. The Brahma rooster started it, then the Rhode Island, then the ducks, then Bacon! Poor girl couldn't get a break. Seems to have slacked off because I haven't seen anything but the ducks try since.

By 'mutts' are you meaning 'turkens'?

 

[PeacefulWalls]

So we had this playhouse delivered to us last year sight unseen. From the description given to us we thought we would be able to use it for Benji's ducks. But after it arrived we realized it was way too small to use for any of the animals we have. It's roughly 4'x7' on the outside (seems really narrow inside). The door is about 3 1/2' tall and the side walls just 4' tall so there's no good way for adults to get inside. If you did get in through the door you could stand up inside. The roof needs reshingled and the bottom of the door has some issues. Other than than, it seems to be built very solidly. The black things on either side of the window are plant hooks -- I think it could be turned into a really cute coop for someone with just a few chickens -- which is not us! Since it's been over a year and we still haven't figured out what to do with it (and it's a big pain in the butt to mow around!) I'm ready to sell it. I wanted to let all of you have first dibs if anyone's interested before I list it on craigslist. PM me if you're interested!






Looking inside through the front door



There are eye bolts on the log runners, so you could potentially pull it around, although it seems too heavy to want to do that...

 

[raisinemright]

A day at Harmony Lane farm.

Man this place looks so familiar almost like I have been there before?!?

 

[gunchief25]

I am still kickin just been busy... Morning all Cockadoodledoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!