INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[CharlemagneRoost]

Good day, IN BYCers! We've got a pleasant, but somewhat cool Sunday and I'm stuck inside in front of my computer trying to get a freelance web project moving forward. Since I've become involved in raising poultry, I find it a challenge to apply myself in the tech world, where I once felt so at home. :/

I recently have applied for a govt account/permit to be able to import hatching eggs internationally. Has anyone else on this thread done this, and if so, approximately how long did it take for you to get your permit?



Back to web development I go ... Cheerio!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I haven't had a lot to do this weekend, so I thought I'd go back and reread some of the earlier posts on this thread. Talk about a blast from the past! Between Brad talking about wanting to some day get Silkies and M2H posting in black--not color!--and so many people who no longer post here anymore, I hardly recognized the place! It's pretty clear to me, though, that a lot of good information has been shared here and everyone has learned a LOT since this thread started! Pretty cool to go back and see what all was posted even before I joined in on the thread (which was later than I thought, page 414!). Go, Indiana BYC'ers!!

 

[bradselig]

Good day, IN BYCers! We've got a pleasant, but somewhat cool Sunday and I'm stuck inside in front of my computer trying to get a freelance web project moving forward. Since I've become involved in raising poultry, I find it a challenge to apply myself in the tech world, where I once felt so at home. :/ I recently have applied for a govt account/permit to be able to import hatching eggs internationally. Has anyone else on this thread done this, and if so, approximately how long did it take for you to get your permit? Back to web development I go ... Cheerio!

I have not and don't know anyone who has. I wish you the best, though! How long are the eggs typically in transit? I hate risking eggs across country. I can't imagine across the ocean!

 

[Rhandi74]

I need some help from some of you have kept chickens longer then I have. My chicken Big Momma has been going through what I thought was a molt for 6 weeks now. She has not laid at all in this time. She has separated herself from the flock at night and is terrified of my bantam rooster but not my LF rooster, she runs to him for protection. My coop is left open at night and she sleeps on the floor under it. My Great Pyrenees keeps predators away patrolling the border of their run. I am getting a little worried that she is sick and not molting, here is pics of her from today. She is supposedly 3 years old but I am not sure, I got her in April from a local person who wanted to trade some chicks for her.

Here pics of her before she started looking this way

 

[bradselig]

So much for chicken math! Sold the last 6 silkies I plan to sell for the rest of the year this weekend. Picked up the young trio of English buff orps and 2 more cemani eggs! I went to my modern game breeders to swap cockerels. He wanted one of my blacks and I needed another brown red. Well I gave him my black, but he ended up sending me with another black cockerel (he felt he would be a better match to my pullets I hatched) and 2 brown red cockerels!

Really, I suck at downsizing! I guess I'm still down one bird!

Edit: OHHHH! Wait, Im actually down 2 birds as I sent the one polish I hatched that was supposed to be tolbunt back to breeder! Maybe I'm not as bad as I though I was! Lol

 

[Faraday40]

With all the talk about broody hens, I was wondering if there was a way to encourage a hen to go broody?

In April one happened to go broody. No matter how many times I kicked her off the nest, she found her way back. I eventually gave her a few practice eggs which hatched. She became a great Mom & even foster Mom. Just wondering if she'll do it again. (She's a mixed breed white hen.)

 

[bradselig]

With all the talk about broody hens, I was wondering if there was a way to encourage a hen to go broody?

In April one happened to go broody.  No matter how many times I kicked her off the nest, she found her way back. I eventually gave her a few practice eggs which hatched.  She became a great Mom & even foster Mom.  Just wondering if she'll do it again. (She's a mixed breed white hen.)

Don't collect their eggs. It seems if I don't collect for 2-3 days I always get a broody especially in the silkie pens

 

[ChickCrazed]

Don't collect their eggs. It seems if I don't collect for 2-3 days I always get a broody especially in the silkie pens

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I was bad about collecting my eggs this week and one of my Marans is now broody again. Crap.

 

[bradselig]

I also find that the easiest way to break a broody is to give her eggs and let her set for a week or so. They I'll take the eggs away and toss her out of the coop. Typically works pretty well, except for one silkie hen I have. She's been broody all summer!

 

[Leahs Mom]

I have some very life-like ceramic brown eggs that I purchased at the craft department of a local store. These things look so real that we often would gather them so I had to put little permanent ink marks on them so I could tell which they are.

Anyhow...if you can get hold of some of them and use them to fill a nest it would save ruining real eggs if you want to try to encourage a broody.


I used my eggs with my first flock, putting a couple of eggs in each nest box just before they started laying so they'd know where to deposit. I've since used them trying to include broodiness as well.