INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[SallyinIndiana]

so I went out and got a few pictures today of the goats and birds. I'm going to try and post then here in a bit once they upload to photbucket. BUT it will be a long post so please don't quote it. If you are like me and use multi quote to help organize responses, maybe multi quote this post.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Picture time:

 

[twoboystwogirls]

I just wanted to introduce myself. I started keeping chickens about 4 years ago. We have 21 chickens (including 3 roosters). I have been reading some of the posts and we have come on to BYC for help with questions. Today, I found this thread for BYCers from Indiana. I would love to go to this Chickenfest everyone has been talking about. We are near Fort Wayne so northern Indiana would work great for us.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yum apple festival must have been fantastic!

Boy, was it! I just had an apple dumpling for breakfast--yum! I've got to find a good recipe for those!

Welcome to our thread!! We are actually hoping to hold a chickenfest @PeacefulWalls in Goshen for 2015. She has graciously offered to host next year! I am also really interested in more than one event a year, think it would be awesome Love the swapping and seeing other members. It feels like a family reunion since so many of us get together fairly often! We have been able to have our first chickenfest at @racinchickins in 2013, this year was at my campground in Liberty, IN. LOVED it, look forward to many more.



UGH! I am seeing a lot of toads moving, If I leave the garage door open for my pug, they hop right in We have a 6ft fenced run for her, so if its warm out I leave the door open all day. Same for the lil treefrogs! Find them plastered on the door, shoo them away so Sadie won't be barking at them.

Ooooh, Goshen's not too far from us! Depending on the timing and location of more southward ones, I might be able to make more than one Chickenfest in that case!


Odd thing was, not a one of the frogs I found yesterday were tree frogs--they were green and leopard frogs, I think. Water-dwellers. All of them had turned black, so it was hard to tell. I could definitely tell which were frogs and which were toads, though! Those toads were freaky big and oddly round!

I'm an amphibian sympathizer, so... I do try to save them unless the hens or dogs have them wounded already. We kind of have a recovering farmland / forest with some small swampy areas in it, and we do our best to preserve it. For instance, my future barn is going in a location filled with dead trees and invasive bushes--not too much of a loss for the area.

Craigslist is scary. If I sell on there, I do not let folks come to my house, I meet them elsewhere. Facebook, I use to keep up with family and have pretty high security settings. I agree with you, internet is risky. Know who it is or keep them at arms length.

Yup, yup, I agree! I don't even put my real last name or my picture online anywhere. (I tolerated it for the sake of the Chickenfest pictures, though. ) Heck, I won't even go to meet someone in a public place alone. No offense to anyone, but people scare me.

Rooster update, Harris the Isbar seems to have settled down a bit and is no longer being quite as mean to the Hedemora boy.  They have settled into an uneasy truce of sorts.  I could probably put the ladies back in that pen with them now but they are really enjoying free-ranging every day with everyone else so I am going to hold off until Spring and leave the boys separated.  Hopefully the hormones will be completely under control by Spring!

Glad to hear your handsome Isbar is behaving himself! My thought is you might end up having more issues again if you put the girls back into the pen with them, though. Good luck with miss broody-brood!







Off to get ready for class! See y'all later!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh, a couple more before I go!

so I went out and got a few pictures today of the goats and birds.  I'm going to try and post then here in a bit once they upload to photbucket.  BUT it will be a long post so please don't quote it.  If you are like me and use multi quote to help organize responses, maybe multi quote this post.

Glad you posted this--it's not fun scrolling through the same huge post of pictures over and over again!

Beautiful birds, by the way! I especially liked those turkeys and blue Sumatras (I think?)!

I just wanted to introduce myself.  I started keeping chickens about 4 years ago.  We have 21 chickens (including 3 roosters).  I have been reading some of the posts and we have come on to BYC for help with questions.  Today, I found this thread for BYCers from Indiana.  I would love to go to this Chickenfest everyone has been talking about.  We are near Fort Wayne so northern Indiana would work great for us. 

We're not too far from you, about 30 minutes northwest of Fort Wayne! Any pictures of your birds?





Okay, now I really should go.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Oh, a couple more before I go!
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Yes blue Sumatras. A few splashes in there too but the blues are the pretty ones imo. I like my blues and my reds the best. The turkeys are fun too.

I really enjoy looking at others pictures but the over and over part gets me.

 

[twoboystwogirls]

My profile pic is of my youngest DD and our 2 silky roosters. They are a handful but she loves them. Wendell, our rooster who was supposed to be a hen. We named him Wendy until he began to crow, now his name is Wendell.

As you can see, Salt, the white silky rooster has been fighting with Wendell who has pulled out his chest feathers.

When my husband comes home he opens the door to let them free range while he can watch them. They know he is home but hasn't opened the door yet so they apparently are planning to knock it over with sheer weight. The LOVE to free range and get all those yummy bugs. And, of course, dig in my mulch and maybe eat a flower or two.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Yes blue Sumatras. A few splashes in there too but the blues are the pretty ones imo. I like my blues and my reds the best. The turkeys are fun too.

I really enjoy looking at others pictures but the over and over part gets me.

Please give me a little tutorial on the blue Sumatras.

-Do I understand that they were a truly "in the wild" bird that propagated without human invervention?
-Is there currently a breed standard or do they just let them remain as they were?
-How are they personality-wise? Do they get along in a mixed flock?
-Egg color and how many do you expect from them?
-How many years do they lay well?
-Anything else you know and like or don't like about them?

Do you sell them and/or hatching eggs?

 

[Leahs Mom]

OH... and PS @SallyinIndiana

I love how healthy your ground looks with the wood chips.

 

[ChickCrazed]

OH... and PS @SallyinIndiana

I love how healthy your ground looks with the wood chips.

I love the wood chips you both have. I have tried putting the shavings in the run and it gets so gross after a lot of rain (and there is no such thing as moderation in Indiana so I get a LOT of RAIN).