INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[chickiebaby1]

Just wanted to spread a little holiday cheer and show off one of my newest members ( hatched Sunday) it is a bantam cochin, it is teeny tiny, but soo cute.

 

[bradselig]

Thanks Brad...unfortunately that ad was a flock dispersal.  I did find someone with eggs though, in Florida.  Seems not many breed or stick with the d'uccle.  Easy to find hatchery but not heritage or improved flocks.

ETA:  Still breeding silkies Brad??

So sorry! I guess I should have read the ad lol. And yup still have silkies. Basically downsized to white, BBS, and partridge.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Tried Cabbage on a string and it was a hit!

Thanks for that! I have heard of others using the cabbage but in the summer my birds didn't show any interest in cabbage so I never tried it. Of course, my birds eat some greens in the winter that they don't pay attention to in the summer so maybe I'll see what they think of a cabbage. What did you use to hook into the cabbage?



Currently I'm stuffing the large sized suet-block feeders (not the little ones but the large block size) with kale, cilantro, and/or various sprouts (oat, sunflower, barley, clover or whatever I have around here to sprout. I have a source for organic kale - a very large bunch - for just $150.

Where we get our milk feeds their cattle and chickens sprouts from a foddertek system during the winter months when grass isn't available. Last time I stopped in he said he had barley sprouted and ready to go that he'd sell to me - a gallon size ziploc bag for $1. I usually sprout my own stuff, but I decided to try some for the price. Since I only have 9 birds left, that bag lasted a week combined with the other greens (I fill 2 of the suet cages each morning with some of each of the items I have.)

 

[birdman55]

I'm sorry to hear about your loss--poor girls are demonstrating their loss, too. Hope everyone feels better soon. Maybe a few flurries in the air would make them happy?

Pictures?

picture of the incubator I would like to build...check it out below in blue

 

[Evewon]

Thanks for that!  I have heard of others using the cabbage but in the summer my birds didn't show any interest in cabbage so I never tried it.  Of course, my birds eat some greens in the winter that they don't pay attention to in the summer so maybe I'll see what they think of a cabbage.  What did you use to hook into the cabbage?



Currently I'm stuffing the large sized suet-block feeders (not the little ones but the large block size) with kale, cilantro, and/or various sprouts (oat, sunflower, barley, clover or whatever I have around here to sprout.  I have a source for organic kale - a very large bunch - for just $150. 

We used a bamboo skewer and poked a hole through the top of a halved cabbage. Then used the same skewer to push kite string through the hole. Voila! Smart idea with the suet cage, we'll have to try that. Where do you get your bulk seed to sprout?

 

[chisNchickens]

So sorry! I guess I should have read the ad lol. And yup still have silkies. Basically downsized to white, BBS, and partridge.

Yea I had to downsize too...sticking with white, gray, and buff. Whites are my pride and joy and are soooo hard to keep pristine. Do you have a website?

 

[Leahs Mom]

We used a bamboo skewer and poked a hole through the top of a halved cabbage. Then used the same skewer to push kite string through the hole. Voila! Smart idea with the suet cage, we'll have to try that. Where do you get your bulk seed to sprout?

I purchase from an old fashioned feed mill that's not too far from me. I'm able to get organic seed by the 50 lb bag.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Oh...and the suet cage idea helps for things like kale because they grab a piece and it tears off - like it would if they were eating it from a plant. Otherwise I'd have to chop stuff up small so they can eat it with less danger of an impacted crop.

 

[racinchickins]

50+ hens....two days.....three eggs.....ugh. Need.More.Daylight!

 

[birdman55]

have forty chickens...and got 22 eggs today...so it wasn't bad day...weird to they were producing about a dozen a day..now when I added new straw it was their way of saying thanks I guess...and third wall built hoping to finish the inside walls on the big coop
of to the coop
see yah peeps