INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[racinchickins]

One of my Marans pullets has started laying! I LOVE the chocolate brown eggs I am getting, and they are sooo big for pullet eggs too! Now if some of my blue egg layers will start back up.....

Looking for some good welsummer chicks in the central IN area. My two hens are getting old, and I love their eggs. Terra Cotta color with speckles. Want some more girls in the pipeline. pm me if you have some or will be hatching some.

Also looking for white cornish or white laced red cornish. Want to do a project cross with my Bresse to see what pops out.


Pretty warm this weekend, but the cold is coming later this week. Do what you can to make sure your birds are ready!!!

 

[mrsblanchard]

You don't need to be close to just "Talk" chicken. I'm all the way in WV and I talk chicken on this thread quite often. Welcome to the thread! Lol Start talkin...keep it clean and opinions vary so respect that others may have a different one than yours. Welcome to OUR world!

Kentucky here! This is a great thread no matter what state your from! Welcome

 

[ivynurse2003]

My girls are laying, yaaaa. I didnt think they would start in this weather but they sure did. I am so tickled. The first couple they scooted around and played with like what are these wonderful little little beautiful little things. And my christmas gift from my girls sure taste wonderful. The cold snap I have had a couple freeze , I did not get to them fast enough. But the girls are doing good in the cold and that is what i have been worried about. They have still been going outside to run and excercise their legs and wings, and go back in when they are cold. Another real cold snap coming tonight, ugggg!!!!

 

[pbirdhaven]

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Looking for some good welsummer chicks in the central IN area. My two hens are getting old, and I love their eggs. Terra Cotta color with speckles. Want some more girls in the pipeline. pm me if you have some or will be hatching some.

I think that Doug Akers in Lebanon has welsummers. He always has good birds.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

By popular demand...



The shmutz is just dust; their water isn't covered in poop.

So that's a waterer in a heated dog-water bowl.

Here's the bowl, full of granite chips and water:



The trick is to have the granite just high enough that the lip of the waterer is just higher than the lip of the heated bowl.

 

[birdman55]

Michigan and Wisconsin here....yep this is a great thread.....you can join so many I thinik im at like 30 or so...getting 5 new peafowl for a great price....I cant wait should have them next weekend

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Michigan and Wisconsin here....yep this is a great thread.....you can join so many I thinik im at like 30 or so...getting 5 new peafowl for a great price....I cant wait should have them next weekend

Hi birdman55, any idea how many birds you have, including all varieties?

 

[number9]

I have a weird situation. One of my EE hens is sneaking off from the others in the flock and then she will crow. Sounds just like a young cockerel learning how. Some times she will squawk like she just laid an egg. I don't know if she gets separated from the others and does this so that the rooster will come find her instead of her having to go look for him. Maybe she is just weird. She is an older hen 4 maybe 5 years old but she still lays 4 to 5 eggs a week year round. I don't know what to think.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I have a weird situation.  One of my EE hens is sneaking off from the others in the flock and then she will crow.  Sounds just like a young cockerel learning how.  Some times she will squawk like she just laid an egg.  I don't know if she gets separated from the others and does this so that the rooster will come find her instead of her having to go look for him.  Maybe she is just weird.  She is an older hen 4 maybe 5 years old but she still lays 4 to 5 eggs a week year round.  I don't know what to think.

Sometimes hens crow.

 

[bradselig]

just a little bit of a size difference!