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[raisinemright]

@jchny2000
  and any other goat birthing experts out there.  These are the due dates for my goats.

Apr 23
May 12
Jun 6  I'm worried about this one.  I did not realize she could be in heat so young or she would not have been with the buck.  But her blood test came back and this is the estimated due date.  At least she will be the third one and not my first.  Still anyone willing to come on short notice around that date and help, I'd be more than appreciative. 


 

She should be ok. It's not uncommon to breed them at 6months old. It tends to make them a bit smaller goat. Good luck to ya!!

 

[lbaur2]

Okay guys i need some help! in my sizzle pen i have a sutan hen, a lavender cuckoo silkie hen, a bunch of smooth sizzles and a cuckoo silkie SG rooster. i just brought home a frizzled sultan roo from a friend and he and my SG roo both do terrible with other roosters. should i pull out the cuckoo SG and cuckoo hen and let the sultans be in with the sizzles or should i pull the sultans out and leave the cuckoos? either way i will get chicks out of each pair but what would be best with the smooth sizzles you think?

and in other good news i got my first turkey egg of the year today!

 

[birdman55]

couple of pics from today

 

[raisinemright]

Tonight we moved our bantam coops out of the barn. I noticed my Mille fleur bantam Cochin hen was really dirty. So she got a warm bath and then blow dried!

Is she a keeper?

 

[Indyshent]

I see your pics, Birdman, and raise a few!


This one's a little over 4 wks old. I think it's a sliver partridge cockerel. He's pretty sweet and has green eyes. Was supposedly a pullet.












These two are starting to feather out blue! One has bright coppery spangles on the ends of her light blue feathers, the other has much darker feathers with little flecks of red.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Thought I'd share this here too. It's a sweet little video that I think some of you will enjoy!

Many of you know that I use a more "Natural Husbandry" (management) method with my chickens that focuses on PREVENTION of illness by building a healthy immune system and hopefully supporting "natural bacteria warfare".

...Things like healthy feed (including an animal source of protein as often as possible), fresh air, sunshine, access to the outdoor forage areas as often as possible, clean water, healthy ground (as opposed to packed down, unhealthy ground through the use of deep litter use in outdoor runs), pharmaceutical antibiotics reserved for extreme emergency use only (if used at all), etc.

Of course, these same principles apply to people (which this video was really aimed at). Anyhow...here's the video. Hope you enjoy!

interesting.

 

[ellymayRans]

Well finally my girls are getting with the program! Lol! 13 eggs yesterday and 13 again today! Still have 4 of 5 of my Marans not laying and a good number of others to pick up but hey its a much better feeling to fill a basket than to walk out of that huge coop and what feels like tons of chickens running around and lucky to be carrying an egg or two with no need for a basket!! Good days are back!

 

[minmin1258]

EGADS I'm so far behind! I tried to read and catch up but seems like everyone is excited about brooding/incubating and purchasing new birds. I can't get caught up!! Lol
I've bn really busy trying to get my gardens ready and building a new coop. I managed to hit the jackpot on a new coop! Went to Home Depot to price shed kits and amazingly I walked into the bargain of a lifetime!! I bought an 8x12 shed kit for $250.00!!!! Couldn't pass that up! It was delivered last Friday and sat the weekend under tarps in the rain. Started on it Monday. Wow what a puzzle! Not to mention I changed the roof type from a peek roof to a gambrel (barn like)so I can add a loft, changed from two doors to one and added four windows complete with shutters and flower boxes. Lol all totaled I got a really really nice coop and storage bldg for $600.00! I priced and researched many different options and comparable bldgs were selling at $2,300.00 or more! I'm stoked!!! Will post picks soon!
Hope everyone is doing well, miss chatting with Ya all! Oh BTW received my Tshirts today, very nice!!! Ya'll take care ttyl

 

[Faraday40]

12 fertile eggs set.
10 looked good on day 18, but one slipped from my hand.

Out of the 9 eggs that went into lockdown, we now have 7 chicks, 1 pip, & 1 no change. (I tapped the egg & heard peeping, so we'll wait.)

Of course, I'm not the only one excited. At one point this afternoon I had 10 kids & 5 adults in the living room trying to see through the tiny windows of an old Hovabator. This was simply an incubator & fertility test. I wasn't expecting the whole neighborhood to come over. Our "real" hatch will be set on Sunday. For that one I'll be using my home-made coolerbator with the big viewing window. -- Unless I have extra eggs in need of hatching. That's why I now have a back-up incubator! Uh-Oh Does this mean I'm officially joining "Incubators Anonymous"?






BTW- I used some small colored rubberbands to help tell them apart. Is that OK or a big safety hazard? About 1/2 are mixes & I want to be able to tell them apart. I did not expect all of them to be black.

 

[kittydoc]

Odd day. I walked in to do a chick check, and found a hobbled chick soaking wet from the neck down in the most shallow dish of water imaginable that isn't a flat saucer. I knew you couldn't use "normal" containers of any real depth if chicks have hobbles, because they can fall in head-first and just flat drown. After a nice blow dry, it seems okay but a little worn out from peeping its brains out in distress. It's my youngest chick, only a few days old.

Right after I grabbed said wet chick and started to dry it off with a paper towel, I had my back turned for just a moment. When I turned back around, there was a little black split Orp chick running around on my bed pillow!! It was in the hospital crate just to keep the other chick company, and it hopped right out without me noticing. I had to call Jay to help me catch the little stinker since I only had one hand available and the escaped artist was making full use of its time on the lam. Despite my horror a few seconds earlier, I laughed out loud, hard! It was hilarious. Of course, it pooped on the pillow, too....