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[flyladyrocks]

I am so sure I have a little roo on my hands. He is a black lav split and I know those are supposed to be difficult to sex early but ... The older peepers are spending their first night out in the large wood brooder on the back porch. They've spent many days in there but time to move out and make room for the next crew! They are about 5-7 weeks old. Conveniently the side against our back windows is harware cloth for easy access to chick TV. I am watching this little guy puff out his chest & challenge everyone else. He sleeps on the perch above everyone else snuggling below and has the biggest comb of everyone. And he's got a bigger comb than his older broodmates. I know he could still surprise me and lay an egg but I doubt it right now! Just waiting for that first broken squeaky toy attempt at a crow!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

The ones that were for tonight are not. The ones that should hatch out by the 21st and be free of the incubator by the 22nd will be.
I'm growing out a few heritage chicks right now but so far MOST of them are roosters. I need some of @jchny2000 's luck to get more females.

PLEASE take some, 100% of my bourbon red turkey poults were hens last year, as well as the 3 from porters I added to my flock! I kept 1 porters hen in hopes of it changing my luck! Sold the other 2 to a nice couple in greenfield that had all toms. I honestly would have traded but they ate all but 1 tom

hey everyone figured i would post some pics



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she dug a nest and then layed it right in the middle of the coop

have a great night...time to eat, and watch a movie

Lovely birds! We really liked the design of the hoop coop, but DH settled on wood. Now he just needs a day off to build more.

@ellymayRans my blue girl must have started laying! I've gotten a couple of these pretty pullet eggs in the last few weeks.

@SallyinIndiana I can't believe people actually ask for you to just give them birds!! That's crazy! I understand negotiating but wow!


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Love the color!

Any one going to the swap in Milton, Ky? It's not far out of Indiana and closer to me than Indy.

I wish! If you are able to, take some pictures!

Ok this one needs to be shared with BYC's!!
Yesterday I collected the eggs. (It's mostly my children's chore to do). I gathered the two fake eggs out of one of our nesting boxes because I figured there not needed and really needed to be cleaned. Ok who can imagine where this story is heading??
I placed them with the rest of the eggs to be taken inside. Well my bad I forgot to mention this to the rest of the family! Last night was a late one and it was my sons turn to wash the eggs. Yes he is 13 and does not want to do much out of his way. You know the kind of attitude that late at night "do it just to get it done" and not really pay much attention to detail.
So who now has guessed how this story is going to end??
Yes he washed the fake eggs (they needed it so that was good). When he was done with the eggs we had around 11 dozen in the fridge.
Ok it dawns on me after there practices when we get home my son had washed the fake eggs and put them in cartons with our sale eggs!!
Let's go back just a little to last night when I noticed he placed all the eggs in 18ct cartons and not 12ct. So we all changed them over and yes mixed them up even more.
Back to tonight, we now have two fake eggs somewhere in 11 dozen eggs!!!!!!!!
My DW took two dozen to work this morning. So now we are looking through all the eggs and can't find the fake ones. Then we candle all the brown eggs!! This now is getting on my nerves. They are all real. But I've never candeled ceramic eggs so I'm not sure what they look like.
So we get through them all and I call it, (they must be in the two cartons my DW took).

This is where you that guessed (like me WRONG) where they ended up!?!?

Where you ask??

After we get done candling the eggs. My daughter chimes in "he did throw a couple away". So now my DW is digging in the trash and Boom!! There they are the nasty dirty fake eggs in the trash lol ok that's it that's how are eve ended. Anyone guess they wound up in the trash!!! Lol what a night....

I LOVED THIS still giggling!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

@Faraday40 , I am so sorry about the loss of your mother. Prayer for you, your sister and father.

@jchny2000 - good luck with the weddings! We had my brother and sister within a few months of each other in 2013, one in Brown County and one in New Harmony. This summer my youngest brother is getting married in Colorado!!

Thank you! At least they will be spread out, youngest is a year from june, and oldest is this June unless they move the date again. I am wupped already!

 

[Mother2Hens]

[To ellymayRans] Thank you so much for my cute little babies

your Mille Fleur(sp?) roo is the cutest thing I've ever seen!

@Nwchickma Welcome to the Indiana Thread! Please click on the links at the bottom of my post to find out more about our great thread!
@ellymayRans has wonderful Black Bantam Cochins! Last fall I got some hatching eggs from her, so my broody hen could hatch them.
@wabashchickens and @Faraday40 Thanks for sharing your Chicken Photobombing Photos! Very Funny. Chickens are so personable and silly.

Originally Posted by ellymayRans
So I've been trying to figure out how to watermark pics and haven't found anything I am smart enough to use yet! Lol..but my phone had an option for adding a label to a pic. How does it look??

Let me preface my reply with "IMO"

As a graphic designer, here's my two cents:
Your watermark looks nice, but IF you're using it so that others won't steal your photo, it isn't an effective watermark. It would be easy to remove it in Photoshop or even by simply cropping the bottom off of the photo. Watermarks that deter someone from stealing it are typically large and/or repetitive and are transparent. The problem is that a large watermark is annoying for the viewer, especially if you're posting photos of your birds to sell. They can also seem pretentious when added to every photo (unless you're a famous photographer/artist --haha). I'd just watermark photos that you feel especially attached to-- for example, the one above is unique and arty, so I'd watermark it. If you're showing photos of particular chickens that you want to sell, show close-ups and don't add distracting watermarks.

Even adding watermarks to original artwork like paintings, illustrations, etc. isn't going to deter someone from stealing the idea.

When you put something online, it's out of your control forever. There are approximately seven billion people in the world. For me, I figure if someone really wants to steal a photo or design that I post, who cares because I'll probably never know about it anyway. You just can't worry about what you can't control.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Okay, I am trying to feed my girls fermented feed. I let the feed ferment for 3 days then started feeding to them. My questions are 1. how much feed per chicken per day and 2. how long can I keep the feed in the bucket until it is no longer good. I made it in a five gallon pail and I am wondering if I made too much and it will spoil before they eat it all.

Nope not too much at all. When you ferment, you will always adding fresh feed in, stirring and feeding out. It will have almost a yeast smell, but pleasant. A batch rarely goes bad, as long as you continue adding in fresh feed, stirring well. Totally agree with @hoosiercheetah you just adjust to what your flock eats.

Quote: I am really impressed with the size of the mallards my DH picked out for me, hoping they aren't khakis or another breed. I do like most duck breeds, but have a real attraction to mallards!

One of the things I've been busy with for a month. Just finished my LF coop with run.

Congrats WTG!

Darn picture didn't come thru with that msg.

WOW very nice!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Any muscovy breeders in NW IndiaNa?

Welcome to our thread

I am in east central, I keep lavender, black, and chocolate. Some barred and many pied. If you don't find anyone, maybe we can set up a "chicken train" for ducklings!
We will be holding our annual get together in Goshen June 27th and you are welcome to join us.

Y'all, I'm so excited. I bought my own grains last night so I can begin the journey known as mixing my own feed for my flock.

I'm also going to experiment with sprouting and fermenting.

I should be doing the dishes right now (our dishwasher is broken and there is quite a stack), but I really want to mix up grains, instead.

WTG! Its really good to ferment for them, makes even better eggs, and really healthy for their probotics. Sprouts are awesome for a non free ranging flock, or just as a really healthy treat.

Well, I'm just about done hatching for myself for the year. I'm going to start having hatching eggs and babies available. I figured I'd let folks on here know before I advertised elsewhere. Hatching has been going well, and they are popping out like popcorn around here.

I have hatching eggs for:
American Bresse (french heritage meat breed)
Mottled Java (second oldest american breed)
Crested Cream Legbar (now found for sale everywhere it seems, but I'm excited about the quality of my breeders this year)

I also have some chicks/poults:
Midget White turkeys (no hatching eggs as I am in broody purgatory right now)
MIxed variety turkeys - midget white or pencilled palm tom x narragansett/royal palm hen
Bresse
Mottled Java

If anyone is interested, send me a pm.

If DH gets another pen ready I will be Pm'ing for those Bresse!
Both my MW girls have now went broody also, poor tom is not happy! He stands right next to them displaying all day.
He does have my BBW hen following him like a lost puppy, and the BBB tom Bacon so at least he isn't totally alone lol. I have my Bourbons confined so they don't cross breed for now, may let them comingle this fall.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I ran across this DIY. I think I'll make one and grow treats for my chickens. I'll hang it in their chicken playground area even though they have two grazing frames. They might like the change from horizontal grazing to vertical grazing! lol I have some logs that they can climb on to access different levels. Here’s the tutorial.

Oh thats so cute and an awesome idea!

Need a coop? Have some time to put into it? Here's a link to a free one including some kind of homemade nests.
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/4983307337.html

@flyladyrocks I think you were looking for a coop.

Wow! That would make a very nice coop!

Found some Muscovy's in LaPorte going to get me a trio on Monday...

Congrats!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

The girls had their first field trip today, I think they enjoyed themselves.


The coop is coming along nicely.

I'm hoping to get most of the construction done tomorrow, then getting the painting done, the white is just primer.

Looking great! Babies are too cute!

Dr. Wakenell, the Purdue avian specialist, was a featured guest on NPR recently regarding the avian influenza epidemic. ISPA sent info, including the link to the online broadcast of the interview. For those of you who would like to know more, this is a very good resource. I listened to most of it live in my car.

To ISPA NPIP Small Flock, Game Bird Flock Owners And Interested Parties:

Today (April 15, 2015), on the NPR program, Here & Now, Dr. Pat Wakenell was interviewed for a segment titled “Bird Flu Spreading to Poultry Farms in the Midwest.”

From the NPR Website:

A poultry farm in Iowa announced yesterday that part of the flock there had contracted the latest round of the bird flu. The H2N2 strain of the virus is highly contagious among birds, but scientists say not contractible by humans. What does this outbreak mean for consumers in the U.S.? Patricia Wakenell, associate professor of avian diagnostics at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine discusses this with Here & Now’s Robin Young.

Click here to listen to the story: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/04/15/bird-flu-poultry-midwest

Wisconsin is on it! I hope Indiana does the same thing in the event AI comes here. http://datcp.wi.gov/(X(1)S(e0crciat...ex.aspx?Id=1274&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Thank you both for sharing!

Quote: Ah I am so sorry!

need a coop. This one looks like a great price
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/4984588636.html

Wow that one is GONE already!

Boy you can tell when it's nice out.. Nobody's posting on here lol
Got a section of yard mowed, got our last (for a short time) bred Boer doe home. Dewormed our hogs this is not a fun chore!! Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far!

Think everyone is doing all the spring busy work! I have hardly made it on the thread this week. Still catching up but almost there.

Played music chickens tonight and moved some chicks to brooder in garage and others outside to their new pen. Snapped some pics of some birds. I love this ugly showgirl! I was hoping it would be a cockerel but I think it is a pullet. Her brothers combs are much larger and showing red coloring.


The buff/buff barred/calico? Batam Cochin chicks. Loving the frizzled buff hen!

Love the showgirl!

you try to take a nostalgic photo of a rhode island red and a barred rock photo bombs it

This is just adorable! She is giving you the evil stare too!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Only a day behind, off to bed. Another super busy day tomorrow. stay dry everyone!

 

[ellymayRans]

@Nwchickma [COLOR=A52A2A]Welcome to the Indiana Thread! [/COLOR][COLOR=8B4513]Please click on the links at the bottom of my post to find out more about our great thread![/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]@ellymayRans has wonderful Black Bantam Cochins! Last fall I got some hatching eggs from her, so my broody hen could hatch them. [/COLOR] [rule]@wabashchickens and @Faraday40 [COLOR=8B4513]Thanks for sharing your Chicken Photobombing Photos! Very Funny. Chickens are so personable and silly. [/COLOR] [rule]Originally Posted by ellymayRans /img/forum/go_quote.gif So I've been trying to figure out how to watermark pics and haven't found anything I am smart enough to use yet! Lol..but my phone had an option for adding a label to a pic. How does it look?? [COLOR=8B4513]Let me preface my reply with "IMO"[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]As a graphic designer, here's my two cents:[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Your watermark looks nice, but IF you're using it so that others won't steal your photo, it isn't an effective watermark. It would be easy to remove it in Photoshop or even by simply cropping the bottom off of the photo. Watermarks that deter someone from stealing it are typically large and/or repetitive and are transparent. The problem[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]is that a large watermark is annoying for the viewer, especially if you're posting photos of your birds to sell. They can also seem pretentious when added to every photo (unless you're a famous photographer/artist --haha). I'd just watermark photos that you feel especially attached to-- for example, the one above is unique and arty, so I'd watermark it. If you're showing photos of particular chickens that you want to sell, show close-ups and don't add distracting watermarks. [/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Even adding watermarks to original artwork like paintings, illustrations, etc. isn't going to deter someone from stealing the idea. [/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]When you put something online, it's out of your control forever. There are approximately seven billion people in the world. For me, I figure if someone really wants to steal a photo or design that I post, who cares because I'll probably never know about it anyway. You just can't worry about what you can't control. [/COLOR]

Thanks! I appreciate the honesty and professional opinion on it. I have been on the fence about how protected anything really is once posted. I honestly have just wanted more of a little something to mark the pics with when sending to a potential buyer. I like the look of text that you can see through vs solid text. That wasn't an option for editing my photo though and I really never use my pc for "chicken talk" always on my mobile. When someone "marks" their photos it really helps me remember associating the pic with the poster as I have more of a visual memory. I guess that's more of what I'm shooting for.