INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[bradselig]

Your partridge are sooooo beautiful. Mying are hatchery chicks. I'm still in the learning faze. I don't use them for breeding. Just eggs and pets. Someday I would like to have some from a breeder just to see if they live longer. Plus, I'm thinking some of the chicken charicteric have been bread out. Cuz, mying have never gone broody. Just interguied to see the differents.

Every Brahma hen I have is broody! I broke 2 of them a month ago and they are broody again!

 

[ChickCrazed]

congrats! Put me down as your first order of silkied ams! I just found out there are silkied bantam Cochins now too that was a freak mutation (supposedly) and no silkie mixed in with them. I want them now too!

Will do! I need to go see the silkied cochins! I bet they are cute little powder puffs! I hope you manage to track down some eggs!

 

[Acornewell]

@bradselig OMG that is the same with my Cochin girls. They are even meaner than the bigger girls when they are broody!

How do you break them? Do they ever just snap out of it on their own?

 

[bearbottom]

Every Brahma hen I have is broody! I broke 2 of them a month ago and they are broody again!

the only thing my Brahma's worry about is getting out to run around the yard, mealworms, and trying to get someone to pick them up. Lol

 

[flyladyrocks]

So Far behind Folks - hope to catch up today, but needed to update. I meant to do this over the weekend but our desktop kept crashing:

If you live in Indianapolis: Important Time Sensitive Update For Indy Rezone!!
here is my first post with critical info for livestock owners and details of the Indy Rezone document: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/730582/indiana-bycers-here/41380#post_15393796
Folks, if you live in Indianapolis, please do not think this will just go away - it won't. Make your voice heard and Pass this info on to everyone you know! There is a meeting this Wednesday at 1:00 PM (details at the end) and our presence is needed. I was VERY disturbed when talking to a chicken person with quite a following and influence among chicken owners in the Indianapolis area. What this person said to me, and I have learned is saying to others was basically something to the affect of this: "They (the city) is going to do what they are going to do and we are going to keep doing what we are doing - how are they going to enforce it?"
IMO this is an irresponsible attitude. We all need to be doing what we can do. This is how they enforce - when a person complains, they come out. No they can't visit every livestock owner, but what is a person like me, with the zoning Nazi next door, supposed to do?

This is from Tammara Tracy and John Neal, Indy Rezone staff:

"When a zoning ordinance changes, it is possible that a use that was previously permitted might not be permitted under the new ordinance. Consequently, there is a provision in the Indy Rezone ordinance that does allow legally established nonconforming uses to continue (i.e. grandfathering). See Chapter 740 Article VI Application and Nonconformities and the definition of legally established nonconforming uses.

The Indy Rezone ordinance will be introduced to the Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) at its June 17th meeting. At that time the MDC will hear public comment. Then the MDC will decide if it wants to take a vote on passage or may decide to continue it to a later meeting.

Once the MDC does take a vote, if it passes the Indy Rezone ordinance would then be introduced to the City-County Council, most likely at its first meeting following the MDC vote. The leadership of the City-County Council will decide what Committee is assigned the ordinance. The Committee would then schedule it for a hearing and take public testimony. The City County Council has 90 days to act on the ordinance after it passes the MDC. If the City County Council amends the ordinance, it returns to the MDC for another vote."

The MDC meets Wednesdays at 1:00 PM Public Assembly Room., 2nd Floor of the City-County Building, 200 E. Washington St. How "convenient" for people who work. Here is their site
http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DMD/Planning/Zoning/Legal/Pages/mdc.aspx

PASS THIS ON PLEASE! The MDC needs to know there are people who are not happy with this. The document is over 700 pgs long. There is so much in it the average citizen won't know - scrolling through something caught my eye. My son is working on putting our 2 non working lawnmowers together to make one that works. He is doing it in the backyard. Under the new zoning her could not do that!

 

[bradselig]

Will do!  I need to go see the silkied cochins!  I bet they are cute little powder puffs!  I hope you manage to track down some eggs!

they are pretty cool! I'll have to see if I saved any of the pics.

@bradselig
 OMG that is the same with my Cochin girls. They are even meaner than the bigger girls when they are broody!

How do you break them?  Do they ever just snap out of it on their own?

My way of breaking them involves wasting eggs lol. Once they go broody and sitting in eggs, I let them sit for about a week and a half. I then kick them off the nest and throw away the eggs. Seems to work vast majority of the time. I toss the eggs because they are usually egg thieves and steal all the eggs laid that day before I can collect. I don't want to deal with staggered hatches.

 

[flyladyrocks]

Me again!

I just sent PMs to everyone on the Indiana BYCers list who lives in Marion County regarding Indy Rezone. HOWEVER, I know there are people not on that list.

So, If you live in Marion County, or know someone who lives in Marion County, and would like a Word Document with all the important Indy Rezone info, in an easier to pass on format. please PM me your e-mail address and I will send that on to you.

 

[flyladyrocks]

@bradselig OMG that is the same with my Cochin girls. They are even meaner than the bigger girls when they are broody!

How do you break them? Do they ever just snap out of it on their own?

 

[flyladyrocks]

Anyone know how to check a LIVE chickens temperature? I have been searching around to try and figure it out...it just keeps showing me results for checking a cooking chickens temp!

 

[flyladyrocks]

Just a quick check-in and saw this post. I had read that the hatchery was Rock River Poultry. Here is what was posted on FB.

Otherwise I haven't been able to find anything official in news.



*** PLEASE SHARE ***
Hi, folks. I have a rather disturbing update on the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza that is spreading across the USA right now. (Information originates from Dr. Diane Stacy, the number two person with the state's Veterinary Health Division in LA.) Apparently 4 Louisiana farms are in quarantine awaiting the test results for Avian Influenza after receiving shipped eggs from Rock River Poultry in Iowa - an operation that has been outstandingly forthcoming and open about what is going on.

*** Rock River Poultry has shipped eggs and chicks to 37 other states across the USA in the past weeks, and authorities have not yet tracked down or tested all the potentially affected farms/flocks.

So... it is advisable to refrain from making ANY poultry purchases for the next few weeks, including hatching eggs, chicks or adult birds. This includes ALL varieties of domestic poultry.
Refrain from going to poultry swaps or shows, and avoid other people's poultry as much as possible.
Healthy backyard flocks are unlikely to become ill from AI, however the disease is spreading at an unprecedented rate and affected flocks are being euthanized by the authorities. The mortality rate of this particular strain of AI is around 90% - and this number does NOT include birds that are being euthanized - only those dying from the disease itself.

**UPDATE - a farm in Arizona has also been quarantined after receiving shipped eggs, and word-of-mouth reports of other quarantined farms are coming in from other states also.
Our condolences to the wonderful and honest people at Rock River Poultry who are doing their part to assist authorities in tracking down egg buyers. It should be noted that they made sure they had very regular testing of their birds prior to this outbreak, and because of their diligence, this was caught as early as possible!

For a list of USDA CONFIRMED cases of Avian Influenza, see:
http://1.usa.gov/1dDoObP