INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[chick rookie]

Well the weather is letting me on the computer for a bit so thought I would get pic's posted while I got the chance.
As some of you know we took a road trip last weekend to @jchny2000 to meet her and @Indyshent had a good visit, just wish it could have been longer but I had other things to do while in the area and I was running late as it was.
I got a beautiful little doe from Jchny and some good looking birds from indy. and my silkie chicks got a new home. Btw glad your happy with them.
Ok enough talk, its picture time.

We have named her Roadie, first goat ever that we drove more than 20 min. to get. We love her, she has the sweetest little face. She is already coming to me on her own to get a rub down, but she still walks way from others, DH is unhappy about that. But I'm the one home with them all the time and I feed, thts the big one.
She has picked the smaller of the 2 LGD's (Bear) to run to when something or someone scares her. They will even take naps together.. lol tried to get a pic of that but the neighbor dog came for a visit.


She makes her own toys to climb on ignoring all the toys made for that in the yard... lol But whatever makes her happy.
And Blackbeard is an unhappy camper... he hates this dang rain and he hates being away form the girls ( which will be his ) that he can see but cant touch.


The Partridge Rock we have named Bully for obvious reasons . We are hoping that once he gets his girls he will calm down. He refused to have his picture taken, they all came out one big blur, will try again at a latter date, maybe he will be in a better mood.
The Welsumers are the biggest chicken hit with DH, he picks them up and messes with them all the time. He makes over the hen like she is the most beautiful critter God ever made... lol But they don't like the flash on the camera.... going to have DH HOLD them this weekend ( if we catch a break in this rain ) and get a few pic's that way.
I cant wait to introduce them to their new friends and see what kind of babies I get out of Bully and my WR's.

My WR is still sitting and guarding her nest, I am going to have to put wielding gloves on and candle those eggs, they should have hatched ny now, they are 3 days past due today. If she don't have any good ones I think I will try and give her the 4 chicks I hatched yesterday and the day before. Yep that's right out of the 30 eggs I put in the incubator I got 4, have 5 but don't count on number 5 living.
I just don't get it I have read up on hatching and just cant get it right. This is the 2nd and LAST time. I'm just not meant to hatch my own eggs I guess.
@jchny2000 I still want those hatching eggs from you when you get them, I have a friend that has Much better luck than I, that's going to hatch them for me.

The forecast says more rain all the way up to next Thursday, I'm worried to death I am going to start losing birds with all this wetness and the gnats are so bad that I have gone through 2 bottles of Poultry Protector in a week and they are still bugging the birds. I feel so sorry for them. Our garden is dying out due to the rain. DH is very unhappy about that He loves his garden!!

Ridgett My rescue horse is looking better ( at least something is going right ).
Dang it now BYC is telling me my images are failing. oh well try again latter.
Hope everyone has a great day, see ya

 

[prairiegirl]

Try them on more protein. If you have cat food or dog food on hand, process it into smaller pieces for your poults. Another option I've had pretty good luck with is making feather toys for problem pickers to peck at. I just twirl pipe cleaners around a lot of gathered feathers and tie it somewhere the birds can reach and peck at with some effort. Yet another option is to give them something else to do--more room, different foods, more interaction. Some birds are predisposed to feather picking even if they have enough protein, so it helps to have other activities and feathers that aren't attached to other birds around at all times. I collect molted feathers because some birds--particularly young birds--need interaction with the feathers of other birds. I think it simulates a mother and fosters social grooming in some birds.

The good news is that many babies grow out of their fascination with feather picking, though they may never completely come out of an oral fixation. So far, turkeys are pretty bad about this. It comes of being really curious, I think. Mine do a good deal of social grooming, and so when they see specks on me, they "clean them off" (read: peck me). The other two occasions I've noticed turkeys pecking: 1) They are hungry, or 2) They want to be picked up, preened, babied, held, and/or generally loved upon.

Thanks for your advice. I was thinking it might be related to protein, but wasn't sure. We've never had this problem.
I like your feather toy idea. I hope to try making one this morning.

Turkeys are very curious. I try not to wear polka dots or small prints as they try to peck at them. I've had two of them check out my eye glasses. A tug on my hair every once in awhile, too.

 

[prairiegirl]

under the apple trees :

All it takes is the spotting of a deer to make one stop for a moment. Such a peaceful picture.

 

[racinchickins]

So, I met @indyshent and passed on the EE and Buff Orp. Biddies today:




Last night I got a picture of the two sweet Cream Legbar boys, a generation or two from GFF Which will go to @racinchickens. I am raisin them 2 months, he better hope I don't get too attached to these sweeties. ;-) I got the hatching eggs from Texas





Sleepyheads

They are sweet now. But come to me in two months and see if you still say the same thing....... I have boys getting to that age and starting to feel their oats, so to speak. The girls are NOT impressed.

 

[pginsber]

It would be very nice if we could get three days of sunshine in a row. The bees and other pollinators are shying away from the garden in this rain. Not great news.

I feel like I'm growing vegetable soup!

Seems like lots of us are having the same difficulties.

This is an article from our local news station channel 4: http://cbs4indy.com/2015/07/09/urban-farmers-facing-crop-issues-after-heavy-rainfall/

 

[Acornewell]

Ugh I am so sick of this muddy soggy mess. Some of my birds are starting to sneeze a bit. Not sure if I should treat them with anything.

My younger birds seem to be handling it the worst.

All of my birds seem tired and cold...just kinda fluffed out. Is this normal for the weather or could it be something else?

Also here is an AI update from the state: http://www.in.gov/boah/files/Modified_Ban_July_10-15_AnH_Advy(3).pdf

 

[ellymayRans]

Ugh I am so sick of this muddy soggy mess. Some of my birds are starting to sneeze a bit. Not sure if I should treat them with anything.

My younger birds seem to be handling it the worst.

All of my birds seem tired and cold...just kinda fluffed out. Is this normal for the weather or could it be something else?

Also here is an AI update from the state: http://www.in.gov/boah/files/Modified_Ban_July_10-15_AnH_Advy(3).pdf

I've been treating with Corid to young and old because of the wet conditions. Even older birds can get cocci.

Good dry dust bath area would perk them up and help with external parasites because they're not getting regular dust baths.

I have a yearling Pea that's got a occasional sneeze. Im sure it's the weather as they sleep outside by choice.

 

[browncow15]

It would be very nice if we could get three days of sunshine in a row. The bees and other pollinators are shying away from the garden in this rain. Not great news. I feel like I'm growing vegetable soup! Seems like lots of us are having the same difficulties. This is an article from our local news station channel 4: http://cbs4indy.com/2015/07/09/urban-farmers-facing-crop-issues-after-heavy-rainfall/

Ugh I know what you mean. DH is going to be disappointed again this year. Our corn is only about 4 ft high at most and tasseling already maybe next year.

 

[Indyshent]

Thanks for your advice. I was thinking it might be related to protein, but wasn't sure. We've never had this problem.
I like your feather toy idea. I hope to try making one this morning.

Turkeys are very curious. I try not to wear polka dots or small prints as they try to peck at them. I've had two of them check out my eye glasses. A tug on my hair every once in awhile, too.

Wedding rings, earrings, glasses, whatever's in my cup or on my plate, freckles, hair, moles, pimples, other small skin abnormalities or injuries, anything that makes noise (tarps and plastic bags are favorites) or lights up when they peck it, anything unusual or shiny, red things, light blue things, pink things, anything that might ever be conceived of as food, anything that might fit in their mouths and almost everything that won't...

 

[Indyshent]

It would be very nice if we could get three days of sunshine in a row. The bees and other pollinators are shying away from the garden in this rain. Not great news.

I feel like I'm growing vegetable soup!

Seems like lots of us are having the same difficulties.

This is an article from our local news station channel 4: http://cbs4indy.com/2015/07/09/urban-farmers-facing-crop-issues-after-heavy-rainfall/

This is my first year with a garden, and I tried to make four of the Three Sisters as well as planting corn by itself in a few nearby rows. The Three Sisters technique has been marvelous for keeping rain from waterlogging my plants because everything's planted on a mound (or in my case, a slight mound surrounded by a big ditch). The ditch takes in almost all of the water in the garden, and the weeds/grass in and around it keep it from staying too long. I don't let the grass or weeds get more than a couple inches tall (or exist in some places) but I've found having a carpet of other plants has kept water from pooling in problematic areas and that areas with more plants have less problems with mildew and other oddball fungi. I've never seen crud growing in my yard like this before, but the RAIN this year!