INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[funnyfarmmom]

Hi.  I'm looking to  purchase a few egg laying chicks less than 6 weeks old before Christmas, but don't know where to look near Indianapolis.  Any ideas?

I am farther south of Indy...down near Bedford. But I have Buff Orpingtons, Orpinghorns and sex link/orpington cross chicks. Just hatched last week and have another round due to hatch Thursday. If you feel like a road trip let me know

 

[chick rookie]

We had a sad loss last night. She was beautiful and one of my favorite birds. Aretha, our oldest bird, was a crested cream legbar. She wasn't quite 3.

She was going through a very, very hard molt. Seems like she just laid down, went to sleep, and didn't get up. Anybody ever lost one just because the molt was too much on them? It sounds ridiculous, since they're all pets and treated very well.

I don't think the guy we bought the CCL from had very good stock. I wish I could remember his name, so I don't buy from him again. We bought 4 started pullets--lost the first one a few weeks after we got them, lost the second two months later, now we lost the third a year later. We have only one left. She's 2 1/2.

I don't think chickens cross the rainbow bridge, but she's for sure at the farm in the dell... There's lots of green pasture there. RIP Aretha.
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So sorry to hear,

She was pretty.

 

[ellymayRans]

Will be away a few days, have 3 large turkeys and 2 large family gatherings to cook for. My biggest turkey fella is 41 pounds dressed so far, have 2 more to weigh. If I can't post before Thanksgiving please know... I wish my good friends and extended family here on our thread a blessed Thanksgiving gathering. Appreciate the time you have with those you love most. It may change tomorrow.

So sweet. Extending the same well wishes and wonderful holiday!

Very nice size birds BTW! Woot woot

 

[ellymayRans]

Awe so sorry @pginsber. Aretha was a cutie! hugs

 

[ellymayRans]

Ugh...well...I finally made the plunge and brought my new vehicle home this evening. Only almost 6 hours later!!! I am very happy and relieved! Mostly because I won't sit browsing all the same ones for endless hours!

I'm still waiting for the pay off of my vehicle but...such is life!

 

[kittydoc]

If you are interested in buying any Brinsea incubators or products, right now Rakuten.com is offering $120 for new credit card applicants who are approved. We bought two Octagon 20's (DH got one and I got one) for free. Can't get that. For $120, you can get even more (I think we signed up when the promo was $80.)

Sorry I have not been on much lately. Between my health (pure crap) and dealing with the rescues from next door, I have been worn out, and not online much except to check important things like email.

I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but all our of Bielefelder pullets appear to be laying (we had 5 of 6 lay in a single day). They are saving our bacon right now. We let our girls molt naturally this year and it just destroyed our egg production, and it is NOT coming back, so I figure we have to just get by on less from the young pullets until Jan or Feb. We only have a few adult hens laying, and are still waiting for a bunch of Orp pullets to get a move on! We have 6 or 7 of them that should be ready any time.

Question for the group: I need to do something about my rooster situation. Cog is still living with the adult lavs (who do nothing but eat, thank you very little). The last hen is coming out of her molt slowly but surely, and Cogburn now has a tail again. Anyway, I will need to move my lav cockerel and lav pullets into that pen, and need Cogburn out. Options as I see it: (1) Sell Placido, my Jubilee roo who is gorgeous and very well-mannered, OR (2) crate them alternately in the main (mixed) coop until I need Cogburn again, OR (3) try to introduce Cogburn into the main coop and hope he and Placido figure out how to live peaceably. Cogburn and Placido have lived separated by nothing more than hardware cloth their entire lives, but they are fully mature and haven't shared space since they were young cockerels. I'd prefer to be able to keep them together in the mixed (non-breeder) flock. Has anyone done this successfully (or otherwise)? Suggestions? I have three Jubilee hens left but want to try to make blue Jubilees and improve their genetics. I don't HAVE to have Placido to do that since right now I have two blue cockerels.

For those who may be interested, this is the list of colors/breeds we will have available in 2016 (also hatching eggs for most):

Lavender Orpingtons (1/4 to 1/2 English, the rest hinkjc American)
Black split to lavender Orps (1/2 English, rest hinkjc American) ON DEMAND ONLY
Blue Orpingtons (full English)
Black Orpingtons (full English)
Splash Orpingtons (full English)
Chocolate Cuckoo Orpingtons (full English)
Black Cuckoo Orpingtons (full English)
Chocolate Orpingtons (full English)
Jubilee Orpingtons (full English) ON DEMAND ONLY (true color, not my project chicks)

Bielefelders (autosexing German breed)

Everything will be sold straight run except the Bielefelders.

ALSO, we are trying to find a home for our "Orpacauna" cockerel as a flock roo for a barnyard flock. He is black with the most intense beetle green sheen I have ever seen, and should be an olive egger (mom was a green egg layer, and his dad was a lavender Orp). He is breeding and crowing. We'd hoped for a pullet and don't need another roo. His options are either (1) we eat him, or (2) he gets to be a flock roo somewhere else, at least for a while, especially if you are wanting some more colorful eggs. He has a very small comb that should be almost frostbite-proof. I'll try to get a good photo of him. He is bigger than an Ameracauna cockerel, but a lot smaller than an Orp roo.

Hope everybody is OK. We're supposed to go to Louisville for Thanksgiving, but I may not be up to it this year. We just drove to Lexington, KY and back to hear my daughter's last concert as a UK student, and we had to bring the dog with us. Between all that sitting and the dog driving me crazy in a new place, I feel like death warmed over.

 

[kittydoc]

Ugh...well...I finally made the plunge and brought my new vehicle home this evening. Only almost 6 hours later!!! I am very happy and relieved! Mostly because I won't sit browsing all the same ones for endless hours!

I'm still waiting for the pay off of my vehicle but...such is life!

Good for you! What did you buy?

 

[ellymayRans]

Good for you!  What did you buy?

Thanks! My vehicle that was totaled was a Acura MDX, can't beat the safety features and just an all around great vehicle for us. So I bought another one. Mine was paid off,of course, go figure, but a 2005 model. I upgraded,as technology has, this new one is a 2012. I can't afford brand new,lol,but it's the advance pkg with the entertainment pkg. Quite heavenly!

I just took advantage of the DH having to work while I am on PTO for the week, and didn't have to have him adding to a already stressful situation! He's horrible to be around when trying to make "Big" decisions. So when the boys told him I went to Greenwood he harassed me when I got home to raid the car thinking he'd sneak a peek at Xmas presents! Haha! After about an hour I handed him the new key and said go ahead check them out! He was stunned! I love doing that to him! I'm just rotten I guess!

 

[ellymayRans]

If you are interested in buying any Brinsea incubators or products, right now Rakuten.com is offering $120 for new credit card applicants who are approved.  We bought two Octagon 20's (DH got one and I got one) for free.  Can't get that.  For $120, you can get even more (I think we signed up when the promo was $80.)

Sorry I have not been on much lately.  Between my health (pure crap) and dealing with the rescues from next door, I have been worn out, and not online much except to check important things like email.

I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but all our of Bielefelder pullets appear to be laying (we had 5 of 6 lay in a single day).  They are saving our bacon right now.  We let our girls molt naturally this year and it just destroyed our egg production, and it is NOT coming back, so I figure we have to just get by on less from the young pullets until Jan or Feb.  We only have a few adult hens laying, and are still waiting for a bunch of Orp pullets to get a move on!  We have 6 or 7 of them that should be ready any time.

Question for the group:  I need to do something about my rooster situation.  Cog is still living with the adult lavs (who do nothing but eat, thank you very little).  The last hen is coming out of her molt slowly but surely, and Cogburn now has a tail again.  Anyway, I will need to move my lav cockerel and lav pullets into that pen, and need Cogburn out.  Options as I see it:  (1)  Sell Placido, my Jubilee roo who is gorgeous and very well-mannered, OR (2)  crate them alternately in the main (mixed) coop until I need Cogburn again, OR (3) try to introduce Cogburn into the main coop and hope he and Placido figure out how to live peaceably.  Cogburn and Placido have lived separated by nothing more than hardware cloth their entire lives, but they are fully mature and haven't shared space since they were young cockerels.  I'd prefer to be able to keep them together in the mixed (non-breeder) flock.  Has anyone done this successfully (or otherwise)?  Suggestions?  I have three Jubilee hens left but want to try to make blue Jubilees and improve their genetics.  I don't HAVE to have Placido to do that since right now I have two blue cockerels.  

For those who may be interested, this is the list of colors/breeds we will have available in 2016 (also hatching eggs for most):

Lavender Orpingtons (1/4 to 1/2 English, the rest hinkjc American)
Black split to lavender Orps (1/2 English, rest hinkjc American) ON DEMAND ONLY
Blue Orpingtons (full English)
Black Orpingtons (full English)
Splash Orpingtons (full English)
Chocolate Cuckoo Orpingtons (full English)
Black Cuckoo Orpingtons (full English)
Chocolate Orpingtons (full English)
Jubilee Orpingtons (full English) ON DEMAND ONLY (true color, not my project chicks)

Bielefelders (autosexing German breed)

Everything will be sold straight run except the Bielefelders.

ALSO, we are trying to find a home for our "Orpacauna" cockerel as a flock roo for a barnyard flock.  He is black with the most intense beetle green sheen I have ever seen, and should be an olive egger (mom was a green egg layer, and his dad was a lavender Orp).  He is breeding and crowing.  We'd hoped for a pullet and don't need another roo.  His options are either (1) we eat him, or (2) he gets to be a flock roo somewhere else, at least for a while, especially if you are wanting some more colorful eggs.  He has a very small comb that should be almost frostbite-proof.  I'll try to get a good photo of him.  He is bigger than an Ameracauna cockerel, but a lot smaller than an Orp roo.

Hope everybody is OK.  We're supposed to go to Louisville for Thanksgiving, but I may not be up to it this year.  We just drove to Lexington, KY and back to hear my daughter's last concert as a UK student, and we had to bring the dog with us.  Between all that sitting and the dog driving me crazy in a new place, I feel like death warmed over.

First of all safe travels and I hope you're able to enjoy the holidays! I use to live in OH and hated how traveling during the holidays took so much out of me!

Cog, I would try to integrate first, see how that goes. Can't hurt, you'll just have to monitor and break up the fights for awhile if there are any.

With the other roo, give it a week, if no one speaks up to take him, eat him. No need to put more feed into him and house an unneeded roo over winter. Obviously that's ultimately a decision you'll have to make. Good luck!

 

[daskhan]

If you are interested in buying any Brinsea incubators or products, right now Rakuten.com is offering $120 for new credit card applicants who are approved.  We bought two Octagon 20's (DH got one and I got one) for free.  Can't get that.  For $120, you can get even more (I think we signed up when the promo was $80.)

Sorry I have not been on much lately.  Between my health (pure crap) and dealing with the rescues from next door, I have been worn out, and not online much except to check important things like email.

I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but all our of Bielefelder pullets appear to be laying (we had 5 of 6 lay in a single day).  They are saving our bacon right now.  We let our girls molt naturally this year and it just destroyed our egg production, and it is NOT coming back, so I figure we have to just get by on less from the young pullets until Jan or Feb.  We only have a few adult hens laying, and are still waiting for a bunch of Orp pullets to get a move on!  We have 6 or 7 of them that should be ready any time.

Question for the group:  I need to do something about my rooster situation.  Cog is still living with the adult lavs (who do nothing but eat, thank you very little).  The last hen is coming out of her molt slowly but surely, and Cogburn now has a tail again.  Anyway, I will need to move my lav cockerel and lav pullets into that pen, and need Cogburn out.  Options as I see it:  (1)  Sell Placido, my Jubilee roo who is gorgeous and very well-mannered, OR (2)  crate them alternately in the main (mixed) coop until I need Cogburn again, OR (3) try to introduce Cogburn into the main coop and hope he and Placido figure out how to live peaceably.  Cogburn and Placido have lived separated by nothing more than hardware cloth their entire lives, but they are fully mature and haven't shared space since they were young cockerels.  I'd prefer to be able to keep them together in the mixed (non-breeder) flock.  Has anyone done this successfully (or otherwise)?  Suggestions?  I have three Jubilee hens left but want to try to make blue Jubilees and improve their genetics.  I don't HAVE to have Placido to do that since right now I have two blue cockerels.  

For those who may be interested, this is the list of colors/breeds we will have available in 2016 (also hatching eggs for most):

Lavender Orpingtons (1/4 to 1/2 English, the rest hinkjc American)
Black split to lavender Orps (1/2 English, rest hinkjc American) ON DEMAND ONLY
Blue Orpingtons (full English)
Black Orpingtons (full English)
Splash Orpingtons (full English)
Chocolate Cuckoo Orpingtons (full English)
Black Cuckoo Orpingtons (full English)
Chocolate Orpingtons (full English)
Jubilee Orpingtons (full English) ON DEMAND ONLY (true color, not my project chicks)

Bielefelders (autosexing German breed)

Everything will be sold straight run except the Bielefelders.

ALSO, we are trying to find a home for our "Orpacauna" cockerel as a flock roo for a barnyard flock.  He is black with the most intense beetle green sheen I have ever seen, and should be an olive egger (mom was a green egg layer, and his dad was a lavender Orp).  He is breeding and crowing.  We'd hoped for a pullet and don't need another roo.  His options are either (1) we eat him, or (2) he gets to be a flock roo somewhere else, at least for a while, especially if you are wanting some more colorful eggs.  He has a very small comb that should be almost frostbite-proof.  I'll try to get a good photo of him.  He is bigger than an Ameracauna cockerel, but a lot smaller than an Orp roo.

Hope everybody is OK.  We're supposed to go to Louisville for Thanksgiving, but I may not be up to it this year.  We just drove to Lexington, KY and back to hear my daughter's last concert as a UK student, and we had to bring the dog with us.  Between all that sitting and the dog driving me crazy in a new place, I feel like death warmed over.

If you end up taking the trip to ky I'm sorta on the way I'll take the roo if we meet