INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Leahs Mom]

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@chick rookie and @jchny2000
We have a "farm vet" in our area that charges $35 per farm visit. What kind of house-call charges do you have in your areas? I'm pretty happy with $35!!!!!!

 

[Hholly]

Just a "Hi All" from a newbie in Indy as well. Fortville specifically. Looking forward to reading about your successes and learning how to better raise my flock from your collective knowledge.

Welcome to our community!

Glad you joined us!

I had a new arrival this morning. My first silkie chick from my own silkies. I panicked because it's so cold in the coop. So I brought it inside.


Then I checked back later and this one had just hatched!
I'm so happy!

 

[ellymayRans]

Just a "Hi All" from a newbie in Indy as well.  Fortville specifically.  Looking forward to reading about your successes and learning how to better raise my flock from your collective knowledge.

Very well put!
Welcome! If you haven't noticed we're a very active group so keeping up is a real task!! Haha!

Also we have a member link that you can be added to and/or review for our member locations and breed lists.

Look to @Mother2Hens or @jchnny2000 to find the link. I need to add it so i have easy access to it but i just don't for some reason! !

 

[ellymayRans]

Welcome to our community! Glad you joined us! I had a new arrival this morning. My first silkie chick from my own silkies. I panicked because it's so cold in the coop. So I brought it inside. Then I checked back later and this one had just hatched! I'm so happy!

Love! So exciting!

 

[ellymayRans]

@jchny2000 I saw these and thought of you! Had to get them! I hope you like nic nacs!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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@chick rookie and @jchny2000
We have a "farm vet" in our area that charges $35 per farm visit. What kind of house-call charges do you have in your areas? I'm pretty happy with $35!!!!!!
My farm vet charges either $40 or $45 for the drive out. Then anything she does is an additional fee. Very much worth it compared to the value of the animals.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Planning on getting some Cornish X for a meat this spring. Going to start with about 12 and maybe do another batch after.

Opinions, please: Should I just go to the local shop and pick up chicks or should I make an order somewhere?

 

[Indyshent]

Just a "Hi All" from a newbie in Indy as well. Fortville specifically. Looking forward to reading about your successes and learning how to better raise my flock from your collective knowledge.

Welcome to the group!

What do you have, and what are you looking to get into? Several members here deal almost exclusively with bantams, though a few of us no longer have bantams because of predators this year. I'm overrun with large fowl at the moment (and very much in Indy).



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The little MW turkey has been bonkers since I took Saphira to @jchny2000 . Poor little bird is rediscovering some lost friendships among the tweener chickens. Still not sure about gender; it has a racing stripe but used to gobble and strut a lot more. If anybody gets a surprise poult, lemme know (because s/he's lonely, even though I need another bird here like I need a steel-toed boot to the head).

Another question regarding the dreaded respiratory infection many have had since this last summer-to-fall: is it ethical to rehome any birds at your premises, even after treatment with Denagard and apparent recoveries (or of birds who have never had visible symptoms)? If this illness is an MG type, am I doomed to have all of these birds as long as they live? And is it preferable to cull the lot of them?

I'm going to send off for another T12 to get the eggs tested, though some of the symptomatic birds aren't laying.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Im sorry to hear of your moms situation. I got out of pigs for 6 months and really regretted it. Then feeder piglets shot up sky high, so we went almost a year without. Big impact on the grocery bill for sure!

Just a "Hi All" from a newbie in Indy as well. Fortville specifically. Looking forward to reading about your successes and learning how to better raise my flock from your collective knowledge.

Welcome neighbor, to BYC and our thread!

I am just north of Ingalls.

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@chick rookie and @jchny2000
We have a "farm vet" in our area that charges $35 per farm visit. What kind of house-call charges do you have in your areas? I'm pretty happy with $35!!!!!!
For emergency birthing, he charges $300. He is a ways from me though, but I know he has awesome husbandry practices. Thats for my cow though, and If I am not able to pull the calf, unforseen problems etc I want someone I know and trust.

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Squeeeeeal! Babies, soo cute!

@jchny2000 I saw these and thought of you! Had to get them! I hope you like nic nacs!

Oh my, thank you! How adorable! Most of my nic nacs are critters LOL!

 

[Indyshent]

Planning on getting some Cornish X for a meat this spring. Going to start with about 12 and maybe do another batch after.

Opinions, please: Should I just go to the local shop and pick up chicks or should I make an order somewhere?

I got seven from RK last July, and both @LonelyPageTurne and @jchny2000 can attest to how huge those boys got after 3 or 4 mos (they were bowling balls with wings). I didn't have any die before processing, though some people have problems with flipover. All in all, it was a good enough experience that I bought six more at a different RK this weekend. I brooded them with normal pullets and Muscovy ducklings, and they all got along fine (though they were food hogs). I think brooding them with other birds helped them assimilate into the flock better and kept them moving at critical points in development.