INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[chick rookie]

your very welcome

@atrue00 hmm what would you (or everyoneelses) thoughts on making a thread and everyone can post recipes and i could combbine them into a digital cookbook of sorts

I think it would be great

 

[chick rookie]

well yesterday came and went. We went to the new house to start cleaning before moving any of our stuff in and people were still there!!! said their stuff was still there and they weren't leaving till they got it all out. The Sheriff came and made them leave and I guess they came back afterwards. get this!!! they had an order from the judge... they get to stay till the 3rd!!!!! But the Sheriff had an order to remove them if need be!!!!

So screwed up...... I want my new place !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chick rookie]

FYI: Veedersburg sale barn 2016 chicken, rabbit and goat Misc. schedule March-June every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month.
July-November Every 4th Friday of the month
6pm Hay/Straw, New/used Misc. outside
6:30pm Tools, Toys, New Misc Bldg.1
7pm Chickens, Rabbits and Goats inside sale ring
Todd Yundt 765-376-5144 Barn 765-294-0300
Start taking consignments 9 am day of Auction
www.veedersburgsalebarn.com or on FB.

 

[ellymayRans]

@jchny2000 i thought all of the females looked at the least 2 years of age but it can be difficult to gauge, just because she acts scared doesn't mean she's not of age. My hen was like that her first year, this year not so much but then again? ?
Super cool on the pen progress and eggs! Look forward to those pics!

@atrueb00 regarding the silkie egg sales, mine get bought up (all bantam eggs) once i advertised to folks how great they are for use as hardboiled for little kids, in salads or as mini deviled egg appetizers. Now they request them. You giving them free should have been treated as a sample...lol..then hook them!!

Disturbing this morning i awoke to my little possible blue egg laying frizzle/silkie cross that recently hatched...well it disappeared! I have looked all morning and no signs of it. The large GQF brooder is in the garage on a very large wooden lid that is partially covering the large wooden adult silkie pen. All i can think of is it slipped through the feeder hole and fell through the netting that covers the remaining silkie pen and they killed and ate it. No signs of it. I used a flashlight looking around things, but would expect it to be frantically chirping. Its not cold enough to have killed it for just being away from heat for several hours????? I can't stop looking for it though, just freaking me out!

Better news: i did wake up to another hatched partridge silkie. I have 4 blue eggs left and 4 silkie eggs in the bator yet to hatch but one of those silkie eggs is cracked from me dropping the lid on it, its still developing though. While looking for the wee chick i did find that my last spring blue silkie is now broody!! When i kicked her out of the nest box thinking maybe the chick lucked out and slipped under her, nope, but heck she's sitting on more blue eggs and silkie eggs!! Not letting them range and not having suitable outdoor pen for them yet is not helping avoid broodies! Leaving for FL in a week and i hate to think how many she's going to end up with!!

Everyone else is good. No turkey eggs yet that ive seen. Girls cut back on laying again...got 4 eggs yesterday!?! Granted i have at least 7 dozen i need to take to the hair salon to sell but i thought things would improve.

 

[ellymayRans]

1 black and 1 partridge silkie. Hatched in the past couple of days. I need to get the partridge chcik from the garage brooder and put with these guys inside since losing the other little chick.

 

[ellymayRans]

Baseball has begun!! 10 yr old and 7 yr old, different leagues, different fields...sigh....had evaluations last night from 6-8. I love watching and them playing, i just dread the thought of them having different practice nights putting us having baseball every night with games on Saturday! We'll be lucky to have Sunday and maybe 1 night of the week thats not consumed by it!

 

[racinchickins]

@racinchickins Are your peacocks from the rescue? They're just beautiful! And your pigs look so CLEAN—especially after all of the rainfall lately.

Yes. I took two pair from the rescue. They are still super shy and don't let me too near. They really shy away if I bring anyone else in the barn.

The pigs do pretty well staying clean despite all the mud. The mud gets pretty bad with all the rain. Their feet and snouts are always muddy, but they pigs after all. They knocked down part of their straw bale house and scattered the straw out of the bales, and this has actually given them about a 30-40 sq foot section of straw covered ground next to the house where they like to laze around on the warm days. I rebuilt the house and tried to brace the new bales in place better, but we shall see. Those two are so strong now.

 

[ellymayRans]

Oh and using my Styrofoam bator as a hatcher, i added no water, reads 34-37% humidity and the partridge chick hatched this morning in there with no issues.

Editing: my external humidity guage reads that. The bator guage says 45%

 

[Crafty chick]

Disturbing this morning i awoke to my little possible blue egg laying frizzle/silkie cross that recently hatched...well it disappeared! I have looked all morning and no signs of it. The large GQF brooder is in the garage on a very large wooden lid that is partially covering the large wooden adult silkie pen. All i can think of is it slipped through the feeder hole and fell through the netting that covers the remaining silkie pen and they killed and ate it. No signs of it. I used a flashlight looking around things, but would expect it to be frantically chirping. Its not cold enough to have killed it for just being away from heat for several hours????? I can't stop looking for it though, just freaking me out!

Better news: i did wake up to another hatched partridge silkie. I have 4 blue eggs left and 4 silkie eggs in the bator yet to hatch but one of those silkie eggs is cracked from me dropping the lid on it, its still developing though. While looking for the wee chick i did find that my last spring blue silkie is now broody!! When i kicked her out of the nest box thinking maybe the chick lucked out and slipped under her, nope, but heck she's sitting on more blue eggs and silkie eggs!! Not letting them range and not having suitable outdoor pen for them yet is not helping avoid broodies! Leaving for FL in a week and i hate to think how many she's going to end up with!!

Everyone else is good. No turkey eggs yet that ive seen. Girls cut back on laying again...got 4 eggs yesterday!?! Granted i have at least 7 dozen i need to take to the hair salon to sell but i thought things would improve.

EllymayRans- that's sad abut your little silkie chick. You may never find out. Are there cats around that could have reached in and snagged it? We had that problem once when I was a kid, the cats took them right out from under a broody though!
I wonder how many you will come back to from your broody after FL!

 

[James Beller]

ISO: A small incubator about 40-50 eggs homemade not Styrofoam and at a cheap cost or we could trade some hatched chicks for it to barrow. Nothing over 100$ preferable wood nothing plastic unless a window is. turns eggs automatically and has a temperature gauge to set the temp. I am located in North Venon Indiana and will start hatching soon.