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[Chaneys Ranch]

Am heading to bed, finally but not a lot new happening here. Have 2 cabinet incubators booming with eggs. Lots of chicks coming and going! So far my Snow Mallard, Muscovy and Goose eggs are all looking good from the first setting. Eggs are just pouring in now from all my breeds and species. Waiting on the turkeys and Peas to lay. My guinea started a couple days ago so it won't be long.
Almost have the Peafowls bigger coop done. Will be a lot of moving and reorganizing once they are set up. My EE/OE flock is laying well, have new roosters, both Ameruacana roosters in those pens. All the Orps and Sumatra also laying great. Naked Neck hatches are slow, I may have to pick a new rooster for the pen.

 

[chick rookie]

Hey everyone! Feel like I've been out of everything for a long time. Wednesday the 16th my dad passed out by the side of the road at our house and we had to get him to the ER. They didn't find anything and sent him home. He followed up with his dr that Friday. Got a phone call to take him to the hospital directly from the doctor's office. They found his aortic valve was over 75 percent blocked. Ended up having medical transport to St Vincent hospital in Indy. A week ago today then he had heart valve replacement surgery. I also came down last Monday and have been here ever since. Still not sure when he'll be discharged. Kinda tired of living out of a motel room! It's great seeing everyone's chick pics since I haven't seen my own girls in so long. We were getting about 30 eggs a day when I left so there's probably a pile waiting for me when I get home. My daughter came down for a couple days which was nice. We had already scheduled a college visit for yesterday at U of Indy for their nursing day so we were able to do that before she headed back home. Keep the pics coming - reminds me of home!

Hope your dad is doing better and gets to go home soon.

Hi everyone!

I am not sure how to post here in the state threads, but here I am

My name is Christie and I live west of Terre Haute (St Mary of the Woods, to be more precise). I live on 1.6 acres with my husband and four kids. We just moved here last summer and are starting over raising chickens. We had to leave our last flock of 9 hens and one rooster when we left Ohio (they now live happily on 15 acres with a good family).

We now have four Leghorns and two of what we think are Production Reds, almost 3 weeks old, and five Easter Eggers that are about 2.5 weeks old. I forgot how much I missed having chickens until now. The kids absolutely love being around them and taking care of them.

I hope to be a regular around here and learn more about our feathered girls

Hi!! I lived in West T for 25 years, I'm now in North Terre Haute (6 ) years and just bought a place in Shelburn and will be moving all month,

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West Terre Haute has it's charms, like it better then Terre Haute but ya know how that goes. If I can ever help ya out with anything just give a hollar

Welcome to our thread, the people here are great.

I got them at Big R in Crawfordsville. They run out pretty much the day they get them in, or at least that's been my experience. It took me a few visits to finally get them. I decided to go in as soon as the order was released Monday. They ran out of orpingtons in just a couple hours.

Where is good to chick shop in Terre Haute? We go there every so often. Love the bourbon chicken at the mall...ymmm.

Well RK on Wabash has the biggest selection of chicks and ducks, and rabbits. and then TSC has chicks as well, and they tend to have more Bantam chicks then anyone else and normally a good mix of breeds too. I have not went and looked at them this year as I am trying to NOT do chicks this season, moving and don't want the worry.

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we all have those thoughts once in a while.... it's forgivable !!! lol

I wish I had a hen setting! I'm looking into broody breeds right now.

My SF has me standing and staring in disbelief... She went broody 2 days ago, I am taking her eggs but regret doing it, afraid she wont go broody latter when I want her to. but I wasn't expecting her to anyway, not like she was a planed broody or anything.







Found something really COOL yesterday... Nala ( cx hen, Waddles's lady ) laid her very first egg!!!!

How often do they lay, anyone know? And OMG it is huge!!and it was her first!!!

 

[ChickenMami6]

I'm in evansville too! Just starting out, I'm a first timer
We just got 6 chicks, they are currently inside in their tub and we are building our coop

 

[tmarsh83]

Big day around here yesterday, LOL.

I've been attacking things around here lately, inside and out. Not working means I'm the housewife, so yesterday the house got opened up and aired out from winter and the first floor got an extensive cleaning. Once it warmed up outside the first mowing of the year was done. We have a huge (40-50 feet) evergreen in our yard next to our driveway that needed the lower interior branched cleaned out, so the sawzall and my arm got a workout and then, a big fire. The three older birds that range spend about 30% of their time under the umbrella of that pine tree, either belly down in, or kicking thru a decades worth of pine straw. The rest of our trees are maples and i'm STILL cleaning up debris from the ice storm we had back in December, so it was a cut and burn kind of day in the afternoon. Got the mulch around my blueberries weeded and turned as well.

Next on the list, build the mobile pig hut, complete the run for coop 2.0, figure out my long term watering system for the coop/run, and decide where the compost stalls are going to go.

The chicks have taken over the balance of coop 2.0, and are no longer in the partitioned area. One of the New Hampshire chicks flew the partition so I decided just to open it up. I was pretty much ready anyway.

 

[tmarsh83]

Time for an early morning grouch moment.

I like checking out the "What breed or gender" thread. It's pictures of birds, and lets me make my guess and test it against the "experts."

This is my first spring here, so i'm sure it happens every year, but every thread over there at the moment is a cell phone picture, of chicks, still in the car home from TSC, asking for breed, gender, favorite color, astrological sign, and expected egg production for a chick that's 60 hours old.

I get it. I'm new to birds. Getting chicks is exciting. But even a lazy look around internet, books, magazines, cave paintings, or smoke signals tells you that unless it's autosexing, you're guessing before 8-12 weeks. 4-8 is a roll of the dice, and at 60 hours just flip a coin.

I'm as much a chicken neophyte as anyone, and I know that.

Ok.

I feel better now...thank you!

 

[ellymayRans]

Day 3 at Disney, day 6 in FL....missing my birds something fierce!
Yes I'm having a blast with my family but with babies hatching its killing me!
Aunt is on hatching duty and sending pics and updates.
Very excited about this latest, splash marans hatch.

 

[ellymayRans]

Ive never had any one hatch for me and i have to admit i love my aunt with every piece of me but Oh i do not like not being the one to make those calls when hatching! Had one splash die while zipping. Not sure if any of the others will make it. Those eggs arrived with egg all over them and several busted.

She said i have others pipped yesterday but of the mille fluer cochins and or paint silkies.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

How big of coop is it

it is 14*16 ft.
here are some pictures I had previously posted.

 

[Crista]

I wish I had a hen setting!  I'm looking into broody breeds right now.

somewhere back aways there was a post that suggested silky, and cochen as a good broody momma potential. I was hoping to purchase an adult. Have you had any luck ?

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Pictures of the coops that I need gone.