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[Indyshent]

Pondering downsizing more. With the concussion, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting around and performing maintenance on the house--let alone the coop or spending time with the birds. Having to keep them in the run all the time (DH wants grass, and we've had issues with predators) so the turkeys are especially miserable. Love my birds, but I don't like seeing them unhappy, and I'm too tired to argue. If interested in turkeys or chickens, please PM. I will see what I can swing.

 

[Indyshent]

Turkey, chickens, and 3 guineas Nice looking lavender Orps and RIR roo
Australorp hatchery sexed pullets
SFH
Pekin drakes


Want ad for someone in Indy area who's looking for a free tame rooster who's good with his ladies.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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Other craigslist finds for today.

There are two RIR/NHR cross roosters available! Possibly the seller has some full NHR on site!? Both old enough to "get the job done," and they were hatched late last summer. $10/ea.


Free mini-pig.
Coop and chickens $75 7 hens, one rooster (looks production red)

OLDER POST 2 young Aseel/Asil roosters. Pretty boys, and I'm hoping the seller either has them or they went to good homes. I've had the privilege of meeting a representative Asil before, and they're wonderful flock guardians with a lot of really good rooster traits. Breed isn't for egg-laying, but they're the kings of free-ranging roosters.

Ringnecks (normal and melanistic) and Royal Palms

Swinho, Alaskan snow, and Peach & Yellow Golden Pheasants. Seller also has IB peafowl (+white, which is mentioned in a different post)

1-yr-old BO and 2-yr-old GLW (straight comb) never-broody hens

Bantam Campine hens

Call drakes

Limited time offer. Muscovies, both genders and mature $5/ea. All appear to be black pied from picture. Seller will start processing after 1/28

Wow great posts! The scovies are gone and the peas, dang it..

Quote: What rooster breed are you looking for?

Hi, I'm new to the site as well as to raising chickens. We have a flock of 17. I look forward to learning more about chickens from this site! We live just outside Evansville.

WELCOME to our thread and BYC!

Quote: Its seems Silkies and Easter Eggers are affected more, at least in the breeds I have kept. Totally agree on the feed. I was using a grain protein based feed and had 3 wry necks in one year. I switched back to an all flock feed and no issues since. And when we process here there is some item set back for chickens too, and marked as such.. they truly are "little pigs" lol, will eat about anything.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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I love the hoop coop idea. We have mostly portable coops. There is good, and bad with it. If your predator load is high, make sure to use hardware cloth.. or the raccoon and possum can rip right in. My coops were chicken wire covered. I lost a lot of rare, expensive birds because chicken wire is useless.

Hey all,

The job searching, subbing, and writing has taken a lot of my time lately and I just haven't been on much. Production is still in the tank as last years chicks continue to surprise me with early molts. Last week one of the Delaware hens looked like a drowned rat, this week the last NH is slogging around looking like a NN.

God bless that leghorn though, she just doesn't stop. And one of the BO pullets I rescued started laying this week as well, so that's good.

Lost a SS hen last week to some mysterious ailment i'll never know. The dog needed out around 3 a.m. and while standing on the porch I heard something odd from the coop, went out and everything seemed in order, checked the next boxes, and there laid the SS hen. She had to have just expired. Rigor hadn't set in yet. No trauma I could find. Abdomen felt normal. Nothing out of the ordinary, not a feather out of place.

Waiting for the local places to have chicks in stock. Planning on adding some EE to the mix and to even out the age of the flock. Eventually I'd like to get into a 6/6 add/cull rotation, culling birds going into their third winter if production is slowing.

Also, we're expecting our first child in May. So there's that.

Adding stress to the under-employed aspect of life...

Wonderful news on the baby!!! Yep the leghorn are absolutely awesome for eggs, and the comets too.I have a leghorn trio and do hatch yearly. If my goal is eggs, those 2 breeds get it done.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Pondering downsizing more. With the concussion, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting around and performing maintenance on the house--let alone the coop or spending time with the birds. Having to keep them in the run all the time (DH wants grass, and we've had issues with predators) so the turkeys are especially miserable. Love my birds, but I don't like seeing them unhappy, and I'm too tired to argue. If interested in turkeys or chickens, please PM. I will see what I can swing.

Oh no, I must have missed your post! Are you ok? going to PM you.

 

[Indyshent]

Wow great posts! The scovies are gone and the peas, dang it..

Other muscovies ($20/ea) Mostly black pied but other colors available
More muscovies ($12-15 ea, females less expensive)

Super crazy rare sounding peafowl in Illinois.
Peas $75/ea 3 of each gender. Owner cannot care for anymore.
$100/ea peas Blue and white both
Two adorable crele bantam roosters.
Brown egg-layers $12/ea

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Half asleep but really wanted to catch up some. Cows and Goats are doing great. We are adding a new buck for our goat herd this year, since my girls aside from my Sugar are related to Bocephus. Bo will leave this spring sadly, he is a beautiful buck, but his temperament as he ages is not what I want to see. I have a buyer arranged already for when he leaves. Bo has become too aggressive to handle safely.
So far, my gorgeous Jersey bull Moose is still a pet. I am getting stern warnings from all my fellow cow keepers to be wary. Moose goes into a play mode, shaking his head and skipping around like a calf. He has not shown aggression, butting or stomping, so far. I'm cautious enough to listen others and watching the body language however.. time will tell. Moose turns a year old in May. He loves attention including back and chin scratches, and gives cow kisses. (Yeah. their breath is gross lol!)
I have a very broody Australorp.. found her in one of the older damaged coops. She is part of my "wild bunch" that wants -0- contact with me or anyone else. I took her off and penned her up with my RIR, only to have her escape while I fed them today! No idea where she even came from, just showed up one day. Aside from cats, we seem to be a dump off place for chickens too, ugh. Good layers but not a favorite breed of mine for sure.
Duck eggs, wow my Pekin are really putting the eggs out! DH loves it. He prefers duck and goose eggs over chicken eggs. One hen has a nest going.. and actually acts broody. She will hiss and open her bill as though she will bite! She has built a nest before so I am watching how it goes. "They have broodiness bred out of them" but his girl seems to want to be a mom, 2nd time now she has built a nest.
I bought 6 geese back from a party that bought goslings last spring. Am excited, at least 3 are hens.. and one is a very attractive buff and chinese mix. He is spotted. I tell anyone that buys my goslings please, call me first. I prefer they not ever become a table bird! Geese are too valuable to a farm to use them for food.
Good nite guys.. Hope to be on here more!

 

[tmarsh83]

I have a very broody Australorp.. found her in one of the older damaged coops. She is part of my "wild bunch" that wants -0- contact with me or anyone else. I took her off and penned her up with my RIR, only to have her escape while I fed them today! No idea where she even came from, just showed up one day. Aside from cats, we seem to be a dump off place for chickens too, ugh. Good layers but not a favorite breed of mine for sure.

Glad to hear this from someone else. Thought it was just me. LOL

Granted, mine are hatchery stock, but I just can't muster any interest in them. Way down the list, at the bottom actually, of the birds in the mixed flock I have.

 

[ellymayRans]

I'm never going to own those birds, Mandy. I live in downtown Indy. I want one; don't get me wrong, but they're just so noisy that they'll have to wait til I'm in the middle of nowhere. I've heard that they're all the magic of turkeys, but smaller, prettier, longer-lived, less tasty and far more expensive in general. Veterinarily speaking, they're turkeys, which means I'm practicing peafowl medicine on my turkeys 

So, basically what you're saying, is that these are India Blue peafowl for $30/ea, which is still super cheap. 

Appearance wise yes. They could be split to Black Shoulder and not express it but they have all the markings of the India Blue.

I don't recall their age but typically @ $30 that's the price for a 3 month.
Basically because they don't mature or have a train until 2-3 years of age they aren't as expensive until then especially the India Blue as they are the most common of colors.

 

[ellymayRans]

I'm finally an Aunt! My little brother (34) had their first baby girl!
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