INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[bloonskiller911]

I found a hen, approx. 2 y/o dead in the next box yesterday evening

. pretty sure she may have been egg bound since in vent was very swollen. she was a Columbian cross from my original flock, but on a higher note I set 42 eggs in the incubator last night. Hopefully, I get a good hatch out of these. I have twenty of my eggs going in and 22 eggs from my wife's uncle's flock of white rocks. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

[animallover2202]

I have family near you in evansville and princeton....

there about 3 hours away from me

 

[Crafty chick]

Hey, sorry I haven't been on and shared any input this weekend... super busy!
Neocrunch~ the black australorps and orpingtons I believe are the friendliest and more docile.
Cluck~ your goose sounds neat... maybe after our dog is gone we'll get one!
By the way, as we were grocery shopping, Ilooked at the hearts and gizzards they sell... i think my hen that died a little while back while grazing had something wrong with her gizzard. It was soft and pink like what they sell at the staore. It was a lot bigger, rock hard, and blue! Does this mean she had an impacted gizzard? How can I keep this from happening again, or is it not that common?
I laid in the yard yesterday and let the bantams out. The silkie my daughter named Sofie, followed the kids around and was the cutest little thing.

 

[animallover2202]

if a hen gets mated with is it normal for them to poop after words?

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: Sorry was thinking Buck Skin not Buck Creek.lol... my bad.... I guess it had a deer reference and my silly brain put 2 and 2 together and got 8....

 

[ellymayRans]

Got some of my pullets laying! So pumped! I put a EE and Salmon Fav for comparison at each end...but two are from my Golden Cuckoo Marans and the speckled one is either from my Black Copper Marans or my Blue Marans! I'm going to try to keep a closer eye out today to see who's laying! Really surprised at the size of a pullet egg. But wow what a great shape. .they are definitely darker than that flash gives them justice for.

 

[ellymayRans]

My GCM in front with one my BCM.

My Blue Marans

 

[ellymayRans]

Expecting 18 new BCM chicks this week! Last batch of babes for the year. .. whoo... I'm just about spent with the little ones! Now to stop and enjoy them growing out and start making some picks!

 

[animallover2202]

Sorry was thinking Buck Skin not Buck Creek.lol... my bad.... I guess it had a deer reference and my silly brain put 2 and 2 together and got 8....

lol its ok

 

[bloonskiller911]

Hey, sorry I haven't been on and shared any input this weekend... super busy!
Neocrunch~ the black australorps and orpingtons I believe are the friendliest and more docile.
Cluck~ your goose sounds neat... maybe after our dog is gone we'll get one!
By the way, as we were grocery shopping, Ilooked at the hearts and gizzards they sell... i think my hen that died a little while back while grazing had something wrong with her gizzard. It was soft and pink like what they sell at the staore. It was a lot bigger, rock hard, and blue! Does this mean she had an impacted gizzard? How can I keep this from happening again, or is it not that common?
I laid in the yard yesterday and let the bantams out. The silkie my daughter named Sofie, followed the kids around and was the cutest little thing.

It should be a blue-ish gray. you skin that part off. it should also be hard, it is a very tough muscle to grind up all that corn.