INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Nyla]

Hey everyone! I've decided to sell my Mandarin Duck pen and everything I have for poultry. We just had our septic field tested for drainage problems, we were told today, the entire septic field system has to be replaced and our yard will need to be properly leveled at a slope, and the 4ft deep x 100ft long ditch that was once behind our home before we moved in, will need to be dugged back out. There use to be a tree company behind our house, they filled the entire ditch in with wood chips, and tree scraps. That being said I won't be able to have Ducks, or chickens for a while and may not get back into poultry. If anyone would like to check out my CL ad and see if your interested pm me! I'm willing to deliver if not too far away and I'm willing to settle on a fair offer.
https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/grd/d/munster-animal-pen-and-more/6825361639.html

 

[Leahs Mom]

@Faraday40
You said that you instruct your customers on how to wash eggs. What do you tell them?

 

[Leahs Mom]

@Nyla

Curious - what is the specific netting that you have draped over the top of your pen for aerial predators?

 

[Faraday40]

@Faraday40
You said that you instruct your customers on how to wash eggs. What do you tell them?

I do a good rinse in warm water to flush any external bacteria away. The bloom keeps it outside of the egg, but a piece of shell when cracked could fall into your food. (I suppose cooking the egg would also kill the germs, but I've always washed off foods before eating them.) Egg shells are porous, so you want the water warmer than the internal temp of the egg. This causes the movement of fluids to push outward as the membrane expands against the shell. Any germs get pushed outward.
* Washing with cold water is very bad because it causes the membranes to contract and would pull any external bacteria into the egg. (If a parent of one of my students is buying the eggs, I have the kid teach his/her parent all about it. )

 

[Nyla]

It's Green Snow Fence! Works great! It's pretty thick plastic netting.
I didn't use it for predictors though. I had to have a roof on it to keep the mandarin ducks or Muscovy's inside the pen. I keep all my birds flight ready.

@Nyla

Curious - what is the specific netting that you have draped over the top of your pen for aerial predators?

 

[TooCheep]

Hello all.

New member, but not a new chicken owner, from Indy. Just checking in and looking around. Have three laying hens that have been patient enough to help me learn the ropes, so I'm pretty comfortable with things now.

 

[Leahs Mom]

@TooCheep
Good to have you! You'll have to post some photos of your birds

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Hello all.

New member, but not a new chicken owner, from Indy. Just checking in and looking around. Have three laying hens that have been patient enough to help me learn the ropes, so I'm pretty comfortable with things now.

Welcome to our thread!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

this is my Belle . She won't go into her doghouse so I didn't want her lying out in the rain. This is our "mud room" porch so its not heated. Pyrenees are cold climate dogs, but high winds and wet isn't a good combo. Hope to have the shelter finished and move the goats and Belle tomorrow.

 

[weezerfish]

Hello all.

New member, but not a new chicken owner, from Indy. Just checking in and looking around. Have three laying hens that have been patient enough to help me learn the ropes, so I'm pretty comfortable with things now.

Welcome to BYC and our thread!