INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[JiCizzy]

Thank you. As of this coming Friday I will have 2 incubators going. In 1 I have indio Gigante, Denzili Longcrower, Flarry Eye Gray, Crevecoeur, Lavender/Lavender Split Wyandotte, Gold Deathlayer, Russian Spangled Orloff, Mechelen Turkey Head and a couple of ours. Friday I will be putting Black Copper Marans, Black Pina Pinta Asturiana, Lemonhead Owlbeard, and an assortment of Rainbow colored eggs.

Which brand incubator is best for Indios? I have a smaller one for my regular chicks.

 

[Finnie]

I just saw this on Craigslist. It’s only about an hour drive (east) of Indy. I know it’s really short notice (2days) but is there anyone on this thread who would be interested in doing a meet up?

(I have no idea whether this is a large or small, good or bad swap.)

Since my DH is out of town, I think I might just entertain myself by going for a little drive on Saturday morning. So if anyone else wants to meet up with me there, send me a PM!

 

[Finnie]

It looks like they might have a decent amount of space.

 

[Finnie]

It looks like they might have a decent amount of space.
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So it turned out to be pretty small. Put on by an Amish family. They said they hope to get the word out and do another one in the spring and hopefully it will grow with time. I would go back.

 

[Finnie]

This is a long shot, but does anybody close to central Indiana have any newly hatched chicks, or any due soon? I hatched out a singleton from an almost completely failed hatch on Monday, and my only other chicks are too big to put him with. I can put him with them in a week or two, but in the meantime he has to be all alone and I feel bad for him.

Craigslist has only one post who isn’t responding and none of my FB groups had anything. Figured it wouldn’t hurt to try here.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

This is a long shot, but does anybody close to central Indiana have any newly hatched chicks, or any due soon? I hatched out a singleton from an almost completely failed hatch on Monday, and my only other chicks are too big to put him with. I can put him with them in a week or two, but in the meantime he has to be all alone and I feel bad for him.

Craigslist has only one post who isn’t responding and none of my FB groups had anything. Figured it wouldn’t hurt to try here.

You keep saying him and them and it's confusing. Are you saying your hatch on Monday only had one success and it's a roo? How old are the other chicks if you say they're "too big"?

I think a good solution would be to put the two brooders next to each other but I don't know what you're using

 

[Finnie]

You keep saying him and them and it's confusing. Are you saying your hatch on Monday only had one success and it's a roo? How old are the other chicks if you say they're "too big"?

I think a good solution would be to put the two brooders next to each other but I don't know what you're using

The “him” is for not getting my hopes up that it’s a pullet. I actually wouldn’t mind having a son from this rooster. (Lavender Orpington)

The “them” is for the older chicks, who are two weeks older than this new one.

Yes, only one hatched this week. I think when “he/she/it” gets to be a week old, it will probably be fine to put in with the older chicks. I just didn’t want to take a chance until it got it’s sea legs.

Yeah, it’s not possible to brood them where they can look but not touch. Most of my brooders are plastic storage totes. So even though I put the brooders next to each other in a row, they can’t see each other.

But the good thing is that I put some really small crochet chickens that I had laying around under the heat plate with the singleton chick, and now I rarely hear him cry. I have named him “Kempson” btw, in case he really does turn out to be Kemp’s son!

Kemp is one of my favorite roosters ever. Everyone who visits always points him out and says they like him best. (Out of 50 or so birds visible from the house.) People coming to buy chickens always try to get me to sell Kemp to them. No way! I should post some photos of him.

Oh, and I may have found some friends for Kempson. The one CL ad I had found who I thought was ghosting me, actually responded this morning. (Two days later) So it’s possible we may meet up. But they are only communicating through the CL relay email and that’s really cumbersome. They obviously don’t care that in my initial inquiry I said I needed to find chicks ASAP and gave them my phone number.

 

[Finnie]

I found some photos of Kemp.

 

[Finnie]

Funny that I’ve been on BYC a lot today. I just realized that 10 years ago today, I bought my first chickens! Was so exciting. It was a Friday evening. I bought a guy’s coop and 3 hens. Had to make two trips because the little coop had a little run off the side, and both parts couldn’t fit in my mini van at the same time. They were a black Australorp and two Buff Orpingtons.

The next morning I drove out to the country and bought a barred rock. The day after that I drove further out in the country and bought a 9 week old Silver Sebright cockerel. (These we’re all pre-arranged.)

A week later was Halloween, and I started my first coop build, because I realized the little prefab coop was too small, and I already wanted more chickens! Man 10 years goes by fast!

 

[Crazy Maizie]

This is a long shot, but does anybody close to central Indiana have any newly hatched chicks, or any due soon? I hatched out a singleton from an almost completely failed hatch on Monday, and my only other chicks are too big to put him with. I can put him with them in a week or two, but in the meantime he has to be all alone and I feel bad for him.

Craigslist has only one post who isn’t responding and none of my FB groups had anything. Figured it wouldn’t hurt to try here.

Maybe use a mirror and a stuffie until you can integrate the chick?