INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[sirbuster]

We are about 5 miles from water the spray is working going to have to get something to hang in coop. Chickens love spray some have a lot of sores anything to put on them?

 

[Crafty chick]

Sally~ mine does the same he just turned 4 yesterday, so I guess I have a couple years left of "watering" the dandelions.
I haven't seen any of the gnats here. How long from when they arrive do you have befor they start killling your flock? We don't have a mosquito problem, water source is pretty far away, so I hope we will be ok.

 

[danand]

Hey! Well I'm in trouble again!! I went to RK last night to get a few things......they still had 1 tub of chicks. I couldn't find any one to wait on me so I was a good girl and left. Well....... Not tonight!! They still had them. Bantys!!! So I now have 6 new babies!! I tell myself it's ok since soooo many of my others have turned out to be Roos. I'll get some pics tomorrow and you-all can tell me what I might've got. 2-3 I think are polish? They have top hats on? And the others have feathered legs. Now if I can hide them from the DH!!!!!

 

[hogster160]

LOL GRATZ on the new chicks and good luck hiding them haha. DH and I went there last night too, although they had no chicks. I did get my pressure cooker that I have been wanting for a while now. DH got a new tool set and work boots. He asks me whose idea was it to go there...HIS lmbo, it was a pricey trip. Oh and I will be of no help identifying what you have...I'm too new to chickens lol enjoy!

 

[MrTattoohead]

Back again! Got the roosts in quick tonight.

2'4" up. 14" from the wall. 18" from the ceiling. 13" from each other.

Good? Bad? Otherwise?

 

[CRSelvey]

Autumn olives and Asian bush honeysuckles are making the vanilla smell. They're invasive species, but the hens love them so much that I've been hesitant to remove them...

Would you be able to post a picture of them? Those bugs are really "bugging" us all, especially my dog. I am getting ready to make a spray that I saw on Facebook page called Fresh Eggs Daily today with white vinegar, orange, vanilla, and something else- cinnamon I think, but it takes 10 days to make. Plants are faster to get. Thank you for the idea.

 

[CountryHen19]

I feel like the members here are conscious enough about their birds health that i don't worry much about it. I do quarantine new birds usually about a month. I have 2 pairs of boots for my chores, winter and summer. I only wear them tending to the animals here, and working in the yard. When I go out to feed stores or other farms, I have one pair of shoes for that too.
As far as visitors i don't know, I rarely EVER let anyone in my coops. Its just too great of a risk. I have a small porch area that I currently brood and hatch in, and that gets bleached out regularly, its just a concrete floor.. I take visitors looking for chicks in that room only. I explain to everyone I cannot take the risk of losing my flock, but they are welcome to walk by the pens anytime. I plan to get some surgical booties eventually for visitors, many people recommend using them. My birds do free range most of the afternoon and evenings, but tend to shy away from strangers.

Thanks for the answer!

 

[CountryHen19]

Those are good ideas, but in our back yard we don't use any. Maybe we need to? I let whoever wants to in the coop/run. And welcome to BYC!

This is why I asked, I don't know how lax or strict we should be since we only have a backyard. Thanks for the welcome...I've mainly been lurking cause I don't have much to say until my chicks arrive. My DH is now freaking out because we don't have a coop built but I told him they have to be fully feathered to spend the night in the coop outside. We do have some lumber but have to get more to really start building.

 

[CountryHen19]

I have shoes that are my messy outdoor shoes. I take them off as soon as I enter my house in the shoe removal area. I have shoes that are my indoor shoes and then I have the different pairs of shoes that are for whatever occasion outside of the house like shopping, church, taking the kids to the park, ... I do not have special shoes for TSC. I have been there in dressy church shoes as well as tennis shoes, but never my chicken shoes. I only use my chicken shoes for the places I might step in chicken poo or high mud. So the shoe thing is more because i don't want stuff tracked through my house than any worry about a bird. And because a long time a go a coworker was sscolding his sone for touching the bottom of his shoe and rubbing spit into the soles ( children think of the strangest things) but the dad was all don't you know where you shoes have been. He then listed off a lot of places including the public restrooms. While this man was a touch OCD it got me thinking, so now we have inside shoes, have for way before the chickens came to our property.
When we get new chicks or adult birds I do separate them and use a sacrificial bird test. So far I have not gotten any sick sacrificial birds but I have lost some chicks in the isolation time.
I don't care for bleach and there is no way I would ask someone to wash with it. I do ask people to wash (soap and water or a wipe) their hands before touching a chicken and after too as many people forget how often they touch their face and such. Plus most of the people looking at our chickens are family with little ones. They are used to the hand washing but I make sure they know it is not like the 10 second rule.

Thanks for the reply! Oh, the bleach would be just for their footwear but I really don't want to use that since I do have dogs who will lick pretty much anything (as much dogs tend to do). Yes, I work with infants so I wash my hands constantly...understand that very well

 

[Crafty chick]

Danand! Oh lady, Iwent to orshelyn today and looked... they had a bin that said $1. I would have grabbed them up, but it was empty. All they had was RIR and BR. If there were bantys I would have taken them too! I am addicted to my bantys. I carried around my black cochin bantam roo like arm candy.

here's Itty Bitty and her manly boyfriend. She says "what Mom?!?!"