INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[racinchickins]

Does anyone in the Indianapolis area know of a source for pallets? I've seen some great ideas on BYC for building coops and runs out of pallets, and I'd like to try my hand at that. I don't mind the work of tearing them apart, and the free wood aspect is very attractive.

 

[SkinNFluff]

so how has our northern friends held up through the storms? i hope everyone is ok. any water logged chickens?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I went out to checkon the chickens and baby bunnies and my barn door got blown in.The bottom 2 ft is about ripped off from being blown in so far.I can't even pull it back to were it is supposed to be.I will just see if my brother in law or another family member can fix it.Other than that no damageand despite the terrible winds nothing blew away suprisingly.All the animals are okay.So everything is good here, How is everone else?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

so how has our northern friends held up through the storms? i hope everyone is ok. any water logged chickens?

I don't have any water logged chickens, but I do have a water logged lawn chair...does that count?lol.Did the weather get bad down by where you live?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

We're all good here! The area dug out for my coop addition is flooded AGAIN, but no real damage to anything.

 

[SkinNFluff]

so how has our northern friends held up through the storms? i hope everyone is ok. any water logged chickens?

I don't have any water logged chickens, but I do have a water logged lawn chair...does that count?lol.Did the weather get bad down by where you live?

they were saying 70% chance of precipitation for last night and 50% for today. we got nothing last night and they have lowered today's chance to 10%. now we are getting some decent gusts of wind here and there but nothing of concern.

i truly hope your lawn chair dries out before it gets sick or anything. i had one get sick once. it just sat in the same spot of the yard for a very very long time. believe it or not it was worse than a broody silkie! i finally adopted it out to a neighbor and replaced it. sadly the replacement chair must have caught what ever the other one had because it just sits around all day too. :/

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

That's so sad! It must be in your ground now. My lawn chairs are quite healthy, but I put them into a shelter every night, so that must be what keeps them from getting so sick.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

they were saying 70% chance of precipitation for last night and 50% for today. we got nothing last night and they have lowered today's chance to 10%. now we are getting some decent gusts of wind here and there but nothing of concern.

i truly hope your lawn chair dries out before it gets sick or anything. i had one get sick once. it just sat in the same spot of the yard for a very very long time. believe it or not it was worse than a broody silkie! i finally adopted it out to a neighbor and replaced it. sadly the replacement chair must have caught what ever the other one had because it just sits around all day too. :/

lol. i wish i was on my compiter then i could put the laugjing smiley face. Ya the chickens are pretty devestatzd they usually lay underneath it ans they didnt take it very well when i told them lol.

 

[kabhyper1]

The latest on my latest additions~ English Orpington Jubilee - approx. 8 weeks and Lavender Orpington approx. 9 weeks. We've had them a week now and have one named: The Lavender is named Violet. If you think that is lame, I'm the one with the Jersey Giant named Jersey, a SLW named Lacey, a tiger cat named Tiger, etc. etc. We're trying to come up with a Royal English name, but haven't found one that fits a scraggly chick. haha

We've quarantined the pullets by putting them in a chicken tractor in a different area of the yard where the hens don't usually hang out. We've brought them in at night to a large dog crate next to the sliding glass door in the basement. The good news is that when the hens happened to run across the chicks one day, the chicks weren't afraid at all because they were used to living in a big flock. My five hens slowly walked around the perimeter of the tractor. The only hen that was a little aggressive was --- yes, Nene my crazy RIR. I shooed her away, The next day, we had a sudden, short rain. While I was trying to cover the tractor, the chicks walked out and started free ranging. The hens didn't even blink an eye. So, the quarantine hasn't gone perfectly, but the introductions have gone better than expected. Even my three cats have stayed away from the chicks. They know what beaks do, and the cats don't like to be pecked in the nose. The only aspect about the chicks that is a little disappointing is that they are nervous around people. I'm trying to keep in mind that it's only been a little over a week. They do have a sweet, gentle look about them as well as emitting sweet, soft bird sounds.

These photos aren't so great because of background clutter. I dropped out the background on one. I need to take some myself to see if I can do any better.

Name your royal english, Queenie, lol.

 

[SkinNFluff]

That's so sad! It must be in your ground now. My lawn chairs are quite healthy, but I put them into a shelter every night, so that must be what keeps them from getting so sick.

you may be onto something there. i will have to try that.

they were saying 70% chance of precipitation for last night and 50% for today. we got nothing last night and they have lowered today's chance to 10%. now we are getting some decent gusts of wind here and there but nothing of concern.

i truly hope your lawn chair dries out before it gets sick or anything. i had one get sick once. it just sat in the same spot of the yard for a very very long time. believe it or not it was worse than a broody silkie! i finally adopted it out to a neighbor and replaced it. sadly the replacement chair must have caught what ever the other one had because it just sits around all day too. :/

lol. i wish i was on my compiter then i could put the laugjing smiley face. Ya the chickens are pretty devestatzd they usually lay underneath it ans they didnt take it very well when i told them lol.

well our pretty blue skys just turned black. instant down poor. chickens running for cover from the killer falling sky. ok now that's over and we have pretty blue sky's with the sun shining. guess we got the 10% for a whole 2 minutes. our chickens are now out there crowing up a storm telling that evil rain what they thought of that.