INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Mother2Hens]

Welcome to the Indiana Thread barb s ~ Feel free to chime in anytime and ask questions, tell about experiences, and post photos!
Kaphyper~ I LOVE Gus, the teapot rooster! His markings are beautiful and his tail looks really cool, too. He's very artsy looking. : - )




Old Salt~ Your Lab doggy is beautiful. I also meant to mention a while back when you posted your grandson's photo because he just got his driver's license that he is a handsome dude (I'm sure he takes after you! Hopefully, just in looks and not in his philosophies.) Ha!!

bradselig~ We HAVE to see a photo of you driving a car full of guineas!!!! hahahaha

SkinNFluff & pipd~ These lawn chairs will grow up healthy!

 

[bradselig]

It looks like ill be running the chicken train next friday (not tomorrow) to sally's (littleameraucanamom) place for chicks. There were others here interested in ither birds she has. Please get with me and her if youd like me to pick something up from here or along the way to work out payment. I dont have times planned but hoping to leave here in the morning.

 

[Quinstar]

It looks like ill be running the chicken train next friday (not tomorrow) to sally's (littleameraucanamom) place for chicks. There were others here interested in ither birds she has. Please get with me and her if youd like me to pick something up from here or along the way to work out payment. I dont have times planned but hoping to leave here in the morning.

OK, silly question, but how does a full grown guinea measure up to a full grown LF chicken? I'm trying to plan out for space and figure out how many guineas I want and still account for the few chickens I want to get next year without expanding. Also, I really want to be sure that everyone will get along ok.

Who all has both and what's your experience been.

Also, thanks so much for being willing to do this Bradselig!!! It's greatly appreciated. I'll PM you after I talk to Sally to work out details.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Old Salt~ Your Lab doggy is beautiful. I also meant to mention a while back when you posted your grandson's photo because he just got his driver's license that he is a handsome dude (I'm sure he takes after you! Hopefully, just in looks and not in his philosophies.) Ha!!

Grandson Luke does not agree with me philosophically.

He thinks Rush Limbaugh is a liberal.

John

 

[Quinstar]

Okay here are my sl/w at around 2 months
Gus

Jules

OK, I feel a little better now. Except now I'm wondering if Magnolia is in face a roo...... She looks a bit more like Gus than Jules...

Thoughts? Please vote pullet.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Old Salt~ Your Lab doggy is beautiful. I also meant to mention a while back when you posted your grandson's photo because he just got his driver's license that he is a handsome dude (I'm sure he takes after you! Hopefully, just in looks and not in his philosophies.) Ha!!

Lab doggy is not so beautiful today.

I was over at a neighbor's house Monday to help him figure out what to do with some dead trees. His bulldog mix came out of the house and grabbed Millie by the right ear and wouldn't let go. I kicked the (*&%^#I dog so hard and so often that I'm still limping from a sprained ankle. I gave up on that and got down on my knees and strangled the blasted thing until he finally let go. I shouldn't have let go for another 20 or 30 minutes.

I put peroxide on the wound, but it got infected anyhow. Took her to the vet. $73 for antibiotics. The ligaments in her ear were torn loose, so now that ear hangs down from her skull an inch lower than the other. Don't know what that will cost to repair. I could just change her name from Millie to Lop-Ear or Loppy.

I gave them a copy of the bill. I don't ever expect reimbursement.

No small wonder, the infection, their house is a garbage pit filth hole. They don't have money for soap, but fortunately can still scrape up enough for the occasional pot fest. No phone service for lack of payment, but nice new Obama smartphone. I have spent a couple of hundred hours and more dollars than that trying to help them. I have determined that if a cleaning crew came in and cleaned and remodeled their house, within a month, it would revert back to current condition. I replaced deteriorated plaster in their bathroom and told them to paint it or it would fall apart within a year or so. It did. Oh, well. Enough rant.

I partly blame myself. I knew they had a mean dog that they couldn't let out of the house. I should have penned Millie. She follows me everywhere when I'm on the ATV. I just had a senior moment. D*mn!

John

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

It looks like ill be running the chicken train next friday (not tomorrow) to sally's (littleameraucanamom) place for chicks. There were others here interested in ither birds she has. Please get with me and her if youd like me to pick something up from here or along the way to work out payment. I dont have times planned but hoping to leave here in the morning.

I'll need to know by Friday on some breeds, as I'm going to a swap Saturday, Not sure what I'm taking yet but don't want to take something that someone wants.

 

[herebynightfall]

OK, I feel a little better now. Except now I'm wondering if Magnolia is in face a roo...... She looks a bit more like Gus than Jules...

Thoughts? Please vote pullet.

Personally, I would vote pullet, but that is comparing her to my very obvious roo:





This is what my two girls look like right now:



Mine are at 8 weeks right now.

 

[Quinstar]

Ok, I just read the guineas will know my chickens off their roost at night.... is that true?

 

[Quinstar]

Personally, I would vote pullet, but that is comparing her to my very obvious roo:





This is what my two girls look like right now:



Mine are at 8 weeks right now.

Mine are 8 weeks old right now too. That makes me feel a little better. She is the only one I'm still not 100% sure on.