INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[vickichicki]

Thanks I cant believe how crazy busy I have been lately.

I know that feeling... Nice to see you on, even if it is for a few posts and just for an update

 

[vickichicki]

want to give a shout out to vickichicki!
It was so nice to meet you and your husband and to see your produce stand!!! Can't wait to eat that squash.... and I'll try to save some for the girls too

It was finally nice to talk "chicken" with somebody face to face and not get a "You have chickens?" reaction.(My DBF just listens to me talk about them and never gets as excited about them as I do, all he cares about is butchering! and i say No sir, not my pets!!!!

Anyway, for anybody who is in the Indianapolis area at around 10th and post, vickichicki has some really good produce!!!

Loving everyones' pictures! Oldsalt, you crack me up with your fly paper stories!

TTFN!

Really appreciate you stopping by. It was a nice surprise and a great way to end the work day talking chickens

Hope your flock love the cabbage and squash!!

Look forward to seeing you again. I think broccoli will be on the menu for next week...Haha

 

[vickichicki]

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

The mind boggles with how some people live. Letting life slide by sucking on everyone else to keep their meager existence.
I cringe when guest arrive unannounced and I have not ran my vacuum. I hate the front yard which sits in a state of limbo until I can muster enough time to move my river rock.
The fact people do not even see how bad they live or do not care their animal is a nuisance and how it effects other... well.. it gets my goat.... I could rant for hours on this subject.

Sorry your helpful efforts led to your Millie suffering. Makes a person not want to help others out.

 

[Quinstar]

you need a misting bottle. They are typically sold in the hair section at the dollar store. Then all you have to do is mix the vanilla 50 / 50 with water and mist the dog anywhere you don't want to touch. I had the water so that it sprays better and saves a little money too. I have the real stuff though as I like the taste better in some of the cookies I make in the winter.

I hope you all get feeling better too.

Have you ever made your own? It's significantly cheaper than buying it in the store. Take a bottle and a handful of full vanilla beans, fill it with vodka or rum, and let it sit for 3-4 months min. Then replenish with vodka or rum (depending on what you started with) as you use it. They sell kits for it as well.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

For those wanting Brad to pickup birds for them. Instead of me writing over and over what I have I'm just going to list them, here, Not sure how much room he'll have you'll have to talk to him about the delivery.

All birds are out of show stock

1. LF dark Cornish $10 each these will be a couple days to 1 wk
2. white silkie chicks about 4-5 weeks $15 each
3. Buckeye chicks 3-4 weeks $7 each
4.black and blue silkie cockrels $15 each 4-5 months old
5. LF black and blue cochin 4-6 weeks $15 each
6. Guineas Lavender and pearls some are bibbed 6-8 weeks $8 each , 3-4 weeks $5 each

Then I have some odds and end roosters $10 each (all older and outside already)
1. modern game
2. welsummers
3.Bantam ameraucana

The more you buy the bigger a discount I give. !!!

 

[Quinstar]

For those of you that free range, how old were your birds when you started letting them out of the run. We are hoping to get our run finished up this weekend, but I'm sure the chickens will decimate that of everything green in no time.

 

[bradselig]

CRSelvey posted: [The galvanized waterer] probably is better than the plastic one. I was thinking about getting one of these for outside:
http://chickenfountain.com/ and maybe a single to go on a soda bottle for the inside. We just aren't quite that far yet. Ultimately, I want something that needs little maintenance if we go out of town for up to a week. Now that our kids are in school, I seem to be able to go less, but I keep trying, lol.
Also, if you are still working on your chicks name, Elizabeth, Kate, and Diana are all available. Just because she's a little awkward now doesn't mean she will be in the future Mother2Hens replies: [COLOR=800000]METAL nipples don't seem very comforting! And chickens don't nurse! [/COLOR][COLOR=8B4513]Poor chickens get all kinds of tricks played on them from wooden eggs to metal nipples. haha But seriously, I know that many of you have commented on how great that type of watering system is. I have just wondered if that type is a pain to clean-- because of mold forming in all of the little crevices of the nipple and algae in the PVC pipe, especially during hot, humid weather. Seems like you'd have to clean it with a bleach solution often, but that's just speculation. [/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Any comments about keeping the nipple type of waterers clean?[/COLOR] [COLOR=800000]Royal names for my Jubilee pullet~[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Thank you to all who posted suggestions, but this is why we end up with generic names like Jersey for our JG and Lacey for our SLW . . . because of my family members' comments: "Britainy, Dutchess,and Queenie are DOG names." "We have a cousin named Kate...and aunts named Margaret and Elizabeth." "She doesn't look like a Diana." My family members are just a bunch of malcontents!! My poor pullet will probably end up being named "Jubilee" or "Chicken."[/COLOR] [COLOR=660066]barb s~[/COLOR] [COLOR=660066]Very pretty assortment in your flock![/COLOR][COLOR=8B4513] [/COLOR] [COLOR=A52A2A]Cluck~ Good to hear from you![/COLOR] [COLOR=008080]Quinstar~I have a SLW and I vote that yours is a pullet. : - )[/COLOR] [COLOR=000066]bradselig~ I need you to pick up a dozen of these man/birds, put them in your car (don't forget their seat belts!) and deliver them to Sally's. Have someone take a photo of you in the driver's seat with all of your precious cargo. haha If you're bringing guineas to Quinstar, what happens if they hear a car honk or a siren? Do you have noise-cancelling headphones?[/COLOR]

haha. Ive actually been eyeing birchen modern game bantam eggs on ebay

 

[HouseKat]

I love the idea of a "Coop Raising"!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

They're doing good! Getting BIG!! I cleaned out their brooder yesterday and ended up with chicks (and chick POOP) all over my bed, the little snots! Guess who led the way!

I'm planning on taking them outside for the first time tomorrow (today?

I'm up later than usual), so here's hoping everything goes as planned!
She sure doesn't! This is a Diana!

I bett they will love it outside.My almost two month old chicks have never seen grass before...i know shame on me.They are in a pen with a dirt floor but this is just their temporary pen.When they get moved to the other barn into a grow out pen I am going to let them run around in the grass for a little bit.Make sure you don't lose any outside, you never know where the little ringleader (rangi) will take them lol.

 

[HouseKat]

My suggestion is Victoria, for the queen who had both a Golden Jubilee (50 years) and a Diamond Jubilee (60 years).