I was all set to say we'd be there, but you can't please everyone all the time. We are not big race fans, but we do enjoy the Indy 500/Brickyard 400. Guess what? The Brickyard is July 28th. Don't move the date of the chicken party for me. We *may* be able to get there early and leave early. It'd be impossible to try and get back to our house after the race lets out for 2-4 hours.INVITATION!!! It's a CHICKEN PARTY
I've been talking to jchny2000 about her idea for a get-together for the Indiana BYCers. She wasn't able to find a good place to hold it near her house, so I am volunteering to have it at my place.
On Sunday 28 July, my DSO (Significant Other) and I are going to host a meeting of the Central Indiana Poultry Enthusiasts. This is a small club of chicken folk from the general Indy area that meet every other month at the house of one of the members. We admire the hosts chickens and coops, talk endlessly about our birds, and shamelessly steal their best ideas to make our chicks more comfortable (kinda like we do on here!)
We'd like to invite anyone from the forum here that would like to come and meet other people as crazy about chickens as we are.
Here are some details and Ideas.
The meeting is usually from 3 to 5 or 6ish. Bring a lawn chair and a snack to share. Drinks will be provided. The DSO loves to cook, so there will be some fun things to eat too. There will be a tour of our coop and run setup and a meet and greet with our chickens and turkeys. We call it a meeting, but it really is just a chance to socialize with other chicken folk.
One of the things that was talked about was a workshop on processing poultry. I am blessed/cursed with an overabundance of boys at the current time. So I would like to propose that anyone interested in this portion of chickendom can show up around 11, and we can put on the workshop then. If you have a bird that needs to have that 'One Bad Day', go ahead and bring it. I can promise to have at least one bird for demo purposes and will probably have more than that if one or two people want to try their hand at it. For those that are not interested in this, we promise to be done and all cleaned up before 3.
Another idea is that if you know someone else who is coming and would like to arrange to swap/sell/transfer birds, that is fine by me. I have a large garage that has never seen my chickens, so I can offer it up as a place to keep birds being swapped so that they can be out of the sun and not kept in a car. Please make your arrangements ahead of time, and only bring birds that are already spoken for.
Our farm is located just east of Mooresville, IN. Which is located just SW of Indy not too far from the airport.
I'm just paranoid enough about things to not want to post my address and phone number on the forum where it is available to anyone and everyone, so what I would like to propose is that if you are interested in coming, please send me a PM, and I'll put together an email to send out to the participants with all the pertinent details.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, send me a note.
Hope you can make it!
Patrick
My spell checker here promises that if you come, he will be more than happy to entertain you with his cuteness. (Don't tell him that he will be at that awkward age by then....)
I agree, that was pretty good.
Thank you. I looked it up too and was unable to find anything definitive except that it just happens.
That's pretty good. I wish they could read because I'm starting to get less warm and fuzzy about my roos. I've been working on the coop and my kids sandbox for the last two days so the chicks have been outside with me a lot. The little hen wearing the saddle is still wearing it, so I guess its working, but she's starting out in such bad shape. I wonder how long it will take for new feathers to show up. Our little chicks (which are actually about full-sized) are inside the garden and the others are outside, so they have been mingling through the fence. Its pretty comical to watch.CRSelvey~ Pretty Pink Pinafore! Look at Google Image "Chicken Saddle Pattern" just to see different styles although yours looks great. I think this one with "Predators Eyes" is a good idea! What about one with a message for the Rooster: "Warning: Roosters who Rape end up in Freezer Prison!" I guess that might work if they could read.
I LOVE your screen name!!!
I have been hoping to get some buckeye hens too. They sound like really nice birds. Do you breed them? I'm hoping that my husband forgets that he said no more birds by next Spring, lol. I think once they are all out in the coop and he's got to play more golf instead of working on my stuff, his chicken pain and suffering will fade
I just pulled the trigger and ordered chicks from Cackle Hatchery in MO. I'm getting ten pullets - five Black Australorps and five Easter Eggers. *gulp* I'm limited to six hens since I live in the city, so my cousin is taking the extra four when they are ready.
Crafty Chick, you have some cute kids there. I'm sorry about your chickswow, so i went up to northern indiana to visit family the last 4 days. i am so not readine through the last 200 posts. the 2nd day we were there our older neighbor called. she said" i think your dog got loose and i hear squaking over there" and i said"our dog is with us..." she dropped the phone and ran over. someones dog traveled over a mile and killed 3 of my young chickens. i had always let them out to free range from dawn til dusk. never a problem. when i left for vacation i left my millie pair and black cochin hen in a tractor, my adult BO in their coop with the pop door to their run open, and the bantams/young BO door open with a fence tacked to the walls to make a run. it had jumped through the fence with the young ones.. grrrrrr so mad. people need to keep their dogs HOME!!! i have seen this dog one other time, at night, in the field. i would leave our dog out on a line next to the coops if i knew she wouldnt get pregnant or killed. i will shoot if i see it again.
sorry, had to vent. anyway, nice to see family for a few days. heres a pic of my kids at their grandparents lake house
Bradselig, I waited and waited for you to stop by to finish our coop, lol.
When you first said you had a cracked egg, my thought was "oh noooo" like there was something wrong, then I realized that I'm a ding dong and you had something really right!! Congratulations on all your little babies. Even if they aren't splashes, its still pretty exciting that it worked. Fingers crossed for you next time.Sorry about your loss crafty chick.People need to learn to lock up or control their dogs that can be a treat to people and their animals.I had a person lived about 3/4 a mile away that had two dogs that came down and would kill multiple chickens and ducks at a time.I told the people and their response was- well we try to tie them up, but they just get loose.So put them in yyour house!hellooo is it that hard to figure out.Some people just get on my nerves.Needless to say their dogs continued to kill chickens and ducks and we told them again theey did the same thing,so we called the sheriff which I have happen to know for years.They still didnt seem to concern but he explained how I could shoot their dogs.No more problemms since then!(or at leasst from those dogs i still have had rodent problems though)I hope you don't have anymore losses.
Okay I counted the chicks finally I have 9.. Sadly no splash chicks though
, I was looking forward to having a few.But I am going to leave the remaining eggs in until thursday just incase I have some that hatch really late.Crossing my fingers that at if more eggs hatch at least one is a splash.I really want one.I still have 12 eggs left.
Your coop and run are looking great!!!Grabbed a quick photo of the run at lunch. We've dug out a foot deep trench to bury the 1/2" hardware cloth. The run will be completely enclosed and the chickens will be able to go under the coop for shade when confined. I'm planning on painting the door as well, just haven't gotten there yet.
That is one lovely chicken ,lol!It would be a long shot, but depending upon how much time you want to spend trying, here is what happened with a peachick that I hatched a few years ago.
This is how Trooper hatched.
These are the "shoes" I built from pipe cleaners.
After about 3 days. Of course, I had to keep putting them back on every time he picked them off.
Trooper now
Its very nice of you to extend the invite. I hope that I can come too. That's not paranoid, that's just smart, I mean you are giving it out to people who admittedly have issues...at least when it comes to chickens!!INVITATION!!! It's a CHICKEN PARTY
I've been talking to jchny2000 about her idea for a get-together for the Indiana BYCers. She wasn't able to find a good place to hold it near her house, so I am volunteering to have it at my place.
On Sunday 28 July, my DSO (Significant Other) and I are going to host a meeting of the Central Indiana Poultry Enthusiasts. This is a small club of chicken folk from the general Indy area that meet every other month at the house of one of the members. We admire the hosts chickens and coops, talk endlessly about our birds, and shamelessly steal their best ideas to make our chicks more comfortable (kinda like we do on here!)
We'd like to invite anyone from the forum here that would like to come and meet other people as crazy about chickens as we are.
Here are some details and Ideas.
The meeting is usually from 3 to 5 or 6ish. Bring a lawn chair and a snack to share. Drinks will be provided. The DSO loves to cook, so there will be some fun things to eat too. There will be a tour of our coop and run setup and a meet and greet with our chickens and turkeys. We call it a meeting, but it really is just a chance to socialize with other chicken folk.
One of the things that was talked about was a workshop on processing poultry. I am blessed/cursed with an overabundance of boys at the current time. So I would like to propose that anyone interested in this portion of chickendom can show up around 11, and we can put on the workshop then. If you have a bird that needs to have that 'One Bad Day', go ahead and bring it. I can promise to have at least one bird for demo purposes and will probably have more than that if one or two people want to try their hand at it. For those that are not interested in this, we promise to be done and all cleaned up before 3.
Another idea is that if you know someone else who is coming and would like to arrange to swap/sell/transfer birds, that is fine by me. I have a large garage that has never seen my chickens, so I can offer it up as a place to keep birds being swapped so that they can be out of the sun and not kept in a car. Please make your arrangements ahead of time, and only bring birds that are already spoken for.
Our farm is located just east of Mooresville, IN. Which is located just SW of Indy not too far from the airport.
I'm just paranoid enough about things to not want to post my address and phone number on the forum where it is available to anyone and everyone, so what I would like to propose is that if you are interested in coming, please send me a PM, and I'll put together an email to send out to the participants with all the pertinent details.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, send me a note.
Hope you can make it!
Patrick
My spell checker here promises that if you come, he will be more than happy to entertain you with his cuteness. (Don't tell him that he will be at that awkward age by then....)
I will very likely be there.INVITATION!!! It's a CHICKEN PARTY
I've been talking to jchny2000 about her idea for a get-together for the Indiana BYCers. She wasn't able to find a good place to hold it near her house, so I am volunteering to have it at my place.
On Sunday 28 July, my DSO (Significant Other) and I are going to host a meeting of the Central Indiana Poultry Enthusiasts. This is a small club of chicken folk from the general Indy area that meet every other month at the house of one of the members. We admire the hosts chickens and coops, talk endlessly about our birds, and shamelessly steal their best ideas to make our chicks more comfortable (kinda like we do on here!)
