INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Chaneys Ranch]

RhondaCaroline~ Welcome to the Indiana Thread! Hope you find good homes for your chickens. Please see info below.

irtehun~ Welcome to the Indiana Thread! Seems like there are many thread members from your general area. You can click on the link below my signature to view the list. You might read the info below first.

Do you want to be listed on the BYC Indiana Members’ List? “Being a member of this thread” just means adding your screen name and flock info, which can be helpful because the list is a spreadsheet format that lets you sort the list by breed, county, or other category. It’s an easy way to find other members who have the same breed you have or who live in a nearby county, etc.

Click on the link below my signature to view the list. Just look at the bottom of the list page for sorting options.

If you’d like to be added, send me a PM (personal message) by simply placing your cursor over my screen name: Mother2Hens, and you will see “Send a PM.” A personal message ensures that your info is added. Please send your screen name, county, and city. Also include the following information about each member of your flock: List each species (chicken, duck, etc.), breed (Barred Rock, etc.), is it a LF (Large Fowl) or Bantam? Quinstar actually adds the info, so you can PM her directly, too-- whatever is the easiest for you.

Thank you Quinstar (Erin) for recently adding a long list of information!
If you have questions about the thread, please PM jchny2000 (Janet) who started this Indiana Thread.

Indiana County Map for instant member location
If anyone would like a map of your county, like the one on my avatar, I will be happy to provide one. If someone wants a combo map and a chicken or an animal for your avatar, I can put that together for you, just PM me. When I read posts, many times I think “Now where are they from?” I look at the city and still have no idea what part of the state they’re from. The map icon with the county in red because you could quickly glance and see where the member who is posting is from. These avatars are not required-- they are just a free service if you’re interested.

AVATAR UPDATES
If members would like me to change the photo(s) on their avatars, just PM me. Someone might have a picture of a chick that has grown into a hen (or a roo!) and would like to update the photo or someone might like something totally different.

BYC Indiana Google Map for detailed information
Cluck Acres set up a Google Map for just us INDIANA BYC’ers. You must first log on to your Google account or make a Google account. (If you have gmail, just use your gmail password). All you have to do is go to this link....http://goo.gl/maps/UShV6 . Here are the directions. You will see the state of Indiana.. Zoom in to where you live and then click on the red button that says Edit. After you click Edit you will see a hand, blue pin point and a zig zag line on the map. Click the pin point and drag it to where you live on the map. After you have placed your pin point then click on it and you can edit your description by adding your county. If you want to change your blue pin point to another icon or upload your own then up on the right of that box click the pin point icon and choose others or upload your own icon. If anyone has problems with this feel free to ask.

This information is periodically posted by Mother2Hens (Julie).

Thank you to our contributors that keep our info updated! I am very grateful to you

"HouseKat~ Did you decide to construct a gazebo coop? It would make a lovely summer home for your chicks."

We are doing it, but didn't get it completed as planned yesterday due to some missing pieces. We have everything now and will try again next Saturday. The sooner the better, because this morning we had a JAILBREAK!! I walked down the hall to the back bedroom and noticed that it was suspiciously quiet, when I opened the door the cover had been pulled off of both tote boxes! All of the Easter Eggers and one of the Black Australorps were out of the brooders. We got them all rounded up and secured the covers better.

theres always that moment of "gasp" then you start laughing

I'm new here and from Northern Indiana. North of Fort Wayne in a small town called Albion.

and glad you have joined our thread!

If I have missed anyone I apologize, I read every post, but sometimes miss a page

 

[SkinNFluff]

So other than actually watching them lay is there any way to tell exactly who is laying eggs? I've got at least 3 layers now but I'm not for sure who. I've got 12 pullets

one hen per cage. though not very practical.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Originally Posted by SallyinIndiana
I would love a kitten if we find someone. But I don't think i want to drive that far for one. I would even take two if some one brought them to the party. I would also offer them a free rooster for their trouble.
No real update on my injured hen. I have to say if this kind of thing happens again once I know how to process a chicken, the injured chicken will be put out of its misery. Right now she is skin and bones but eating better. Her comb has shrunk drastically and waded as well. She can move around but not easily and has started using her wings for support. I give her until the end of August then its a small cut to end her pain. Unless anyone here wants to adopt her. Then they can have her now for free of course.

Am so sorry to hear it. I have some failures with splays as well as leg injuries. If they aren't improving my outlook is the same, I wont let them suffer.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

After googling pictures I am wondering if bantam cochins and favorelles would make cute babies....

Hehehe chicken math is rumbling in the background.....

I just put the eggs in today after having to buy a new incubator yesterday and I'm doing dry incubation but the humidity is 45%. Is that ok or does it need to be lower ?

I try to be about 40% or lower, but with this weather its hard to do, humidity is awful.

Hello! Is anyone interested in any Bantam Salmon Favorelle Roos?? Have three i recieved in a straight run. Very pretty and about 4 months old.

welcome to the thread!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Here was my most recent hatch, 3 tolbunt polish and 2 crested legbars (pair). Not the best hatches, but got my money out of the eggs from the hatch. I can't complain about that!

Wednesday starts a week of lockdowns on the last eggs I plan on incubating this year. I have another half dozen of tolbunts, 2 dozen of legbars, and about 1.5 dozen rhodebars. Hoping to get a few more pullet legbars and Rhodebars and ill take any and all tolbunt that hatch lol. Then my bator will be turned off for the first time since mid February! Can't wait to see if my electric bill decreases!

Adorable babies!!! LOL, I keep saying no more too. Mines all been steady since the end of January.

just got back from fishing vacation in minnesota. had a lot of fun. i dont think i have it in me to read over 400 posts from the week. hope all is ok around the hoosier forum. heard some storms went through when we were gone. kids had a great time. my girl loves fishing and could sit for hours. she caught a blue gill bigger than my hand from casting out to reeling in all by herself.

awesome, sounds like you had a great time! ! I have yet to fish this year

craving some crappie. bluegill, stripers or some channel cat would be yummy too!

Update... What do we think? Girls or boys?

top left and right ROO i think....

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I would love a kitten if we find someone. But I don't think i want to drive that far for one. I would even take two if some one brought them to the party. I would also offer them a free rooster for their trouble.

That was my thought, too. I may or may not be going to the party (probably not because of the drive), but if anyone in northeast Indiana is going and would be willing to take a kitten or two with them...

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

The babies at 9 weeks old!


Rangi the Ancona!

Huka the Silver Lakenvelder:

Ihi the Golden Campine:

Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi:

Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:

Whiri the Light Brown Leghorn:

And the little boys, Hika Ma the Easter-egger bantam...

...And Po the black Cochin bantam:

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I have 6 chicks (yes I managed to count them after a few tries lol) and 3 eggs that have craked. Hoping I will get some more chicks! I had 21 eggs left to hatch and 3 of they are in the process of hatching. I would love to get a 50% hatch rate, so 13 or 14 chicks, crossing my fingers.

jchnny2000- I dont remember when you said your eggs were suppose tohatch, but has anything happened yet?

I have been hatching eggs since january and plan to keep hatching all year. Around 1 hatch every month or 2. You gotta have chicks all the time lol!

Welcome to all the new members!

Bradselig- Cute chicks! I hope your next hatch goes good too.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

My grandson helped me and we got the permanent fence up.

Here is the temporary - west side


east side


New fence - 64' x 64'


Dog about to become hen-pecked.


Many fluffy butts.


Chickens stealing potato skin snacks from Millie.


Millie said "Watch me do the Moses number and part the sea of chickens". Silver laced Wyandottes
not very impressive in their markings. Wyandottes and Jerseys are all pullets. Cochin are straight run.
Buff Orpingtons are straight run: turned out 7 roos and 5 pullets.


The cochins and the red laced wyandottes appear to be quality stock from efowl.com.


Blue cochin rooster.


Same rooster with hen looking on (2 months old). Jersey Black Giant hen getting a drink.


I plan to be at the Mooresville 7/28 get together with 10 freezer bound roos about 4 months old.
If they don't irritate me beforehand.

I have
12 Buff Orpington (7 roos),
8 Indian runner ducks (2 chocolate, 4 blue, 2 fawn and white)
6 Buff Cochin
5 Blue Cochin
6 Jersey Black Giants
5 Silver Laced Wyandottes
5 Gold Laced Wyandottes
1 Yellow Labrador Retriever
1 Beat-to-hell Red Golden Pheasant with a lame leg that hasn't gotten any better. I checked and it doesn't appear to be the displaced hock tendon problem. I'm just going to leave him to maybe heal. We will know in a month or so.

Here is a picture of the poor little critter in the dog cage which is his rehab center for the time being. His name is Jimmy Hop-Along. Or possibly Weed-Wacker Jimmy.


John

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I have 6 chicks (yes I managed to count them after a few tries lol) and 3 eggs that have craked. Hoping I will get some more chicks! I had 21 eggs left to hatch and 3 of they are in the process of hatching. I would love to get a 50% hatch rate, so 13 or 14 chicks, crossing my fingers.

jchnny2000- I dont remember when you said your eggs were suppose tohatch, but has anything happened yet?

I have been hatching eggs since january and plan to keep hatching all year. Around 1 hatch every month or 2. You gotta have chicks all the time lol!

Welcome to all the new members!

Bradselig- Cute chicks! I hope your next hatch goes good too.

50% on shipped makes me happy. Have had 2 0's, and one batch only 1 hatched.
Yes, had a good hatch on my Texas A&M quail, got 8 out of 14 eggs. leaving them in one more day but I think they are done.
So my quail count is at 60, and have a good stock of breeders to pick from.
Should start to see eggs this week out of the jumbos

I have guinea, pekin, and msc chicken hatching this week also.
I moved hatch day to wednesday so its not interfering with our camping trips once a month.

The babies at 9 weeks old!

Rangi the Ancona!






Huka the Silver Lakenvelder:




Ihi the Golden Campine:




Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi:




Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:




Whiri the Light Brown Leghorn:





And the little boys, Hika Ma the Easter-egger bantam...



...And Po the black Cochin bantam:

they have sure grown up! Rangi is still my fav, what a pretty baby.