INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[kabhyper1]

Oh, and I meant to offense by that phrase. I just meant they are lovely already and will be even more so when they have fully filled out. You should see some of my showgirls around that age. Wish I had a pic handy. They are some AWKWARD teenagers! lol

I didn't take offense to it. lol They all look scruffy and jurassic at some point. I just love how silkies mumble and squeak and trill all the time. It is just the cutest thing.

 

[strssdmom]

I started my garden today. Got several potato plants in the ground. How many of you are starting your garden? Plus do any of you have gardens just for your flock?

I am slowly getting my garden planted. I have my potatoes in the potato bins (3 large totes). I have tomatoes, chives, basil, tomato peppers, sweet peppers, and mini sweet peppers in the starter trays. I have grapes, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberry bushes ready to go in the ground. The pumpkin garden bed has been cleaned out ready for planting.

I think tomorrow is planting day! I am getting very excited!

Sadly I do am not able to plant a garden for my chickens to enjoy. I have a neighbor that stops us from free ranging our chickens.

 

[strssdmom]

Hello from Terre Haute. Loving my new chicks!

Hello

from we are from Terre Haute, too! I have had my chicks just since March. We are enjoying them so MUCH! Welcome to the thread. I have learned most everything I know from the nice people on this thread. Good Luck! And enjoy!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

This is what I read on the meal worms:
http://hencam.com/faq/what-to-feed-your-chickens/

And I am unfortunately among the people that fed her chicks (about 12 of them) a couple handfulls of meal worms a day (sometimes more) since they were a couple days old. Call me ignorant, but my farmstore sells huge buckets of mealworms with packaging that has hen on it and says how happy they'll be to get em! I didn't know there was such as thing as too many! Luckily I knew chicks were supposed to get mostly feed or I might have had a problem! As it was, my chicks only had dark poo. I thought it was coccidosis, and have been treating them, but when I stopped giving mealworms, their poo went back to normal. I have started scattering the mealworms for them and making them work for the treat instead of having it in my hand for easy pickings!
Quote: No, I don't show birds myself. There are several on here that do! I just like to work on even color, good temperment of the birds. The olive egger mix is a Black copper Maran Roo, crossed with a blue egg layer such as Amerucana. I had thought about using russian orloff, but have heard they are a small-med sized egg.

 

[sirbuster]

I took my white turkeys out and they are having a great day outside, with my red stars.

 

[Crafty chick]

Turkey struts already? How cute!

 

[ldymelissande]

in building a run, has anyone used a pre-existing fence for a back and side? I have an 8 foot fence at the back property line that forms a small corner before it drops back to 3 feet at the side. I would like to attach my fencing to this and save a few feet. would this work?

I am hoping to get the materials next week and start construction. It is 84 here today so once they are big enough to not slip through chain link I am hoping to get them outside.

I have been worrying about how to make a good winter coop, and hubby tells me well we could always juist bring them in the garage if it gets too bad.....O think he might have gotten hooked, lol

 

[SallyinIndiana]

we have a privacy fence along one side of our run. we chose to run the welded fencing along the inside of it. it saved us posts but not fencing. the wood sometimes blows loose in the winter storms and we did not want anything getting in or out. we then ran chicken wire along the lowest 2 feet all around the run to keep our younger chickens in. We also topped our run with bird netting after losing a few pullets to hawks. We tried deer netting as a top but it did not work well as the wind would cause the seams to split making an opening to let the hawk in but not out.

 

[oldrooster]

in building a run, has anyone used a pre-existing fence for a back and side? I have an 8 foot fence at the back property line that forms a small corner before it drops back to 3 feet at the side. I would like to attach my fencing to this and save a few feet. would this work?

I am hoping to get the materials next week and start construction. It is 84 here today so once they are big enough to not slip through chain link I am hoping to get them outside.

I have been worrying about how to make a good winter coop, and hubby tells me well we could always juist bring them in the garage if it gets too bad.....O think he might have gotten hooked, lol

I would worry about preditors burrowing under the fence, if you can work something out using the existing fence and prevent that I would think it would work.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Chicken Language Word Of The Day:


ruination (roo-nation): what you are facing when it turns out the chicks you hatched are all males.