INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Too Fast]

We will one day destroy our own race in one way or another. I know this to be inevitable because the people that reproduce the least are the people that are able to support the most.

Wow well said.

 

[vodkalady]

i am a newbie at raising chickies...we have 14 new babies...3 wks old now and thriving so far..knock on wood. we hail from grahamsville NY

 

[hogster160]

Ok question for everyone. I wanted my roost to be single with a try under them to catch the droppings and to go along the 12' wall and 8' wall. And that way the chickens wouldn't lose any square footage. Hubby built them ladder style, 6' long by 5' out from the wall. He says we need them together for the winter so they generate more heat and stay together.. I say we just lost 30 sq' as they chickens won't want to hang out under the roost on snowy rainy days cause of all the poop. He says they do it now in the brooder box so its no big deal, I say they have no choice as its a brooder box!

Whats everyone think! HELP!

Deb

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Hey, PipdZipdandReady

You named all your chickens.  Can you come up with 54 names for my critters?

John

Well, you're probably joking here, but yes, yes I could.

Ok question for everyone.  I wanted my roost to be single with a try under them to catch the droppings and to go along the 12' wall and 8' wall.  And that way the chickens wouldn't lose any square footage.  Hubby built them ladder style, 6' long by 5' out from the wall.  He says we need them together for the winter so they generate more heat and stay together..  I say we just lost 30 sq' as they chickens won't want to hang out under the roost on snowy rainy days cause of all the poop.  He says they do it now in the brooder box so its no big deal, I say they have no choice as its a brooder box!

Whats everyone think! HELP!

Deb

While I think your hubby's reasoning for it is wrong, as long as there's nothing blocking them from getting underneath, they shouldn't lose any floorspace for that style of roost. My roost is ladder style and the girls hang out under there all the time. They even have dust baths in the sand if I've scooped out all the droppings.

 

[animallover2202]

The reason I asked about frizzle wings is cuz Mr Frizz wings look weird he has one full feather and the rest are all ragged

 

[ShawnaScott]

I was walking home today from work, and there was a baby bird in the middle of a highway! I scooped it up, but I couldn't find any trees or nests or anything. It was right outside my house, so I brought him in, but now looking at him, I think he's a fledgeling. What do you guys think?


I certainly don't want to keep him in if he's already supposed to be out of the nest! But I couldn't leave him to die on the road so...If he's big enough I'll go put him out near where I found him but well away from the road!

EDIT: I researched more and it said a fledgling has all feathers, he didn't have all of them but most. So I sat outside a while and watched the birds. I saw some that I think are starlings going to a light pole clost to where he was in the road. So I put him under that. He squaks loud enough, I'm sure they'll hear him.

 

[bradselig]

Took some pictures on May 16 of the most recent hatch (1-2 day old when pics taken). 11 of 11 birchen marans hatched, but one passed last night. Must have just been a weak chick.

The single blue birchen chick

Lav Orp chicks (they are still skittish)

And the ugly crew (naked necks and showgirls) and silkies

 

[instar8]

i am a newbie at raising chickies...we have 14 new babies...3 wks old now and thriving so far..knock on wood. we hail from grahamsville NY

Hi ya vodkalady....more of a rummycoke meself ;~). Welcome to the Hoosier state...don't ask me what a Hoosier is, i always heard it was "hoosier Daddy?" What kind of chickens do you have?

lynn

 

[kabhyper1]

If you really want Cochin, I would pass on these. I bought 10 day-old Cochin. They had, and still do have, very furry feet. I wouldn't trust these to be true.

John

I agree, my little lavender one I got from warsaw big R. She has foot feathers like crazy. I think someone tagged the ones Quinstar saw, wrong. Put the wrong sign on the bin.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

When I went out last night to close the henhouse door, I noticed the Orpingtons picking on the new Wyandotte's, so I got out the guillotine style dog nail trimmer and went through the whole flock, snipping the hook point off of each upper beak. Now they can sort it out without doing any permanent damage to one another. For the squeamish, it's not unlike trimming your fingernails.

I put the ducks in with the chickens and put the guineas in the chicken tractor to clear out a space for the 25 1-week old chicks. They are starting to fly high enough that soon they will be able to clear the cardboard enclosure. From there it's only inevitable that they would end up in the basement sump pit and drown. They gotta go to the henhouse. I will probably trim their flight feathers anyhow, just so I can keep them contained. I only trim one wing. That way they go up a little ways, bank sharply right (the short wing), and come back down. Sounds goofy, but works real well.

John