INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Chaneys Ranch]

what are the laws and regulations in Milford for byc?

Call your town hall and ask them if there is an ordinance regarding chickens.

hopefully there's not!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

My second year of owning chickens is today and a birthday for 7 hens

( actually there was 24 but I gave 13 to my friend and then 3 of mine died to a predator and another one died from hypothermia because she went broody in the middle of winter

Today they are going to have some delicious treats and free range with my protection ( been seeing tons of hawks lately not going to risk it)

happy day for the ladies!!

My oldest daughter just won Champion in the feather-legged bantam class with her Buff Cochin rooster at the Parke County Fair! Very proud of her. About 14 or 15 in the class. Wish I had room to hatch some more eggs, but my coop and cages are full She also won Grand Champion with her Barred Rock eggs. We never had an egg class when I was in 4-H. ...on another note, I entered my honey in the open class and got my first Grand Champion in open showing. My 10th year in 4-H was in 1991, so it's been a while since I have showed anything. Sold our barrows at the 4-H auction last night...a real tear jerker for the girls, esp. my oldest. Felt bad for her but its another deposit into the college fund. Just rambling to get up to 20 posts so I can bid on the egg auction....

and our thread!!!

Ramble away!!!!

So to preface this I have never incubated anything but chicken eggs. I have a duck egg that should have hatched yesterday, but nothing. So very frustrated right now. I've been trying to keep the humidity up, and when I last added water I must say that I did candle the egg and it appeared to being moving inside, but I did not see any internal pip. Any advice from those of you that have incubated duck eggs before!?! Thank you

What breed of duck? Muscovy are 35 day incubation....

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Today will wrap up the 9th and final day of our fair! It actually went by really fast. Like Indiana Dave our kids auctioned their animals (only 1 rabbit each) which helps add a small drop to the college fund. I'm really proud of the kids & their accomplishments this year -- hope you don't mind my bragging! Chloe (she'll be a freshman this coming year) won a 4-H Leadership Award, a 4-H Achievement Award and was the Champion in her division of Rabbit Illustrated Talk. She'll also be competing in Illustrated Talk contest this coming Friday at State Fair. Benji (7th grade) has his first ever sewing project (a duffle bag) and his rabbit poster going to State Fair. They both also won their division of Rabbit Ambassador competition, so we'll be heading down to Indy to State Fair this weekend for that as well. Gotta make some hotel reservations quick! We'd sure like to come to the get together on Sunday, but I'm not sure I'm up for a road trip tomorrow. I think we need to schedule a repeat event in northern Indiana next!!

awesome job at the fair! I would love to continue an annual picnic.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

ugh, finally caught up!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

As requested, here is the invite to the party again. We will also be doing a fermented food demo in addition to what is listed.

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!

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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

I'm bumping this in case any of the new posters want to come.

 

[Leahs Mom]

What a wonderful idea! Thanks to those who are hosting!

I'm with the other "northerners"...It would be great to have one up north somewhere

 

[CluckAcres]

Whats this party tomorrow. I heard about? Please message with details. Thanks.

 

[CluckAcres]

Never. Mind just seen post. LOL. If was closer I would be able to attend. We do need one in northern Indiana as well.

 

[MillerBirds]

My oldest daughter just won Champion in the feather-legged bantam class with her Buff Cochin rooster at the Parke County Fair! Very proud of her. About 14 or 15 in the class. Wish I had room to hatch some more eggs, but my coop and cages are full She also won Grand Champion with her Barred Rock eggs. We never had an egg class when I was in 4-H. ...on another note, I entered my honey in the open class and got my first Grand Champion in open showing. My 10th year in 4-H was in 1991, so it's been a while since I have showed anything. Sold our barrows at the 4-H auction last night...a real tear jerker for the girls, esp. my oldest. Felt bad for her but its another deposit into the college fund. Just rambling to get up to 20 posts so I can bid on the egg auction....

Congratulations on ALL accounts! I hear ya about selling the pigs. My daughter and I both cried when we sold our pigs.

How cool on your honey. I have toyed with the idea of getting bees.

 

[Too Fast]

Lol, I thought of it because we used to call Ford Thunderbirds that when I was turning wrenches for a living.
Congrats!!!
Happy birthday to your chickens... and my wife.

Congrats on the anniversary.

I used to turn wrenches also. 25 years. Now I'm a trainer for the new techs and counter people at Firestone. I could pick up my wrenches if I needed to, but don't really want to. We call Explorers Exploders, and have other names for other vehicles.