INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[bradselig]

oh my you are totally infected and will never"re"coop" erate!

Yep, you got it too

I have oeg bantam, but not laying yet. Good luck on the search!


Lauren is a beautiful young lady! Oh my just love her ragdoll! Its so hard to see the kids grow up and move out. I hardly see Cassy anymore, she works full time and doing college, she is going nonstop. Miss my little girl with all the braids and ponytails.

I have a single OEGB hen. She's sweet and a great free ranging chicken. However she started nesting under the coop and became broody. When she would come out to eat and drink, the chickens started to harass her quite a bit and the Roos 15x her size trying to mount her. I was worried for Her and now she's penned up living with the silkies. She's not very happy about it. Some modern eggs were just posted on eBay, ill try to get them.

 

[Too Fast]

The egg song is getting old hand around here lol. Here is so often we don't even run every time anymore. Here's a couple pictures from this morning. The girls really like the tall grass in the foreground, and the bushy area in the background. Finally killed all the wild grape vines in that area. One of our sunflowers is almost 10 feet tall.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

First chick!!!!

Woohoo!!! Congrats! I bet that is a great feeling to hatch your first chick. Nice job.

Yes it is brutal to see the new chickens go thru the pecking order. It's been 2 weeks now and finally our new Faverolles is not getting attacked constantly. She is scared of her own shadow, tho, and jumps sometimes when the wind blows. Thunder Chicken, I think it will pass, this is the first time we've introduced anybody new to the original flock.

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I feel a little better now.

 

[bradselig]

Great looking coop and surrounding area, Too Fast! I think I'll be planting some sunflowers around the coop and pen next year.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

DH and I got 12 of our pan fry roosters turned into freezer roosters today. I need to get a knife sharpener thing before next week and I really hope my cone gets here too. I think the PO misdirected it.
John ~ you will be glad to know that DH did the plucking while I did the removal of guts. By the end we had a nice assembly line going. Hopefully it won't take as long to fall into a nice pattern next time. It looks like it will be next Saturday before we process any more.

WalMart has the sharpeners. I think is was around $5.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

How can you hate winter! I looooooooooove it!

Two words. "Carrying water" "Frozen Hose" "Frozen Nose". On the plus side, I like driving in snow.
John

 

[Old Salt 1945]

I have a red-tailed hawk working my chicken yard.

I have been noticing that several times over the last few days, all the chickens, ducks, guineas go into the coop during the day for no discernible reason. I have gone out and looked around for the cause and found none. I noticed it just minutes ago and looked out and sure enough, there he was circling above.

From comments I've read, guineas are good at detecting threats from above. Apparently the other poultry follow their lead.

Anyone with hawk problems, get some guineas. I haven't lost any birds yet.

John

 

[bradselig]

John- Last year I had a Cooper's hawk trying and successfully taking my chickens. Towards the end, it was even trying attack when I was out there with the chickens! I ended up setting my shotgun next to the door and when the chickens sounded the alarm call, I would out to check. I eventually shot the gun towards the ground (didn't want to risk killing due to laws) but that seemed to scare it away ad hasn't been back. Well up until this week, my oldest legbar roo became missing with just a few feathers left behind. Gun is already out of safe ready to go.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Last year I had a Cooper's hawk trying and successfully taking my chickens. Towards the end, it was even trying attack when I was out there with the chickens! I ended up setting my shotgun next to the door and when the chickens sounded the alarm call, I would out to check. I eventually shot the gun towards the ground (didn't want to risk killing due to laws) but that seemed to scare it away ad hasn't been back. Well up until this week, my oldest legbar roo became missing with just a few feathers left behind. Gun is already out of safe ready to go.

Thanks, I'll try that. My mother told me a similar story about missing some chickens, then standing in the chicken yard and a hawk landing on a chicken within 6 feet of her.

John

 

[irtehun]

Had to share a pic if my silkie babies! So cute!