INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Hope to see some of your tomorrow at the chicken garage sale. Birds will be below normal asking prices, a lot are half price.

 

[CRSelvey]

Hope to see some of your tomorrow at the chicken garage sale. Birds will be below normal asking prices, a lot are half price.

We hope to see you too! My DH is out of town, so I'm wondering if he will notice if we bring any home...that's just wrong!!!

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

We hope to see you too! My DH is out of town, so I'm wondering if he will notice if we bring any home...that's just wrong!!!

Mine has no idea what I have, doesn't really care, so we just get whatever we want. AND that is the problem we WANT to much.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Hello all! I just returned from my honeymoon, and I'm looking to build back up my flock after the coyote and dog attacks. I am finally getting my perimeter fence next week! Anyway, I came back to find that instead of 2 roosters, I have 6. Apparently some were late bloomers. If anyone has any chicks/youngish chickens for sale within a couple of hours from me, I'm looking to buy!

If you want some hatchery red sex linked girls, I have about 10-12 that are 6.5 weeks old. I have them listed on CL for a nice high price since they are starting to really eat food, and since CL people tend to want to talk down the price. I'll make you a great deal, if you are interested just send me a message. I also have 3 or 4 Partridge rocks that are the same 6.5 weeks old.
I also have 4 production RIR hens that are just under a year old, if you are looking for adult chickens.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Hope to see some of your tomorrow at the chicken garage sale. Birds will be below normal asking prices, a lot are half price.

I would come but I know I would buy. your birds all look so wonderful.

Multi Quote did not work well for me today. Sorry about the double post.

 

[FarkerFarms]

I may also be interested. I am hoping to get my bigger coop done this weekend and since the ladies aren't laying anyway it might be a good time to add a couple more hens (the adults would interest me more than the younguns). Can you PM me a price and a phone number? Thanks!

 

[ShawnaScott]

ShawnaScott-Little Ameraucana Mom is having a Chicken sale this weekend. You might find some there. If you look at her recent posts, you should find the info but she is here in Greencastle. Congratulations and welcome back.

OMG, chicken sale! I will have to go! Thanks!

I may have some mixed chicks available, just haven't decided if I'm going to sell them yet or not. If you're willing to wait, I can hatch some out for you. They would be naked neck, white Plymouth Rock, Birchen Marans hens covered by a Birchen Marans roo. Just let me know.

Thank you! But (on hatching the eggs) I would not be able to part with the roos, or eat them. I just get too attached, and then I wind up with a flock that is half roos.

I have some EE, GLW at point of lay too. Trying to reduce the flock before winter.

I am definitely interested in more EE, I have two and they are gorgeous!

Anyone interested in jumbo coturnix quail eggs? I can do 36+ hatching eggs for $10 picked up or $15 shipped. These will be no more than 3 days old. If I have any older than this ill give you as many as I can put in the box(I think I was able to fit around 55 eggs when I shipped to jchny). I just hatched some babies from the first eggs laid by these and just candled another dozen and looks like all 12 are ddeveloping.

If you want chicks, I can do that as well. $1 per chick, $10 for 12. I will just need a 3 weeks notice as these will be hatched to order.

I know this has been asked before, but quails and chickens can or cannot be mixed? I am thinking that quails can but turkey's can't...? Is that right?

 

[BackyardBitten]

I want to thank everybody for their support! Being a newb has it's downfalls sometimes...like being able to tell whether or not ur girls are molting or not. I'm glad i'm not the only one who has seen decreased egg production.
**update-- i did an overhaul on my coop today and noticed quite a few feathers everywhere which gives me hope that they have gone in to early molting. Picked up all 3 of my girls to make sure they had no "lumps" as someone suggested i do to check for egg binding. I am happy to report that I found no lumps!!!! lol i also checked them to make sure they didn't have any parasites crawling on them and their feet are nice and yellow and healthy!! I love these girls and just want to really good care of them! so thanks for your advice friends!!

 

[bradselig]

so so so sooooo cute Brad! i want to keep your frizzle in my pocket i just checked my eggs in the incubator (only 4 days in) and 4 of the 6 have veins already! excited mommy. for those of you with egg decrease~ i found a couple mites under some of my girls wings, so i dusted them and the coop and voila i am up to 3 a day. hoping the rest fall in line too.

Thanks. Good luck with the hatch! What kind of eggs are they?

NOOOOO! Don't tempt me!! I have 3 boys now. I need to find a girly. Have you ever heard of a cochin bred to a polish? I am planning on breeding Oliver (the little black bantam cochin that currently resides at the end of our property with my mother in law with his 2 LF hens.... hilarious btw, ) with my silkie hens. I would love a polish hen to breed to Blueberry, or Oliver, depending on if she was bantam or standard.

Haha. Alright, if I get any extra hens ill let you know. I have not see that cross before. Sounds interesting!

Hi everyone! We have been so busy here, clearing and reclaiming land, getting rid of so much stuff (JUNK). Have got so much done the last few weeks with the cooler weather.
Have a small mountain of scrap iron collected, DH will take it in when truck and trailer is full and price of steel is right. Going to have a huge bonfire from all the brush too!
My Dad is letting us clean and clear, am so glad he is finally letting stuff go. Some things I do keep for him, like a bird bath my Gramma loved.
Anything that has a memory I don't want him to lose.
Bo my oberhasli buck still goes out to the fence lines with me daily but i now tether him out of reach, he is all "billy". Sugar and our baby Sophie are still staying in their "pasture"
Every time I look at Sophie she is bigger, They grow so fast!
If I don't pay attention to Bo when he wants it, (every 2 seconds) he lays his horns on either side of my ankle or calf and SHOVES!
Down we go, and pinned to the ground  til he stops He is at least 70 lbs and very bold, horns are getting huge!
Bo is getting that musty billy smell too and a cute lil beard! I still just love him dearly and he knows it.

Chicken wishlist..I want more barred rocks   Am really thinking about partridge or white rocks too, my last 4 partridge were big, friendly and laid well.
My BR Mabel lays almost everyday. She is calm and sweet and no problems.
Red my GLW roo is terribly molting and looks just awful. going to cage him a few weeks.
The hens are pecking his bald tail and am worried he will get infection from it, getting him blukote tomorrow.
Rebel remains in JAIL and he pecked me HARD today on my arm, and drew blood!  Flat out attacked me.
We promptly went for a walk to the main coop, handing by his feet, and holding the base of his neck.
I embarrassed him for all the flock to see! He making me nuts.Pushing my patience to the edge!
Gee my gander was biting the fence, he really hates him. we walked by the goat pen, the Main pen, and back to the Jail/quarantine cages.
One more week for Rebel to improve his attitude, or he will be on the menu too. Shame, he is a big beautiful boy.
The longer I keep roos, the more I think once they are mature, they get mean. Tell me, I am wrong please.
Funny how its just the 2 girls laying and they are in with Bruce my new BA roo. Time to reduce numbers in the main coop again, processing the extra roos this weekend.
Going to process another BBW turkey too. They get more aggressive every day.8 left and SOOOO not doing them again!
One of my older guinea keets flew into their pen and I had to run and save it, I just know they would have killed it.Terribly aggressive birds!
My RP turkey pair are so sweet, they are just very friendly turkeys. I swapped 6 of my hens eggs for 6 Bourbon red turkey eggs and 1 has hatched so far.
We tried turkey eggs and WOW they are very good, really rich like duck eggs. My oldest DD used 3 for a cake and it was very moist and rich.
I am going to just order Bourbon red poults in the spring, and some mini-white poults too, from Porters. I hear very good comments about their stock.
Having very poor luck with shipped turkey eggs, but the few left from my RPs almost every one hatch.
Guineas are easier to hatch than chickens, just my 2 pairs I have hatched 53, sold a few so far, traded a LOT of eggs too for other birds.

I recently saw a pos on here for heritage barred rocks and too fell in love with them. They look so different to the hatchery birds. I'm tempted by this auction but the last thing I need is to get a new breed!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161090813451?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

OMG, chicken sale! I will have to go! Thanks!
Thank you! But (on hatching the eggs) I would not be able to part with the roos, or eat them. I just get too attached, and then I wind up with a flock that is half roos.
I am definitely interested in more EE, I have two and they are gorgeous!
I know this has been asked before, but quails and chickens can or cannot be mixed? I am thinking that quails can but turkey's can't...? Is that right?

You really can't free range quail, but I don't see what the issue housing them together. I honestly don't know. Turkeys and chickens can be housed together as long as you don't have blackhead disease on your property. At least that was my understanding.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Here's a picture from today, 17-19 weeks old. Any new thoughts on my little 'Margaret Until Proven Otherwise'?