INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[bradselig]

Congrats on your chicks. I wish every chick was autosexing

While it would be nice in one way, I'd hate it in another lol. I think I'd be stuck with a bunch of Roos!

 

[Leahs Mom]

I'm trying to hatch some sumatra chicks to have broodies in the future. The eggs arrive looking great but I know the PO is messing with them somehow. I typically do well with hatching eggs from my flock with the exception of incubator and power malfunctions but with shipped eggs my hatch rate is less than desirable. And I think it is my luck that the first cl chick out is a boy, the head while not yet dry looks like there is a dot. I really want a broody so I'm hoping the sumatra's hatch. It is the only reason that the injured chick is getting care instead of a visit to Moses. Typically I don't want a chick if it is not a strong chick or if I have to care for the tiny thing more than I would another chick. But I really want some sumatra chicks.

Did you get the Sumatras from Stony?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

While it would be nice in one way, I'd hate it in another lol. I think I'd be stuck with a bunch of Roos!

ya, it would be awesome but also a bummer. It is a killer to wait and let them mature though

 

[chickengroomer]

Hello! My name is diana, and I got thrown into chickens Bout a month ago. We have a good sized urban garden and now have 10 birds. I am in the Indianapolis are and actually looking for a home for the one Roo. He is a giro game fowl. I think. He is noisy and is a flight risk. He likes to get up in trees. He is pretty tame once you get him. Him and the two hens were kept in some pretty gross conditions. Any advice on the hens would be appreciated!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: yes. I don't think it has a thing to do with his packing method or the eggs themselves. i really believe one of the PO to the east of me is not gentle. I lose more than my fair share of chicks and now i have hatching egg troubles with all eggs that come from the east of me. The ones from the west of me did somewhat ok but not the best.
Can you believe I even paid for the higher faster shipping this time and still the hatch rate will be low even if every egg I put in lockdown hatches?
if I knew someone going out east I would avoid the PO. Maybe I'll cave and order some Sumatra's from a hatchery. But I really wanted these sumatra's

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Hello! My name is diana, and I got thrown into chickens Bout a month ago. We have a good sized urban garden and now have 10 birds. I am in the Indianapolis are and actually looking for a home for the one Roo. He is a giro game fowl. I think. He is noisy and is a flight risk. He likes to get up in trees. He is pretty tame once you get him. Him and the two hens were kept in some pretty gross conditions. Any advice on the hens would be appreciated!

I would seven dust the whole bunch if they came from bad conditions.
hens need light to keep laying this time of year.
I recommend feeding an all flock and offering calcium on the side maybe even a gamebird feed if the hens are also game birds. The higher protein is good for them and they will eat the oyster shell when they need calcium.

 

[Mother2Hens]

I'm excited to see what hatches. I know the silkies for sure, but the other 4 eggs are Gus' (my wyandotte roo) and my ee hen and wyandotte hen and austalorp and minorca hen crosses. So they are going to be mystery chickies.

kabhyper~ I was just thinking about handsome Gus the other day since you haven't posted a photo of him lately. And now he's going to be a father! Your first hatch is so exciting that I'm going to keep checking back on the thread to see what happens!

Hope she hatches soon so you can get some sleep tonight!

kabyper ~ Sally in Indiana ~ bradselig! Good luck on your hatches!!

 

[Mother2Hens]

The breeder selling the Heritage English BOs was afraid that her birds were so gentle that they would be picked on by other breeds. I thought that the Heritage RIRs were supposed to be much more gentle than the production birds. Maybe it is the production birds she is used to. I hadn't heard anything about BRs being rough at all. She suggested that, if I wanted different colors of birds, I should try an all-Orpington flock in all the Orpington colors. Interesting thought. I won't be looking for RIRs until spring, so they would be younger, giving the BOs an advantage.
Originaly posted by M2H~ IMO~ I enjoy different breeds' personality traits. Although my RIR is high-strung, nosey, and noisy, she isn't aggressive toward my two orps who have the opposite traits. Since I have limited space like you, I embrace diversity.

Originally Posted by pginsber It's funny that there's the general opinion that Orps are gentle and sweet. We have a BANTAM Black Orpington, the youngest pullet, the ONLY bantam in a flock of 7 full sized girls, and she was a PACKING PEANUT from our order, and she's the meanest little bird in the flock. No kidding!

She jumps to peck the necks of the other girls if they're heading toward to treat block. She's a total stinker!

pginsber~ Haha! That's funny. My chocolate bantam orp is much more assertive than my gigantic Jubilee orp. I've mentioned this wonderful book before, which is a very relatable, humorous true story of a newbie chicken owner. Her Buff Orp was the malcontent of her flock. I suppose like anything else, in general, orps are more passive, but there are exceptions.

 

[kabhyper1]

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Aww, I will let you know when I do! If he has a wyandotte baby boy, I'm shipping him to you! lol Btw Gus looks silly right now because he is molting. I will start taking pics again when they start looking like themselves again. lol

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh, man, all these hatches and chick pictures are giving me the empty nest syndrome pretty bad! I don't know if I can make it until May before getting more..! (And poults, too. Gosh, I'm going to have to build a bigger coop. )