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[CRSelvey]

animal lover ~ Yay! It's sunny here today, so I'm pretending it's spring.

For some reason, the post you had about working around our significant other's did not copy over here...so I'll just tell you. My DH said he wants a new toy that is fairly expensive and sounds very time consuming. I'm waiting until after said purchase to bring up chicks again. Its all in the timing...I just had to tell him how much the necropsy was, so waiting is good but I might explode in the meantime.

Seriously about to hang it up. I have silkies with lice, a pullet with respiratory issues that needs tylan by mouth, her eyes unsealed every morning, and the rest of the flock is on antibiotics due to exposure to her. I went out to get the only loose sand on the property to give the flocks to bathe in, and it took 3 times as long as it should because all of our gates are frozen shut. I was cleaning of a hens butt this morning because it was caked with poo, only to realize the barn chickens have lice also. Then poor minmin gets her eggs from me today and six of them are broken. All were individually bubble wrapped, in a styro carton with bubble wrap over all of them, the carton then wrapped twice with bubble wrap, layed in a bigger box stuffed tightly with newspaper all around the carton, then taped shut. I put up arrows on the box and live embryos written on the side. How they broke I have no idea, but I feel terrible. Its just one thing after another. Okay rant over.

I'm really sorry that you are having such a rough day. I was feeling like that too about two weeks ago. With DH out of town, sick chickens in different locations, frozen gates that do and don't want to latch, sub zero weather, snow delays and cancellations for school, kids coming into my room at all hours of the night to sleep with me, and consequently little sleep, I almost had a melt-down...or maybe I did have one...or two...

I hope tomorrow will be significantly better for you.

hello all from Whitley Co. How do we add the state to our pic? A little about me, my wife and I have golden comet layers right now and we are hopefully going to grow to around 30 this spring. Just bought a hova bator genius and I got three different hatchings ordered, barred rocks and rhode island reds for the first batch and then just ordered a dozen silver laced wyandotte's for april. glad to have found this thread...

Welcome!

This is a guide so you can figure out the other "drawings". Obviously I've not had any art classes, nor engineering or architecture classes either...lol I do this for my own benefit. Lol

I really like your plans. I'm not an expert either. I did find some plans on Pintrest last year that I really liked. If you search on cattle panel arch, you might find several versions of ways to trellis veggies or other plants inexpensively that will also create a shade space in case you want to plant some lettuces. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/261560690830889249/ . This pic has the vines already going crazy and its just beautiful http://www.pinterest.com/pin/220817187952938808/. Also, I found several options for growning strawberries off the ground so that you don't have to worry about the bunnies as much. One of them was a planter box type thing that could be mounted to the side of your chicken coop and it would become a decorative feature as well. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/12736811418438262/ Here is one that is vertical http://www.pinterest.com/pin/209276713908298152/. I got a little carried away there because I also found some that were made out of pvc pipes and mounted to the fence...in my mind that just means it needs to be on the coop or run.

I'd better stop now. I can spend as much time there as I can here...which means I will be all ideas and no garden!!!

 

[CRSelvey]

Ok so M2H is the one who adds new members?

Yes, if you send her your county and a pic of your favorite chicken (goat, duck, or alpaca), she will create the icon for you and send it back. You can look up her profile or find one of her posts in this thread and click on the button to send her a PM (private message) and she will take care of the rest. She's kind of awesome like that. She is a little busy right now, but I'm sure it won't take long...she seems to like us

. Also the bottom of her signature on her posts has links to a lot of useful info.

 

[bradselig]

hello all from Whitley Co. How do we add the state to our pic? A little about me, my wife and I have  golden comet layers right now and we are hopefully going to grow to around 30 this spring. Just bought a hova bator genius and I got three different hatchings ordered, barred rocks and rhode island reds for the first batch and then just ordered a dozen silver laced wyandotte's for april. glad to have found this thread...

Welcome! I'm just south of you in Huntington County! Mother2Hens makes the avatars and I typically add members to the members list. In my signature is a link to our page. If you'd like to be added send me your info and I'll get you added.

Thanks!

That's a great resource!

Kerridwen
Suburban-No-More-Mom of 6

i think I forgot to welcome you as well! Sorry about that. If you'd like to be on the members list as well, please send me your info in a pm as well.

And for everyone else, send me any info you'd like to change on the members list. I have been slacking BIG TIME and have several people to still ad. I'm hoping to get off work early tomorrow to beat the snow storm and then I'm off Wednesday and Thursday. I'd like to get everything updated then. So any new additions, deletions, etc you'd like to make, send me a pm with the changes!

 

[CRSelvey]

It looks like post 18943 of this thread has all of the new member info listed in case you are interested.

 

[bradselig]

Well here is the most recent hatch. Wasn't a great hatch, but ended up being better than I expected. Most are silkies with 2 Birchen Marans and 2 Birchen Marans mixes with either white rocks or naked necks.

And my two silvers/greys from several hatches ago. I'm really loving these guys!

 

[minmin1258]

[COLOR=008080]animal lover ~[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Yay! It's sunny here today, so I'm pretending it's spring.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=0000CD]For some reason, the post you had about working around our significant other's did not copy over here...so I'll just tell you. My DH said he wants a new toy that is fairly expensive and sounds very time consuming. I'm waiting until after said purchase to bring up chicks again. Its all in the timing...I just had to tell him how much the necropsy was, so waiting is good but I might explode in the meantime. [/COLOR]

Seriously about to hang it up. I have silkies with lice, a pullet with respiratory issues that needs tylan by mouth, her eyes unsealed every morning, and the rest of the flock is on antibiotics due to exposure to her. I went out to get the only loose sand on the property to give the flocks to bathe in, and it took 3 times as long as it should because all of our gates are frozen shut. I was cleaning of a hens butt this morning because it was caked with poo, only to realize the barn chickens have lice also. Then poor minmin gets her eggs from me today and six of them are broken. All were individually bubble wrapped, in a styro carton with bubble wrap over all of them, the carton then wrapped twice with bubble wrap, layed in a bigger box stuffed tightly with newspaper all around the carton, then taped shut. I put up arrows on the box and live embryos written on the side. How they broke I have no idea, but I feel terrible. Its just one thing after another. Okay rant over.

I'm really sorry that you are having such a rough day. I was feeling like that too about two weeks ago. With DH out of town, sick chickens in different locations, frozen gates that do and don't want to latch, sub zero weather, snow delays and cancellations for school, kids coming into my room at all hours of the night to sleep with me, and consequently little sleep, I almost had a melt-down...or maybe I did have one...or two... I hope tomorrow will be significantly better for you.

hello all from Whitley Co. How do we add the state to our pic? A little about me, my wife and I have golden comet layers right now and we are hopefully going to grow to around 30 this spring. Just bought a hova bator genius and I got three different hatchings ordered, barred rocks and rhode island reds for the first batch and then just ordered a dozen silver laced wyandotte's for april. glad to have found this thread...

Welcome!

This is a guide so you can figure out the other "drawings". Obviously I've not had any art classes, nor engineering or architecture classes either...lol I do this for my own benefit. Lol

I really like your plans. I'm not an expert either. I did find some plans on Pintrest last year that I really liked. If you search on cattle panel arch, you might find several versions of ways to trellis veggies or other plants inexpensively that will also create a shade space in case you want to plant some lettuces. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/261560690830889249/ . This pic has the vines already going crazy and its just beautiful http://www.pinterest.com/pin/220817187952938808/. Also, I found several options for growning strawberries off the ground so that you don't have to worry about the bunnies as much. One of them was a planter box type thing that could be mounted to the side of your chicken coop and it would become a decorative feature as well. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/12736811418438262/ Here is one that is vertical http://www.pinterest.com/pin/209276713908298152/. I got a little carried away there because I also found some that were made out of pvc pipes and mounted to the fence...in my mind that just means it needs to be on the coop or run. I'd better stop now. I can spend as much time there as I can here...which means I will be all ideas and no garden!!!

Thank You for the links, info and advice!!! I am a Pinterest NUT!!!! Love it! Not nearly as much as this thread but it runs a close second! : )

 

[minmin1258]

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Well here is the most recent hatch. Wasn't a great hatch, but ended up being better than I expected. Most are silkies with 2 Birchen Marans and 2 Birchen Marans mixes with either white rocks or naked necks.

And my two silvers/greys from several hatches ago. I'm really loving these guys!

Brad...there you go teasing us again!!! They are so adorable!!! I could lay on the floor and let them crawl all over me! Lol does that sound strange? Hehehe. Just love them sooo much!

 

[ellymayRans]

We do the raised lasagna beds and I love them! They are so easy to work with and thwy do sooo well. I will say with having free rangers around you def will want fencing because thwy will figure out what you're doing and it takes no time for them to dig up what you just spent hours planting!

 

[minmin1258]

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We do the raised lasagna beds and I love them! They are so easy to work with and thwy do sooo well. I will say with having free rangers around you def will want fencing because thwy will figure out what you're doing and it takes no time for them to dig up what you just spent hours planting!

Thank for that advice. I had planned on putting some chicken wire around them, just figured I'd not tempt my girls THAT much. Lol

 

[Kiniska]

So I have most of my home made incubator together and I am having issues with the 225 Incukit. It is running way too hot and not shutting off. It runs about 104+°
Have a message in with the manufacturer to figure out what gives. Feeling a bit frustrated.