INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

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Yep, I love mine too, they're beautiful the two hens I've got and I can't wait to see what these chicks turn out to look like.

Hmm, you're right well still, they're nice to look at.
Ah, alright I'll mess with that hopefully it works well these coming hatches. I plan on getting silkies from Kab and some Welsummers from another bycer on here and some Barred rocks if I can find some

I'm so excited but nervous at the same time. I don't want to mess up and lose chicks or eggs so I want to get it right. My first hatch never did well. 1/14 eggs made it it was a cheap thrown together thing my dad and I cooked up so we learned better.

Nice assortment you have planned out. If it makes you feel any better, I had no clue what I was doing the first few times and I had a 95% hatch rate. Never that good since then lol, but that happens with shipped eggs. Good luck.

 

[FlockMaster-614]

Lol yep, I'm looking forward to getting them. Wow, Lucky! Lol that's usually how it works huh? Thanks though I'll probably need it! I'm hopeful though the bator has been staying at 99.5°f for three days until we turned it off. Now I need to move it downstairs and set it up there! In the Spooky cellar.

 

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I was really bored today.....so I took lots of pictures and got very few good ones out of about 200 lol. All the time spent and I only got pictures of like 10

Black Ameraucana Rooster (blind in one eye)


Blue Ameraucana Hen


Mottled Cochin Bantam Cockerel






Mottled Cochin Bantam Pullet






White Plymouth Rock Pullet


Milled Fleur D'uccle- smallest chicken, biggest imagination lol


Black Ameraucana Bantam Rooster


Frizzle Mutt Cockerel




Black Ameraucana Bantam Cockerel


White Ameraucana Bantam Pullet- she is in a pen with the cockerel above and the pluck each other beards

about time to split them up into conditioning pens


Silver Duckwing Old English Game Bantam Hen

 

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Lol yep, I'm looking forward to getting them. Wow, Lucky! Lol that's usually how it works huh?

Thanks though I'll probably need it! I'm hopeful though the bator has been staying at 99.5°f for three days until we turned it off. Now I need to move it downstairs and set it up there! In the Spooky cellar.

Luck is exactly what it was lol. You sound like you have a hang of things, I bet you will have a better hatch than you think

 

[Mother2Hens]

Someone told me a while back about a place to buy organic chicken feed in Indianapolis. I never got over there because of all the bad weather and then forgot the name and location. I could kick myself as searching on here has only turned up Lebanon as a possible source. I think this store was (maybe) in the neighborhood of 50 something and keystone. Not sure. Does anyone have any idea of where this could be?

Sugar Creek ~ Welcome to the Indiana Thread! Please see page 2308 post 23072 for more info.

A couple of weeks ago when I was in Indy, I checked out Agrarian in Broadripple.





I had planned on posting these photos of organic feed that I purchased there as well as several kinds of grains for treats in case anyone was interested in Agrarian. I kept the grains bagged separately because my hens are so picky; I wanted to see which ones they ate. I placed my valentine flowers in the background for Sally in Indiana who loves lilies.
Their organic feed is actually from Central Indiana Organics in Lebanon.

I also did a "Search this thread" and found this post from CRSelvey:
I have been buying all of my chicken food at Central Indiana Organics in Lebanon. They sell all kinds of animal feed, not just chickens, and not just organic. The kind they make is called Fertile Fields. I usually buy 3 bags at a time and its lasted about 8 1/2 weeks in the winter and longer in the summer. It is more dusty than the crumbles were, but I've been adding warm water to it this winter and it is also cutting down on the waste. The food smells like something you would use to make Herb Bread with.
chick rookie~ PM jchny2000 and Kiniska about your goat. They've both have experience. Anyone else, anybody?

CCCHICKENS~ I love your CHHICCKKENSSSS! The frizzle cockerel is so cool!

Pipd~ Sorry about your hen!!

 

[FlockMaster-614]

Lol, thanks Cchickens. Aw, love your birds! Lol! That frizzle cockerel is awesome!

 

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Lol, thanks Cchickens. Aw, love your birds! Lol! That frizzle cockerel is awesome!

CCCHICKENS~ I love your CHHICCKKENSSSS! The frizzle cockerel is so cool!

Thanks!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Ok people trust me I'm not crazy

I have a plan for my egg laying operation. I'm wanting to wind up around 30 layers. So that's why I'm picking up chicks everywhere! On the way to BigR I told my wife I won't pick up anymore chicks unless they are BLRW (I'm pretty sure no feed store gets them) or a leghorn breed! So my Son and Daughter run back to the chicks and my daughter comes back and says "guess what? They have White Leghorns!!" My wife looks at me and just shakes her head lol! We now have a white egg layer in the group or I should say 4 of them! And I couldn't resist these cute little grayish colored EE'ers. I am now done with chicks and I will finish out my layers with the hatching eggs this spring! Oh and yes they are all pullets!

Leghorns can be fun but watch out, the ones I have like to fly at the person entering their coop. Being a bit on the light side for weight they can get a decent launch from the roosting bars for a surprise attack.

Quote: I have more trouble with the chicks making it when the PO takes an extra day to deliver them too. It seems like some of the chicks in the box while alive when unpacked just don't do as well and a higher % pass in those first 24 hours, even with sugar and vitamins in the water.

I know this has nothing to do with chickens but I just have to share this with someone and you guys have been so great thought you might get excited with me, and scared and nervous all at the same time.
My Nubian doe is showing signs that she may kid in the next 24 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WooHoo I have been waiting for 5 mths., But now I'm scared If she has problems I wont know what to do???????

Yes this is my first time having kidding going on at my place.
No I have NO IDEAL what to do.

Wish me ALL KINDS OF LUCK PLEASE !!!!!
and does anyone have anything to calm me down... DH says I'm driving him and the dogs nuts with all the pacing, and the nervous chatting. lol

I'm sure you have all kinds of info on how to be a good midwife to the doe. As for staying calm, I would recommend a distraction, maybe a movie and lots of popcorn; or a good book with a mug of hot chocolate and marshmallows. Eat some protein now and some carbs when the process starts to keep your energy level high. A video baby monitor might make the relaxing go better too as you could stay inside and watch it instead of pacing to the barn.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I wanted to say thanks to @jchny2000 for the quail eggs. We fried up most of them for the children who loved them. I did put 7 into the incubator. Any recommendations for hatching them. I'm on day 5. I'm thinking the lockdown is going to be my trouble spot. I have a still air so I need to come up with a way to get the tiny eggs up at the same height level as the larger heritage eggs going into lockdown the same day.

 

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Leghorns can be fun but watch out, the ones I have like to fly at the person entering their coop. Being a bit on the light side for weight they can get a decent launch from the roosting bars for a surprise attack.

I have more trouble with the chicks making it when the PO takes an extra day to deliver them too. It seems like some of the chicks in the box while alive when unpacked just don't do as well and a higher % pass in those first 24 hours, even with sugar and vitamins in the water.


I'm sure you have all kinds of info on how to be a good midwife to the doe. As for staying calm, I would recommend a distraction, maybe a movie and lots of popcorn; or a good book with a mug of hot chocolate and marshmallows. Eat some protein now and some carbs when the process starts to keep your energy level high. A video baby monitor might make the relaxing go better too as you could stay inside and watch it instead of pacing to the barn.

funny you should suggest that DH just left to get a few movies. and CHOCOLATE !!!!!! I do have all kinds of info, but actually doing it will be the thing. if I am right she should go any time in the next 24 hours or so. Bad thing is the electric went out in the barn, and DH hasn't been able to go out and fix it

. So really hoping she goes in the daylight. Flashlights I think will suck.