INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

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Just checking in!
I've been trying to keep up with all the posts, but have been really ill the last few days. Some sort of stomach virus or whatever they consider it. Ive only been able to eat broth with a bit of egg, hot tea, and water.
I've been reading about everything, but haven't been able to bring myself to comment, until now.

I need to get out to my yard. I have a second round of teenagers to put into the grow out coop and I believe the first set is ready to go into the big coop. I have a Birchen Maran roo I'd like to rehome, but I'll need to take photos another day. He is not SQ, lots of gold. I have only barely managed to get out everyday to feed, so hopefully I can get photos up tomorrow.
My ducks are outside and seem to be very happy, but after seeing Kab's ducklings, I'm REALLY doubting mine are Runners.
@kabhyper1 sorry about your loss

and the last one totally looks like a runner.
@SallyinIndiana congrats on the birth of your girl!

...and I can't recall who(sick brain!) I'm so sad to hear about Einstein. What a bummer. She had the best story.

Hope you get to feeling better!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Well I finally broke ground on the new Pallet coop! Here is where it will stand.

This the start of the block foundation. About 30 mins into the project, I couldn't get it squared. and I got tired of the 20 degree wind blowing in my face so I called it for the day lol. I'll work a little more tomorrow.

Getting the blocks square and level took me and DH a very very long time on our most recent coop. I'd almost pay to haave someone else do it if I ever have to build another medium or large coop.

DH is currently putting a net on our almost complete new run. However it is looking very loose. How quickly he forgets that snow will knock down a loose net. He just re-put up our other net less than 3 months back. I'm so hoping that the run gets completed soon. There is a gate and at least 1 shorter wall that won't be completely finished today. And I'm thinking that the ground level chicken wire will be on the to do list as well as the higher wall of cheap plastic bird netting to keep sparrows out.

 

[lollipopguild]

Hey everybody. What is the minimum number of chicks at rural king?

Kendallville and Angola is 6. TSC in Ft Wayne is 6. Not sure how lenient either place may be in getting less since I usually grab 20-30 at a time so I never ask.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

RK in Jeffersonville was a minimum of 4 or no minimum - I don't remember for sure which, but I know it struck me that it was different than TSC which was 6 -- and Orschelens (at least Madison and Scottsburg) has no minimum

 

[ChickCrazed]

Getting the blocks square and level took me and DH a very very long time on our most recent coop. I'd almost pay to haave someone else do it if I ever have to build another medium or large coop.

DH is currently putting a net on our almost complete new run. However it is looking very loose. How quickly he forgets that snow will knock down a loose net. He just re-put up our other net less than 3 months back. I'm so hoping that the run gets completed soon. There is a gate and at least 1 shorter wall that won't be completely finished today. And I'm thinking that the ground level chicken wire will be on the to do list as well as the higher wall of cheap plastic bird netting to keep sparrows out.

Learn from my mid winter battle in the 10 degree weather. My sparrows can squeeze through chicken wire. I had to add ANOTHER layer of netting to keep them out. The chicken wire did keep out the starlings, so it solved part of my problem.

 

[minmin1258]

I don't know what 1/2 of them are so guess would be great... and the Rooster and the hen together, that is the Rooster that is going. does anyone know what the hen is?? and the eggs I got already today

That Spotted white hen is the twin to one of mine (the one in my avatar) she is a California White. Lays bluefish White eggs (more on White side though). The roosters of that breed are almost all quite aggressive. Someone on CA thread said they are raised for fighting because of their attitude.

 

[hanakimi]

Sad news on my hives in between Friday and today the temperature drop caught my bees unexpectedly and their cluster wasn't warm enough and they died. I had 2 boxes on them and it looks like they had split themselves between the 2 boxes cause of the warmer weather and with the rapid change/drop in temperature they couldn't make 1 big cluster fast enough to survive. i just find it ironic i had them survive our horrible winter to die now lol but my adventure in bees is still going to continue i'll just won't have bees in my yard till late April early may
to end on a better note here is a pretty picture of my girl's eggs i was washing to be able to trade them
.

 

[brittany4]

Greensburg! and ready to get started very soon!

 

[kabhyper1]

Well since Scrappy is getting too tall for the net over the brooder, we decided to get imaginative.We moved them into a spare room and built a new brooder. Since it looks like a crow's nest on a boat, I call it the SS Quackn'poop.
The little itty bitties are in there now too.

 

[raisinemright]

Sad news on my hives in between Friday and today the temperature drop caught my bees unexpectedly and their cluster wasn't warm enough and they died. I had 2 boxes on them and it looks like they had split themselves between the 2 boxes cause of the warmer weather and with the rapid change/drop in temperature they couldn't make 1 big cluster fast enough to survive. i just find it ironic i had them survive our horrible winter to die now lol but my adventure in bees is still going to continue i'll just won't have bees in my yard till late April early may
to end on a better note here is a pretty picture of my girl's eggs i was washing to be able to trade them
.

I have two hives well did, neither one of them made it through this winter! And I cant find anymore bee packages as of yet.. It may be a tough year for the honey