INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[leslea]

How about putting a large sign on the fridge door stating the price per dozen & "no exceptions!". Or a sign that says "One free dozen eggs with the donation of a bag of chicken feed. After the first free dozen, eggs cost $2.00" Or "Payment is expected for all eggs taken from this fridge. Your choice of payment per dozen: 1 large bag of chicken feed, 1/2 hour of shoveling chicken poop or $2.00" Or "Egg prices -- pick your payment per dozen: $10.00, $5.00 or $2.00. Please note that free is NOT an option!"

I also put eggs in Walmart bags when I need to save them for someone who will be stopping by & put their name on the bag. You could bag up all your eggs & put fake names on them. Tell your family that eggs in bags are already sold! Or at your next family gathering when everyone is a captive audience and seated around the table hand out bills and tell them you will be collecting payment before they go home!

^^^ Winning!!! ^^^

 

[leslea]

link wouldn't load for me.

Try this one:

http://www.pinterest.com/lesleatash/backyard-chickens/

 

[BackyardBitten]

wwwoohhhhoooo 2600 pages!!!!!!!! yeah!

 

[hoosiercheetah]

wwwoohhhhoooo 2600 pages!!!!!!!! yeah! 

you know, if you multi-quote the entire 2600 pages, you'd have 5200 pages. that's got to be some kind of record.

 

[daneblackburn]

Unfortunately, they have to be taught usually. I spent a week or so putting them away until they caught on. Its worth a try with the food idea, or maybe a treat at bedtime.



Hope it was a great time! glad the babies are doing well.

Loved this pic, adorable! Did she leave you an egg?

11 eggs hopefully most hatch. I did get 22 out of my layers today most ever.

 

[bradselig]

Here are two of the mixes I held back from the tolbunt/legbar pen and the legbar/Marans pen (I believe, it has feathered shanks, but can't remember the exact egg it hatched from). The one with the large crest is the one from legbar pen obviously. I love the barring on the possible olive eggers chest.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Lily is so much better today! She got bored so I found her a friend. She sat like this for about an hour.

aww too cute!

Got pics in the sun finally yesterday. . Found though if it's not raining he's decided to sleep on our roof! Hmmmm



Of course picking the highest side above our walkout basement. .it's got to be over 30ft high! Makes me queasy! Not a fan of heights!

Just stunning color!

Okay, for all you silkie lovers. I just read the funniest thing. When asked, "What kind of animal is that?" One silkie owner replies, "Asian ground parrots." I might just get some silkies so I can say that.

Ok I have a issue I'm hoping someone can lend a knowledgeable helping hand!! My small Egyptian fayoumi pullet has a very swollen foot! I started looking it over trying to find a place as described for bumblefoot but can't! The swelling is moving up her leg. I feel sooo bad because it's obviously been going on awhile. . She lost some toenails on that foot the end of the cold weather and her limping I associated with that. It is warm to the touch so I know it's infected but I can't get myself to lance it! I'm a very shaky person DH gives the vaccine shots while I *try* to hold them still because my shaking is so bad... but I know he will not go for what I think needs done.

Recommendations? Please advise. ..thoughts? I will try to get pics too.

Soak the foot for sure, then hopefully you can spot the problem.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Einstein is a girl, and will keep her name. She makes me laugh with her crazy crest!

She is looking so grown up already!

Sharing some more beauty..can't help myself! He seems smitten!

This is making me think my oldest is hen, thats her coloring! he is just beautiful! err handsome that is

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I hope I didn't, and didn't mean to offend with my opinion on roos. I don't by any means coddle my boys. My handling of them is purely for a purpose. What I meant by petting them, is I get enjoyment out of petting them, while teaching them who's boss. A coddled roo, just like a coddled puppy will end up a spoiled brat. My chickens all have names, and I do find myself talking to them on occasion, but they are chickens, and I treat them as such. I personally like to be able to reach down and scoop all of my chickens up. If there is a medical problem or they need to be checked out just to be sure everything is okay, I prefer to not have to chase them down. My boys respect us. They have a healthy fear of us, but don't see us as a threatening force to be reckoned with per their nature to protect the flock from evil.

We are their bosses to do with them what we like, and they understand that.

Get a feel for your boys, and do what works best in your own situation. I just threw the handling thing out there, because for us personally, not handling them was making them think we were push overs, and under them in the pecking order. I have heard more often than not that handling them works better, although I shouldn't have told someone what to do with their own birds because every ones situation is different. I had a lot of advice when we first started, some worked some didn't. We did what worked best for us, and used a little of all of the suggestions in different ways.

Roosters, just had to jump in on this subject. I have tried several different methods, handling, not handling.. The ones I raised myself are fine, lot of the birds that come in partially or fully grown are sometimes a problem. I do think breed, individual lines, and the birds temperament all play a role in it. I keep a lot of them here, and bottom line, the more roos I have, less problems out of them towards people. I cut my roosters down again recently, pulled 6 total out of my egg coop. Red attacked me twice yesterday! He will be going to rooster jail if it happens again. He better watch it, I have some very handsome SLWs growing up that can take his place!! Same way with Bruce my BA, if there isn't a few other roos, he will challenge me. I notice too, with wearing different clothes, it throws them off. I want them to protect their girls, but repeated attacks won't cut it here.

Had good and bad news this morning. Good news is that I have 3 hens laying on the 15 eggs I brought home for them to incubate. I think I'm going to isolate them each into their own brooder bin as they keep stealing each other's eggs-and since one is sitting on guineas and the other 2 on MF and will hatch a week apart-I need them to stop doing that! I found 10 eggs under one hen today and the broody she stole them from was wandering around the coop aimlessly. Took 5 eggs away from the hen that had 10 and gave them back to the wandering broody, she sat right back down on them.

Bad news was that as I was bringing fresh water in to the Cornish X chicks and my cat sneaked in behind me and got one of the chicks. I stood there holding the water and seeing chicks flying out of the brooder, I thought I must have spooked them really badly but it was the cat. I got the chick away from the cat and it has a 1" gash on the top of its back which its wing covers. I took it to the bathroom and rinsed the wound out with hydrogen peroxide, then dressed it with triple antibiotic ointment but left the wound open to air out. Now the chick is in a kitty carrier beside the brooder so it gets heat from the light but is separated from the others. I checked it at lunch and it was fine, I flushed the wound again and put more ointment on it. Should I try to pick up an antibiotics at TSC? If so, any recommendations on type and dosage? Anything else I should try to do for it? The chick is 2-3 weeks old and weeks away from being butchered.

Great news on the broodies!
I have seen some pretty awful wounds. Worst one was Lila my turken hen, large flap of skin ripped off the back of her neck. That rooster is no longer on this earth, btw!

I brought her in. heavily sprayed with blukote. she healed and you would never know it. This being puncture type wound definitely get antibiotics.

 

[bradselig]

Today my puppy turns 10 yrs old. It's hard to believe that I've had her for 8 yrs now. Even with tearing up several bags of hay through out the house, helping herself to a box of pancake mix, eating my parrots head off, and becoming the gimpy girl she is today from a herniated disc, I wouldn't have it any other way. Hoping for several more years with her!