INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[EurekaChic]

Okay, I'm super excited now!! I went up to candle my last remaining call duck egg and saw it wiggle!! EEK!! Tuesday is our estimated hatch date! e Come on, little ducky!!

Yay! Best of luck, can't wait for pics.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Good morning Indiana!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Silver appleyard are very attractive. I know of a breeder, PM if you are interested. I have purchased several hatching eggs from him, and his birds are lovely. My goodness, congrats on the ribbons! Your birds are just gorgeous. On the CX's aka cornish cross... I have a 2 year old girl named LilX I kept. She lays huge double yolkers about 5 days a week. She walks like a sumo wrestler but is still a very sweet girl. Here is her and Bacon (RIP Bacon) Good to see ya!

Thanks! I thought you had kept some Cornish crosses. The problem is I want to keep 7. My family ask me why I am going to do with 7 meat birds. Well love them of course. Doesn't seem like issue to me lol, who cares what they think-I bought them

I have a lavender orp roo I am probably cooking. He is ok with us, but is hurting the hens. One of my girls had skin torn off her neck from him. I caught him pecking her head, put him in jail and almost cried when I saw her neck. I sprayed her with blukote, and put her on antibiotics. She is confined so she can heal also. Oh awesome! Thats where I buy seed from too! I am pleased with the bicolor sweet corn. I think the fist batch was picked too early, its shaping up a lot better now. Lovely colors, Thats what I work towards too. The hens do, that's a "I'm scared and don't like this" call. A happy turkey trills and makes pleasant sounds. Poults make adorable sounds you would really love.

It was a hen that was making te dog noise. It was so cute. And to think that is what they sound like when they are scared, I can't imagine what thy would sound like when they are happy! Now I want a turkey! I don't want any males though, i just don't think they look cute. But the hens do.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/08/06/kings-indy-takes-join-chicken-people/13679099/

Do we know these guys?

 

[pginsber]

Here she is! She is just chirping away! To cute!

Welcome back! You were missed! I'm sorry to hear of your trying time with your broody and hatchlings. Fingers crossed that the drama is over, and a few normal days come your way.

...Lets out a few peeps now and again just to remind me I now have 2 babies in my bedroom again. Which of course gets the other baby chirping. Tomorrow, I will put them both in the same brood box with a divider, they are 5 days apart in age.
And of course, I have Mama and 3 feral kittens who just got fixed in my big brooder outside They should be able to be let loose Monday, and 12 baby poults in my great dane cage in the dining room, but they are 3 weeks old, so too young to go outside yet. So I need to rig something up for them tomorrow.

Yes, I totally hear you...I SWORE I wasn't having chickens in the house again, but somehow, it happened. But AGAIN--I'm vowing that poultry will stay outside.
Thanks for what you're doing to get those kittens fixed and re-released.

I have a daily visitor now. a very friendly Canadian goose hen.
I have actually picked her up, took her in to see Mom. She just showed up in the yard a few days ago.
The gander with her is fearful and won't visit, but at feeding time she is coming right in like all the other geese,
So, I won't confine her, but I welcome her visits. What a beautiful graceful goose too, I am wondering if she wasn't "relocated" at the park.
We usually see a large flock in the north pasture, but never have them close up begging food. My nephew took pics of her, will ask him to send them so I can post.
She is clearly imprinted on people. Who ever abandoned her gave her a good chance at the park. Just sad that she was, pretty obvious since she is not afraid of humans or other livestock.

I bet it's an awesome experience to pick up a Canadian goose. What do they weigh--about 11 pounds?
Your experience sounds like it could make a great children's book!

Bonbon (my avatar) is broody again, which doesn't surprise me...

Peanut (Bonbon's cousin twice removed) is our bantam black orpington, and she's not laid any eggs ALL YEAR because she's been broody!
We finally got her some hatching eggs, and once she hatches them, Peanut needs to be adopted out to a new home.
We have such a small chicken operation, we really need all the girls to be productive-not taking the season off to loaf in the nestbox!

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/08/06/kings-indy-takes-join-chicken-people/13679099/
Do we know these guys?

Thanks for sharing that link. I don't know that family, but I like the way he narrated the story. I liked his writing style in the written article that accompanied the video, too. When he asked his wife for the hammer, I cringed!

 

[PeacefulWalls]

Got the camera recharged so I decided to use it! This is Chloe's little banty coop. We had gotten the tractor coop itself from some friends who sold it to us with our first 2 chickens. It had a small run with it that was falling apart, so DH built a new, bigger run for it.






Her 2 porcelains are both roos. The other 4 we believe are all pullets. They're about 4 months old now.





It's confirmed now that this is a roo! I had posted awhile back pics of him, not sure if it was roo/pullet. He's one of the barnyard crosses. I'm trying to remember, but I think we decided it was the orpington roo (only option) crossed with a silver laced wyandotte.


And had to get a picture of Max. He was sitting so nicely while I was getting pics of the banties. His sister, Olive, is another story. She was busy sniffing out critter holes in the pasture and had no interest in what we were doing!

 

[PeacefulWalls]

Next round of pics....

Our greenhouse roof had sprung leaks around the skylights. This had been our rabbit barn before we moved. We're thinking the moving process broke the seal around the skylights. The roof decking in those areas had rotted away, so this weekend DH replaced it. Tar paper is down, but still needing shingles yet. Hopefully it isn't leaking now because we finally got some rain. (We've been in a bit of droughtlike conditions here. Last week just a few miles north/east of us rain cells went through & they got 3 inches -- not a drop here!) I'm hoping we get a good rain today.


This is our new windmill. We got it in June to aerate the pond. If you look just left of the center of the water you can see where it bubbles & the wave rings coming from it. There is a baffle in the top of the windmill that pumps air through a hose. You can see the black hose towards the bottom right of the base of the windmill. The rest of the hose is buried in a trench that leads out to the pond and goes out to about the middle of the deep end. There's a round disc connected to the end of it through which the air then bubbles out. Of course it doesn't do anything on windstill days, but most days it's spinning & you can see the bubbles. You can also tell how dry it's been here by the edge of the pond -- our water is down about 1 foot now from where it usually is.



For some reasons my garden pics are a bit blurry, but that's OK -- it disguises all the weeds!! We had all the weeds cleared out, and then fair came. I can tell the plants have suffered from lack of rain and cooler temps -- a lot of stuff is smaller than it should be and just behind schedule.




I promised someone a long time ago (my apologies!) that I would get pics of our orchard. We planted this spring 2012 and the trees were just whips (average 4 ft. long "sticks"). They've all grown quite nicely (and yes, they all survived the summer drought of 2012). There's a mix of about 30 different fruit trees.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

adorable little banty coop and run.

Sad news. I lost a duckling this morning. I'm not sure what happened, but one of the wild ducklings I got was just in the coop looking like it was asleep on a nest of 8 eggs. One idea might be that the original broody duck went broody again and killed it but why would she leave it on her nest and go sit on other eggs.
End oft he day I still have 4 wild ducklings that are looking like they might all be the same gender. No curling tail but a nice wide stripe of purple blue on each wing. They are all the same color pattern right now though.

 

[goodb]

Next round of pics....

Our greenhouse roof had sprung leaks around the skylights. This had been our rabbit barn before we moved. We're thinking the moving process broke the seal around the skylights. The roof decking in those areas had rotted away, so this weekend DH replaced it. Tar paper is down, but still needing shingles yet. Hopefully it isn't leaking now because we finally got some rain. (We've been in a bit of droughtlike conditions here. Last week just a few miles north/east of us rain cells went through & they got 3 inches -- not a drop here!) I'm hoping we get a good rain today.


This is our new windmill. We got it in June to aerate the pond. If you look just left of the center of the water you can see where it bubbles & the wave rings coming from it. There is a baffle in the top of the windmill that pumps air through a hose. You can see the black hose towards the bottom right of the base of the windmill. The rest of the hose is buried in a trench that leads out to the pond and goes out to about the middle of the deep end. There's a round disc connected to the end of it through which the air then bubbles out. Of course it doesn't do anything on windstill days, but most days it's spinning & you can see the bubbles. You can also tell how dry it's been here by the edge of the pond -- our water is down about 1 foot now from where it usually is.



For some reasons my garden pics are a bit blurry, but that's OK -- it disguises all the weeds!! We had all the weeds cleared out, and then fair came. I can tell the plants have suffered from lack of rain and cooler temps -- a lot of stuff is smaller than it should be and just behind schedule.




I promised someone a long time ago (my apologies!) that I would get pics of our orchard. We planted this spring 2012 and the trees were just whips (average 4 ft. long "sticks"). They've all grown quite nicely (and yes, they all survived the summer drought of 2012). There's a mix of about 30 different fruit trees.

It would be nice to come visit your household again! Love the windmill.

 

[irtehun]

Good morning fellow BYCers. Hope u all have a great day.