INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[SallyinIndiana]

@hoosiercheetah

Meyer is good but yiu have to add shipping to their catalog prices
Welp is good and includes shipping but no small orders, you could donate the extra chicks to me or sell them on CL.
Ideal has great birds and a special leghorn layer. There is a small shipping surcharge if you order less than 100 birds, something around $7 for my area. Last time I checked their min order was $25 dollars after discounts and before shipping. But call the order in if you are not willing to accept roosters as box fillers.

 

[pbirdhaven]

Wow--I feel like a newbie! Haven't been on for almost a year with moving and also couldn't get into the site. BYC kept telling me my cookies weren't enabled with Firefox and Chrome; IE let me log in but not type anything. On a tablet now and it seems to be working but small and slow.
Anyhow, howdy everybody! So many new "faces." No way have I tried to catch up on everything--just the last few pages.
Moved in the spring, got sick during the move, knee went out in the summer, so coop building, hatching, etc. have not gone as planned. My house looks like a hoarder's with all the boxes; can do that in the cold weather but need to get the peeps settled first. I couldn't stand it any longer so set up the incubator in the laundry room instead of a dryer--have to get one soon, though. My lasr hatch for this year is pipping now.
I plan to be at Lebanon; hopefully not all of my entries will be molting then; some already look like ragamuffins. I may bring a few silkie and Marans chicks if I get them sorted. Will be in a red Dodge Ram with camper bed. Hope to meet and greet some BYCers there.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Wow--I feel like a newbie!  Haven't been on for almost a year with moving and also couldn't get into the site.  BYC kept telling me my cookies weren't enabled with Firefox and Chrome; IE let me log in but not type anything.  On a tablet now and it seems to be working but small and slow.
Anyhow, howdy everybody!  So many new "faces."  No way have I tried to catch up on everything--just the last few pages.
Moved in the spring, got sick during the move, knee went out in the summer, so coop building, hatching, etc. have not gone as planned.  My house looks like a hoarder's with all the boxes; can do that in the cold weather but need to get the peeps settled first.  I couldn't stand it any longer so set up the incubator in the laundry room instead of a dryer--have to get one soon, though.  My lasr hatch for this year is pipping now.
I plan to be at Lebanon; hopefully not all of my entries will be molting then; some already look like ragamuffins.  I may bring a few silkie and Marans chicks if I get them sorted.  Will be in a red Dodge Ram with camper bed.  Hope to meet and greet some BYCers there.

Good to see you back! I hear ya on the molting.my white rock hens I have entered look pretty bad. Really the only thing I have hopes for is the ameraucanas. I hope yours hold there feathers together for the show!

 

[leslea]

Wleoc
Welcome! Your coops almost looks like a house-plus some chicken accessories

That was my thought, too. I had to really look at it! I thought they were house chickens!

and the best thread on it...

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Wow--I feel like a newbie! Haven't been on for almost a year with moving and also couldn't get into the site. BYC kept telling me my cookies weren't enabled with Firefox and Chrome; IE let me log in but not type anything. On a tablet now and it seems to be working but small and slow.
Anyhow, howdy everybody! So many new "faces." No way have I tried to catch up on everything--just the last few pages.
Moved in the spring, got sick during the move, knee went out in the summer, so coop building, hatching, etc. have not gone as planned. My house looks like a hoarder's with all the boxes; can do that in the cold weather but need to get the peeps settled first. I couldn't stand it any longer so set up the incubator in the laundry room instead of a dryer--have to get one soon, though. My lasr hatch for this year is pipping now.
I plan to be at Lebanon; hopefully not all of my entries will be molting then; some already look like ragamuffins. I may bring a few silkie and Marans chicks if I get them sorted. Will be in a red Dodge Ram with camper bed. Hope to meet and greet some BYCers there.

my good looking birds are molting too. We have not gotten to the showing level yet though.

 

[leslea]

Wow--I feel like a newbie! Haven't been on for almost a year with moving and also couldn't get into the site. BYC kept telling me my cookies weren't enabled with Firefox and Chrome; IE let me log in but not type anything. On a tablet now and it seems to be working but small and slow.
Anyhow, howdy everybody! So many new "faces." No way have I tried to catch up on everything--just the last few pages.
Moved in the spring, got sick during the move, knee went out in the summer, so coop building, hatching, etc. have not gone as planned. My house looks like a hoarder's with all the boxes; can do that in the cold weather but need to get the peeps settled first. I couldn't stand it any longer so set up the incubator in the laundry room instead of a dryer--have to get one soon, though. My lasr hatch for this year is pipping now.
I plan to be at Lebanon; hopefully not all of my entries will be molting then; some already look like ragamuffins. I may bring a few silkie and Marans chicks if I get them sorted. Will be in a red Dodge Ram with camper bed. Hope to meet and greet some BYCers there.

Welcome back, and here's to a better year.

 

[leslea]

Went outside today to take pics of the chickens for a reader...I think it's possible my readers are bigger fans of my birds than my books...

Anyway, pretty leaves out there, too!



Lynda worked really hard to find some dry dirt to bathe in!



Amy and Farrah look so cute among the leaves.



Gayle is slowly integrating into the flock better now that Otis is gone.



Have you carved a pumpkin yet?

Okay, and here is a fun country story (not really chickeny, though). We took the kids to Deere Farm over the weekend, in Lanesville. They had real pumpkin patches (not like at Huber's where they drop pumpkins into the field every morning), 14 acres of corn mazes, corn cannon, bouncy house, pony rides, you name it. I took about a zillion photos, and I will spare you all those, but this one:



"Tank," the winning pig in the pig race. Two of my sons competed in the race, chasing pigs around the "track." One of my sons won chasing Tank, the other was second place chasing "Elvis."

If you desire to watch that silliness, it is here.

It wasn't an inexpensive outing, but they had so many fun things to do (and the pork chop sandwiches were awesome!) that I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for something fun to do on a weekend, if you're within driving distance to Lanesville. My only regret was that we didn't get there earlier in the day to have more time to spend.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I have the infor nation for the next swap meet:

Northeast Indiana Poultry, Waterfowl, and Exotics Swap Meet

~buy/sell/trade birds and supplies~

A great place for breeders to sell and 4-Hers to buy!

Place: poultry building at the wells county 4-H park

Location: bluffton, Indiana

Date: Saturday- April 25th, 2015

Time: 10am-2pm

Vendor fee (1table) = $7

Seller fee (1 cage) = $3

Please register by email(payment will be accepted the day of the swap)

Email [email protected]

 

[Leahs Mom]

A swap meet question for those of you that take birds to sell.

For Sellers:
-When you go with birds, do you usually sell all the birds you take? If not, do you quarantine when you return?
-Is there a way to take your birds and not expose them to the other birds there? (How close are they to other birds?)
-If you have heritage or landrace breeds, can you price them appropriately for what they are?

For Buyers:
Have you actually found good quality, healthy birds at the swaps?


I think I'll have some very nice SFH next year but really don't like the idea of selling at shows/swaps so I'm just wanting to hear your experiences.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

A swap meet question for those of you that take birds to sell.

For Sellers:
-When you go with birds, do you usually sell all the birds you take?  If not, do you quarantine when you return?
-Is there a way to take your birds and not expose them to the other birds there?  (How close are they to other birds?)
-If you have heritage or landrace breeds, can you price them appropriately for what they are?

For Buyers:
Have you actually found good quality, healthy birds at the swaps?


I think I'll  have some very nice SFH next year but really don't like the idea of selling at shows/swaps so I'm just wanting to hear your experiences.

I sold all but two and it was my first swap meet.

They are exposed to other birds no matter what. The cages at the one I went to the cages were side by side so they could peck each other if they wanted. Besides birds flap-particles get spread. People handling a bird down at one end might come down by yours etc.

I sold an Ameraucana cockerel for $15. I consider that good. Especially because it is hard to sell roosters unless they are good quality.

And yes I have found good birds at swap meets.