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[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Look for a serema thread on here. Maybe someone thats raised them a while can help? I will look too.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

@granny hatchet https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/99179/malaysian-serama-thread-pics
there is one to start! Good luck!

 

[iamfivewire]

congrats on your turkey's acting debut racin

 

[ellymayRans]

If they like marigolds that much maybe I will plant some that I can give them for treats

do they prefer orange or yellow? It is fun to grow stuff like that. Let's see I have a bunch of bushes and plants for the song birds so why not spoil the chickens too... lol it's fun being a garden nerd

X2. I'm not sure though. ..my family refers to me as both a fowl nerd and a garden nerd! Hahaha

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I posted over on the guinea thread... Had something very cool and surprising happen this week. My 5 adult guinea would not accept their own hatched babies (incubated, not brooded) and the large clutch that my 2 older girls brooded were trampled by the pekin. So I had 2 guinea flocks that would not comingle and fought!
This week, I noticed my youngest adult white guinea hen was roosting with a young adult fella in my egg coop

He is white also!!! YAY! She spent last season alone. Most guinea pair up, and the 2 boys chose the other 2 girls. Last 2 days, all my guinea are roosting in the rafters of my egg coop

That solved a big issue I wasn't sure how to manage. Couldn't be happier. Totally surprised me, last 2 days I went to close the guinea coop, its empty

so I went searching, sure enough. All snuggled in the rafters of my egg coop.AND gave me a big empty coop to renovate! Sooo that opened up a 10x12 shed. Will be repainting, adding more roosts to it. The guinea will go back in there but it will be moved closer to the other coops.

 

[wheezy50]

I may put that on my garden list too  . Thanks for that thought wheezy50! I know they do love grapes... we have gave them those green seedless grapes ( cut into small pieces) and they just love that. I planted some black raspberries also and 2 beautiful blueberry bushes. Nothing bothered those blueberry bushes all summer but during this recent cold snap the dadburn bunnies chewed them off nearly to the ground  . Guess I need to make some little cages out of chickenwire to keep them cute yet pesky critters at bay! Do the bunnies bother your grapevines at all?

No, nothing has bothed the grapevines yet, other than the chickens. They will eat quite a few before the grapes are ripe, either from jumping up from the ground or flying up to perch on the fence. The vines are growing on or very near my dogs kennel, I think that keeps them away. The rabbits don't really bother any of my garden, which is surprising b/c I see them in the neighbors yard almost nightly.

 

[Linemanlett]

New to BYC!! Northern Indiana, and new to chickens. We are gonna hatch, and raise layers and meat chickens. It is now nearly dec and want to know advice about starting indoors now, to start getting eggs asap in the spring. Looking for breeds of layers and meat chickens. Also would like to buy local fertile eggs instead of online.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

New to BYC!! Northern Indiana, and new to chickens. We are gonna hatch, and raise layers and meat chickens. It is now nearly dec and want to know advice about starting indoors now, to start getting eggs asap in the spring. Looking for breeds of layers and meat chickens. Also would like to buy local fertile eggs instead of online.

This time of year I recommend getting started hens or you may find yourself with 2 month old chickens in the garage come Feb.

For meat chickens the red broilers are on special at ideal but I'm not sure you would be getting them outside at all as the weather could be horrible about the same time they were old enough to process.

If you are wanting dual purpose chickens, thne I recommend getting a heritage breed and from a breeder not a hatchery. There is a show coming up in TN in early Dec. Breeders will be there and you could get on a list for chicks they will sell in the spring.

 

[CharlemagneRoost]

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New to BYC!! Northern Indiana, and new to chickens. We are gonna hatch, and raise layers and meat chickens. It is now nearly dec and want to know advice about starting indoors now, to start getting eggs asap in the spring. Looking for breeds of layers and meat chickens. Also would like to buy local fertile eggs instead of online.[/quote

Welcome to the thread and to the fun of raising chickens!

I am considering parting with some of my Norwegian Jaerhon - will let go of one rooster and four hens, if anyone is interested. They hatched last February so are a few months shy of being one year old. $75 for the flock of five.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I've got me a very nice stud goat. He likes to be told that he is a good boy. He is much larger than my does but still I've started calling him my little Dude. He is now where as big as a cow so little fits but still it is a bit off as he is the largest goat I have.

I'll get som pictures in the next few days. Right now he is a bit new to the goat area and I don't want to spook him. When he gets spooked he sprays like a skunk but aims for himself.