INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

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[COLOR=EE82EE]HA!!! You read my mind.  I had to get in there once for  putting a heater while Hubby was out of town...It is actually pretty warm down there.  Not to mention it is underground, so they would be safe from tornadoes too!  [/COLOR]



[COLOR=EE82EE]My girls are super picky.  They have never liked bananas.  Now my Redbone Coonhound Duke...LOVES BAnaNAS and tomatoes.  [/COLOR]

[COLOR=EE82EE]I was holding one of my Cochins yesterday and put on chapstick.... she decided to take a quick bite out of that.  WEIRDO  [/COLOR]

Sounds like the perfect coop to me! Then again, I've been eying everything from old vehicles to semi-trailers for converting into coops, so I guess coops are on the brain at the moment.

We've had to grab chickens for running off with screws and earrings and the like. You just never know what they may decide is edible!

 
I highly recommend that if anyone is wanting to add a few birds this spring, that you look into this.  It is an opportunity to get some higher than hatchery quality birds from a large choice of  rare breeds without having to order 25 all at once.  It is also a chance to support a small operation that has a goal of preserving unique breeds and not just hatching willy nilly to sell as many as possible.   

X2 - If you read through the site they are focusing on things like saving and strengthening threatened breeds and building disease resistance into their breeds.  It is VERY different from the hatcheries that are hatching out hundreds of birds with the only goal being selling large numbers. 

It is a very worthy cause to support.  You do need to group order if you only want a few though, they have a strict 25 chick minimum.  They also only take orders by mail with a check and only hatch a couple of times a month. 

If anyone else is interested in getting in on the order please let me know in the next 24 hours.  I will be mailing the order tomorrow afternoon.  It looks like we will have our order in on time for a March 24th hatch.  So the chicks should be in my hands soon after.

I agree, y'all, get in on this if you can! I so would, but it's just not in the cards at the moment. :/ Hopefully another time. They have about a dozen things on my 'want' list, so really hopefully another time. I am definitely drooling over those Dorkings!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

thanks for the input...made my decision and im getting the digital cabinet incubator...and the hatcher unit...placing the order at the end of the week

Did you decide on the GQF digital or the Dickies digital?
Dickies has more options includding a half and half model with 2 hatching trays. And I'm curious as to how well they work. Still its not in the budget right now. I need me a pair of your fruitful money trees.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

New Information Below:

Wanted: Hatching Egg Donors.

It has been proposed that as another way to raise money for Chickenfest 2015, we have some hatching egg auctions.
Do you have birds producing fertile eggs? Then you qualify to be an egg donor. All fertile eggs acceptable - turkeys, quail, emu, pigeons, chickens, ducks, geese, etc ....
These auctions are a great way to increase the fun of getting local hatching eggs as well as provide a method for spreading all of the different breeds we have among our members. Anything from rare breeds and barnyard mixed eggs qualify for donating. All that is needed are the fertile eggs promised in the auction at the time the auction ends. Willing to ship? Great! Not so sure about shipping eggs and prefer pickup only? That is perfectly acceptable too, just let us know either way. And of course an additional benefit will be the funds raised to make Chickenfest a better experience for all involved.

Steps to becoming a hatching egg donor:
1. Consider what you want to donate.
2. Consider when you will have the eggs available. The eggs must be available at the end of the auction.
3. Consider if you are willing and able to ship and the costs involved including the postage as well as packaging materials. In state regional shipping is estimated at $10-15 but regional boxes need ordering from the USPS site meaning while a large flat rate box might cost a tad more, it is better for you the shipper. The bidder will be expected to arrange payment with the donor for shipping costs. You are NOT obligated to ship. You can choose pickup only if that is what you are more comfortable with. We just need to know so we can post your choice during the auction.
4. To sign up, please send a pm to @racinchickins Include:
your BYC username;
your location;
breed of donated eggs;
if you can provide a breed description that would be great;
the date you will have eggs available (a range would be best);
how many eggs you have for donation (the auction will not list more than you are willing to donate);
if you are willing to ship the eggs or if your eggs will be pick up only;
the amount of shipping money you would request, if you ship the eggs;
and the email you would want to have the shipping money sent to, if shipping the eggs.
All shipping requested funds will be paid by the buyer in addition to the winning bid amount. All shipping requested funds will be paid to the egg donor so that they may ship in a timely manner (hopefully the first business day after the auction ends).


The first auction was planned to start today but the weather has delayed it. I won't be collecting eggs for hatching until it is above 20F.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

My DH has been given some unpaid time off due to the strike. His company actually tried to act like it was a good thing. But by doing it the way they are, he can't collect unemployment or start another part time job as the time off is not set in stone.

 

[ChickCrazed]

My DH has been given some unpaid time off due to the strike.  His company actually tried to act like it was a good thing.  But by doing it the way they are, he can't collect unemployment or start another part time job as the time off is not set in stone. 

How stressful!!! I'm so sorry!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Thanks.

 

[Leahs Mom]

My DH has been given some unpaid time off due to the strike. His company actually tried to act like it was a good thing. But by doing it the way they are, he can't collect unemployment or start another part time job as the time off is not set in stone.

 

[flyladyrocks]

It's not in the cards for me right now to get any chicks from them either, but I might in a couple months so maybe there will be another round of purchasing from them and we can jump in.

So, I pretty much have my initial wave of chicks decided (from Indiana BYCers of course!). If I find out I need to get more this year, I really like the idea of supporting Sand Hill if I can't find what I want close to home. They have several breeds that I am drooling over. Of course as I discover more new-to-me breeds that list keeps getting longer. Dorkings are on there! I had no idea there were so many different kinds of Dorkings!

Sounds like the perfect coop to me! Then again, I've been eying everything from old vehicles to semi-trailers for converting into coops, so I guess coops are on the brain at the moment.

We've had to grab chickens for running off with screws and earrings and the like.

You just never know what they may decide is edible!
I agree, y'all, get in on this if you can! I so would, but it's just not in the cards at the moment.

Hopefully another time. They have about a dozen things on my 'want' list, so really hopefully another time.

I am definitely drooling over those Dorkings!

 

[pbirdhaven]

. With students soon to arrive & no time to clean, the teacher next door dumped his aquariums out the window. My part of the story doesn't end there.... In the spring as I was doing a catapult lab outside, some of my boys discovered the fish remains & decided to flick them at the girls. They tried to convince me that it was more historically accurate than the marshmallows I had given them.

To this day, it remains my personal favorite reason for giving a detention. One of the boys framed his "Using a dead fish as a projectile" detention slip & gave it to me at his graduation.

OMG brad that is a gut wrenching story! I'm so sorry!

Ditto!

 

[ellymayRans]

My DH has been given some unpaid time off due to the strike.  His company actually tried to act like it was a good thing.  But by doing it the way they are, he can't collect unemployment or start another part time job as the time off is not set in stone. 

I hate to hear that for you and your family. We just had a reorganization announcement yesterday. I wasn't directly impacted but know plenty that were. It's never easy.