INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

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but we really want Easter Eggers and I want them sexed. ....


There are the cream legbars. I'll have days olds soon as will Brad and Racin...


Currently I'll be posting this almost everywhere later today when homeschool is over but for now I'm posting here first.

I have 2 smooth topped / no crested cream legbar hens available. the first is 6 weeks and the second is 4.5 weeks. I can add in a CCL rooster with bent toes too if a roo is desired. Message me for prices. These are not $2 chicks.
 
Rural King in Bloomington has chicks in. A few breeds are leghorns, GLWyandottes, Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, BSLink,... he said 12 breeds altogether right now. They went with Town line Hatchery this year...I'm not familiar with that one...

Orschlens in Bedford are looking at March 1st for chicks and are with Estes Hatchery again.. and they have no idea about the breeds they will carry.
 
@SallyinIndiana
Is there a non-crested CL.... or is not having a crest a "fault"? I always wanted them but don't want birds with crests so this is of interest to me.
Once the standard is set, odds are it will be a fault. Hard to be a real fault before there is a standard though. I'm prety sure that part of the stand is decided, that a crested cream legbar needs a crest. But there are other things still in flux mainly color preferences. These legbars would not be show legbars as they have no crest but they will lay the blue green eggs. And there would be a chance that their offspring could have a crest, depending a lot on the rooster but still they do have the crest gene somewhere as all of my legbars have crests just not giant ones.
 
the gqf both units....the 1550 and 1500 unit....

i would say measure how far the lights are drilled out to the top...mine are 3 inches to the center of the bulb opening....from the top....it could be that your to high to the plastic cause a plastic burning like smell that would be my guess....also what size lights are you using...im using two 60 watt...if your using higher and there closer then bingo was his name o...lol...hope this helps

here is my new project...fridgebator
is there a step by step for this one. We have an old fridge that doesn't work anymore and was wanting DH to do this to it, but he needs some instructions and what we need to buy, such as heating and thermostats and stuff.
 
Rural King in Bloomington has chicks in. A few breeds are leghorns, GLWyandottes, Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, BSLink,... he said 12 breeds altogether right now. They went with Town line Hatchery this year...I'm not familiar with that one...

Orschlens in Bedford are looking at March 1st for chicks and are with Estes Hatchery again.. and they have no idea about the breeds they will carry.
We got 15 chicks there over the weekend. We got golden laced wyandott, some assorted bantams, and some straight run hatchery special. I think out little bantams are going to be mille flure d'uccle, they are the cutest things with tiny little feathered legs. I looked up estes hatchery and they carry marans, white rocks, barred rocks and several others including salmon faverolles. I really hope they get some of these. I'm glad you posted because I was going to go to our Orchlens today. I think Tractor Supply is suppose to get theirs Monday.
 
Quote: Agreed. The standard is still being worked on. Lack of crests will be considered a fault, especially in the females. However, crest size is still quite a bit up in the air. Nobody wants a full on crest like the polish, but preferences are all over the map on the smaller crests (and many other things, as Sally mentioned). I'm personally a fan of smaller, but still noticeable swept back crests, but nothing that even comes close to a polish or silkie. And the crests haven't been locked in. You can still get no crests from parents that have them. That being said, I've seen Sally's birds (some actually came from me) and if someone isn't interested in showing them, then her non-crested birds would be great for them. Any non-crested that I get this year will be sold as blue egg layers, not as CCLs.
 
Here's a video that shows Eliza and some of my other chicken taking a dust bath. Chickens Dust Bathing on a Sunny February Day It would look so much better in high def, but youtube has been rejecting them even if they're short. @Faraday40 might like to see Bonbon who stand up to show off at the end.
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The video was taken last Saturday when it was almost 60 degrees! It's going to be -7 tonight, which is better than -14 that they had predicted. My coops are heated 15-20 degrees higher than the outdoor temp. For Christmas, my DS gave me a Wireless Indoor/Outdoor 8-Channel Thermo-Hygrometer with Three Remote Sensors. That way, I can monitor the temp and humidity of each coop from inside the house. My DH and I check the readings about every five minutes! hahaha




Yes beautiful Bonbon is my type of hen! I love those round fluff balls!

I miss those warm sunny afternoons. (It was -10'F last night but with windchill it felt much, much colder.) Right now it's 0'F but feels like -15'F. Your thermometers are nice. I think I'd be worrying too much if I had them up here. I only heat their water. My run is actually warmer than my coop & garage during the day. Greenhouse Effect makes it almost 20 degrees warmer.
 




These 7 bigger babies were purchased the week before at the RK in Martinsville. Supposed to be 5 sexed pullets (SL Wyandotte, buff Orp, Australorp, 2 EEs) and 2 straight run Welsummers (received the wrong advice on sexing them but still seem to have one pullet and one roo)







All supposed to be pullets: 1 Australorp & 2 light Brahmas (with buff and blue on them?), 1 GL Wyandotte and 4 EEs.


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.
Want a lot of those breeds--esp if I had the space for it. Would love to strengthen and support rare breeds, but to do that, I need to be able to keep roos, and that hasn't worked out so far. Last batch of roos I had, one liked to crow ALL NIGHT and taught it to all the others. Didn't work too well since I have neighbor's shoulder to shoulder with me in this neighborhood. Can't wait to move to the boonies.
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Funny Fish story:
The teacher in the next lab boiled his fish once. The whole science wing was in the upper 90s, reeking of dead fish when we returned after Spring Break. (high room temp + heaters = dead fish. Thankfully, I had brought all my reptiles home over vacation.) We opened all the windows to air out & adjust temps. 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.
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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.

Just found out that all my fish in the 80gal died. Someone unplugged the heaters. The only one that survived was Bentley, the deformed perpetually ill and falling apart plecostomus. You know, the really cheap fish compared to all the pretty old senegalis bichirs. I've had the pleco and bichirs each for multiple years. We've daily expected Bentley to die because of his progressively more grievous bone deformities, but alas, he's the lone survivor. Even the convicts died--and they're concentrated meanness. Poor bichirs
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In double-edged good news, I woke up yesterday and the chickies all had they're eyes open. Went into the RK in Bloomington because they didn't have a minimum and my youngest had finally found his "money" (e a couple pounds of loose change enough to buy two chicks), and I fell in love with a few oddly colored babies while I was there, and picked up a few babes who didn't look particularly well off. All the EE chicks had one eye closed with some scabbing on one or both eyelids. Since so many looked unhealthy (esp poorly watered) in the bimns, I picked up more than I'd intended and left with seven altogether (three of which were technically purchased by my proud son, in part because I gave him some change, and in part because nice people saw us counting our pennies and threw in their change too
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) Lots of very sweet people in the store--employees and customers alike. So yeah, I'd expected some of the babies to die off, but they're all doing spectacularly and have their eyes open.
 

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