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[ellymayRans]

@chickrookie so very sweet! Love love loved all the pics! Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear you're feeling better!

 

[ellymayRans]

Well great news this morning! I had someone put a deposit on my last 4 rescue pair of peas!

They live almost in Evansville so won't have a chance to get them until the weekend but Oh how happy i am to almost have this all wrapped up!

Seems like forever now and so happy they will have better homes!!

Delivering a pair tomorrow in Indy as well as seeing a silkie roo off to @flyladyrocks!

 

[Soylent Chick]

@daskhan Thanks! I'll try that. In terms of feed, the local RK is pretty good, they carry multiple brands and their stock is much fresher than TSC. I've just been curious about feed mills since many BYCers have reported better feed at lower prices.

 

[racinchickins]

Quote: You are welcome over anytime. Just pm me when you have some time. I'm always willing to show off my animals and talk about them ad nauseam.

Getting excited for baby chicks. I just ordered some Cornish cross and white laced red Cornish. My plan was to hatch sex linked olive eggers but I don't think it's going to pan out. If it does it will be on a small scale. I've not had good luck with my cream crested Legbars and my roo I was going to use is limping

So what's everyone hatching/selling this year?

If you end up with any extra white laced red cornish, I would definitely be in the market for some!

as far as hatching/selling: Mottled Javas, American Bresse, and Cream Crested Legbars. Sweetgrass Turkeys also. If my peacocks end up with eggs I'll sell those or hatch them out for others. I plan to start some projects also.

Just hatched out some standard show quality Speckled Sussex and Rhode Island Reds. I had a great hatch with 14 out of 15 hatching. I have Brown & Buff Leghorns, Black Copper Marans, Blue Cochins, Rhode Island Reds , Speckled Sussex & Cream Leg

bar hopefully hatching this week.

Are your brown leghorns single comb or rose comb? I'm looking for some rose comb.

Well great news this morning! I had someone put a deposit on my last 4 rescue pair of peas!

They live almost in Evansville so won't have a chance to get them until the weekend but Oh how happy i am to almost have this all wrapped up!

Seems like forever now and so happy they will have better homes!!

Delivering a pair tomorrow in Indy as well as seeing a silkie roo off to @flyladyrocks!

That's awesome! I'm glad it has finally worked out. It's too bad we weren't able to go rescue the others.

 

[cganote]

Do you think you will have some peafowl to sell this spring? I'm looking for a friend for our lone survivor pea. We started out with 5, then got two more, and only one made it through! They just seemed to lose condition and waste away to nothing. The survivor was on death's door for weeks but we kept it inside under heat. I think the other two caught whatever it had even though they were in separate cages. What kind of thing causes this?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I have no idea what was going on out here today! My girls and duckies were freaking out! A few hours before sunset (somewhere around 3 pm), they freaked out big time and I ran out to check on them, fully expecting to see a hawk lurking around again. Nothing! A little later, around 4:30, after they had been growling and clucking alarm calls every 20 minutes or so, I checked on them again and they were all in their coops. The hens were huddled under the roosts with Reuben, and my little call ducks were piled in the back corner of their coop. I didn't see anything, not on the ground, not in the air! The only thing out there were the sparrows and the squirrels, and none of them seemed concerned! I ended up closing all my coops at about 4:30, though, just so I would know for sure that my birds were safe. It was just spooky, I still have no clue what was going on!


Weirdest part was that the Guineas were totally fine, not acting out of the ordinary in any way. Whatever had the hens and ducks spooked had to have been in the woods beyond their coops, the side opposite from where the Guinea coop is.

Theres been a few occasions I have seen mine act that way, and the guinea were just fine. Something on the wind, a sound maybe?

I think I know what it was--that Cooper's hawk. It was back today, about an hour ago. I heard the hens freak over the monitor, more so than they did yesterday. Threw on my boots and literally ran out to check on them. My brother was already there. "It got one of them," was all he said. My heart sank. There were black feathers all over with the characteristic white tip that told me they belonged to Rangi, but no remains to be seen. I hurried in to the coop to check on the girls and count them, and there in the back corner was Rangi.

She is bald up the back of her neck and has a few small bruises and scratches, but is otherwise fine. Just a drop of blood on her comb where it nicked her. Thank goodness!

I also found that Rosie, one of my biddy Sebrights, was missing as I was counting them. My brother has a flashlight app on his phone, so he handed it to me and I quickly found her, literally underneath a pile of hens in the dog crate that Reub used to sleep in. Poor girl must have been trampled in the rush to get into the coop, because she was dazed. I checked her over to make sure she wasn't hurt, and then she shook out her feathers and hopped off to join the other bantams on the roosts. Everyone else seems fine.

The hawk, I don't think it will be back. Hopefully by the fall, we'll have a secure enclosure to keep out any other hawks that get the wrong idea about my girls. I'm still shaky and watery-eyed and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to focus on the German homework I have due tomorrow after all that, but my girls are all safe right now. I think Elda's going to get fed up with me for all the chicken therapy I've been needing, though!

 

[flyladyrocks]

Trying to catch up after a marathon weekend. Sometimes you just need a weekend to recover from the weekend! Spent the relatively warm day working outside doing chicken stuff.

@pipdzipdnreadytogonow that the kids are leaving the windows cracked (like they were instructed!)everyone seems fine. They were locking everything up too tight. It seemed crazy that they were fine when it was 0 outside but got frostbitten when it was 20!
We live smack dab in the middle of the city and have 3 red shouldered hawks. Hope your babies stay safe. Glad there were no losses this time.

@chick rookie your babies are precious! I am officially resigned to the fact that we would need to move to get goats and don't see that happening anytime soon.

@jchny2000 did you find out anything about your brother? Hope your mom is okay.the days after a fall can be hard.

Can't wait to get a silkie roo from @ellymayRans tomorrow. My daughter will finally have her Olaf. She us so crazy excited. It's hard to believe that with 8 roos last year, not a single was a bantam!

So, we have our pack-n-play brooder all set up inside for quarantine, AND we are bowling right next door to RK in Greenwood. They are all set up fir chicks but don't have any. Probably a good thing b/c with everything all set up it would be awefully tempting. Even though I've said I won't buy chicks from a large store!

Speaking of tempting - all of you are tempting me WAY too much. Stop talking about what you will be hatching before they lick me up for being a crazy chicken kady! I will have plenty of my own chicks. I DO NOT need to buy chicks! Really I don't. I must keep repeating that. I will possibly be allowing myself the chickens I first wanted, but pullets not chicks and that is Polish. I so live Polish!

And lastly, April 1 is when IndyRezone goes into affect. Yesterday DH talked to someone in our city Gov. who has purposely gone above the limit of Chickens to be Grandfathered in. We found that funny.

Okay, I should go be a good mom and actually watch my daughter bowl! The funny thing is she gets a spare everyone she closes her eyes! Take that back, she just got an eyes closed strike!

 

[ellymayRans]

Do you think you will have some peafowl to sell this spring? I'm looking for a friend for our lone survivor pea. We started out with 5, then got two more, and only one made it through! They just seemed to lose condition and waste away to nothing. The survivor was on death's door for weeks but we kept it inside under heat. I think the other two caught whatever it had even though they were in separate cages. What kind of thing causes this?

As for the losses it could be a number of things, more commonly wasting away could have indicated Cocci, worms, mites or lice. Did you hatch them or get them from someone? How old?

I'm sure i will have some come spring. I was just discussing with my DH about possibly selling my young black shoulder male. He was hatched 7/4/15. I just have too many boys right now. Do you have a lone male or female? Age?

 

[ellymayRans]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo I'm sorry to inform you that odds are that hawk will certainly be back. They are very persistent especially if you have bantys tempting them.

 

[Indyshent]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo I'm sorry to inform you that odds are that hawk will certainly be back. They are very persistent especially if you have bantys tempting them.

I second this. Hawks are tenacious little buttheads who all seem to know they're protected wildlife.

Trying to catch up after a marathon weekend. Sometimes you just need a weekend to recover from the weekend! Spent the relatively warm day working outside doing chicken stuff.

@pipdzipdnreadytogo now that the kids are leaving the windows cracked (like they were instructed!)everyone seems fine. They were locking everything up too tight. It seemed crazy that they were fine when it was 0 outside but got frostbitten when it was 20!
We live smack dab in the middle of the city and have 3 red shouldered hawks. Hope your babies stay safe. Glad there were no losses this time.

@chick rookie your babies are precious! I am officially resigned to the fact that we would need to move to get goats and don't see that happening anytime soon.

@jchny2000 did you find out anything about your brother? Hope your mom is okay.the days after a fall can be hard.

Can't wait to get a silkie roo from @ellymayRans tomorrow. My daughter will finally have her Olaf. She us so crazy excited. It's hard to believe that with 8 roos last year, not a single was a bantam!

So, we have our pack-n-play brooder all set up inside for quarantine, AND we are bowling right next door to RK in Greenwood. They are all set up fir chicks but don't have any. Probably a good thing b/c with everything all set up it would be awefully tempting. Even though I've said I won't buy chicks from a large store!

Speaking of tempting - all of you are tempting me WAY too much. Stop talking about what you will be hatching before they lick me up for being a crazy chicken kady! I will have plenty of my own chicks. I DO NOT need to buy chicks! Really I don't. I must keep repeating that. I will possibly be allowing myself the chickens I first wanted, but pullets not chicks and that is Polish. I so live Polish!

And lastly, April 1 is when IndyRezone goes into affect. Yesterday DH talked to someone in our city Gov. who has purposely gone above the limit of Chickens to be Grandfathered in. We found that funny.

Okay, I should go be a good mom and actually watch my daughter bowl! The funny thing is she gets a spare everyone she closes her eyes! Take that back, she just got an eyes closed strike!

You'll love him (your Olaf-to-be). He was regularly handled by toddlers and special-needs children. There isn't a mean bone in his body (or wasn't when he still lived here). He's a doll baby.


So anything I get before April 1 gets grandfathered in? :strokes imaginary goatee in contemplation: Well, maybe some expletives are called for because I really, really, REALLY shouldn't get anymore (though is someone happened to toss a pygmy goat over the fence, I suppose I'd just have to take it in

Regarding RK chicks, the one exception I'll probably fall for is more Dark Brahmas. All three of my straight run assorted heavy bin DBs wound up being the sweetest, most awesome birds ever. With two dead by a stray dog and one being rehomed, well... yeah, I'll fall for them hard is I see anymore of the little fluffybutts this spring.

My biggest issue remains the potential health threat these birds are to others, should they be rehomed. I haven't seen any more respiratory issues in the last week or so. the two birds I brought in because of sniffling seem to have recovered. The hen (a BO and probably my son's favorite hen) seems to have recovered without any antibiotics. She's in a hard molt right now and had been acting really out of character (always in the darkest place she can find, roosting away from everyone, not eating much, sullen), but she apparently just needed a warm spot to sit down, less competition for feed, such as that. She has no interest whatsoever in returning to the great outdoors though. Every time I put her outside, she tries to get back inside or falls back into her old sullen, sick ways, and each time, she manages to get even more sick even faster than the last time. So, yeah, I'm just keeping her inside until I can figure out what the heck is wrong with her.