INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[ellymayRans]

Well traffic home has been the worst we've ever experienced! Left Orlando at 6am and are just now south of Nashville TN! Says we should be home by 2am!!

All the while about 5pm i started getting pics and texts from my neighbors informing me high winds had blown down 2 trees at our place!! One knocked a fence down. The other fell across both my neighbor and our driveways! Uprooted and all! Not looking forward to that mess!!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Due to the high winds in Indy today our power went out and IPL says it won't be restored until tomorrow morning! Yikes! We have 4 1-2 week old chicks and I'm worried about them getting cold. Any ideas on how to keep them warm without electricity tonight?

@ShanCat

Do you have a way to heat water? You could use a hot water bottle. Just use a plastic milk jug or canning jar wrapped in a towel. Of course you'll have to keep re-heating it from time to time.

Or...a wood stove? You could put them in a box next to the stove.

How are you heating your house?

 

[StellaBlue81]

I'm a newbie to this site. I love in Madison. We have 3 adult India Blue pecocks an 1 India Blue leaven who has just laid six eggs. I have hatched them under a brooch hen before but only 2. So the husband went and bought me a still air incubator. I've done my research and I'm hoping to have 6 peachicks in about 27 days. I do intend on selling them. I'm looking for purple and green mating pair of peachicks, yearlings, or even adults. My peahen has been laying a clutch of at least 8 eggs. Any tips or info on incubating would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks so much!!

 

[Mother2Hens]

Welcome to the Indiana Thread! @ShanCat
Please click on the link at the bottom of my post to learn more about our helpful thread.

Originally Posted by ShanCat
Due to the high winds in Indy today our power went out and IPL says it won't be restored until tomorrow morning! Yikes! We have 4 1-2 week old chicks and I'm worried about them getting cold. Any ideas on how to keep them warm without electricity tonight?

I found some "Keeping Chicks Warm during Power Outage tips on byc:
• Often when the electricity goes out, the hot water doesn't. Hot water bottles or even ziploc bags filled with hot water and wrapped in a towel will keep chicks warm and can be replaced as needed.
• A group of chicks (3 - 4 or more depending on size) will usually generate enough body heat to keep themselves warm if placed in a small, insulated container. Keep several sizes of "picnic coolers" on hand for this purpose, and place a doubled cloth over the top edge to keep the lid from closing tightly.
• Chicks can be kept warm enough by your body heat to stay alive, if you can stash them safely close to your skin.
• Hold them in your car and run the heater for a while if needed.
• Be wary of any type of non-electric space heater that uses fuel that emits fumes. Fumes can be deadly to birds.

I hadn't seen that tip before about keeping insulated picnic coolers on hand —that's a good idea! I thought of one: An emergency heat-reflective blanket —it's normally something you'd keep in your car trunk, but it would be a good emergency blanket for chicks, too.

Some of you have wondered about temps for brooding chicks…I remembered using this chart:

@jchny2000 You set 90 eggs?! How will you think of 90 names?

One more of my boy, he was looking quite beautiful! I wanted to capture those blue feathers on his wings.

@ellymayRans ~I love just about every COLOR on anything. Your peacock's iridescent blue feathers are mesmerizing, and he looks like a work of art!

The BBB (Blonde Blurry Bird) in the background is handsome, too!

What kind of bird is in front of him? It has an odd looking tubular tail.
And sorry that you have to come home to a windstorm mess!
Originally Posted by iamfivewire

3 boy chicks


@iamfivewire That's a good start at describing your photo—LOL—but what about breed(s)? The one on the right looks like a baby owl.

Btw, I was at the grocery the other day and did a double-take. I thought a package of smoked meat said, "Smoked Owl" but it actually said "Smoked Jowl"! Hahaha
@chick rookie ~ Boo hoo ~ Your photo of your Cochin roo, Big Man, reminds me of your/my Cochin Lacy. I miss her so much, and I've been aching for my tiny Cochin Screech.
How are all of your goats doing? That's going to be quite an experience to move a farm full of animals to a new location!
@Greenthumb83 ~ Glad to hear that you're enjoying your new Chicken TV— and you even ran out to buy more channels to watch! Haha

 

[Greenthumb83]

Due to the high winds in Indy today our power went out and IPL says it won't be restored until tomorrow morning! Yikes! We have 4 1-2 week old chicks and I'm worried about them getting cold. Any ideas on how to keep them warm without electricity tonight?

How did you do? Ours was out for a good while but not overnight. My chicks were 8 days yesterday and the hot water bottle worked nicely. Hope all is well.

 

[chick rookie]

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What a sad and horrible story!

That made me cry. I hate people like that. they have got to be sick in the head to do things like that.

Well...the wind knocked the power out.

I put the chicks in a much smaller box with a big bottle of hot water. They are pretty freaked out and so am I! I hope they do ok and this doesn't last long.

I hope all went well with you chicks, M2H posted some good tips for dealing with a power outage. I personal favorite is hot water bottles, I use op bottles.

Snowing here. And they put a ban on semi-trailers from using the toll road due to predicted high winds.

The snow has been pretty, but with the wind, the chill is really cold!

SNOW!!!!! I hate that word. I hope it didn't get too bad.

Due to the high winds in Indy today our power went out and IPL says it won't be restored until tomorrow morning! Yikes! We have 4 1-2 week old chicks and I'm worried about them getting cold. Any ideas on how to keep them warm without electricity tonight?

Power has been going in and out here about midnight it came on and stayed on. It got pretty cold last night hope everyone came through it all ok.

Well traffic home has been the worst we've ever experienced! Left Orlando at 6am and are just now south of Nashville TN! Says we should be home by 2am!!

All the while about 5pm i started getting pics and texts from my neighbors informing me high winds had blown down 2 trees at our place!! One knocked a fence down. The other fell across both my neighbor and our driveways! Uprooted and all! Not looking forward to that mess!!

We have some downed Limbs big enough to call small trees but nothing that big. Sorry you had to come home to that.

I'm a newbie to this site. I love in Madison. We have 3 adult India Blue pecocks an 1 India Blue leaven who has just laid six eggs. I have hatched them under a brooch hen before but only 2. So the husband went and bought me a still air incubator. I've done my research and I'm hoping to have 6 peachicks in about 27 days. I do intend on selling them. I'm looking for purple and green mating pair of peachicks, yearlings, or even adults. My peahen has been laying a clutch of at least 8 eggs. Any tips or info on incubating would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks so much!!

Welcome!! Glde your here sorry I cant help ya out any, I know nothing about Pea eggs, Good luck

I'm sure someone will help ya out here have some that are pro's here.

How did you do? Ours was out for a good while but not overnight. My chicks were 8 days yesterday and the hot water bottle worked nicely. Hope all is well.

Glad to hear ya made it through with no loses.

@Mother2Hens I miss her too, but I know she knew she was loved and that makes a big difference. DH fell in-love with Big Man and he had me trying to get more for 2 years after that. Now he has Sweet Pea... He was named that cause we thought he was a she at first... lol

Jolene ( Doling that was in the house when you were here ) has learned how to jump the 4' baby fence so we were all day yesterday fixing the problem, hated doing it cause we are just going to be taking it down in the next week or 2 for the move.
I have no ideal how we are going to get all the critters moved that far at once. I can see me staying in one house while DH is at the other so we dont have critters alone. I wont leave any of them that far away from where I can see them.
But we will figure something out I'm sure.

 

[tmarsh83]

Well traffic home has been the worst we've ever experienced! Left Orlando at 6am and are just now south of Nashville TN! Says we should be home by 2am!!

All the while about 5pm i started getting pics and texts from my neighbors informing me high winds had blown down 2 trees at our place!! One knocked a fence down. The other fell across both my neighbor and our driveways! Uprooted and all! Not looking forward to that mess!!

This sucks. Sorry.

 

[Candy442]

3 boy chicks

These are auto sexing chicks from a cross between a Bielefelder roo and a CL hen We got one girl from the four total hatch. These guys will be a great size hopefully. The Biele Roo is about 10 lbs, but CL's are typically lighter birds.

Should turn out to be very pretty gentle giants.

 

[ellymayRans]

@Mother2Hens the blue bird in front of my son is a western crowned pigeon. It was very large. Out of curiosity i looked them up and found a pair for sale for $5000!

 

[ellymayRans]

@jchny2000 & @racinchickins
I will post pics later but Geez i just about fell over coming home seeing my scovy ducklings They are Huge!! I knew they grew fast but Really! ?!?!