INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

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Working or pets?

 

[faerydust16]

I have another bird in the house. An EE. It looks like a hawk or falcon attack. Found her standing under the pine trees. She wasn't killed because I imagine my goose, Lucy, probably went over there honking. When the muscovies mate she stands right by them honking.

The injured bird is still alive this morning, and sitting, so it's a good sign that she may recover.

Fingers crossed for recovery!

 

[Nyla]

Working or pet is fine. I'm hoping to find a nice male. My mother is wanting a border collie.

I HAVE A SQUIRREL STEALING MY GIRLS EGGS! I never knew a squirrel could or even would! It's time for traps!

 

[faerydust16]

My babies !

 

[faerydust16]

Working or pet is fine. I'm hoping to find a nice male. My mother is wanting a border collie.

I HAVE A SQUIRREL STEALING MY GIRLS EGGS! I never knew a squirrel could or even would! It's time for traps!

Oh my lord. I never knew squirrels stole eggs either !

 

[Nyla]

I didn't either till I herd my ducks flapping wings and their hissing was a bit louder then normal. So I went outside to find them chasing a squirrel with an egg in it's mouth. Wish I had my camera! How would I go about catching a squirrel?!?!?! I've caught raccoons and foxes but never a tiny squirrel..

 

[cjoffutt]

Anyone local to the North Central part of the state have some Black Indian Runner hens? Wife keeps hounding me to get some but i refuse to purchase them online and pay the shipping costs.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Working or pet is fine. I'm hoping to find a nice male. My mother is wanting a border collie.

I HAVE A SQUIRREL STEALING MY GIRLS EGGS! I never knew a squirrel could or even would! It's time for traps!

Oh no. That is interesting that it would do that.

 

[Indyshent]

Looks like the banty people have given up on meeting me because they're not responding to messages anymore. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a "lap rooster" tomorrow in Bloomington. Long, awful story on this poor guy.

Nice lady had a silkie roo disappear from his coop. His hen is brooding a clutch but is an ornery girl who prefers more dominant guys, from the sounds of it. Lady's daughter heard how forlorn her mom was and said she would meet up with someone to get a replacement Silkie roo... well, she got to this place, and there were dozens of 5-month-old chickens crammed in a plastic tote--with a lid on it. Birds had never been outside and hadn't been properly fed or watered either.

So she brings this rooster--who can't run or fly and can only hobble around and seems to prefer sitting on people to being outside-- to her mom, who doesn't want him because he's not a Silkie (hence, can't breed him like one), can't walk right because his legs are warped from malnutrition or poor flooring in the tote, and who's getting beat up by the broody, but she doesn't want to send him back where he came from either.

Lady doesn't know what breed he is, but he sounds like he might be a little Sumatra. He's black, and while she loves all the pretty colors in his feathers, I don't even want to tell her that those stripes in his sheen are actually due to stress and poor nutrition. She said he ate and ate as soon as they put him near food. Hasn't crowed yet, just cowers from confrontation with other birds, likes being held and sits peaceably in laps and on shoulders.

Of course, as soon as I agree to pick him up tomorrow, the OEG hen, Kate, has decided to go broody and snitched a turkey egg from Pancake, who's finally decided not to be a free-loader after all. Should give me some time to get this poor young man serviceable. I've had great experience so far with Sumatra, but I'm not going to know what he is or how he'll age til he's done.

In other news, it looks like some of Penny's poults might be hatching!

 

[Nyla]

So I've finally decided to try and hatch my Muscovy eggs in my homemade incubator!
I really hope it works out good..
Here is what it looks like:
(Pictures are right after putting eggs in egg turner, so the temp is crazy low right now)
Before and after I set it up. Also my hatching baskets for lockdown!