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What's in Lebanon tomorrow?
I got a flyer from Day&Day yesterday about a consignment auction in Casey county next weekend. Anyone going to this one? I can post the info if ya want. Probably won't take any of my chickens though. It said you need to sell cages with the birds...I don't have any spare cages!!
Oh well, I might go and look anyway.
Cindy---How big do the austrolorps get? I have 3 young chickens that I think might be, but I have had them for a month or more, and they haven't gotten much bigger. They are bigger, but they aren't growing as fast as my dad's other large breed birds did.
Meri---You could always use your crock pot as a bator too. Then you could get even MORE eggs!
My son was outside trying to catch the silkie babies this morning, after I let them out of their tractor. Now one of my BTW japs is gone!!! I don't know if it ran too far away and can't find it's way back, or if it got out into the open and something got it, but I can't find it anywhere. And I think it was my remaining pullet...
I had one roo for sure, and one that looked like a roo before, but now I'm not so sure, and one pullet. I hope I still have a pair!
It was so cute last night. My hen Gertie has pretty much quit with her chicks. I had put plastic over the tractor night before last, cause the babies are still going in the nest. So I put plastic over it and stuck a light in there. When I let them out yesterday, I didn't pull the plastic up completely, just enough for them to get out more or less. I guess they were scared, cause most of them wouldn't go back in the tractor.
I went out there to check them, and there were only about 5 or 6 chicks in the nest, out of 13. I looked everywhere, and only found 2 more. I was so freaked out, until I looked inside the other end of the tractor, where my blue splash hen's nest is. She looked like she had about 25 chicks in there!!! I guess the majority of the chicks saw her's going in there and thought it would be a good place to hang out. it was so cute. I went out during the night to check on them, and the mama had 'kicked' one of them out of the nest, and it was sleeping on the ground. But it seemed warm enough, with the light and all.
My silly game hen is setting, and I have taken 5 eggs out from away from her, that had rolled or been pushed out of the nest. I brought them in, and put them in the bator, but they were pretty cold. I don't know how good they will do. All 5 were fertile too!
Ok my book is done now (
) so I'll quite writing for now!
What's in Lebanon tomorrow?
I got a flyer from Day&Day yesterday about a consignment auction in Casey county next weekend. Anyone going to this one? I can post the info if ya want. Probably won't take any of my chickens though. It said you need to sell cages with the birds...I don't have any spare cages!!
Oh well, I might go and look anyway.
Cindy---How big do the austrolorps get? I have 3 young chickens that I think might be, but I have had them for a month or more, and they haven't gotten much bigger. They are bigger, but they aren't growing as fast as my dad's other large breed birds did.
Meri---You could always use your crock pot as a bator too. Then you could get even MORE eggs!
My son was outside trying to catch the silkie babies this morning, after I let them out of their tractor. Now one of my BTW japs is gone!!! I don't know if it ran too far away and can't find it's way back, or if it got out into the open and something got it, but I can't find it anywhere. And I think it was my remaining pullet...
It was so cute last night. My hen Gertie has pretty much quit with her chicks. I had put plastic over the tractor night before last, cause the babies are still going in the nest. So I put plastic over it and stuck a light in there. When I let them out yesterday, I didn't pull the plastic up completely, just enough for them to get out more or less. I guess they were scared, cause most of them wouldn't go back in the tractor.
I went out there to check them, and there were only about 5 or 6 chicks in the nest, out of 13. I looked everywhere, and only found 2 more. I was so freaked out, until I looked inside the other end of the tractor, where my blue splash hen's nest is. She looked like she had about 25 chicks in there!!! I guess the majority of the chicks saw her's going in there and thought it would be a good place to hang out. it was so cute. I went out during the night to check on them, and the mama had 'kicked' one of them out of the nest, and it was sleeping on the ground. But it seemed warm enough, with the light and all.
My silly game hen is setting, and I have taken 5 eggs out from away from her, that had rolled or been pushed out of the nest. I brought them in, and put them in the bator, but they were pretty cold. I don't know how good they will do. All 5 were fertile too!
Ok my book is done now ( 
