"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[sawyerashton]

I started the remodel on my tornadoed coop.

Here the original is.



Here's the new roof.



This is what their run looks like now. I think I'm going to try to salvage it and block it with some 2x4's at all the joints.



Hopefully the weather will hold up while my drill recharges!

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Good afternoon & SO GLAD to have a day of sunshine -- still a lot of water standing but drying out here -

spent the first 1/2 of the day at vet's offices as my Mal had the pressure spike in his bad eye -- it's controllable at the moment but we have an apt at LSU Monday morning & I think this may be time to schedule removal of that eye, as we've done all we can at this point.

Got my car inspected -- ya'll know you can get a TWO - year sticker now? love it!

All poultry looking good here -- I'm w/you Jeff; I so worry about disease when they are in much & mud, but the only bad place left here is one side of my grow-out pen - where the young peas are - rest looks good & yes, I LOVE LOVE LOVE sand - the front part of my big run is nice & dry right now! They are happy & so am I!

Poor Mal. He's had a tough time.

 

[mbmess2003]

Well I cleaned out the coops and replaced the bedding. Put up plastic in hopes that it keeps the majority of the rain out.... :/ I for one am ready for a good long dry spell!

 

[Celie]

Update on the turkey eggs in the incubator................

For those who are new to the thread or who may have forgotten about my little experiment, I have 10 turkey eggs in the incubator. 6 of those 10 were eggs that had been in my refrigerator for about 2 weeks. I decided to take them out of the refrigerator and place them in the incubator along with 4 other fresh turkeys eggs that were picked one day. Yesterday was the scheduled hatch day but the eggs started rocking, pipping, zipping and hatching on Monday (1 day early). The first eggs to hatch were the fresh eggs that were NOT in the refrigerator. However the refrigerated eggs were rocking and zipping. Tuesday morning, 1 more poult (fresh egg batch) had hatched. Tuesday evening, (7PM) the other 2 (fresh eggs - NOT the refrigerated eggs) all hatched. Around 8:00PM the first refrigerated egg was zipping open. I could see the poult's beak and he was trying to break out. At 10:00 PM the refrigerated egg/poult had hatched all the way and was 100% fine. Perfect hatch from the 1st refrigerated egg. So that made a total of 5 eggs that had hatched at that time. I couldn't see every refrigerated egg because the babies were all over the place. But the remaining refrigerated eggs that I could see appeared to be zipping still. I could see their beaks trying to break out.

When I left out for work this morning, there were still only 5 poults that had hatched. So, I still have 5 remaining refrigerated eggs in the incubator. When I get home and if the zipped eggs/poults have not hatched, I will help them out of their eggs. I have to take the hatched poults out and transfer them to their brooder. So either way, something has to be done about the zipped eggs.

So that is the update that I have so far on my experiment with hatching turkey eggs that had sat in my refrigerator for 2 weeks. Refrigerated turkey eggs DO hatch!

Sorry, guys, I have been up to my ears in.......well, rain, rain and more rain.....12 inches in 2 days, now a couple days of fog and maybe a little sunshine and then more rain. In the middle of all this the barns were waterfront property and some looked like boathouses in the water. Then 2 customers came by to buy Rouen ducks! Fun catching them in the rain, too.
As far as my Experiment with hatching the Goose eggs that had been refrigerated. And the turkey egg hatching, Well, 7 out of the 8 goose eggs were not fertile and the 8th that was in the frig 10 days after the Pa Pa goose was eaten, did not make it. It started to develop and died. Egg laid 10 days after last mating and egg 10 days in the fridge was just too long. Now I have to get another Brown African Gander and Start all over again. The Geese I ordered from Ideal were supposed to be Brown African, but they sent me Brown Chinese, and won't even answer me emails!!!!!

And these Brown Chinese are very aggressive compared to my gentile Brown African, even if they do both come from China!!1 I will never order from Ideal Again, after all the business I gave those people!!

As far as the turkey eggs go, well, the very first egg that was laid, was not fertile and since I have 13 males with13 females, and had not been able to separate them and had not seen them mating, I assumed, very few if any would be fertile!!! So, I kept putting them into the incubator as they were laid. Silly me, I know, had every one of them hatching out. I have 8 of them in the brooder in the extra bathroom, and a few more every day, for the next few weeks. It looks like all of them are fertile, ALL 91 OF THEM !!!!!!

I'm just a gluten for punishment! I am getting 4 to 6 fertile eggs a day from the turkeys, very few from the chickens, maybe 5 or 6 a day? I guess the chickens don't like this dreary weather!??

Speaking of the pond.... I am interested in hatching some Rouen duck eggs...if anyone on here has some and wouldn't mind parting with a dozen, let me know. Thx...

I have some ADULT ROUEN DUCKS for sale, just PM me if you're interested. They should start laying again by next month, if you rather have eggs.

Ok, here is the update on the refrigerated eggs.

ALL OF THEM HATCHED !!!!!!!!! When I got home, the one that was trying to get out was not out, so I helped him out and put him back in the incubator to dry off. I was getting nervous and decided to gently open the other eggs. Because the eggs were refrigerated, I was thinking that maybe they were too weak to break out and they were dieing in the eggs, so this is why I helped them out. WRONG DECISION!!!!

I cracked them open and they were still moving around but I could tell that they needed another day or two before they were ready. I will usually leave eggs in even if they are late hatching (just in case) but I didn't do it this time and I should have. It was a mess. Some of the eggs were bleeding a bit and I just knew that I had killed them. So, in an fast attempt to save them, I cut out a few pieces of a towel and wet it with warm water and wrapped the piece of towel around them and placed them back in the incubator. I added more water in the trays to bump up the humidity. I took out the new baby and put him with the others and let him dry in the brooder. I was constantly checking the eggs with no signs of anything. I accepted the fact that I messed up and they died. I cried and layed the guilt trip on myself for being STUPID and jumping the gun.

Well, lo and behold, I woke up the next morning and 1 of them had hatched.

Throughout the day the rest of them hatched. So, I had a perfect hatch of 10 poults. The 6 refrigerated turkey eggs all hatched perfect with no problems. There are no beak issues, no leg issues, no toe issues as of now.

Here is a pic of 6 of them. 4 from the freshly picked turkey egg group and 2 from the refrigerated egg group of 6.

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!! Great Job and great looking Poults!

Mine started off sporadically too. It's like they have to get into the hang of it or something.

It's raining again here.

We were going to try & get the pea pen addition finished this weekend so we could move them but guess that will be delayed another week.
Think I'll make some jalapeno poppers and play with the new Marans chicks today.

What are Jalapeno Poppers and how do you make them?


STAY DRY, EVERYONE!!! LOL

 

[TeePants]

Our new coop is almost ready to go outside - just waiting to put the finishing touches and let the paint fully dry. Dang humidity. Isn't it supposed to rain all this week too?

 

[chickenbelle]

Sorry, guys, I have been up to my ears in.......well, rain, rain and more rain.....12 inches in 2 days, now a couple days of fog and maybe a little sunshine and then more rain. In the middle of all this the barns were waterfront property and some looked like boathouses in the water. Then 2 customers came by to buy Rouen ducks! Fun catching them in the rain, too.
As far as my Experiment with hatching the Goose eggs that had been refrigerated. And the turkey egg hatching, Well, 7 out of the 8 goose eggs were not fertile and the 8th that was in the frig 10 days after the Pa Pa goose was eaten, did not make it. It started to develop and died. Egg laid 10 days after last mating and egg 10 days in the fridge was just too long. Now I have to get another Brown African Gander and Start all over again. The Geese I ordered from Ideal were supposed to be Brown African, but they sent me Brown Chinese, and won't even answer me emails!!!!!

And these Brown Chinese are very aggressive compared to my gentile Brown African, even if they do both come from China!!1 I will never order from Ideal Again, after all the business I gave those people!!

As far as the turkey eggs go, well, the very first egg that was laid, was not fertile and since I have 13 males with13 females, and had not been able to separate them and had not seen them mating, I assumed, very few if any would be fertile!!! So, I kept putting them into the incubator as they were laid. Silly me, I know, had every one of them hatching out. I have 8 of them in the brooder in the extra bathroom, and a few more every day, for the next few weeks. It looks like all of them are fertile, ALL 91 OF THEM !!!!!!

I'm just a gluten for punishment! I am getting 4 to 6 fertile eggs a day from the turkeys, very few from the chickens, maybe 5 or 6 a day? I guess the chickens don't like this dreary weather!??
I have some ADULT ROUEN DUCKS for sale, just PM me if you're interested. They should start laying again by next month, if you rather have eggs.
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!! Great Job and great looking Poults!

What are Jalapeno Poppers and how do you make them?


STAY DRY, EVERYONE!!! LOL

Oh my! 91 little turkeys? I can't imagine! I have no turkeys so I'm not even sure what to think of having 91! WOW!

Our new coop is almost ready to go outside - just waiting to put the finishing touches and let the paint fully dry. Dang humidity. Isn't it supposed to rain all this week too?

Coop looks beautiful! Great paint job on that! I never paint any of my coops fancy. Maybe I should--hmmmm. Got me to thinking.

Happy Sunday Morning all. Rain and cold setting in again--keep yourselves and your birds well.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

I started the remodel on my tornadoed coop.

Here the original is.



Here's the new roof.



This is what their run looks like now. I think I'm going to try to salvage it and block it with some 2x4's at all the joints.



Hopefully the weather will hold up while my drill recharges!

Looks great!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Our new coop is almost ready to go outside - just waiting to put the finishing touches and let the paint fully dry. Dang humidity. Isn't it supposed to rain all this week too?

O my! that is SO cute! love the colors & your silhouettes!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

What are Jalapeno Poppers and how do you make them?

It was easy, I softened some cream cheese and mixed it with some shredded sharp cheddar & bacon bits. I bought 8 jalapenos, put on rubber gloves, sliced them in half lengthways & removed the seeds and splines (that piece the seeds stick to inside). Stuffed each half with the cheese mixture; wrapped it in 1/2 a won-ton wrapper (I had some leftover in the fridge, but you could use egg roll wrappers or even phyllo pastry too). I sprayed a pizza pan with cooking spray, put the peppers on it & spritzed them w/a light coating of cooking spray & baked them at 350 for about I guess 15-20 minutes, until they were light brown. They were delicious!


Celie I feel so bad for you w/your goose situation - and all those turkeys! - I am scared to death of turkeys - I'd be freaking out all those little monsters!

mbmess could not agree w/you more -- ready for some dry weather here too!

Well the wind just shifted to the north & it's getting darker so guess I'd better dash into town & top off my gas tank before it starts raining again. We'll have to leave early in the morning for LSU w/Mal. The weather won't be great & I'm taking the Interstate instead of my usual route since I"m worried about flooded roads.

 

[Hollow Point]

I am placing this here instead of the classifieds to buy in Louisiana. I am in the process of extending my chicken/guinea/duck yard. At present I have two RIR roosters running a mixed flock of about 40-50 hens. The area I am adding on will have a multipurpose pen in the middle. Will have pheasants on one end, doves in the middlw and about ten feet for chickens to roost under which will be opened up. My plan is to stick my five Plymouth Barred Rock hens in there for a month or two. I am looking to buy a 1-2yr old Plymouth Barred Rock rooster to breed them to have a straight run. I already have a few sexlinked hens available. I should be finished with the pen in about a week. If anyone within 30-50 mile of Crowley has one for sale or trade please let me know...thanks