"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

Good morning , nice pictures man i's cold out ! Went out to let the yardbirds out and mark some territory and couldn't find anything to mark with, yikes!

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hey Angeiicisi, what do you do with the pelts of those long eared galoots, I'm just courious

 

[foreverlearning]

Bugs, snakes, danger?! Talking my language! We have scorpions...water scorpions but its worse than it sounds. Around here, they call them "toe-biters". I have found nothing but ONE of my chickens lol) that will attempt to kill/eat/or even not run from a live one. Not too common to see alive. But want messed up creatures that hurt? This is your guy lol
They are found mist often in water but breathe Air AND FLY.

They bite And sting and most often the toes because a wiggly toe in the muddy lake/bayou bottom looks like a grub or struggling fish, so they grab and bite or sting their "prey" - a TOE! Even my super hero hubby will exit the pool PRONTO if I even hint at a joke that I saw one shoot by (fast in the water on the move lol) while we were swimming! They can get like 3 or 4 inches... I have a pic I think, Let me look (almost 4000 pics in my phone and I don't file anything lol)

I've seen those a time or two over the years. I never knew what they were, they're always dead in a campground bathroom when I find them. I hope I don't ever find one alive.

 

[foreverlearning]

I said a long time ago. I'm suprised you remenber it. Talk about crazy ants.HAHAHA

I love sci-fi, I couldn't tell you what has been in the box office in the last 5 years but I know most of the sci-fi movies.

 

[foreverlearning]

Good morning , nice pictures man i's cold out ! Went out to let the yardbirds out and mark some territory and couldn't find anything to mark with, yikes!

 

[foreverlearning]

The people and the land here are beautiful! Yes, we seem to have a lot to deal with but we manage. Sharing how we got rid of something or warnings about weather or new bugs helps others in the state deal with them. From cities to countryside, swamps to flatland, we have an area that just about anyone would like to live in. We fish, hunt, swim in waters you could barely see in, have festivals in town all the time, great farmers markets as well as street side farmers, participate in the bartering system (gotta love it!), and help neighbors and complete strangers without a second thought.

Back in 2005 my mother had cancer pretty bad and her insurance was barely covering the treatments. I came down here to help care for her for a year. In this time we both had to cash out our 401(k)'s, max out both of our credit cards and loans, and barely had two cents in the bank between us. One day my truck had broken down so I had to walk all the way into town to get what little food I could buy with the little money we had. When I was leaving Wal-mart someone had noticed that I was walking and offered me a ride. (This was a smaller area then and everyone knew who my family was.) We had to use the farm truck (not quite legal for road use) to get her to her next appointment in Houston and while we were there we had a "Louisiana break in". Like I said, small area, most people don't even know where the keys to the door are much less lock it here. When we got back someone had fixed my truck, filled the house with food, and gave us some comfort items and toiletries. I still to this day do not know who did this for us but suspect a town effort and am forever grateful.

 

[Angelicisi]

Slippers? Lol jk haven't gotten to the processing yet! Whatcha got in mind? People are buying the babies as breeders lol next set we *should* have some meat lol I will have an abundance of feet and hides but I don't know how to tan a hide so....ya. I dunno. Feet (well a couple dozen are on reserve for a NOLA lady that wants them...I didn't ask for what :/ ) and the ears I was going to dry for my dog. Sorry to anyone who's ick'd out. I hate to waste. Especially waste useable things from creatures we raised.

Hey Angeiicisi, what do you do with the pelts of those long eared galoots, I'm just courious

 

[kuntrygirl]

Has it been 8 weeks yet?

R.I.P. ME

Those chicks darn near killed me, picked me up and buried me. I'm so tired and I haven't had them 24 hours yet.

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Here is a copy and paste from my 100 broiler thread on the meat bird thread. :/

Good morning everyone. Sorry that I didn't post last night but I had to get all of them situated and it took me longer than expected and I still had to feed the rest of the zoo animals.

So, I picked up all of them at 3:30 PM on yesterday They were all packed in a square box with dividers and were chirping away. I opened the box and fall that all of them were alive.

Got home and brought them inside the house as I got their water and feed ready in the brooder in the garage. I had the FF in the garage and it was cold. I was afraid that it would be too cold for the broilers. I will be moving it inside. Once everything was ready for them and the brooder lights were turned on, I put all of them in. I had 2 thermometers in the brooder to keep an eye on temps. After about 5 minutes, they started to huddle in the corner by the heat lamp. I looked at the temp at the temps were 88 degrees. I had 2 heat lamps stationed at different places in the brooders and both groups were directly under the heat lamp and bunched up together. I adjusted the heat lamps and got the temps up to 99 degrees. Then were still huddled in the corner under the heat lamps but I didn’t adjust the temps any more. I figured that they would settle down and move about and get comfortable.

I put the FF in their feeders but no one seemed too interested in the feed which was ok . I figured that they would eventually start eating once they got comfortable with their surroundings.

Here is a pic of one of the feeders that I used.

A few of them noticed the feed and started pecking at it. I saw that they were stepping into the feeder because I didn’t have tops on the make-shift feeders. The FF was a little too mushy because the ones that were stepping in the feed were getting stuck as if it were quick sand. So, I had to take them out, wipe them down and leave them inside until they dried and fluffed back up. After putting the tops on, I noticed later on that some were getting stuck inside the feeder top holes. So that was another problem. I had to take the tops off and get them out.

Here are pics of another feeder that I am using.

As I’m checking on them and working in the brooder, I’m noticing that the brooder is not the size that I need for these broilers and definitely not wide enough. It was pretty much non-functional for me or the chicks. When I say non-functional I mean that I would have preferred more width as opposed to the length. The 2.2 ft width didn’t allow the chicks a lot of area to move in that particular direction. The door opening areas are too small and too tight for me to get in and out. The need for and the frequency of me needing to get in and out of the brooder if there are any problems and to simply feed and water the chicks requires a larger opening. And the heat lamps are stationed in the corners of the brooder, so in order for them to warm up, they have to huddle in the corner. I think I mentioned in one of my posts that this brooder was someone else’s (non-chicken person) idea. I initially DID NOT want to use these shelves in the garage as a brooder because I knew that it wasn’t going to work. But I didn’t say anything to my friend that was dead set on transforming these shelves to brooder. He had been talking about this project for months. I bit my tongue every time he said something. I guess the reason that I didn’t say anything because I try to give my friend and opportunity to feel that he is a part of my little farm by being attentive and entertaining and trying his ideas but sometimes his ideas just don’t work (as this brooder is not working for me). Seeing that brooder was not going to work, I immediately went to my Plan B. Yes, I had a Plan B because I knew Plan A was not going to work. I originally wanted to put the broilers in several kiddie pools for the first couple of weeks and then to my other large wooden brooders (shipping crates) after that. So, I got my next plan going. I separated the group and took out half of them and put them in other brooders with a heat lamp. After taking them out and putting them in my preferred brooder, I immediately noticed a difference.

Here they are after putting them in another brooder. I still have to put the usual shelf liner rubber pad on the brooder floor. I'm glad to see that they are not huddled up in the corner trying to get close to the heat lamp.

I weighed 10 of them last night and their weights ranged from 1.2 oz to 1.4 oz. .

I was checking on them all night long. I think I was up every 30 minutes making sure there were no problems. I finally fell asleep at 4:00 AM and woke up at 6:30 and checked on all of them. Everyone made it through the night.

What I will have to work on his how much feed to put in the feeders so that feed is not wasted. I noticed this morning that some of the feed left from last night almost dried up. I gave that FF to my chickens in the chicken yard and put them fresh FF for today. I guess I should just remove the feed after feeding time is over.

Here is a pic of a few chicks in the leftover feed from last night.

So far, everything is ok. I’m already counting down the day to processing. I think there will be a lot of sleepless night. I’m a worrier when I have chicks and I’m up more than usual when it comes to checking on them.

I’m glad that I got them on Friday because I have the weekend to work out kinks and to make sure that they are thriving the first few days.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

The people and the land here are beautiful! Yes, we seem to have a lot to deal with but we manage. Sharing how we got rid of something or warnings about weather or new bugs helps others in the state deal with them. From cities to countryside, swamps to flatland, we have an area that just about anyone would like to live in. We fish, hunt, swim in waters you could barely see in, have festivals in town all the time, great farmers markets as well as street side farmers, participate in the bartering system (gotta love it!), and help neighbors and complete strangers without a second thought.

Back in 2005 my mother had cancer pretty bad and her insurance was barely covering the treatments. I came down here to help care for her for a year. In this time we both had to cash out our 401(k)'s, max out both of our credit cards and loans, and barely had two cents in the bank between us. One day my truck had broken down so I had to walk all the way into town to get what little food I could buy with the little money we had. When I was leaving Wal-mart someone had noticed that I was walking and offered me a ride. (This was a smaller area then and everyone knew who my family was.) We had to use the farm truck (not quite legal for road use) to get her to her next appointment in Houston and while we were there we had a "Louisiana break in". Like I said, small area, most people don't even know where the keys to the door are much less lock it here. When we got back someone had fixed my truck, filled the house with food, and gave us some comfort items and toiletries. I still to this day do not know who did this for us but suspect a town effort and am forever grateful.

That is what it's all about. For years my family lived in Franklinton. No one locked the doors. The dry cleaning gut hung the clothes in your closet and anyone delivering put things in the kitchen. Growing up in BR in the 50's was the same. When we'd be outside playing and got thirsty or hungry, we'd just go to the closest house and get what we needed.

 

[kuntrygirl]

This was me last night.

But I still had to go back and get a good laugh at this pic all over again.