"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[kuntrygirl]

I was wondering about that. That is the only group that I would not feed to them at this time until we do further research. Let me know what thread your on in the pea section and I'll follow you. I"m curious to know as well. Good point.

Okay - silly question here.... why wouldn't you feed it to the pea group? Are they more delicate than others? I know nothing about peafowl, so just wondering.

Well in our eyes (pea owners), we tend to be a little more careful when dealing with our peas, including feeding. Peas are not as popular as your everyday chicken and sometime require that extra care and extra education. Replacing a pea is not as easy as replacing a chicken so when there may be a drastic change in their environment, health and diet, you have to be 110% certain of what you are about to do. One slip up and we could have a pea down in no time. And then are racing to see an Avian Specialist to find out what's wrong. From the point of incubating, hatching, caring for to adulthood of peas requires more than I could have EVER expected. There is a different "care plan" for peas.

Not sure if that answered your question or not. :/

 

[TerriLaChicks]

You know "Bob The Builder" at my place was talking about muscadine wine last week. That will be one more thing he and Jim will have to talk about when we go there again to visit ya'll.

Yep -- nice to have "handy" men around isn't it! I don't think I have a whole gallon of muscadines so I might wait on that until they get ripe again this year. I need my Builder Bob to get started on my cabinet incubator!

I'll let you know when the figs get ripe! I see some little green ones starting to grow & the trees aren't even fully leafed out yet!

Well in our eyes (pea owners), we tend to be a little more careful when dealing with our peas, including feeding. Peas are not as popular as your everyday chicken and sometime require that extra care and extra education. Replacing a pea is not as easy as replacing a chicken so when there may be a drastic change in their environment, health and diet, you have to be 110% certain of what you are about to do. One slip up and we could have a pea down in no time. And then are racing to see an Avian Specialist to find out what's wrong. From the point of incubating, hatching, caring for to adulthood of peas requires more than I could have EVER expected. There is a different "care plan" for peas.

Not sure if that answered your question or not.

X 2 - I think this sums it up very nicely. Julie & I have been waiting THREE YEARS for our males to finally get those gorgeous, long tails! So we tend to be very cautious about doing anything different with our precious peas.

 

[kuntrygirl]

You know "Bob The Builder" at my place was talking about muscadine wine last week. That will be one more thing he and Jim will have to talk about when we go there again to visit ya'll.

Yep -- nice to have "handy" men around isn't it! I don't think I have a whole gallon of muscadines so I might wait on that until they get ripe again this year. I need my Builder Bob to get started on my cabinet incubator!

I'll let you know when the figs get ripe! I see some little green ones starting to grow & the trees aren't even fully leafed out yet!

Well in our eyes (pea owners), we tend to be a little more careful when dealing with our peas, including feeding. Peas are not as popular as your everyday chicken and sometime require that extra care and extra education. Replacing a pea is not as easy as replacing a chicken so when there may be a drastic change in their environment, health and diet, you have to be 110% certain of what you are about to do. One slip up and we could have a pea down in no time. And then are racing to see an Avian Specialist to find out what's wrong. From the point of incubating, hatching, caring for to adulthood of peas requires more than I could have EVER expected. There is a different "care plan" for peas.


Not sure if that answered your question or not. :/

X 2  - I think this sums it up very nicely. Julie & I have been waiting THREE YEARS for our males to finally get those gorgeous, long tails! So we tend to be very cautious about doing anything different with our precious peas.

x2
Well said!



We tend to get A LOT of fruit at work when people are overwhelmed from the fruit that their trees produce. I would bring a few fruit home but this year, I will be collecting all fruit that comes through the door at work. I will be canning and wining. LOL

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Sounds like I better not get that incubator.

Thanks ya'll.

My failure rate with the Hovnabator was what led me to save up for the Brinsea. don't get me wrong, it makes a fine hatcher - but I hope to never have to use it to actually incubate anything again. I do set it up when I have the Brinsea going, just as a backup. The problem is the styrofoam - it's just too porous to keep the temp & humidity levels stable unless you find the perfect spot for it. I never did. I had that darn thing in every room of the house I think!

I had one 100% hatch in it & that was Blue Andalusians from eggs shipped from Tennessee. Defnitely a fluke! I had several big, fat zero hatches. Part of that was when I was just starting out & learning the process -- but ---- I never got 100% hatches with my own eggs. It's rare for me NOT to get 100% with my own eggs in my Brinsea! (except for the RIR eggs; I swear i think that roo was sterile)!

I did stagger all four peachick hatches last year & will do so again this year -- i marked the eggs with colored markers w/the dates & I kept the Brinsea & Hova both running simultaneously - the Hova empty -- in my utility room & when the lockdown day came, I'd move those eggs from the Brinsea to the Hova for those last 3 days. Worked like a charm.

Especially considering I had eggs marked in different colors, AND with an 'X' on one side and an "O" on the other side so knew which way to hand turn them lengthwise (in addition to being auto-turned) - AND worried to death since it was my precious peas -- it's a wonder I didn't lose what little mind I have. Never mind I'm looking forward to doing it all over again soon! I am certifiably nuts.

 

[TruBluCG]

Well in our eyes (pea owners), we tend to be a little more careful when dealing with our peas, including feeding. Peas are not as popular as your everyday chicken and sometime require that extra care and extra education. Replacing a pea is not as easy as replacing a chicken so when there may be a drastic change in their environment, health and diet, you have to be 110% certain of what you are about to do. One slip up and we could have a pea down in no time. And then are racing to see an Avian Specialist to find out what's wrong. From the point of incubating, hatching, caring for to adulthood of peas requires more than I could have EVER expected. There is a different "care plan" for peas.

Not sure if that answered your question or not.

Yes, that did answer my question! I guess that I didn't have my "common sense" hat on!

Because that really does sound like common sense.... After waiting for 3 years, I would TOTALLY understand!

 

[Gracie9205]

I called a local bakery and asked if they had some extra free buckets that they could give me, so that I could begin my fermented feed process this weekend. They said yes and told me to come and pick them up.

Well, 2 hours later..............



Be careful what you ask for.

Anyone need some buckets?

Wow! They were generous! Think of all the possibilites there! Wine bucket, feeders, nest boxes. I might have to call a bakery over here myself!

My hubby brings these little one gallon buckets from work that are great for around the house use. Seems like they disappear all the time though! I had a stack about that tall, and I have no clue where they all went!

 

[kuntrygirl]

 Wow!  They were generous!  Think of all the possibilites there!  Wine bucket, feeders, nest boxes.  I might have to call a bakery over here myself!

My hubby brings these little one gallon buckets from work that are great for around the house use.  Seems like they disappear all the time though!  I had a stack about that tall, and I have no clue where they all went!

The first thing that I thought of was wine buckets.

I can make a lot of fermented feed. I will probably use a few as my egg buckets when I go outside to pick eggs. I was bring egg cartons outside to pick eggs but that was too many egg cartons to tote back inside. :/

 

[chickenbelle]

Any of you know much about faverolles?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Any of you know much about faverolles?

No. Sorry.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Any of you know much about faverolles?

I don't either.
Which means, you need to get some! so you can educate the rest of us!