Maine

[Mainechick168]

The Central Maine Bird Fanciers Spring Show is slated to take place on Sunday, May 26th at the Windsor Fairgrounds in Windsor, ME.

An entry form can be found on this page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/140600692791289/. All entries must include a copy of Pullorum testing.

Tailgate sales will be available on the grounds, so if you’re looking for a specific breed, many reputable breeders should be there with birds to sell. This is also a good chance to connect with experienced breeders to ask questions and get information.

I feel like I recognize the lady in this picture

Also, I was really hoping to get to this show, but we planned a canoe trip for memorial day weekend on the East Machias River.

 

[echosrevenge]

Lazygardener, it's just about the jankiest "electronet" set up you'll ever see. Not even electrified - it was given to us by our old landlord, and the charger was shot so we just use the netting as a fence. Our big ol' cochins and faverolles can't get over it, or are not motivated enough to try. I'd hesitate to even charge this net since the goat kids chewed a couple pretty big holes in it last year! I "fixed" them with baling twine, so the net looks continuous, but I wouldn't want to see what happens if we hook a charge up to it.

Broodiness is moving through my coop like typhoid fever through a wagon train. Started with one, then two, and last night I went outside and found FIVE trying to hatch golf balls in the nest boxes. The cochins are out of quarantine, so I grabbed a couple and stuck them in with that flock. I dont have enough eggs to let them all set, and I dont want to sacrifice the eggs they could be laying - yesterday I only got 2 eggs out of the Faverolles pen with 12 hens in it! However, my pretty splash cochin is laying an egg a day like clockwork, which I understand is fairly unusual for that breed. Hopefully her good work ethic will rub off on the two Favs I poked in with her last night. Her boy is treating them with the same genteel manners he gives her, so hopefully they'll decide they'd rather have his babies than raise their own.

Yesterdays hatch was our best yet, 90% and all pure Faverolles that were supposed to be (couple of non-Favs, but it was intentional this time ) thirty little tweeters running around is always fun. Next week should be good too...looks like we've finally got the kinks worked out of our multi-Bator system (and stabilized the temp in the incubator room, which has been a BATTLE). I can't work out how to post pictures from my phone, but they are adorable.

 

[MustardTiger]

Great chick pics Ash!

I already planted my corn.....maybe a first timer mistake but it is treated so I am hoping it will be fine with the warmer soil temps. I have peas. spinach more brocolli cabbage, onions calendula and beets coming up Carrots not doing so well. I was scared for a frost last night so I was out late after work with my head lamp on putting tarps everywhere...what do you know, it didnt frost! phew.

Thank you again on the painting compliments. It is a fun side hobby to have now that I am not making a career out of art I have much more fun doing it!

 

[pellepeterson]

I am on my second batch of carrots...first batch dried out too fast before I could clip em...I am new at chickens and usually kill every plant I see so I am hoping for a good season with lots of fresh veg!

 

[Mainechick168]

Apparently the cool thing to do is dig holes in the middle of my lawn and take a dust bath......



...and it's not like they don't have plenty of dirt holes aready..under the shed, along the treeline....naughty chickens

 

[CoopChick719]

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It doesn't matter too much if you aren't breeding and selling or trying to show or educate. I get uppety when folks want to charge you money for lies. I know Hollywood makes a living that way but farms shouldn't. If you have a bird there called a BR cross when you bought it then it is likely a Barred Rock crosssed with... Am I am guessing but it would have been an 'EE' which is unknown. Mix, cross, chicken or pretty. Those all work for me but its not my chicken. Try calling it an Emu lol Maybe folks will believe you LOL
Did you get a signed release for these photos I wonder? And who owns that Cochin on the top of those pens?? And is that a RED underneath? Red bantam cochins? People with kids need bantam cochins so I hope you can figure it out.

LOL!! Well I'm not breeding, selling, or showing just enjoying her antics. Maybe I WILL tell people she's an Emu or a teacup Ostrich!

TO be even more specific...haha, the hen came from paris farmers union, and was sold as an "ameracauna"...but for sure it was not pure...and my hen lays a pink egg. ALso, I'd love to see pictures of the rest of the group!!

OH one more thing, My old rooster found a home- I mentioned to my cousin that we were getting rid of him ( we got him from this cousin) and he said "just drop him off over here!" That was easy enough! Things are going better so far with the new guy

Thanks for chiming in, Mainechick!! A pink egg?! I can't wait for mine to start laying!! Glad to hear your roo found a home. I'll be dropping my roo off this week sometime to his new home.

Here's the rest of the group:
Pitch--who was pure black when hatched, now has little spikes of white near her head. I posted a pic of Flacco, the roo about a week ago. You saw that one. I was so hoping he was a she since he looked so much like your Gerta.


This is a poor picture of the BRs and EE but here they are.

Apparently the cool thing to do is dig holes in the middle of my lawn and take a dust bath......



...and it's not like they don't have plenty of dirt holes aready..under the shed, along the treeline....naughty chickens

Well...yuh! My uncle's chickens dustbathe in one of his flower pots. He has given up planting anything in it.

 

[ashandvine]

Apparently the cool thing to do is dig holes in the middle of my lawn and take a dust bath......



...and it's not like they don't have plenty of dirt holes aready..under the shed, along the treeline....naughty chickens

LOL Nice new roo! Love the crele on that boy. I find that if I offer them a spot that is sandy and has some ash and de in it they go to that most of the time. It certainly saved my yard. I filled in the last holes this spring with the cleaned out coop yuck, but I did find a new hole today... I was forgetting to open the playground sandbox so you know how kids are... they make their own fun.

 

[Dita Von Cluck]

Nice BR's CoopChick! I really like the looks of that breed. Very eye catching!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Apparently the cool thing to do is dig holes in the middle of my lawn and take a dust bath......



...and it's not like they don't have plenty of dirt holes aready..under the shed, along the treeline....naughty chickens

It looks like bunker hill over here... and I have a turtle sandbox. They love the sandbox (especially in winter) but love to dig yard holes, too.

 

[Mainechick168]

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LOL!! Well I'm not breeding, selling, or showing just enjoying her antics. Maybe I WILL tell people she's an Emu or a teacup Ostrich!

Thanks for chiming in, Mainechick!! A pink egg?! I can't wait for mine to start laying!! Glad to hear your roo found a home. I'll be dropping my roo off this week sometime to his new home.

Here's the rest of the group:
Pitch--who was pure black when hatched, now has little spikes of white near her head. I posted a pic of Flacco, the roo about a week ago. You saw that one. I was so hoping he was a she since he looked so much like your Gerta.


This is a poor picture of the BRs and EE but here they are.



Well...yuh! My uncle's chickens dustbathe in one of his flower pots. He has given up planting anything in it.

It's so cool to see the babies! I wonder what made the mostly black chicken???