Maine

[Mc620]

Any central Maine readers have Kahki Campbell ducks?  Fertile eggs???

I have one hen laying and she with a few males so should be fertile

 

[Mc620]

trying eggs from my own flock of icelandics incubator running and tomorrow after collect few more eggs with set for hatch

 

[oldfartfarmer]

How far is their coop from the road? What's so fantastic about the other side - better grass? Bird feeder? What happened to your fence?

they've been free ranging since last fall,,nothing special over there--same as over here, except we have a brook,
and the bird feeders are over on our side also,
they do have a big lawn we don't,,maybe the grass is greener--LOL

all i know is i yell "GIRLS" a few times and they come trooping home

 

[CoopChick719]

[quote name="superchemicalgirl" url="/t/1370/maine/16900_100#post_
A friend is looking for australorps. Anyone have eggs or chicks or birds? 
[/quote]
I have eggs. Not pure Australorps but I do have 4 BA's with a Lavendar Orpington rooster. Let me know if they're interested.

they've been free ranging since last fall,,nothing special over there--same as over here, except we have a brook,
and the bird feeders are over on our side also,
they do have a big lawn we don't,,maybe the grass is greener--LOL

all i know is i yell "GIRLS" a few times and they come trooping home

I let mine out and they head straight to the neighbor's yard and beyond. I told my neighbor that apparently she had better bugs on her lawn than we did. Thankfully she loves the chickens!

 

[oldfartfarmer]

A friend of mine told me----you can't expect much from a bird whose poop i bigger than its brain

 

[buckabucka]

I keep my chickens in large fenced-in areas. This year I plan to divide the sections in half and plant various greens on one side and then the other, -for a rotational grazing of sorts.

Just recently, I was letting my flocks free-range, since the garden is empty. They did not cross the road, but they decided to eat the house. We had a basement put in a couple years ago, and the area between the house and the ground (it used to be on posts) is bright blue foam board insulation. I painted it gray to look like stone. Now, there is a bright blue line all along the ground, as well as several bright blue spots up higher.

Unless we figure out a way to protect the house, the chickens will be restricted to their grazing areas from now on. A few were flying over the permanent fence, so DH added another three feet on top using deer fence, just in the frequent flyer areas. So far, it hasn't occurred to them to fly over in a different area.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I let mine out and they head straight to the neighbor's yard and beyond. I told my neighbor that apparently she had better bugs on her lawn than we did. Thankfully she loves the chickens!

Mine stay here but generally chickens will stay within viewing distance of their coop (I have a few that don't agree with this rule, but the majority do) and my coop isn't visible from the neighbors yards, so luckily my birds stay here. Even the guineas. For now.

I keep my chickens in large fenced-in areas. This year I plan to divide the sections in half and plant various greens on one side and then the other, -for a rotational grazing of sorts.

Just recently, I was letting my flocks free-range, since the garden is empty. They did not cross the road, but they decided to eat the house. We had a basement put in a couple years ago, and the area between the house and the ground (it used to be on posts) is bright blue foam board insulation. I painted it gray to look like stone. Now, there is a bright blue line all along the ground, as well as several bright blue spots up higher.

Unless we figure out a way to protect the house, the chickens will be restricted to their grazing areas from now on. A few were flying over the permanent fence, so DH added another three feet on top using deer fence, just in the frequent flyer areas. So far, it hasn't occurred to them to fly over in a different area.

Yup. Mine ate the house, too, and continue to do so. They don't really eat the house so much as destroy it. They peck at the insulation but then drop it on the ground. We ripped a couple boards of plywood and laid them up against the house in that area. Looks trashy but it works. Eventually we gave up and just let them pick it off.

 

[lazy gardener]

Yep, I have similar blue pebble finish on the west end of my house.

 

[Widget]

trying eggs from my own flock of icelandics incubator running and tomorrow after collect few more eggs with set for hatch

Good luck with the hatch. Icelandics are still the breed I would live to have.

 

[CoopChick719]

Last year I put up orange snow fence so the girls would stay put after the neighbor 2 doors up said they were eating his $100 a bag grass seed in his newly seeded backyard. It's not pretty but it's going back up this year.