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I think Bobbie wants to turn his birdies into BIG bad velociraptors with the live meat to kill....
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Mine all go crazy for mealworms. It's so funny the first time they get them! They all run around with one in their mouth, keeping away from everyone else while trying to figure out how to eat them
Mine finally figured out they can eat blueberries whole, without pecking them. They can go through a tub of them in a few minutes - such piggies!
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You need a rooster; God bless you! I still have one giveaway - a buff/ columbian three month old. I know that it's impossible at this age to get them to look good, but he's from pretty parents. He has one folded wattle. If it were not for that, I'd keep him. He's available to anyone, any time....
His father is Avagna, and his grandfather is Midas, on my BCY page.
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You need a rooster; God bless you! I still have one giveaway - a buff/ columbian three month old. I know that it's impossible at this age to get them to look good, but he's from pretty parents. He has one folded wattle. If it were not for that, I'd keep him. He's available to anyone, any time.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31816_img_2356.jpg
His father is Avagna, and his grandfather is Midas, on my BCY page.
He is very nice looking!
I am not trying to be too picky, but I already have a buff rooster and I was looking for something a little different. Thank you so much for the offer though.
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Bobby, she is probably using pine pellet bedding... My only word of advise on that is please be careful and really smell it before using it. I switched to it wanted to cut down on dust, first bag was great. Got second bag from our usual feed store but different company (local mill actually), well by time we realized what and why we lost allot of chicks in several brooders and the only thing any of them had in common was the pellets...
We went back and smelled the remaining pellets in the bag and they had the worst chemical smell ever. These were equine pine pellet bedding at that! You just have to remember that these places have to compress the pellets with something???? We immediately bleached/cleaned every brooder and switched back to regular shavings and everyone was fine. It was a very hard lesson learned.
Be careful with newspapers....very slippery and hard for little legs to get a good footing. Paper towels are great for newly hatched chicks.
I just wanted to let my Amigos know that they have rainboots at Target.com For $7.54, they were originally $29.99. They have tons of prints and colors available. I wore them this morning and loved them. You can get free shipping if you order $50 or more. I ordered 4 pairs! (not all for me, but know I am wishing I had ordered more for me!
what a nice thought Memphis.thank You..........
And congratulations on all the new babies....................
Looking at my chicks this morning and trying to figure out why my camera is
making the pictures so bright it fades everything out...
Can't anything be easy.................
ALSO, Catwalk if we lived closer I would take that Roo.
I have a beautifu lBuff hen.............
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Bobby, she is probably using pine pellet bedding... My only word of advise on that is please be careful and really smell it before using it. I switched to it wanted to cut down on dust, first bag was great. Got second bag from our usual feed store but different company (local mill actually), well by time we realized what and why we lost allot of chicks in several brooders and the only thing any of them had in common was the pellets...
We went back and smelled the remaining pellets in the bag and they had the worst chemical smell ever. These were equine pine pellet bedding at that! You just have to remember that these places have to compress the pellets with something???? We immediately bleached/cleaned every brooder and switched back to regular shavings and everyone was fine. It was a very hard lesson learned.
They are animal bedding pellets. I've been using them for years and never had any issues at all. Sorry that you did! There is no smell from these - only good old wood scent. I'm sure they are compressed with something but the bag is labeled 100% natural and it hasn't proved toxic to any of my animals. My dogs even eat them
and the chickens eat the pellets that break down I'm sure. I've used them in my litterboxes, my coop, all my cages even with guinea pigs and ferrets. The dust is non-existent, but yes, you do need to research the pellets you want to use. I use wood stove pellets too, same results - no issues at all. Honestly, I worry more about the shavings than I do these pellets. The chicks love to eat the shavings and the smell coming from the normal white shavings is very strong. Also the moisture is awful with the shavings, especially here in the NW. They absorb nothing (the shavings turn to paste) and the wood retains the water for a very long time so even new bags feel moist. The pellets serve as a great dust bath (they break down quickly into a powdery substance), they absorb any liquid immediately (spilled water) and it's really easy to clean the cages - just scoop.
What is the ratio of hens to roosters you have in your breeding pens?
My husband finally put a roof on the coop and built a few seperate pens in there! He first endured the extreme heat of 105 degrees putting on a tin roof, then the weather drasticly changed to monsoon and started thundering and lighting! I first though "crap now my coop wont get done", but when he didn't stop I thought for sure I would never get done because he was going to get struck by lightening!!! I am just trying figure out who is going where, but wondered what is the most hens you have in coops and do you ever put roosters together. I have several roosters that get along and don't wont to get rid of them.
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Is this directed to me? If so, We have one rooster per 4 to 5 hens. Our roosters are the type that they can't have more than 5 or else the fertility drops significantly. We do have our extra cockerels all housed together along with three rooster brothers. The problem we have is we started out with 4 seramas (1 rooster, 3 hens). The one hen died from internal laying and the other hen has laid probably 5 eggs in her lifetime. So we know that all of the children have all come from the same pair of parents. Here is our problem: All the roosters we have for our breeding are brothers including the father. We then had all of the brothers' sisters and we knew you can't breed brother/sister. What we did, then, was sell most of our related hens except for the best ones to breed to the father and sold the rest. We then bought hens from different serama breeders throughout the U.S. along with a rooster. Here is now the predicament. The father of to all of the children is a silkied serama. He now has two silkied serama hens with him. The bad part is we all of his daughters and we can't put them with any roosters because they are brother/sister. That is why we are looking for another rooster.
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Is this directed to me? If so, We have one rooster per 4 to 5 hens. Our roosters are the type that they can't have more than 5 or else the fertility drops significantly. We do have our extra cockerels all housed together along with three rooster brothers. The problem we have is we started out with 4 seramas (1 rooster, 3 hens). The one hen died from internal laying and the other hen has laid probably 5 eggs in her lifetime. So we know that all of the children have all come from the same pair of parents. Here is our problem: All the roosters we have for our breeding are brothers including the father. We then had all of the brothers' sisters and we knew you can't breed brother/sister. What we did, then, was sell most of our related hens except for the best ones to breed to the father and sold the rest. We then bought hens from different serama breeders throughout the U.S. along with a rooster. Here is now the predicament. The father of to all of the children is a silkied serama. He now has two silkied serama hens with him. The bad part is we all of his daughters and we can't put them with any roosters because they are brother/sister. That is why we are looking for another rooster.
