North Carolina

[dutchbunny83]

Lindz-- $10 is a good price, just make sure they are healthy and quarantine no matter how healthy they look!

Beth-- You have intrigued me, SUPER BLUE LAYERS!!! How have I not heard of these? So they look like a white leghorn with a pea comb and lay blue eggs almost everyday? I must have one!!! I found someone selling eggs, but they're not cheap, did you have an easy time selling them? (I don't want to breed to sell or anything, but if I buy a dozen I will have to get rid of the extras since I already have an abundance of chickens).

 

[BHep]

lindz...good deal and pretty birds.

Sesslers.. CONGRATS.. Need to change your name to 4 Sesslers.

Dutch... Sold the chicks pretty quick. But sold the "ingredients" to make room for my new breeds.

 

[Fireantz iceman]

TWINS!!!!!!!!

I remember so well when we were shown two heart beats....and I was 47! Now three years and almost $3 million later this 50 year old would not change a thing!

Our boys were born at 23 weeks and only 1 pound 6&7 ounces each....5&6 months in the NICU and a lifetime of stories to share

Nothing can compare to the joy of two little men following me around the nursery and farm....

Guess I know why a do everything inultiples now!!!!

 

[dutchbunny83]

Helloooo to all of my fellow chicken lovers! Glad everyone is doing well for the most part. Our girls are still regular on their laying schedule, and our summer garden is through.

In other news, I haven't been around much because we found out a few weeks ago that we are having TWINS in April (and inhave been illllll)! Ohhhhh what a shock & a blessing! In the upcoming weeks and months I presume we will be busy with the holidays and then two babies before we know it! Oh the joy

Congratulations!!!
So excited for you!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Originally Posted by 2Sesslers

Helloooo to all of my fellow chicken lovers! Glad everyone is doing well for the most part. Our girls are still regular on their laying schedule, and our summer garden is through.

In other news, I haven't been around much because we found out a few weeks ago that we are having TWINS in April (and inhave been illllll)! Ohhhhh what a shock & a blessing! In the upcoming weeks and months I presume we will be busy with the holidays and then two babies before we know it! Oh the joy

Congrats.............chicks of your own

 

[moomoodiddy]

sounds like yall had too much fun at that swap without me lol yall just wait ill get my license in february and its gonna be on like donkey kong
anyways last weekend was busy had a springer sale in norwood 4H show saturday (got all first places but there werent no competition ) and went to an amazing art show in mathews meet an awesome artist named richard hedgecock he is offically my idol now
and this weekend we went to the new greensboro zoo it was amazing and stopped at some nice antique shops, if i had known i was going up there earlier i would have asked if anybody had some chickens for sale or wanted any lol yall have a blessed day

 

[Lizabelsherrill]

Chicken math is striking!!!!! I am debating on adding 2-3 EE pullets to my flock.... Have to figure out how to quarantine though.... What do you all think? They were hatched either in Dec or Feb. $10 each.... good deal or not?

They're really pretty! $10 is a good price.

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Congratulations!!!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

We managed to get a little bit of rain here
yesterday and we really needed it too. The
forecast is for more rain and if it comes as slow
and easy as it id yesterday then it will be a good thing.


hope everyone has a good day

 

[dutchbunny83]

Well crap!!!!

The barred rock is still alive, but she's hurt after more than 24 hours she is still isn't walking around on her own. I have a little bowl of FF right in front of her and she's eating, but hasn't moved.

My final blue Isbar is GONE this morning, once again not a trace. And we put a padlock on the gate so that rules out human. Got down on my hands and knees with a flashlight and searched every inch of the coop and run for some type of track and didn't see anything.

My blue Silkie (that I paid an insane amount for as a sexed chick from my pet silkie this summer) is dead in the coop. Too big to swallow, but no bite marks. Possibly something came in and caused a commotion and the silkie was trampled by the Lav Orps? There was a tiny amount of blood on her wattles on the side facing up, but I believe after something happened to her (injury) she was pecked at because her eyes, neck & rest of her body were fine so the blood on the wattles I don't believe related to her death. I check everywhere for fur to see if some animal could have gotten in, and didn't see anything. My cat slept inside last night (as he does most nights) and he is the one that sits out there and watches them.

My husband doesn't think it's a snake (I have no idea why he doesn't), but that's the only thing I could think of. He says a snake wouldn't kill the silkie, but based on the condition of the body, I really think it was accidently hurt in a commotion like my barred rock.

I'm down 6 chickens in 2 nights and 5 of them were really expensive! And for those that have seen my set up I am so paranoid about predators-- My coop is 6'x6'x6' solid cedar opening to a 20'x25' run that's all metal fencing and about 7 ft up the entire top is enclosed in netting to keep out hawks. I even ran extra chicken wire around the bottom of the run to keep baby chicks from being able to squeeze out. If a snake is getting in it's got to be small enough to fit through chicken wire or slide under the door to the run (which is less than an inch off the bottom of the ground, just enough so it doesn't catch).

I'm googling snake traps now, I don't know what else to do. This is something I thought I'd have to worry about being rural, not right here.

Also, I have 2 rabbits and 2 guinea pigs living under my shed (long story short, we put their hutches in the chicken run and they got out and dug some colony under the shed. We caught them and put them in the hutch and they were all depressed so we let them run. We also have chinchillas which are indoor pets, but my daughter left the slider open while my won was playing with one and it got outside. We've been actively trying to catch it for 2 weeks since they are temperature sensitive, but the thing is fast! I know it's still alive because I saw it sticking it's face out from under the shed this morning. I guess if we can't catch it the snake would pick the easier prey? We leave the hutch door open so they can get food & water. They eat my garden and will come over to be pet, but at night go under the shed. Anyway, a snake should be able to eat one of them unless it's still small I guess. That's why they're picking off my smallest chicks and eating them whole. And leaving my larger pullets dead and injured in the commotion.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[dutchbunny83]

I found some of these crawfish traps out at the Ramsey Walmart so going to get them now.

Now I have another question. The only ones I've seen show eggs as bait. However if I do in fact have a snake it has never gone for eggs, it's just eating my little chicks. And if it had the option between an egg sitting there and some birds, I think it would go for the real thing. Which made me think of live bait, like the feeder mice (which makes me stomach turn thinking about something being trapped then dying). I called the pet stores and apparently other people have the same feeling of guilt feeding live animals so now all they sell are frozen. Which is great for a pet snake, not so great for trying to lure in a wild one.

Suggestions on how to actually get a snake to go in my traps versus eating my chicks and what can I use (obviously NOT another chick!)