North Carolina

[HenThymes]

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I have a bunch of bantam chicks available if you are interested? They are not baby babies but headed toward juvi's. Even have a bantam hen with her coming two week old chick available. AND I can promise that my birds are healthy and clean!!

 

[BookWorm243]

I might be able to talk me mom into it

Do you have any pictures of the bantam hen and chick?

 

[BHep]

Hi everyone...


I was out all day working on a fundraiser for our church. Making chocolate bon-bons and eggs. The money will go to send all the children in our church to a summer camp program.

allabout.... I am so sorry for your little hen. That is so wrong of that guy. I hope you can get a complaint in on him and he gets shut down.


Daddys...that SLW almost looks like a Emu.

Very cute!

 

[darkbyrd]

NH - We have one coop already, not insulated. The coop I'm building is only insulated under the metal roof (hot metal and condensation problems). If you have good ventilation (not drafty) you should be fine, IMHO.

 

[HenThymes]

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I don't have a picture of the hen at the moment but I can best describe her conformation as looking like a "miniature" australorp or black marans hen. She has just the tiniest bit of gold/copper expressing around her neck and is slightly bigger than a serama but definitely not the size of say a bantam cochin. The chick looks just like either of the yellow&dark chicks toward the left of the picture below.

 

[Miss Lydia]

they are so cute HT what does the yellow band mean? hey EM hows those Emus looking? We live in the Northern mts. Nh and we don't have insulation in our coops, have good ventilation though, I think the ventilation is more important actually.

BHep I sure wish I was closer I*'d buy some Bon Bons from you

 

[HenThymes]

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I was just marking them when they were born so I knew what group came from what pen as I had 4 pens hatching at one time my first hatch of the season. I am thankfully down to two pens at the moment. But.. next month I will probably have 4 or 5 different groups hatching all at once again. Gotta love those projects!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks just didn't think it was to tell them apart since they all had the same color band on. I might have a broodie. my Brahma hen from last years hatch was still sitting on the nest when i went to lock up, now I have a question, she is not in the nest I would like her to be in, she is up in the nest boxes that a for laying and not the ones on the floor for sitting, I know I should have marked them as such lol when I am sure she is serious can I move her to the floor? like maybe at night after everyone goes to roost or should I just leave her there and make a ramp so the chicks will be able to go in and out when hatched?

 

[ramirezframing]

I have had hens take the move and hens that won't take the move. You might have to block her in, if you move her, and she tries to go back to the laying box. Good luck.

 

[BookWorm243]

HT where are you located? That will depend on wether we could get her