North Carolina

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

It is going to be so warm today that it
is a shame to have to go to work........
there is SO much I could work on here
instead...........but feed demand money
for those bags of feed so I guess I'm off
to work

hope your day is a good one

 

[langshanman]

Good Morning to all, Well today is my first day back to work since my back surgery in August
I'll be working at the Johnston Correctional Facility on Highway 70 (wish me luck) Chickens have settled
back into their normal routine ,drinking eating ,laying eggs and of course costing me money. But they are worth
it , Well my first batch of chicks are hatching this morning,can't wait to get home to see how they are doing
Ya'll have a good day and enjoy

Wil

 

[ramirezframing]

did you show any of your birds this past sat?

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning Happy People!

I thought I was done at work, but forgot some important paperwork, so have to go back in this morning.

But then I should be done until after the first.

I went out to lock up the chickens last night and heard coyotes calling for the first time. I know they're about, but I haven't seen or heard them, and they haven't caused me any grief. I enjoyed hearing them...on someone else's land! I hope they stay there, too!

I'm coming along with my mental plan for the newest chicken house, although I won't ask him to build it until next spring/summer. He put lovely adjustable perches in for the youngest in JDC. They still were perching on the feeders. It'll take them a day or two to figure them out, I suspect.

Off to do chores and go to work. Sigh. Enjoy your day!

 

[langshanman]

did you show any of your birds this past sat?

Yes I did about 30 of them had Bantam Langshans, Large Langshans, and Bantam New Hampshires
also Golden neck Booted Bantams


Wil

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good morning everyone!! Had a wonderful time at the poultry show and got to meet some "new" people face to face and chat and catch up with some familiar ones! DD1 had a BLAST - so much so that we weren't even out of the parking lot before she was conked out and I don't know what happened to DD2, but all she did was talk the entire way home...until the driveway when she decided to conk out!!

So for those of you who were there to witness...apparently my eldest has the worst case of amnesia ever as she told me that she still wants a pony and to pet the piggie again.

Amnesia I tell you, amnesia!! DH was rather quiet, but that's how he is normally, so I'd say overall, it was a success...except now he wants to raise turkeys to eat and several other BIG birds he saw...LOL

Came home with a bunch of young pullets and 3 HUGE ducks!! Cadbury is STILL hissing at me, but the other two girls are "okay" with me (so long as I don't bother them)...hehe. Daisy and Daphne are SO curious, they have been spending most of their time near the pen (they are locked up just until they get to know that this is their new home...don't want them taking off and leaving us!) and only visit us when we come out on the deck. Somehow one of the girls escaped their enclosure (the one with the white face...who is unnamed) and was following/leading the younger two girls around. DD is LOVING these ducks and calls Cadbury "egg" because DH mentioned every time we mention his name, he wants a Cadbury egg...lol. I wonder how long it will be before he stops hissing at us?!? Beth - WHAT KIND OF TREATS did you give him? He doesn't seem to like my bread...lol

So...those of you who incubate & brood....at what temperatures do I NEED to have the heat lamp on and when should I turn it off?? HELP!!

Have a great day everyone!! I may be quiet the next few days as I have company coming (delivering a piano...woohoo) and I am suppose to be baking up a storm for DH's work...they have started making requests....and this year I am attempting to make Petit Fours!!

 

[BHep]

NH.. Hissing is good.. They don't quack, they hiss. They are saying "hi". Treats here are boiled eggs and scratch grains. Cad loves scratch grains.

 

[emrldgrn1]

Quote: In brooders, my lamps are kept pointed into one corner of the boxes so that the babies can move into and out of the heat as needed as the temperatures flux in the building outside the brooders. They seem to do a great job of regulating themselves right from 24 hours after hatch. My Large fowl birds I pull out of the brooders once they are fully feathered with adult feathers. But I hatch and brood all year so I give the benefit of doubt just to make sure they never get cold in the cooler months, I move them to an open brooder that they can come and go from during the cold months.

 

[ramirezframing]

Yes I did about 30 of them had Bantam Langshans, Large Langshans, and Bantam New Hampshires
also Golden neck Booted Bantams


Wil

there was some very nice langshans there, wasnt sure if they were your or not

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Good moring everyone i was up all night last night running around in pooring and hail, trying to secure tarps to pens and put everyone in their coops. We had a servely strong storm blow through last night, so much of a suprise that the weather channel was saying it was clear. All the tarps got riiped off so i had to go out secure them. I had to drag my chick pen back into the barn. Convince the ducks to get in the coop. And yank the free range rooster out of their tree and put them in the barn. I'm so tired, think I'm gonna go take a nice nap.