North Carolina

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

More rain today.......this is good as it is knocking down
much of the pollen as well as watering the grass for me.

Thank you Iceman for the pots.........the project cabbage
got planted on Sunday and the GD is a happy camper.
Great price on the the pots too....going to let GKs plant
some more.

hope everyone has a good day

 

[farmraised86]

Turkeys are dumb they keep trying to eat eachothers feet

 

[farmraised86]

Seriously I mean halfway down the throat and dragging they others around trying to eat his foot

 

[starlingdaly]

Turkeys are dumb they keep trying to eat eachothers feet

Lol I had a poult almost choke to death trying to eat a frog.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Yeah, poults keep trying to eat feet. Chicks try once and figure it out. Poults just maintain that hope that it'll come off next time. I don't know if that makes turkeys stupid or optimistic...or maybe a bit of both!

Hubby is finishing our "watering system" on the new chicken house today before he leaves on a business trip. So much easier once it's warm enough to use my automatic dog bowls!

I finally have all breeds separated, so can finally put chocolate Orpington eggs in the incubator. Today should be one day early, but they are going in anyway!

I might have a few leftover chicks after the claimed ones get picked up this weekend. If so, I'll post here. EEs and Buff Orpingtons in that batch. I won't have any Chocolates available this year. I will have English BBS Orpingtons later this spring, if anyone is interested here, as well as Welsummers.

 

[kbandwe]

I could use some help identifying the gender of my baby Fuzzyfeet. I bought 2 pullets. Imagine my surprise when one started crowing. Now the other's gender is in question.

 

[FVRM]

Yeah, poults keep trying to eat feet. Chicks try once and figure it out. Poults just maintain that hope that it'll come off next time. I don't know if that makes turkeys stupid or optimistic...or maybe a bit of both!

Hubby is finishing our "watering system" on the new chicken house today before he leaves on a business trip. So much easier once it's warm enough to use my automatic dog bowls!

I finally have all breeds separated, so can finally put chocolate Orpington eggs in the incubator. Today should be one day early, but they are going in anyway!

I might have a few leftover chicks after the claimed ones get picked up this weekend. If so, I'll post here. EEs and Buff Orpingtons in that batch. I won't have any Chocolates available this year. I will have English BBS Orpingtons later this spring, if anyone is interested here, as well as Welsummers.

I'm in love with buff orpingtons definitely need at least one or two more. and i'll try some welsummers too. i'm not supposed to hatch any more eggs but no one said anything about getting chicks

 

[farmraised86]

My auto waterer I only have to fill once ever one or two weeks its a 5 gal water bottle rubber plumming tape pvc pipe gas deep fryer stand and a dish I drilled a hole in the pvc where I wanted the water level to be

Yeah, poults keep trying to eat feet. Chicks try once and figure it out. Poults just maintain that hope that it'll come off next time. I don't know if that makes turkeys stupid or optimistic...or maybe a bit of both!

Hubby is finishing our "watering system" on the new chicken house today before he leaves on a business trip. So much easier once it's warm enough to use my automatic dog bowls!

I finally have all breeds separated, so can finally put chocolate Orpington eggs in the incubator. Today should be one day early, but they are going in anyway!

I might have a few leftover chicks after the claimed ones get picked up this weekend. If so, I'll post here. EEs and Buff Orpingtons in that batch. I won't have any Chocolates available this year. I will have English BBS Orpingtons later this spring, if anyone is interested here, as well as Welsummers.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

My watering system is similar. I use a 55 gal drum for each chicken house. It's on blocks to raise it up. Since each chicken house is divided, it's got a splitter on it, and each runs to an automatic dog bowl. That is also slightly raised to minimize debris getting kicked in. We fill the drums weekly if they are indoors and check them weekly if they are outdoors. They just have hardware cloth tops so the outdoor ones can get rain, too. In winter when the mechanism on the water bowls will freeze up, I just use open bowls and fill them morning and evening. It all works pretty well. Much less effort and waste with the auto bowls. I don't care for the nipple system, but this is perfect for us.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

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