North Carolina

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

welcome to all new folks.....glad to meet you

going to Dunn for feed this morning after doing the bus route

and then a bit of a nap/rest to try and shake this bug

.........nasty thing is hanging in there

Bennie......if you can wait till after I get back from
going to Ind., I will get out and sex up a pair or so for you

hope everyone has a good day

 

[CJJenkins]

Good morning! Well heard what resembled an attempt at crowing from the chicken house this morning. Babies were 7 weeks old yesterday. Now to determine who did it

. I have one definite roo and the verdict is still out on one other. 2 I am sure are hens. Someone called me yesterday and said she had heard that I wanted some Buff Orpingtons and that she would be glad to give me some fertile eggs...ok, how deeply into this chicken thing am I wanting to get??

So today I am trying to round up an incubator

and hubby says he will help!

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good morning everyone!!

Broodies are doing well...the lone chick is growing fast (I still suspect it's a rooster) and I cannot believe it's almost 7 weeks old as my DD#2 is already 6 weeks old!! Can you believe it? My how fast time flies.

I hope you all have a great day!!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good morning everyone!

Do they make an incubator with battery back-up? If they can do it with alarm clocks, surely they have with incubators. Our electricity was off for several hours last night and I have turkey and bantam eggs in.

I'll leave them to see, and certainly didn't open the incubator and let the heat out. I know mama will get off the nest briefly, but this was a lot longer. We'll see.

I caught something in my live-catch trap this morning!

Too bad it was just my Royal Palm turkey hen. Getting her out was fun. My trap is single-ended, not double.

I've got one of my BCM teenagers trapped underneath the barn...somehow. I've got them in the rabbit lean-to. There's chicken wire and 2 x 4 wire blocking access to under the barn. Somehow one has gone through it and is under the barn. I can't find a hole in it anywhere. I also can't get the bird out. I tore a hole in the wire on the front of the barn where nobody else can go in, and put a bowl of water through it and to the side. Hopefully she'll (figures it's a pullet!) come for water and see the exit and I can collect her out of the yard. If not, hubby comes back tomorrow, and he can make a bigger hole than I can.

CSB...why Dunn? What's in Dunn that makes you go there for feed?

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning everyone!

Do they make an incubator with battery back-up? If they can do it with alarm clocks, surely they have with incubators. Our electricity was off for several hours last night and I have turkey and bantam eggs in.

I'll leave them to see, and certainly didn't open the incubator and let the heat out. I know mama will get off the nest briefly, but this was a lot longer. We'll see.

I caught something in my live-catch trap this morning!

Too bad it was just my Royal Palm turkey hen. Getting her out was fun. My trap is single-ended, not double.

I've got one of my BCM teenagers trapped underneath the barn...somehow. I've got them in the rabbit lean-to. There's chicken wire and 2 x 4 wire blocking access to under the barn. Somehow one has gone through it and is under the barn. I can't find a hole in it anywhere. I also can't get the bird out. I tore a hole in the wire on the front of the barn where nobody else can go in, and put a bowl of water through it and to the side. Hopefully she'll (figures it's a pullet!) come for water and see the exit and I can collect her out of the yard. If not, hubby comes back tomorrow, and he can make a bigger hole than I can.

CSB...why Dunn? What's in Dunn that makes you go there for feed?

Champion Milling is in Dunn and just as close, if not closer,
to me than Family Farm or Southern Gin in Fayetteville
.........and they have better prices on alot of things.
I get a discount for a 10 bag purchase there.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Woke up in the middle of the night to the most horrendous sound. I don't even know how to describe it...sort of like a velociraptor fighting a cougar right outside my window. I got the flashlight, but couldn't find anything. I heard this sound once before, and the same night, 4 of my chickens disappeared.

So I went out early this morning, and they were all fine. But something did try it's hardest to dig it's way under the coop. Fortunately, I just buried a new hardware cloth skirt on Sunday. In your face mysterious predator!

So what do you figure...chupacabra? Seriously though, I thought I'd heard every possible wildlife sound...but never this one! It was blood-curdling.

 

[gavinandallison]

Good morning all, hope everyone is well today.

My girls have new perches in their runs today, After cutting down my fallen tree I placed the branches and trunk in the run for them to sit and perch on during the day.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Woke up in the middle of the night to the most horrendous sound. I don't even know how to describe it...sort of like a velociraptor fighting a cougar right outside my window. I got the flashlight, but couldn't find anything. I heard this sound once before, and the same night, 4 of my chickens disappeared.

So I went out early this morning, and they were all fine. But something did try it's hardest to dig it's way under the coop. Fortunately, I just buried a new hardware cloth skirt on Sunday. In your face mysterious predator!

So what do you figure...chupacabra? Seriously though, I thought I'd heard every possible wildlife sound...but never this one! It was blood-curdling.

Blood-curdling sounds are often produced by bobcats.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

good morning everyone

welcome to all the new people.

CSB- hope you get to feeling better and have a safe drive.

NH- my time does fly, doesn't even seem like its been six weeks since you posted about the arrival of DD#2

i bet she is getting big. does DD#1 enjoy being a big sister?

Hollow- poor turkey hen

(shhh we aren't laughing at her)

hope the lil pullet comes out from under the barn

it figures the lil girls are the ones who always get into trouble.


on a good chicken note i have 2 broodies, my cochin Lily and my silkie Suki

and i candled my eggs in the bator and only had to take 3 out 35 out. here's hoping that the 32 still in there hatch

on a sad chicken note, my blue orpington died on saturday

, she had a scratch right below her eye and other than that seemed fine, she was eating and drinking well. i went out to put them in a "free range" pen and went about my chores when i walked over to check on them 30mins later she was dead

i have no idea why??????


well i hope everyone has a great day!!!!!!



yay yay yay it posted finally

 

[AllyRodrigues]

I candled my runner ducks once more last night before lockdown..3 internal and 2 external pips! I have been having a horrible time with the humidity incubating these, so I feared the worst. I have 13 still looking good!

Pictures to follow if I'm successful!

I also have 2 broody hens sitting on eggs! Flavio lectured me about needing to pick up the eggs sooner. I secretly didn't..