NY chicken lover!!!!

[featherz]

The more I see them the more I want them!!  Will you be keeping any LF boys?

No, don't plan on it, especially since I am getting more eggs from you. I'll eyeball them tomorrow and see if I can get a final count on boys and how many of lf and bantam. I am just going to keep one bantam, the little runty pb one. He can lord it over my coop that has some smaller lf ladies.

 

[County Boy]

No, don't plan on it, especially since I am getting more eggs from you. I'll eyeball them tomorrow and see if I can get a final count on boys and how many of lf and bantam. I am just going to keep one bantam, the little runty pb one. He can lord it over my coop that has some smaller lf ladies.

Sounds like you have a plan!

 

[County Boy]

Did I tell you I have frizzles laying now to?

 

[JLaw]

Jaw, my coop is low to the ground too. I didn't want to have chickens dancing around under the coop singing Na Na, you can't get us.

Lmao. I don't want same thing but this brings up a story from yesterday. I took one of my younger banties out and it jumped down and I figured no biggie. I gave it a min then went to get it up and man that little bird flew all over the place hideing under my new grill around the mud room to under pallets and windows. Then it desided to go under my car so I get a board and an old windshield wiper out and chase it out of under it. Once I do that I get up and go to get it only to find it under my car yet again!!! Also tryed blowing the horn which I really didnt want to do with bird right under the engine compartment. About 5-7 minutes I desided that I would have to start car and back it up. So I scared it out again jumped in started matted the gass in reverse and Bam!!! The bird well it uh looked around like what the heck!! (had you going didn't I?) so I turn it off get out before It can run back under and chased it around some more, luckly it ran around the mud room again but this time it messed up and it went right into a laid down garbage can. WOOT!! score one for jlaw lol.

Well I read the post about the double headers on side walls and talked to my wifes uncle who builds stuff for a living. He said I should be fine since I have the studs directly under the 2 side rafters and I have each stud hurricane strapped to the rafter. By no means did I take offence to any pointers people put out. I don't think i said it but i'm using 3/4 plywood on side so that will also help keep studs/walls from moveing at all. Thanks for pointing out concerns after the double header was pointed out i tried googleing a lot about it but couldn't find much about side walls.

Like rancher I also have a lot of water around here on my land. I'm not on top top of the hill have about another 30 feet up higher right by my land and lots of clay a few feet under ground. That's on reason i built on the black top. I have to get with telephone company and find out where i can dig my run offs around the run. Also have to find out about building permit for my run since a zoning committee member lives right up the road from me and i have no woods to hide anything.

I got just about 3 full sides sheeted today. Tomorrow finish walls then roof and get 11 chicks out there.

Well that's all the news here.

jlaw

 

[Breella]

I have had plenty of broody's at similar heights. As long as you make the nest so the chicks can't fall out it should be fine. More than once I have witnessed a mam calling down lil ones. I think I wrote a little about it here.

http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/01/broody-hens-natures-incubators-your.html

What is a good height for the boxes? I just put my first one up today and I think it's about 3ft off the ground... (I'm planning on putting more nest boxes under it.)

also, I may try my hand at making an incubator...

 

[brahmapapa]

That is a relief!
I'm pretty sure mine is a raven rather than a crow. Fantail instead of wedge tail, and a more throaty low call instead of the higher pitched "caw caw" of a crow. Also my black bird is HUGE.
Either way, I'm happy that both of us have a black bird that chases hawks away, and I am so glad to know they don't bother the chickens. Thank you!

hawks don't seem to have a taste for corn, but both crows and ravens do. the ravens are prob. hanging around for scraps left by the chickens. They like to nest near a reliable food source, and the hawks like to steal thier babies, thats why you see them chasing the hawks away. Sometimes you may observe a hawk with a baby in its clutches being chased.

 

[ChickPrincess]

3 to 4 inches high is fine.As long as at least 2 inches is above the shaving height. She will keep them in 36 to 48 hours usually. Sometimes a little longer. IF you can, the 2nd morning after you know the 1st chick hatched try to get mama and the chicks down yourself. Every ONCE in a while I get lucky. Usually mama beats me to it.
She will nest with them on the floor.

Thanks. I feel much more at ease with this whole thing. Now keep your fingers crossed that she sticks with the eggs! She's a beautiful buff orpington and the roo is black australorp. I'll pull out any red sex link/production hen eggs (that is if I CAN! lol). I'd like BO/BA mix or BA's. I like the longevity factor when it comes to egg laying.

 

[NookNook01]

Here is my peanut butter guy (along with a gentleman friend lol): This guy wants to know why a lady is sticking a camera in his face.. Was planning on letting them go outside today but didn't get my fence set up. Have one more run of electric fencing to hook up for the growout coop!

Oh my Oh My!!!! He is So Cute!!! I want a big guy like that!?!?! Wanna Trade....haaaa

 

[Gramma Chick]

Tab, you're amazing. I only have a little bit of my garden stuff in, and I can bend in the middle! My big project has been digging out the grass that has infiltrated my fron beds. I dig out aplastic sled load then drag it down to the run. I aim it doe craters created by dust bathing, and some of it stays there as the girls go through it for yummy stuff, but when they are free ranging they try to redesign the beds I'm working on. They firmly believe the mulch should be on the lawn, not in the beds, so I've had to remove them from the area frequently...sometimes a squirt of the hose helps.

Those chickens think they are landscapers too ..They do that to one of my beds too..One bed has no mulch ..at all their fav dust bathing place ..

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Id like to wait if I can & get a mixed bag if possible ? thanks for saving them a week or so for me .