NY chicken lover!!!!

[Breella]

Wow that is a fancy run.

Yeah, but well worth it in a place like for the horses. The mud is bad, both for the grass and the horses hooves. As for the chickens I see it as an investment in not needing to renovate the run later. This way I know that it'll be dry.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

As for the run, when it gets too much poop in it I hose it down until it all dissipates. I use the power sprayer on the garden hose.

I have to add that my run is on slanted land, so there's no standing water. It's wet while it's raining, but even after a heavy rain it's dry and the poop is gone and run off into the grass which is outside of the run.

My run is also on slanted land, but I don't notice the poop breaking up all that quickly and running down hill. I don't have squishy mud, but things are wet and there is squishy poop! That's why I try to rake it up and get rid of it. I didn't think of hosing it out. Probably a good thing to do once in a while, especially if you know there will be a run of dry weather (what's THAT like?!)

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TOB

 

[Tough Old Bird]

GOOD LUCK WITH THE HATCH, LYNZI!!!!!!

TOB

 

[rancher hicks]

Hi anyone on Long Island, NY??

I'm not on Long Island but glad you're here. If I had a cup cake I'd eat in your honor.

 

[rancher hicks]

Looks like I have a broody Silkie on my hands now. She's not even sitting on any eggs yet. I started putting some aside. Maybe I'll give her those if she doesn't lay any more in the next few days. All of these eggs I'm hatching are her except one. My black hen lays these teeny tiny white eggs and the splash lays a slightly larger light brown egg.

Speaking of which. My EE in the Del coop has taken over the Dels eggs. That poor girl. This will be the second time another hen has moved in on her. So now I have three hens sitting on eggs. Buckwheat in the bottom, the EE in the middle box (where the del was) and the Del in the top box. I took two of the eggs from the EE and moved them up with the Del hen.

Now the chick that hatched the day before yesterday was out again in the run. Running around, so I stood and watched to see how it was going. When it got under the Del hen that is brooding two earlier chicks and the hen squatted to cover it I knew it would be okay. Tonight I did check and there it was under the Del hen nice and warm.

Help me Jesus, I swear there is a conspiracy going on with all these broody hens.

 

[Lynzi777]

Thanks TOB!

Everyone went back to their rightful places tonight! Guess I can start letting everyone out at the same time from now on and not have to worry about a thing!

 

[rancher hicks]

Good Luck I can't wait until I go on Lock Down I am sure I will be looking continuously to see if I have any hatching.
Pharm I hope you dried out some today I am fortunate enough to have had my yard landscaped so that it all runs off to the back in the woods although that is why we had that done because every year it looked like my pool had decided it wanted to be a lake.


Cass be careful I hope you are healing up

Wow that is a fancy run.

Makes sense when one of my hens starts a clucking they all come to see why.
Yes 3 of them are fertile but one is cracked I left it and it seems to be progressing so will see what happens
I used to have chipmunks that would stand by my tree collecting acorns and if you went near there they would stand up on their back legs make these crazy noises like they were yelling at you. They disappeared when the tree got hit with lightning it split down the middle so we had it taken down haven't seen a chipmunk since then .

I had an EE like that. I just rubbed the crack with a white candle and put it back under the hen and it hatched just fine.

 

[Lynzi777]

Can't say that I'm bothered by the broodiness yet. I'm getting more eggs from these bigger girls than we need for our family. So when I get up to 4 dozen in our fridge, 2 dozen go back to the chickens. I've started putting Silkie eggs aside for hatching. And now that everyone is out together and my Silkie roo is chasing down the bigger girls, I think I may try hatching a couple of their eggs just to see what comes from it.

 

[JLaw]

Can't say that I'm bothered by the broodiness yet. I'm getting more eggs from these bigger girls than we need for our family. So when I get up to 4 dozen in our fridge, 2 dozen go back to the chickens. I've started putting Silkie eggs aside for hatching. And now that everyone is out together and my Silkie roo is chasing down the bigger girls, I think I may try hatching a couple of their eggs just to see what comes from it.

Maybe something like my TSC silkies.



This is the silkie i like. I wish i could breed them just like this guy. No poof so they can see no leg feathers to get dirty at all, or have other birds peck. Still mainly silkie feathers, black skin, 5 toes, and all black eyes.

 

[Gramma Chick]

.My run is a mud pit at the moment, and it's pretty, um, fragrant.

I'm going to throw down some shavings and compressed pine pellets tomorrow just to see if I can cut down on the smell and harden up the surface a bit. This rain is ridiculous! We're going to put down concrete in part of the run and just keep litter over it, because it'll be easier to clean, but future plans don't help much right now.

I have my spraddle-legged "special needs" poult Gobbles sleeping in my shirt at the moment, because it's very cute, is happy and contented when held, and I'm getting attached to it. It looks like the leg may have been malpositioned in the egg or something happened to it during hatching. The hock on that side is bigger than on the good side (dislocated or malformed? can't tell), the foot is not fully responsive, and the leg is still wonky even with hobbling, although it's slowly improving. I'm going to keep hobbling it to see if it helps. The little thing is in no pain, and is learning to get around pretty well, as of course it hasn't known anything else. I will of course do the humane thing if it ever comes down to it, but I'd really rather not, as this is turning out to be a pretty cool little bird.

Pics of gobbles ?