NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

I have one of those bright headlamps I use every night to count the chickens. Every night on the way to the coop I say to myself, "I'm a dork, I'm a dork, I'm a dork...".
But it comes in SO handy. Don't know how I lived w/o it.

My light or the one I did have has three. One bright, one low white light and one blinking red. I say DID have because I dropped it and it broke. Blasted things are to fragile, but they come in handy.


Tonight I had to look for the two new BR chicks and the Del. Fortunately they were in the weeds they hide in and where easy to pick up even with a flash light in one hand.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Her comb and waddles are getting HUGE! and still she gives me no eggs :-(

How old is she ? Do you have her on layer ?

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Thanks, Princess. I've been walking around yet again looking under everything and found the Wyandotte's feathers in a couple of small clumps, and a couple of blonde feathers from a BO, so I think at least 2 won't be coming back. Gonna put them all in the pen and put up the electric fence. With the grass growing so fast I have been loath to use the fence...too soon old, too late smart.

I hope the chickens turn up.

 

[Sally8]

I'd rather work in shorts and sandals than be bundled up any day

While I love the seasons I agree with Stony. Give me 90 degree days any day. I am always cold if it under 70........I where a sweatshirt & have a small heater in at work since they keep the a/c at deep freeze. I am much happier with the heat & being outside

I just don't know what to say to either of you. lol If it's above 80, it's too warm for me. We never got the storm but saw the dark clouds that appeared to be heading North-ish and it is much cooler out. Guess what I saw this morning? A few days ago I put 6 eggs under her. (From under the twisted sisters nest) 2 hatched so far. I can hear pecking. I'm a grandmother again! It's my first time for a chicken to hatch babies and NOT eat them. So my Sizzle hatched 2 BCM. The 2 twisted sisters that ate theirs the last time still have 8 - 10 eggs still under them. I should have put more under the Sizzle. After I candled the eggs, I only put the one's almost ready to hatch under Cecilia.



This first creek pic was today. The 2nd one was a couple of months ago. If we don't start getting productive rain soon, the creek will be dry by the end of Aug. I've only seen it happen once in 10 years. I pump water out of here to water all the chickens.

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

didn't count last night, so four young'uns got shut out last night. Not sure where they were hiding. It was dark but they've gotten over the fence to the side with the marans and didn't apparently know how to get back to their own yard. I will have to check tonight. Last night was church so it was dark when I got home and it had rained. I think they hid in the weed bed.

I almost shut out a young'un tonight they usually all put themselves in when it starts getting dark so I didn't even count I closed their door and was closing their window and I heard the young'un going nuts outside their door she definitely didn't want to be left outside

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote:
Copy of the link to read on line ..
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/8-3/the-benefits-of-garlic-for-poultry/

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Is that Cecilia.? She is cute !
Have they not opened a gate or something in the lake system?
Can you give your chickens your well water ?

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. It has finally cooled off here and I am thankful. The heat makes me physically ill and I will take the cooler temps any day. The cheeps are certainly happy that it has cooled off. I think our resident bear passed by last night as I woke up to the neighbors basset hound baying her bear bark. She took off into the woods so I think she bayed it out of here. She certainly has no fear of other animals and gives us all fair warning when something or someone is around. The egg song is in full production this morning so the girls must be happy. I caught and held the baby silkies this morning. Fast little buggers but adorable. I am thinking they are girls. I hope so as I need more girls.

Hope you all are enjoying the cooler weather. Now if only all the mosquitoes would DIE!!!!

 

[Glasshen]

Yesterday evening DH installed closet rods low down beneath the poop boards. I was nervous about Mama hatching her chicks in the main coop, so wanted the teens accommodations for her to hatch and raise her chicks. At bedtime, the three teens were in their place, but the three babies had moved right in to the closet rod on the left side of the main coop. I had to wait until it was dark to move the teens out, and Mama, her eggs and bedding into the separate coop. She was puffed up like a turkey and trying to climb into the now empty nest box when I picked her up and took her out near her nest. When she realized that everything she cared about was there she settled right down. This morning everyone looks fine from the move.

 

[miquwid]

Good morning all! Girls are loving the coop I'm liking that they fertilize my lawn can't wait to grow more items next year! Son just informed me that one of the delicates flew the barrier and got beat up so imma add more and make it completely separated. Those amber sex links are ruthless only my super sweet barred rock can handle them. I mean they like my son and I but we raised them from 2day old chicks to now 20 wk old monsters lol. Time to work in the yard.