NY chicken lover!!!!

[lklik]

Finally temps are supposed to be 65+ this weekend. My chicks are almost fully feathered. Think they would be happy in their chicken tractor for the day hours and back in the brooder at night where it's warm? I wish I had the ability to get a heat lamp out in the big coop.

 

[Glasshen]

Just catching up from last night, and am distressed by the fate of the bees. Poor things. It seems an unfair match, a bear against a hive of bees. And a hard one to intervene against as a human protector. Well, now the insurance claim has gone up, and you can build the fort Knox for Bees, and you wont be out the deductible for the second and third destructions...good luck. But be careful if the bear is around lurking.

 

[ChicknGuy]

Just catching up from last night, and am distressed by the fate of the bees. Poor things. It seems an unfair match, a bear against a hive of bees. And a hard one to intervene against as a human protector. Well, now the insurance claim has gone up, and you can build the fort Knox for Bees, and you wont be out the deductible for the second and third destructions...good luck. But be careful if the bear is around lurking.

Sad, sorry to hear that.

 

[rancher hicks]

We had an unwelcome visitor last night. A bear pulled both of our hives apart, tried to get into the run but gave up (he's tall - he bent the crap out one of the aluminum support poles that hold the netting over the run - the run is six-foot chain link fence, so that defeated him), then came up on the deck, knocked over all my patio furniture (it looked like a drunk staggered through), and cleaned out our little bird feeder. Stupid blasted thing.

One hive is empty anyway - we have a nuc coming from Betterbee this year to repopulate it. He sampled honey from that hive, but that was about it. The active one has brood, which is what Yogi was after, as bee larvae are nice, fatty, protein-filled treats, and the bears are, of course, famished now that they're coming out of hibernation. He was surprisingly delicate about it - rather than tearing the hives apart, he essentially disassembled them by taking the supers off, pulled a couple of frames out of them to eat what was on one side, and managed not to kill the queen or the workers. The bees were Not Happy today - they were going after everything in the yard, as they're in ticked-off mode. Alan had to put the hives back together this evening, which I'm sure was fun. Ironically, the insurance inspector is FINALLY coming tomorrow to look at the roof and the bees' deck where we keep the hives. Had the deck not been smashed in December, or had the inspection been when we requested it, the hives wouldn't have had this problem. *snarls* It SHOULD be covered, and, when it's rebuilt, it will be getting a hot wire.

My dog tried to warn us by barking her fool head off, but we figured she was just running her mouth about deer, so we told her to shut up. I guess we should have listened!

I am sorry about the bees.


I hope I've learned my lesson. Had my dogs do this once and yelled shut up with out getting out of bed, only to find the window in the Kitchen door smashed out in the morning.

I go out and check when the birds are squawking during the day just to check. So if you see an old geezer sprinting across the yard in his underwear you'll know I was taking my nap and to avert your eyes.

 

[newchknlvr]

Anyone have some advise on introducing my chicks into the coop with my older gals? My ducks and chickens are not getting along at all.. My ducks are getting pecked and the chickens are taking out small pieces of skin now... I still have 3 more girls that are 2 weeks old that I will have to add, then I am still waiting on my last 3 to come in... My older girls are not going to like me soon!! lol

 

[rancher hicks]

Anyone have some advise on introducing my chicks into the coop with my older gals? My ducks and chickens are not getting along at all.. My ducks are getting pecked and the chickens are taking out small pieces of skin now... I still have 3 more girls that are 2 weeks old that I will have to add, then I am still waiting on my last 3 to come in... My older girls are not going to like me soon!! lol

I'd try to give them more time to grow. 2 weeks is a bit young to add to the coop.

 

[vmdanielsen]

I'd try to give them more time to grow. 2 weeks is a bit young to add to the coop.

How do I post a picture?

 

[Lynzi777]

How do I post a picture?

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[vmdanielsen]

There's a little button with a square "picture of a mountain and sun" in it a above the field you would reply in. Click on that and it'll ask you where you want to upload the picture from on your computer or whatever device you're on. Choose the picture and click submit

Thanks Lynz, It wasn't working, but my son was home and he grudgingly did it for me in about 90 seconds? Thank you.

 

[Lynzi777]

No Problem!!

Giving the ladies a break from Duncan today. He is turning into quite the little feisty roo. The minute everyone is let out of the coops he goes after them like Wile E Coyote chasing the Roadrunner! I've never seen chickens run so fast! Pearl is out there now sun bathing in the grass, like "finally! I can relax!" LOL

This may sound like a stupid question but is there anything out there I can buy to use as a portable source of "energy" so that I could hold a brooder in my shed if I wanted to? I don't have any way of plugging anything in at my shed other than if I were to run an extension cord from my house to the shed. I did it in the winter but I just hate the look of the cord just laying in the yard like that. I wasn't sure if they made something more portable that doesn't cost a fortune, maybe something that runs on batteries but doesn't die after an hour of being turned on?