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[Tab's chicken obsession]

Sorry Heni and bear stew does sound good.

Cass- have you heard anything further on the eggs? the power went out at my house last week for a few hours and the eggs in lockdown hatched. The next 30 go into lock down tonight so I'll see how they do.

Lynzii--Normally I would be going to the Auburn swap being I'm a member of the fingerlakes feather club, but I have my grandma's 90th birthday party. I wish that it could have been closer to syracuse or even in syracuse then it would have been more doable. I wanted to contribute to their bake sale being it was my idea but I have no way of getting the stuff there.

 

[newchknlvr]

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

I'm not adding those yet. THey are still to small. I am trying to get my bigger gals into the coop.

 

[JLaw]

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.

Lol you wish we would but we will break out cams and start posting pics for everyone to see. May even submit to a funnies home video type show. "Old man in undies fights off his neighbor in a bear suit just to save the chickens."

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?

Not really only thing you could really do would be a solar kit or a generator. Both of which will probably cost you a nice penny. Next bet would be run a permanent line out there. That would be cheaper and probably easier to do.


Is there an amount of grapes I should feed my birds. I bought some today and they love them so far I have put 6 good sized red seedless grapes in there. I'm done for right now but after I put the second group of 3 in I noticed a bird had more liquidy poo. Maybe just cause it's not use to them? So fun watching them fight over them but I feel bad for that one silkie. Yes the same silkie that has had a bleeding foot and been pooped on. It cant see the grape through it's head tuff. It will turn it's head sideways to look then try to snatch at the grape even holding the grape it has a hard time because the other two bigger birds will come over and try to eat it also moveing the poor silkie as it tries to see the grape. These two TS silkies are so different one has head poof and leg/feet feathers other has more of a slick back top not a puff and no feet/lower legg feathers. Guess you get some weird breeds at TS compared to heritage birds. Oh well they're still fun and my first group of birds.

well later all off to work

jlaw

 

[Framac]

I love this idea!!!

Here is my solution to stopping the stuff getting in the water / food problem with feeders .
I have a couple of extra ceramic pots ..around .I did more House plants & flower gardening before I had chickens
The ceramic pot is heavy & doesnt tip over easily ... I set the waterer on top of that ...mine fit perfectly inside & raise it up just enough to keep it pretty clean .
Now I just have chicken food drool in the water ..problem ..LOL

Baby looking at ya " What cha Doing ? "

 

[Breella]

Sorry Heni and bear stew does sound good.

I have had bear and it is delicious! I wish it wasn't so hard to get.


Also:

 

[Child of Noah]

Because I read and subscribe to chicken magazines much of what I say is regurgitated information. I've had chickens for nearly 5 years. Some of course is experience and may or may not agree with what I read.

I subscribe to Back Yard Poultry and buy Practical Poultry ($7.99) at TSC. I like PP because it includes articles about buying, hatching, eggs, feeding and medical things. It's from the UK. They're very big on showing and breeding.

I've also checked out every book on poultry from the public library at least three times. Where I'm at I can get books from all over the county and they don't all have the same. I've learned that even the experts don't agree on everything.

I like to pass along what I've read because some folks can't afford to subscribe or buy the magazines.

My latest help comes from Minnie Rose Lovgreens book on raising chickens. She's from the 1800's. Her advice is to take the first few hatched chicks from the hen and put them in a brooder. Then when the hen is done with all her eggs, give her back the chicks. This will keep her from breaking set and finish the clutch. This AM I took two from an EE hen. She has four more to go.


She also taught me how to tame a mean rooster. Though I think I may have tamed him a bit to much.

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That is very cool!! I love the oldy time tried and true methods of things, and am always wanting to learn more about them, and will be trying to use those methods for my tiny growing farm. I recently read about a water pit below the frost line so that they can drink in the winter. I will be digging this this summer, hopefully all goes well. Otherwise everyone is getting new water in the day. Nearly every other method of winter watering I have heard of considers electricity to be the cure.

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Nice, thank you for sharing! I got it.

Henicillin I am so sorry about your bear attack. I had been thinking idly about hives/honey and since I do have bears in my woods this convinced me not to do it.

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?

Apples are a pretty portable source of energy, they come with their own wrapper and everything.

My only guess would be solar power, but to get a good one (especially for winter sun) would be fairly costly.. and would take quite some time before it would pay for itself. How many eggs are you hatching that you feel the need to shove them outside? I thought most "backyard" chicken owners used table-top kind of incubators?
You could have a roaring fire going... though you would then have the issue of humidity. To help with this, multiple tea kettles on top of the wood stove. Personally, I would try sticking the eggs under a hen.

 

[Lynzi777]

Apples are a pretty portable source of energy, they come with their own wrapper and everything.

My only guess would be solar power, but to get a good one (especially for winter sun) would be fairly costly.. and would take quite some time before it would pay for itself. How many eggs are you hatching that you feel the need to shove them outside? I thought most "backyard" chicken owners used table-top kind of incubators?
You could have a roaring fire going... though you would then have the issue of humidity. To help with this, multiple tea kettles on top of the wood stove. Personally, I would try sticking the eggs under a hen.

I'm not hatching any eggs, I was just curious as to whether or not it's possible to set something up in my shed in the spring/summer for chicks (if I were to hatch any or get any more from someone else) rather than keeping indoors. I have bad allergies come spring time and in the fall, so just with these chicks I have getting older, (I'm no longer using a heat lamp so they are in the shed at night now) they were beginning to dust bath in the shavings, causing all sorts of dust from the shavings to to rise up everywhere in my laundry room. Not to mention they were getting smelly and since my laundry room is right off my kitchen I thought it was time for them to be moved. Plus if they were in my shed and I could get some sort of light in there, I'd be able to make a bigger brooder to keep in there.

 

[Child of Noah]

I'm not hatching any eggs, I was just curious as to whether or not it's possible to set something up in my shed in the spring/summer for chicks (if I were to hatch any or get any more from someone else) rather than keeping indoors. I have bad allergies come spring time and in the fall, so just with these chicks I have getting older, (I'm no longer using a heat lamp so they are in the shed at night now) they were beginning to dust bath in the shavings, causing all sorts of dust from the shavings to to rise up everywhere in my laundry room. Not to mention they were getting smelly and since my laundry room is right off my kitchen I thought it was time for them to be moved. Plus if they were in my shed and I could get some sort of light in there, I'd be able to make a bigger brooder to keep in there.

Sorry, I read that wrong. I guess I had "incubator" on the brain and you did clearly say brooder. I think I thought that since you have been mentioning hatching. Personally, I wouldn't put tiny babies outside... but those are not the ones that make so much dust and feather problems. Heaven forbid I suggest something other than the brooder lamp.... but there are propane powered portable heaters. For bigger chicks that don't need the constant and high heat of the lamp, this might work. I've heard that some people (me) have raised chicks on portable heaters with no known ill effects. Though those people might be shy to admit to it since that isn't done in polite chicken society.

 

[Child of Noah]

If a person were so inclined as to hook something larger than the one pound propane tank to a portable propane heater, I hear you can get the hose that goes to a gas bbq grill and attach it that way... people might say that is dangerous or ill advised, but I know some people have done it for years.

 

[rancher hicks]

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?

I've run cords to my coops from the garage. I run them along the fencing and up and over the arbors. The one in the back goes down along the fence and around the garden. Not a great picture but you can see the "green" extension cord along the fence. I've run a cord from the coop along the fencing around the garden in back to the hoop coop. I've also got white christmas lights inside the runs and along the fence as well. I use those connectors that allow you to add another plug. I'll try to take pics.