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[Glasshen]

Your geese are gorgeous!

Cyclocross is bicycles ridden on a course that includes lots of obstacles, sand pits, water, mud, logs. Tight curves...There are times the bike can be carried...it is fun, I only watch. This is the first time I've seen people riding off road in the snow.

 

[rancher hicks]

Sebastapol geese. My Thanksgiving treat to my self....

They are afraid of me, but the 2 ganders took bread from my hand, the girls held back. I have white & colored. They are a little dirty, hoping to get them a small pool when I move them to permanent pen tomorrow.

Very nice.

Your geese are gorgeous!

Cyclocross is bicycles ridden on a course that includes lots of obstacles, sand pits, water, mud, logs. Tight curves...There are times the bike can be carried...it is fun, I only watch. This is the first time I've seen people riding off road in the snow.

Sounds like fun. Guess there is not a lot of publicity for such things, which is sad.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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The weather is great for finding our flaws ...most of our plastic on the back of our coop /run popped off . .Now it is on with wood slats ..

The same thing happened to us last year . with our covered run .Partial collapse.. Hard to clean off to as it was mis-shaped after that ..
My hubby got the bright idea of doing a roof covered run this year . So much easier ..I just ignored the snow on it . It didnt rain in too much either
I am still trying to decide whether to cover the gate with plastic ..There are still some air vent next to the roof .
I put a thermometer in the hen house /nesting boxes to see the temp ...it was 30 -35 deg in there yesterday

 

[Gramma Chick]

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If I understand it right ..
Kitties are smaller & have oval toes & a complete lower pad .
Where dogs / foxes lower pads are 3 seperate pads
Here a real clear fox print pic
http://www.drgreenway.org/DiscoveryTrailAnimals.html

The fact that you moved them may discourage it for a while ..It looked quite tempting next to that back fence .
Are the 3 ? girls doing okay with the rest of the flock ?

 

[Lynzi777]

Also got our first Silkie egg from my lavender hen what a good day Black Friday is turning out to be! And to think I actually contemplated going shopping! Lol

 

[Breella]

For those of you still on the fence about fermenting feed or seeds, I really don't think you don't need to go big to make an impact on your chickens. I have changed up how I'm feeding my flock. I am still providing them with dry crumbles of starter/grower that is mixed with some BOSS, Scratch and DE. In the AM when I put out the hot water into their big black horse feed buckets, which BTW work amazing. I can't remember those of you who were talking about it, but I had two of them laying around from when we moved the horses from self care to full care. They are black hard plastic with the hollow sides, traps air and doesn't seem to freeze, at least not all the way through so far, and has been good for providing water.

Anywho as I was saying, I've been fermenting a few cups of BOSS/scratch in a mason jar overnight using a few spoons of fluid from my mash as a catalyst. They get this in the AM with a little Fermented Feed before I got to work and they get a second helping of Fermented Feed in the afternoon on my days off, later in the evening on the days that I work. Not much, a few cups for my flock of 24 birds I think that this has helped with shell quality and egg frequency in my girls. You can do it in large half gal mason jars!

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Sebastapol geese. My Thanksgiving treat to my self....

They are afraid of me, but the 2 ganders took bread from my hand, the girls held back. I have white & colored. They are a little dirty, hoping to get them a small pool when I move them to permanent pen tomorrow.

Pretty!!!

I couldn't afford to do all clear panels, so I did do four and that lets in quite a bit of sunlight.

My intent for one run was to buy a roll of roofing and use that leaving the plywood I had under the tarps. But I scored 14 metal panels from my SIL's friend who had him replace his garage roof with asphalt shingles.

How big is your run? I made mine 8' wide since the shortest 2x4's were 8 and 8 seemed like a good size to work with. I do everything alone and need to be able to handle it. Each section of run is 8 x 6'. Then I bolted them together.

I'm short and chickens don't need the height. 6' in the front and 5' in the back. Enough of a pitch so the rain runs right off.

I'll take pics from the inside.

I noticed they are a bit more expensive and smaller than other panels at lowes.
My run is pretty irregularly shaped as I was putting it together as quick as I could and after starting different sections before the coop was done (which changed plans a few times as we were building it).
It is about 14' long, 5.5' wide in the front, 8' wide where it meets the coop. I would guess 7-8' tall in different areas.






This is the screw that broke. I'm going to reinforce it with a other stick on the inside, just waiting for the battery to charge for the drill.


Peanut was checking out the snowman

Some not so chicken chickens…the barnies are the only ones laying, I'm really likeing them so far!

MY HUSBAND HAS A CAMERA IN THE COOP CONNECTED TO OUR TV
AND WE CAN VIEW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE COOP. Beats most TV programing. Regards Aria

WHAAT! That is awesome. I would never watch tv again.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Also got our first Silkie egg from my lavender hen what a good day Black Friday is turning out to be! And to think I actually contemplated going shopping! Lol

Glad all are starting to lay ...finding a egg is like a getting a present every day you find one .

 

[armorfirelady]

MY HUSBAND HAS A CAMERA IN THE COOP CONNECTED TO OUR TV
AND WE CAN VIEW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE COOP. Beats most TV programing. Regards Aria

Now that would be really cool to have

They are beautiful. They remind me of frizzle chickens just the goose variety.


Must be the day for 1st eggs....My BCM Sophie laid her 1st egg today at 33 weeks. Not in the nesting box but in the leaves under the nesting boxes. Blended in perfectly its so dark but luckily I noticed it

Its the one on top. The sun shining on it makes it lighter lol The bottom egg is from Stella my BR

 

[AQHAchick22]

If I understand it right ..
Kitties are smaller & have oval toes & a complete lower pad .
Where dogs / foxes lower pads are 3 seperate pads
Here a real clear fox print pic
http://www.drgreenway.org/DiscoveryTrailAnimals.html

The fact that you moved them may discourage it for a while ..It looked quite tempting next to that back fence .
Are the 3 ? girls doing okay with the rest of the flock ?

Yeah it really was a tempting place but I wasn't that worried about it since we rarely see predators around here and the dogs are usually a great deterrent. So I figured for a few weeks or so they should be fine. At least nothing got in. I'll be moving that coop into the garage for storage and if it needs to be used as an isolation coop that's where it's going to stay.

It was 3 girls that I wasn't concerned about and then my Welsummer rooster which was the problem. The rooster still squabbles with the other 2 which is expected but not terrible. The three girls seem fine though which is nice, we have the usual pecking issues but nothing major. I think free ranging them all together helped a lot since they could get used to each other and still have their space. I can't believe I have a flock of 30 that all seem to get along, including 3 roo's that weren't raised together.