NY chicken lover!!!!

[Coop de Cuse]

Ok i'l bring my pellet gun and hope for the best. Are these thing on same branch each day? Could get a baseball bat and a roll of tennis balls. Or tennis racket.

No, they go from tree to tree, from tree lot to tree lot

Much to high for a ladder

 

[Cass]

No, they go from tree to tree, from tree lot to tree lot

Much to high for a ladder

So they know they can MOVE around. Give them time. They will either fly down or freeze to death and fall out of the tree. Thaw them before processing. Someone said they were yummy. LOL

 

[Coop de Cuse]

Homemade water heaters? Please elaborate.

I use a plastic coffee container and had an old lamp in the garage. I took apart the lamp (it had several separate lights on a thin pole). I used the individual lights and placed one inside the container, sideways. I drilled two holes in the side of the container. One for the lamp, one for the wires. Once the lamp is secure and the wires attached, the cover goes back on and the water jug on top of the container. I use a 40 watt bulb.

I tested it extensively with hay and pine shavings. I will post some pics and instructions

 

[Coop de Cuse]

So they know they can MOVE around. Give them time. They will either fly down or freeze to death and fall out of the tree. Thaw them before processing. Someone said they were yummy. LOL

I went outside last night to see if there were any frozen bodies on the ground. They were fine this morning and I am trying to use the 2 that I have in the run to attract the others...no luck so far

 

[rancher hicks]

They are serious flyers! One was all the way across the road/field, past the parking lot. just happen to hear it. Came back though. And they can fly straight up and high speed. They are from Africa (not these, just the breed), so have to have to skills necessary to avoid the real predators!

That was my first lure...hay all about on top of the snow. I think that worked for the one that decided to come back, but I think the others are just to scared to come down "cat in the tree syndrome" My mom has a farm out in Canjoharie, so I get all my hay from there, but the info is good to know in a pinch, thanks

I'm just brain storming. I have no experience with Guineas. I don't know what I'd do it it were me. Probably just say, to heck with them. They'll come down when they come down. If you hear a thud!** then you'll know they're Guineacicles.

 

[Xovan]

I know it's been said but WHAT IS WITH THIS COLD? ?!!! Also acuweather must think it is funny to show a lot of green on their phone app. Here is a screenshot.

 

[Coop de Cuse]

I'm just brain storming. I have no experience with Guineas. I don't know what I'd do it it were me. Probably just say, to heck with them. They'll come down when they come down. If you hear a thud!** then you'll know they're Guineacicles.

It would be ok if I knew they were eating...I was going to let them out in the spring anyway because most Guinea owners just let them stay in the trees. I think they do want to come back, but just don't know how

So, for the time being, they will have to either come back, or not come back

 

[rancher hicks]

I use a plastic coffee container and had an old lamp in the garage. I took apart the lamp (it had several separate lights on a thin pole). I used the individual lights and placed one inside the container, sideways. I drilled two holes in the side of the container. One for the lamp, one for the wires. Once the lamp is secure and the wires attached, the cover goes back on and the water jug on top of the container. I use a 40 watt bulb.

I tested it extensively with hay and pine shavings. I will post some pics and instructions

The nipples on the waterers are frozen. The plastic got tore up by the chickens and since they were pecking at it I cut it off to the height they can get to it. That left the nipples exposed and now they're frozen. The water inside isn't but the nipples are.

It's doesn't matter since I've been lugging gallons of water out each morning.

DD and I had a short talk about health insurance and what will we do when her mother retires in two years. I wasn't away we couldn't get medicaid til we were 65. We have health insurance through her work. She just spent some time in the hospital too.

Now I'm worried what we will do and whether we will be able to stay here when she does. Not to mention being able to take care of chickens and ducks and all that. We all know old age is coming but I wonder just how much we can do to prepare for it.

I've had two cousins pass in the last year. One just recently. Both smokers mind you, still I choose to ignore the inevitable.

All that money they say to save for retirement, isn't going to go for living, it's going to go for medical bills and drugs. Do you best to stay off as many meds as you can. Keep the blood pressure in check and the cholesterol too.

 

[Coop de Cuse]

Homemade water heaters? Please elaborate.

I put the heater on a ceramic tile in the coop for stability. Sand could also be placed in with the light, but it can't tip over because of the cord. It does not get hot to the touch. The light is sideways because it does not fit vertically. Before putting them in the coop, I buried them in hay and left them on for 24 hours. The hay way barely warm, so I am not worried about a fire hazard

So far, it keeps the water from freezing and I can remove the water at night and turn off both of them.

 

[Glasshen]

Yikes I am thinking of those determined guineas in the trees. As I was reading 8 pages I was thinking of tennis balls. I would try to get a tennis ball into those trees perhaps it would help them to fly down. There would be no danger of me hitting them...but they are up so high it would be hard to get it up there. We struggle with this when we do chairlift evac practice. We use a sling shot, or a pellet gun to fire the line over the cable...if it were me in those trees, a projectile would motivate me to move. Maybe fire from the side away from the yard, so the yard seems the safer choice.