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[Pyxis]

What other thread??

2014 Chickenstock

No lol another site Metella, Pyxis and I are part of a vt farm and garden forum and we meet every week or so for a chit chat

Look at you confusing people I posted over there. Think you'll have chicks for me?

 

[bakingintherain]

Lol yeah I realized after I posted I would confuse some

Hopefully I will have some babies for you, no one has hatched yet but they are due tomorrow

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Hi everyone.....Newbie here!!!!  I am from upstate NY..about 45 min NW of albany.  Currently have 4 hens & 2 roosters. Getting a shipment of 21 day-old chicks next week from Meyers hatchery....can't wait....excited, scared & all the above!! Have learned a TON on this site & still learning!!!

Welcome!

 

[Pyxis]

Lol yeah I realized after I posted I would confuse some

Hopefully I will have some babies for you, no one has hatched yet but they are due tomorrow

Well one of my sebbies has pipped internally, so I'm hopeful I'll have some sort of baby on Friday

 

[Gramma Chick]

Thanks everyone...hubby is building me a broader and the chicks will be in the cellar..I will definitely post pics when they arrive...I got ......
2 white cochins
2 partridge cochins
2 buff brahma
2 white crest blue polish
2 olive Eggers
2 GLW
2 Delaware
2 cuckoo Marans
2 barred rock
1 salmon faverolle rooster
1 BLRW rooster

A very interesting mix ...it will be a colorful flock !

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Is that how you met ?

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I love it too...miss it so much when they go outside .
Are they yellow /white ? they are probably comets ...the redder one may be a RIR

 

[Pyxis]

Is that how you met ?

Sort of. I actually met Metella years ago when I posted on craigslist in the very very early days of my flock looking for a laying hen to keep the one lonely hen that moved in from the neighbors' place after they almost starved her to death company. She emailed me saying she had a hen that she thought was partially blind and would I take her? So I did, and we kept in touch about her.

Then she got me, a couple years later, to join the forum that Baking was talking about, and I met Baking on there when she gave me a free EE hen (who I still have) when she was getting rid of her old birds to make a younger flock. So then we started talking on the forums and we decided to all meet up just to chat and now we meet about once a week to hang out

 

[Gramma Chick]

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Sounds like you 3 have a lot in common

 

[Glasshen]

Good morning! I was so tired last night. After a nice lunch with a friend I came home and found that most of the girls were itching and sure enough they had mites. So I started bathing them. It was kind of an assembly line, with the catching getting harder each time. I sprayed 7 and bathed 7, one got sprayed then bathed, cause she had lots and I just thought I'd run out of time. But the spray had seemed to help. It is just that Poultry protector that is supposed to be pretty green. Four of the seven girls who got the full spa treatment also got a blow dry, but the other three just got to spend the night in the basement. The blow dry girls had to be individually carried back to the coop after dark.

So just call me Hairdresser to the Hens. They seemed to go into a trance with the warm air and hum of the drier. Such good girls. Maybe they will be nicer to each other if they aren't itching.

 

[Lynzi777]

Good morning! I was so tired last night. After a nice lunch with a friend I came home and found that most of the girls were itching and sure enough they had mites. So I started bathing them. It was kind of an assembly line, with the catching getting harder each time. I sprayed 7 and bathed 7, one got sprayed then bathed, cause she had lots and I just thought I'd run out of time. But the spray had seemed to help. It is just that Poultry protector that is supposed to be pretty green. Four of the seven girls who got the full spa treatment also got a blow dry, but the other three just got to spend the night in the basement. The blow dry girls had to be individually carried back to the coop after dark.

So just call me Hairdresser to the Hens. They seemed to go into a trance with the warm air and hum of the drier. Such good girls. Maybe they will be nicer to each other if they aren't itching.

I'm scared I'm going to to run into the same problem here. I've been wanting to bathe the silkies because their bottoms are just gross and could really use a trimming, wouldn't hurt either, could help with fertility ;-), but I mostly wanted to get them bathed before putting them in that new coop just in case they did have mites, they wouldn't transport them there. I haven't seen any itching going on so hopefully they are good. I'm hoping they are clean and I only have to bathe 3 birds and not the whole flock of 9 bantams. :-/

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Glasshen ooh I hate mites, reminds me I have to get out there this weekend and start dosing all mine so they don't get them.

My chickens must sense spring is in the air as they have finally braved coming out in the snow. The silkies were the first ones to come out. The freeloaders have finally started laying again slowly but each day I seem to be getting a couple more than the previous day. Plus 2 of my ducks have started laying and the duck eggs hubby had for breakfast yesterday and today were fertile so I think I may collect some of them and throw them in the bator. Then I think I am going to set aside some of my silkie and orp eggs I have a splash roo over 2 lavender hens, 4 blue hens 2 black hens,and 2 splash hens, and I have a lavender roo over 3 lavender hens, 2 blue hens, 2 black hens, 1 buff hen, and 2 splash hens. I really want to hatch the chocolate orps but the hens haven't started laying yet.
Tonight I have to stop into tractor supply hubby has stopped me from getting chicks so far but I bet tonight I don't walk away !