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[rancher hicks]

Rancher---The orpingtons are doing well. They free range everyday. I don't get many eggs from them though.

Are they with a roo and are you hatching eggs from them?
I hope so. I do hope to take a trip to PA in the future.

 

[rancher hicks]

Happy belated Birthday Chris! Those are some mighty fine presents you got! I expect by now that Hilda has Junior well trained and he is minding his manners and being a good boy. If not, I am sure she will correct him.

Rancher--I have two different lines of silkies and the eggs I had hatching were from a third line. I never feed my silkies meat as they dont like it. They do get fruit and veges and eggs. I just finished opening all the unhatched eggs and every single one had quit at hatch. No shrinking, no drowning, just quit. Now that I am thinking about it, these failures have happened during the times when the weather was cool, then turned hot and humid at hatch time. I even used a different bator this time around. I know that my bator spiked to 100.2 a couple days ago when I was at work and it was hot and muggy. I am thinking that this temperature change might have killed them. I know that we had the same weather change when the broody silkies were sitting and supposed to hatch. I am done for the year. Cant take any more disappointments. I did get at least two chicks.

Lynzi---thank you for your kind offer. I hope your hatch is better than mine was. I guess your momma mini wanted babies again!

Released all the beasties to freerange and threw the silkie chicks out into their playpen. Still looking for a forever home for Little Man and his girls. Put the new babies down in the brooder and cleaned up the bators and put them out into the sun to cure. They will be packed away. Mowed the lawn so everyone is out looking for bugs and other tasty treats that I have uncovered with the mower. Bugs werent happy about it. Knees arent either but I have learned to live with that.

Gotta go finish making my potato salad for dinner. Ta for now

Where do you have the incu located? What kind is it? If you're not to far perhaps next year I could try some for you. Don't worry I don't want any, you'd have to sign a paper you'll take them if and when they hatch. Not kidding.

I found a dead chick in the Sussex coop. It's too bad for her cuz I would have let her quit sitting. There is just the Sussex and an EE hen in the coop. The EE had been broody but after a long time and no chicks they just gave up I guess. If the hens in the large hoop even hatch one they're done. If none by the end of next week they're done. I've had enough.

There's rain in the forcast and I've got some Weed whacking to do. I wouldn't mind but mine had no strap and it gets heavy. Not to mention replacing of the string. I should have brought a bigger kind with a "brush" attachment. Then I'd probably be able to take down some of these saplings.

Ta, ta for now,

Rancher

 

[marquisella]

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Realized I have a younger Lav Orp pullet will add her to the flock. 6 hens, 2 roos, what a deal!

 

[ke5hde]

Thanks everyone. It's actually tomorrow so you're all early

Pharm, I was actually going to message you last night. Junior is great. Hopefully a couple of his babies hatch tomorrow The little girl on the other hand is broody I think she's only laid a dozen eggs or so. I almost think she's going to be just as nasty as Hilda, crazy thing tried to take my hand off last night.

County, I'll make sure to let you know. I need to practice my AI skills a bit more. I don't want to trim them and they have some super fluffy butts I'm like a kid in a toy store when we go down there. Jamie has great birds and he's an awesome guy to talk to. I definitely recommend him.
I have blue mottled splits hatching now from a splash roo from Jamie and a couple of my black mottled and I'll have more hatching over the next couple weeks. This is the last batch until the blue mottled start laying.

Rancher, we have a walk behind weed whacker. 21" cut, it's so much easier than swinging a hand held one around.

 

[rancher hicks]

Thanks everyone. It's actually tomorrow so you're all early

Pharm, I was actually going to message you last night. Junior is great. Hopefully a couple of his babies hatch tomorrow

The little girl on the other hand is broody

I think she's only laid a dozen eggs or so. I almost think she's going to be just as nasty as Hilda, crazy thing tried to take my hand off last night.

County, I'll make sure to let you know. I need to practice my AI skills a bit more. I don't want to trim them and they have some super fluffy butts

I'm like a kid in a toy store when we go down there. Jamie has great birds and he's an awesome guy to talk to. I definitely recommend him.
I have blue mottled splits hatching now from a splash roo from Jamie and a couple of my black mottled and I'll have more hatching over the next couple weeks. This is the last batch until the blue mottled start laying.

Rancher, we have a walk behind weed whacker. 21" cut, it's so much easier than swinging a hand held one around.

I'm trying to thin out the woods a lot so you can see into them clearly. Just in case a fox does decide to make an appearance. I intend to fence in the perimeter even though it won't stop a fox it might slow it down and give me a chance to come running.

Too I'd like things to dry out a little, find the wet areas where skeeters breed. There is some kind of weed that catches water in it's leaves areas near the stalk and those too need to be cut down.

There are just to many logs and junk to use anything big. It looks as though it has been cleared in the past but the logs just left to rot and nothing graded.

I've been cutting those nasty Buckthorns and "lollipoping" the other trees that are to thick for me to cut down by hand. Cutting out anything thin.

The previous owner dumped in some very nasty junk fill. Huge slabs of cement and wire fencing. It would be one thing if they'd graded and buried it but they just left a huge mess.

We really don't need the land to use, but it would be nice to just be able to have it reasonably level.

 

[ke5hde]

I'm trying to thin out the woods a lot so you can see into them clearly.  Just in case a fox does decide to make an appearance.  I intend to fence in the perimeter even though it won't stop a fox it might slow it down and give me a chance to come running.

Too I'd like things to dry out a little, find the wet areas where skeeters breed.  There is some kind of weed that catches water in it's leaves areas near the stalk and those too need to be cut down.  

There are just to many logs and junk to use anything big. It looks as though it has been cleared in the past but the logs just left to rot and nothing graded.

I've been cutting those nasty Buckthorns and "lollipoping" the other trees that are to thick for me to cut down by hand.  Cutting out anything thin.  

The previous owner dumped in some very nasty junk fill. Huge slabs of cement and wire fencing. It would be one thing if they'd graded and buried it but they just left a huge mess. 

We really don't need the land to use, but it would be nice to just be able to have it reasonably level. 

Gotcha, it's great for us since I use it on the overgrown areas that were cleared in the past but not smooth enough for the mower.
Be careful when you're clearing stuff out. Stay away from the wild parsnip. It's nasty stuff. We have it all over the place. https://www.dot.ny.gov/dangerous-plants/wild-parsnip

 

[rancher hicks]

Gotcha, it's great for us since I use it on the overgrown areas that were cleared in the past but not smooth enough for the mower.
Be careful when you're clearing stuff out. Stay away from the wild parsnip. It's nasty stuff. We have it all over the place. https://www.dot.ny.gov/dangerous-plants/wild-parsnip

We have got these nasty wild roses everywhere. I once cut some up and toss them in a raised bed and they started to grow.

I never did that again.

I can't use Round up cuz I'm afraid the chickens will get poisoned. I'll just have to keep at them.

The Buckthorns I have no idea but to just keep cutting and cutting and cutting. I can't understand why anyone would want them. They're not pretty and not of any use whatsoever.

IMO hard fill should be outlawed. I even have a private dump in the back that I figure the old owners made. Our house was built in '59. I'd need a dozer to level the whole lot.

 

[smazourek]

We have got these nasty wild roses everywhere.  I once cut some up and toss them in a raised bed and they started to grow.    I never did that again. 

I can't use Round up cuz I'm afraid the chickens will get poisoned. I'll just have to keep at them.

 The Buckthorns I have no idea but to just keep cutting and cutting and cutting.  I can't understand why anyone would want them. They're not pretty and not of any use whatsoever. 

IMO hard fill should be outlawed.  I even have a private dump in the back that I figure the old owners made. Our house was built in '59. I'd need a dozer to level the whole lot.  

I hear you about those roses. We've been clearing our land so I can expand the horse pasture and those blasted plants are everywhere! They grab you and don't let go. Nasty things.

 

[ke5hde]

IMO hard fill should be outlawed.  I even have a private dump in the back that I figure the old owners made. Our house was built in '59. I'd need a dozer to level the whole lot.  

Agreed. The previous owner here thought it was a great idea to use an old brick milk house or something to fill a low spot in. It's a mess, I've been slowly filling it in with coop shavings. It's overgrown, next to the road and looks like crap.

 

[rancher hicks]

Agreed. The previous owner here thought it was a great idea to use an old brick milk house or something to fill a low spot in. It's a mess, I've been slowly filling it in with coop shavings. It's overgrown, next to the road and looks like crap.

I have huge chucks of cement that I use to set the waterers on. I did raised beds because there is tarvia in the ground that I could not dig out so I just laid down some plastic and put my beds right on top.

In the woods there are lots of bricks that I intend to put in a pile til I have enough to make a walk way path of some kind.

Plenty of metal that I'll need to rent a truck to take and sell after I gather it all together. OH and a gate, a six foot or better chain link gate. Heavy as all get out! When chain link was really heavy. I could barely lift it the bars are so heavy.

Three more chicks I think. One is with an EE and I think the worst biter B. Marans has two. I just hope they survive. The EE doesn't strike me as an attentive mother. The marans will kill you so back off. If she's around next year and goes broody she will definitely be quarantined so she can hatch a bigger brood undisturbed.