OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[cluckitall]

Hi everybody! I feel like I've been gone forever -- I know it hasn't actually been that long, just feels that way. It's been busy!!! Got woken up by the wind about an hour ago and was worried about coops blowing over so had to go check on everyone. All safe and sound, yay!

I started with a little homemade styrofoam incubator that held eight eggs. It did great, so I built a bigger one. Keeping temps even in that was a little more problematic, plus I was hatching shipped eggs, which is always more challenging. Finally I remembered I had a perfectly good wine refridgerator with no wine in it, so gutted that and put in two turning racks. It's not quite ideal either, but does pretty well. Just locked down some crele and chocolate LF orps today, yay! I hope they do well

Anybody else having really odd egg-laying recently? Some of my breeds have slowed to a trickle this week (including the isbars, dang it) while the seramas have suddenly started laying like crazy. And I got my first-ever basque egg yesterday morning, whee!!! Still waiting on the durn coronation sussex -- the silly things eat and eat and grow and grow, but nary an egg have I seen yet! I almost don't care, they're so big and pretty

Still need to do another round of picture-taking soon...

There is a pet and farm animal swap page on Facebook for Champaign, Logan and some other county. Just lucked out,
Posted our cockerals on the same page and have someone interested. Hopefully lucking out there too.
Neighbors and family members have been asking. Nothing major but will have about 6 steady buyers. I'm good with that.
Do you want me to send you an invite to that Facebook page to help sell your cockerals? I saw your CL post, Any luck? I posted ours on the Lima page of CL but haven't gotten any interest,

Too cool! I'm going to have to poke around, see if there's something similar for Ashland/Richland coutines.

I would try to buy them, but Ive committed on the brussbars and brown Sussex. I'm not 100% sure how I have to go about the shipping/importing of these guys. i may have to pay someone to fly to Brittan and bring them back, handling them for the vet checks; and making sure they have feed and water at the stops. until i figure out all of these expenses, i have to sit on my hands.

Yay, brussbars!!!!

Oh, and you mentioned something about a swap

As soon as I've got more than one Rhodie hen laying, I'll give a shout! She's doing well though and is proving very reliable, but dang, I can't wait for Goldie and Specks to join her!

hello everyone! Somehow i just discovered this thread...
I've got chicks and ducklings coming out of my ears! Here's a pic from todays hatch.

Congratulations, minihorse! What a bunch of cuties

I need some girls to go broody -- as long as it's not the isbars!

 

[minihorse927]

That is her 2nd batch this year already. Let her collect 5-10 eggs and off she sits!

 

[loveourbirds]

There is a 30 day quarantine, you get to pay for that. Here is the process: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/animals/live_poultry.shtml

I remember seeing the fees for this somewhere, they weren't to expensive, something like $250 for each bird. the cost doesn't scare me as much as losing one of the birds.

 

[loveourbirds]

Hi everybody! I feel like I've been gone forever -- I know it hasn't actually been that long, just feels that way. It's been busy!!! Got woken up by the wind about an hour ago and was worried about coops blowing over so had to go check on everyone. All safe and sound, yay!

I started with a little homemade styrofoam incubator that held eight eggs. It did great, so I built a bigger one. Keeping temps even in that was a little more problematic, plus I was hatching shipped eggs, which is always more challenging. Finally I remembered I had a perfectly good wine refridgerator with no wine in it, so gutted that and put in two turning racks. It's not quite ideal either, but does pretty well. Just locked down some crele and chocolate LF orps today, yay! I hope they do well

Anybody else having really odd egg-laying recently? Some of my breeds have slowed to a trickle this week (including the isbars, dang it) while the seramas have suddenly started laying like crazy. And I got my first-ever basque egg yesterday morning, whee!!! Still waiting on the durn coronation sussex -- the silly things eat and eat and grow and grow, but nary an egg have I seen yet! I almost don't care, they're so big and pretty

Still need to do another round of picture-taking soon...

yes I've noticed a difference too, but its been really hot with no wind here. some of my chickens are starting to molt. some vitamins and electrolytes in their water helps.

 

[loveourbirds]

There is a 30 day quarantine, you get to pay for that. Here is the process: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/animals/live_poultry.shtml

I looked it up again, its $10 a day plus the feeding fee, only about $900 per bird. - my wife is already threatening to "pimp me out"

have you imported before?

 

[mlm Mike]

I looked it up again, its $10 a day plus the feeding fee, only about $900 per bird. - my wife is already threatening to "pimp me out"

have you imported before?

No, never imported myself. There was a discussion on it in another thread. Good luck!

 

[mlaff]

I did it. I just ordered my little brinsea incubator. (Thank you mlaff for the coupon code!) Did I just sell my soul to the chickens? LOL

Ys,yes you did.

 

[OHfarmerswife]

lol I have a brinsea, only used it once... didnt have great results...1 of 7 hatched.... and it hatched on day 19.
Would much rather use a broody, but I have none at this time and got a great price on some cream legbar eggs.
So I am giving it a try again!!!!

 

[mlaff]

So I woke up to 4 pipped eggs this morning! Ah! it is already a better hatch than any of my last 2 and it is t even hatch day yet.

 

[ShayBaby]

Help if I mentioned this, I live in Adams county Ohio. I can be in Cincinnati in an hour, NKY in an hour and a half, and Maysville, KY in 45 minutes.

I'm currently raising snowy and grey call ducks, Pekins, and a bunch of mutt EE's.

I've got BLRW, salmon favorelle, EE, Phoenix/Sumatra mix, porcelain d'uccle, Swedish flower, a sole Icelandic chick, Ancona ducklings, Crele polish, frizzled polish, a sole mille fluer cocoon chick, and lord knows what else!

*drool* So much on my wish list. And you're probably only about an hour west of me. Let me know if you start selling feather-babies!
And welcome to the thread! There's a lot of awesome helpful Buckeyes in here.