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

[Dustystrail]

Hi, I'm located between Cleveland and Columbus. I'm wondering if anyone near me has a SQ splash Silkie roo they would like to rehome? I lost my old guy last winter and neither of his cockerels turned out very nice.

 

[cabinchicky]

Well is Sunday. My chooks are good, they ate some scrambled eggs and ham we had leftover. Boy are the bantys chatty now!! One week till vacation starts and pulling 12s all week. More money for second coop or something.

 

[DelcoChix]

Where are you Located??

I might have to come see some of those!! I would love to have each one. Mine is a Black copper maran, and like yours he is the sweetest roo. He lets us pet him and he will come running to us if he thinks he can get a treat. I have a buckeye roo also. While the black copper maran was in the breeding pen, The buckeye got to be top roo. Now that cm is out of pen, they have done nothing but fight. I've broken up about 4 already today!! If I have to the buckeye will go before the cm!! Ha! I would love to have an olive egger. I have the light blue to med lite blue layers but no olive eggers. I do have a red sexlink that lays a very dark egg. I also have an ee roo. I wonder if they crossed if I would get an olive egger? HHmmm! My CM roo had a little frostbite on his comb, but not alot. Other than that they came thru the winter just fine. Sorry about your hen's frozen feet! That must have been traumatic! Good advice about the water! Never thought about that. We have a homemade waterer warmer, (say that 3x fast!

). Also we have a rubber mat floor, so a little insulation.

I'm just north of Columbus in Delaware County, c'mon out if you're in the neighborhood! Funny how the boys have no problems with taking advantage of one's brief absence...opportunists!
I have the one rooster but will be keeping my Lavender Orpington cockerel and one Chocolate Orpington cockerel with the hopes of hatching some beautiful fluffy chicks next year and recouping some of the initial expense...not sure how successful I'll be but they are certainly eye candy and great temperaments so far! Problem I have is I also have two other Chocolate Orp cockerels, a Light Sussex cockerel and I think 1-2 pure Ameraucana cockerels from this years chick purchases, along with my home grown Bule Copper Marans boy who needs to go before his Dad gets ticked off...too many boys!
I also have homemade water warmers (you're right...that's a mouthful, even typing it!) which were semi-successful with the temps last winter...problem I have is my large waterer sometimes doesn't seal perfectly (has the screw on top with the cap over the water hole at the bottom) even though the rubber gasket is in good shape. Unless I stand there until it totally refills (which I usually do) it just continues to slowly empty, creating a puddle for birds to step in. Of course, worse in the winter when it's freexing to begin with.
And it was a tough decision to have her euthanized...I cowardly pointed her out to my husband and a friend who dispatched two hens for health reasons whicl I stayed inside crying and feeling guilty even though I knew it was the right thing to do.

Here's a "before" shot of King George...now his comb is scalloped, not pointy tipped. He's dealt with it just fine, as long as he can't see himself in a mirror

 

[OHhappychicks]

I have a broody that just hatched #3!!! about 5 more to go! GO MOMMA HEN!!!

 

[minihorse927]

I have a broody that just hatched #3!!! about 5 more to go! GO MOMMA HEN!!!

go momma! I've got calls and anconas hatching like popcorn in my artificial momma!

 

[ShayBaby]

Holy horse feathers, I've been away from the thread for weeks. Lots of catching up to do.

Hi, I live in Scioto Co. Ohio and have just started my own flock here.  When I was little my grandpa raised chickens & Rabbits.  

Howdy fellow Scioto Co-ian! Lucasville (actually more like Minford) here!

I'm pretty week done hatching everything but call duck eggs for the year. If anyone wants chocolate/black orp eggs(there is a Mille fluer cochin hen and a black cochin hen in this pen so eggs from them also), ancona duck eggs, porcelain d'uncle eggs just let me know. I'm sell reasonable price.

I've seen your ads around and am trying hard to resist the porcelains. Trying to convince myself I have way too many breeds going on here already, especially with no breeding pens yet.

Hello,
I just got back from the Ross co. Ohio swap and had to bring my 6-8 week old, 7 silkies and 1 showgirl back home because few people came! In April I took 2 showgirls and 5 silkies and they were gone an hour after getting there. I have one porcelain, two blue, one partridge, one showgirl, one white bonett head hen. It looks like the babies are 3 porcelain, 3 partridge, 1 white, and 1 showgirl for sure! Anyone interested? Pickup only.

Wish I'd seen you there! I went (sure was dead, eh?) and searched high and low for showgirls. It was the only reason I went, actually (but brought home a Cochin pair for kicks and giggles). This was a couple weeks ago. Do you still have them? I'd be very interested in the sgs, at least, and am just down the road a ways from Chillicothe.

I have a broody that just hatched #3!!! about 5 more to go! GO MOMMA HEN!!!

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As for news here..
I've got a dozen homegrown eggers in the Brinsea due tomorrow. Really looking forward to these as most of them *should* be naked necks. But, I haven't seen any action from them yet. Technically not due until 5pm tomorrow, and they were all alive at lockdown, but this crappy Brinsea is fond of killing babies during lockdown so I don't have a great feeling.

Also, I've been dying to actually hatch out chicks via broody, but all the girls I've had go broody here have given up within a week or so. But, my tiny little showgirl is broody now for the first time and sitting on one tiny egg, probably not even hers (and a fake porcelain egg..silly thing..). I haven't candled to see if it's alive, but fingers are crossed. She's my absolute favorite of all my 50+ and I'd love to see the ditzy little thing caring for a wee chicklet.

Oh, and I'm officially never ordering from Meyer again. I was initially impressed, but there is something wrong with their birds.. I started with 27 (RIR, BR, WR, Polish, and SLW). It's been 4 months now and I'm down to 4, and don't expect one to make it through the night. They've been dropping like flies. I lose one every few days, starting from when they were a week old to now. Nothing noticeably wrong with them and then randomly find one dead or suddenly very weak and dead within a day. I'd suspect illness in my flock, but of my dozens of birds, ONLY the Meyerbabies are dying. Haven't had death or even illness in any of my others. I haven't contacted them yet, although I assume there's nothing they will do about it. Down to 1 WR, 1 SLW, and 2 BRs, with one of the BRs suddenly acting weak today so probably dead by morning. Gah. I think I'll just avoid hatcheries all together and stick to local.

 

[cabinchicky]

Shay, I'm sorry to hear your chicks from Meyer are passing away. I will keep an eye on mine.I have lost only two, one to a coon and a second to crop issue. They all seem very healthy and running amok. If you do contact Meyer on this pls post any findings on it. I think Mt. Heathly had another salmonella(sp) outbreak.

I am looking for Info on the net for a swap near Waynesville on July 13th but no luck, anyone point me there?? I have tried to make contact for blue giants but I only am looking for three at this time. Email to a club in town I close to and no answer as yet.

 

[minihorse927]

I'm sorry shay! I'd call them, they probably won't do anything about it but at least they know your not happy!

7 snowy calls, 2 anconas and more hatching!

 

[big medicine]

Shay, I'm sorry to hear your chicks from Meyer are passing away. I will keep an eye on mine.I have lost only two, one to a coon and a second to crop issue. They all seem very healthy and running amok. If you do contact Meyer on this pls post any findings on it. I think Mt. Heathly had another salmonella(sp) outbreak.

I am looking for Info on the net for a swap near Waynesville on July 13th but no luck, anyone point me there?? I have tried to make contact for blue giants but I only am looking for three at this time. Email to a club in town I close to and no answer as yet.

http://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Southwest_Ohio_Backyard_Poultry_Swap.html

Looking at the map shown in the link, it is slightly off. The actual swap location is on the next property, back toward I-71.

 

[alleghenist]

I think we're gonna have more in the freezer and less in the egg basket this year. 5 or 6 of our barred "girls" aren't. Ugh. Anybody have any luck getting Austrolorps? I think that will be our spring miracle.