Okies in the BYC The Original

[luvs2garden2000]

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Getting 3,000 eggs would be the first challenge. Trying to brood all the hatched chicks would be the MAJOR challenge. Of course, if you were hatching out that many chicks you would probably want to become a hatchery and then you would get to know the folks at the post office quite well, as you delivered boxes and boxes of chicks for shipping each week.

I am a hatchery. I have the paper and all.

 

[luvs2garden2000]

Looks like goodie collecting is on hold. Dang weather. Went out to feed and the brooder was uncovered. Keets were dry and still kicking. Got a sheet of Dura Rock over the chicks we moved to the tractor yesterday they are dry as a bone.

 

[sjarvis00]

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No problem we can go another day.

 

[Teach97]

I think this crew could supply the eggs to fill it! Count me down for several hundred eggs to be supplied! Might need to find some outflow for the birds though...

Sure is quite w/o my boys here.

I forgot I had thrown my broodies into the run yesterday and blocked the entrance back to the roost. I bet I have some ticked hens! It rained here as well...oops

Hope it broke their broodieness

 

[luvs2garden2000]

Can you just imagine brooding 3000 chicks. By the time you got food and water to them all it would be time to start over feeding and watering again. Would defiantly have to make an auto system there.

And yes the PO would know us by 1st name. I had heard or read somewhere that if you have a big production in need of shipping things out that the PO would come and pick up. For sure IF this goes that far would check into that.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Well Tina has a fridge that my husband wants to convert into an incubator, it is a commercial fridge so it will hold about 3000 when finished. My husband however would love to find a commercial walk in fidge to build an incubator out of. If he did that it would hold about 10,000. Try finding enough eggs and space for the chicks then! LOL

 

[luvs2garden2000]

I have posted this here before here it is again

 

[GracefulBantams]

Okay, Dad did not shoot the raccoon/s last night (it got away

), but at least they didn't visit us again

We fortified the bird's pens, and set the live trap.
This is how the evening went with the live trap...... Set the trap......wait.....check the trap......release neighbor's cat.....reset the trap......wait.....wait.....nothing!
I am certainly not letting my guard down, though! G-u-n will be handy, and trap will be set until there are no more of these predators in our area!

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Thanks! Since the live trap is set where the birds cannot get to it, I could put the meat in/by that.... oh, but there's still the neighbor's cats

 

[GracefulBantams]

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How precious