Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[chickencowranch]

UGHHH! A lot of my birds have been in the basement since Christmas when I moved to the new house. We are gradually tossing them out as we get new coops done, but the basement is going to need to be HOSED when we get the last of them out. We have done what we can to keep everything shoveled out, but it all still smells like chicken poop. I'll be breaking out the gallons of bleach & the power washer. 




How can do you put up with the smell that long? Our other farmer neighbors get chicken manure trucked in for fertilzer. for their fields. The air smells horrible until they decide to spread it.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Who is going to the york show?  Where can i get an "official" byc name tag?  What time does the show start?

I'll be there, judging starts at 9:15, show should run till approximately 3.

 

[missydcpc]

I'll be there, judging starts at 9:15, show should run till approximately 3.

For those of us who have never gone to/sat through a show....what exactly happens??

 

[BullChick]

I know this is kinda stupid, but it is so stupid it is funn! Thought i would share a laugh!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=117837788412747

Quote: Nope! Looks right to me!

daily whatchamacallits....




My husband had this problem Tuesday. He also couldn't remember how to spell my screen name.

I want it!!!

Quote: NO LOOKS GOOD TO ME.... moving right along.... bring on the bators!
Exactly!!!

DH called to tell me about the incubator. She can't remember if it is still air or circulated air.
If it is a still air, do I do anything different, or does it just not keep temperature as well?

 

[motherhen71185]

Is any one interested in cream leg bar chicks? Green fire farms line. Might have some extra's.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

MOLT!

I was thinking mine were molting because I also lost egg production, but a week later and I see feathers gathering although only one girl looks terrible, so I can only presume yours are going through it too! My first signs have always been production and then I start to see feathers in nest boxes and then BAM comes the ugly!

 

[roseschickies]

MOLT!

I was thinking mine were molting because I also lost egg production, but a week later and I see feathers gathering although only one girl looks terrible, so I can only presume yours are going through it too! My first signs have always been production and then I start to see feathers in nest boxes and then BAM comes the ugly!

Are you saying that to missy or me?

 

[SilkieSensation]

OK, I will let you know when I am ready, I have to check with Rhea to make sure I can use her bator, 1 more time, The eggs I have now will hatch @ the 20th. I am really curious about the purple eggs, Will the chicks that hatch then lay a purple/pink egg? That would be sooo cool!!! I have a paypal, don't us it much but not a problem, wouldn't know what to swap you with, but let me know if there is something you want, I can usually find anything!

Just let me know

This is why you must post pictures of your eggs when you set them, we can remind you and also keep track of who has what on the way...
I would pitch in for a delivery fee....
Now hubby says my butt keeps me from floating away like a balloon, then he runs....
will depend on when is trip takes place, I have things hatching for the next week and half or so...........

The more people getting birds/eggs the cheaper it will be for each of us on gas

Spread the word!!!

I am like 200 posts behind. Can't keep up with the work outside..

So Eli, Wing... You 2 seem to be having some luck with your duck eggs, any tips for me? My Broody hopped off Sara's Ancona eggs, and I really don't want to kill them, they are developing!!

Get them under another broody or in the bator ASAP!

Lord, I almost don't want to know the answer to that. I've had 3 running non-stop since....October!

If you all tell me the answer, I AM NOT TELLING DH!!

Try 6 brooder lamps & 3 bators

Been there done that. Website is on my profile

Yeah I'm past Missy.
My schedule is going to be changing starting May 1. So if need be I can do more running...
I don't know what your looking for.
I'm not right in the head...it's all left
You figure you are running a kWh in 2 hrs just with those 2 lamps running. So 12 kWh in a day. 360 KWh in a month on two lamps. So one lamp at 250W creates 1kWh in 4 hours.

1 250W bulb
0.45 per day
$12.60 / month

2= $25.20/ month
3=$37.80/month

To keep chooks warm


So Gmama 3 lamps running since October = $226.80

Lemme see: sebbies, runners, calls, pilgrim geese, coturnix quail, plants for my garden, a cabinet incubator...

If this is going to happen on a Monday, awesome. Tuesday is okay too. Otherwise I will need them dropped off.
Chicken math. Now it comes from other states!

OMG! Too cute!!

Good luck!!

I can do pretty much any day as long as JJ stays home to feed & get kids from school & we don't have an apt that day.

I try to "dry" incubate them. I keep little water in the incubator, but I spray the eggs with water 3 times a day. This brings the humidity up to around 60% but then it slowly drops. At lock down I increase the amount of water in the incubator to stabilize the humidity. Still working on the best humidity for lock down. If it is too high they drowned if its to low they shrink wrap. My guess is around 50%-60%. This is what has worked for me in the past.

I do my ducks the same as my chickens (mostly because I hatch them together). I never mist them & I run humidity 30-40% (still air, add 10% for forced air) until lockdown. I have found I need just a little higher humidity during hatch for waterfowl than chicks but not a lot. I run around 40-60% for chicks & 50-70% for waterfowl. If they are hatching together I go with 50-60% (again, all still air, add 15-20% for forced air for hatch).

I will ask here also.. Is it normal for a Hen to stop laying when another has passed away? It has been a good month since Orencia passed, and ever since then, no eggs from my girl Tully, I was thinking of putting her in a large dog crate and see if she lays, maybe they are getting eaten? Her back feathers are all messed up looking, maybe from the Rooster having a good time, but no sign of any eggs from her?! I am getting worried, I have looked all over and moved all the straw around to see if she is hiding them, and nothing, not even any shell to say they are being eaten... What is everyone's thoughts on this??? I am getting concerned, she also looks kinda thin?

I would worm her (& everyone else too just to be safe) since she feels skinny. Also check to make sure she isn't egg bound. She could also be molting. Since another hen died, there's also the possibility she could be sick if the other hen was.

I need that last glass!
Speaking of molting....so most of my girls are just about a year old now. Right before Easter when we had that cold snap, they dropped from 8-14 eggs per day down to 4. That only lasted a few days and they returned to their normal 8-14. Now that the weather is gorgeous, and their out and about I'm noticing alot of fluffy feathers flying about the yard. I'm also down to 5 eggs per day. The last 3 days I've gotten exactly 5 eggs each day...are they molting? I'm cool with that being the answer, I'll let them molt...but just don't want to chalk it up to that...and something else be wrong.

Mine dropped production during the cold snap too, now we're getting more eggs than we ever have from them. I know my ducks are molting because there are feathers EVERYWHERE!!!

UGHHH! A lot of my birds have been in the basement since Christmas when I moved to the new house. We are gradually tossing them out as we get new coops done, but the basement is going to need to be HOSED when we get the last of them out. We have done what we can to keep everything shoveled out, but it all still smells like chicken poop. I'll be breaking out the gallons of bleach & the power washer.

How can do you put up with the smell that long? Our other farmer neighbors get chicken manure trucked in for fertilzer. for their fields. The air smells horrible until they decide to spread it.

It wasn't bad at all until it started to warm up this past week. Now I'm trying to get JJ in gear to get everyone outside ASAP so I can get everything cleaned out before the smell comes upstairs. Luckily (or unluckily for the legs) there's no door between the house & basement. We have to go outside to get down there so that helps keep the smell out of the house. Most of them are actually under the enclosed front porch that connects to the basement so that helps keep the smell out of the house too.

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Is any one interested in cream leg bar chicks? Green fire farms line. Might have some extra's.

I would be interested in pullets. I have roos already & a few eggs in the bator but want some extra pullets.

 

[roseschickies]

I would worm her (& everyone else too just to be safe) since she feels skinny. Also check to make sure she isn't egg bound. She could also be molting. Since another hen died, there's also the possibility she could be sick if the other hen was.

OK I have to run to agway any way this evening, before I go I will give her a good look over, anything you can recommend I pick up for her? I thought she was just depressed and would start laying again, but thinking it is just to long now... I am not sure the other was sick.. I did take them to the vet when she was sick I medicated them both just in case and everyone seemed better, She (Oriencia, the one that passed) laid what looked to me her biggest egg, and died, that morning not long after egg laying, She looked fine that morning...

and how do i check for her being egg bound? Oh man.. what am I gonna have to do!!!

Oh I also put ACV in their water

Great video!!!
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-help-an-egg-bound-bird

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: both! got pics of her back? is it neck or saddle?