Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[LittleMissPurdy]

**Reyvuaghn-- I really like your cage set up..looks very organised!!..Would really work for brooders...chicks... Do the cages on the top have pull outs for cleaning? the cages on the bottom, are they open-floored?
Cool turkeys!!!

 

[Reyvaughn]

**Reyvuaghn-- I really like your cage set up..looks very organised!!..Would really work for brooders...chicks... Do the cages on the top have pull outs for cleaning? the cages on the bottom, are they open-floored?
Cool turkeys!!!

The cages came from a thrift shop that got them from a lady who bred Persian cats in them. They are open bottom, so I made solid bases for them out of plywood and 2x4's. The bottom cages obviously have legs because I am to fat and lazy to bend over. The bases for the top cages just sit on top of the bottom cages. When I am ready to clean them, I can either vacuum them out with the shop vac or I can take the cage off the base and then take the base outside and scrub/scrape if they get that bad (they can if they scratch all the bedding out like they have been). I need to put backs on the top cages to help keep the shavings in better.

 

[BirdbyGavin1103]

BG:

One of mine lays one of these a week....the one on the left is a large....

I have nearly a jumbo carton nearly full of the big ones, but the one in the pic doesn't even fit in that. That's why I feel bad for her...I really should weigh it, but I'm not sure where my kitchen scale is.

I really need to organize my cupboards.

....you too...what is laying this???

I've gotten one of these from 3 of the 4 breeds that are laying, the RSL, TT, and WLH. I got a potato looking one from one of the BCM girls but it's shape didn't transfer to photos well.

**Reyvuaghn-- I really like your cage set up..looks very organised!!..Would really work for brooders...chicks... Do the cages on the top have pull outs for cleaning? the cages on the bottom, are they open-floored?
Cool turkeys!!!

The pic doesn't show just how nice they are.

 

[barbiegirl]

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Happy birthday Blarney! e

 

[stake]

I now have 3 pips

so hopefully by morning we will have some fluffy butts running around the bator (and hopefully some more pips

) you can hear peeping and the kids are so exciting. I keep running down to check them which isn't easy with a bum knee since their in the basement but I would like to try to video it if it happens tonight so the kids can watch it

Good luck to all the hatchers praying we all have great hatches!!!

I'm green with envy...my broody is still sitting on 3 eggs on day 20 and nothing yet...one other egg broke about a week ago....oh well....

 

[stake]

I have 3 gals who will be of laying age at the end of October/ begin of November. So if they are just starting when it gets cold.........how does this effect egg laying?

I imagine its individual............and they may lay more in warmer months and time will tell..........just thought I'd ask in case anyone on here has experience with this type of timeline

Lisa, I think most shut down or really slow down....I have been told that the wyandottes will lay through the winter....I've also heard reports to the contrary....

 

[barbiegirl]

Rayvaughn sorry to hear about your paps. I lost my grandpa, grandma and mother within 3 years of each other to cancer Cancer sucks!

 

[stake]

What for birds are laying these things???..

Prudy:

I haven't been able to find out, I have it narrowed down to a BO or a GLW....a double yolk once a week...(a small bonus).....

 

[stake]

We just finished up the walls of our run yesterday. I'm using reclaimed landscape timbers from a raised bed project that we never finshed.

We went with chicken wire since the object of the exercise was to keep the girls IN, not critters out. For the same reason, I haven't added any skirting around the edges. The girls alerted me to the presence of a large owl or other bird of prey last week; so we've still got to put some netting over the top.

You having problems out there with coons or possums? The only digging I've seen around our coop would be from the girls themselves. I'm starting to think I should be hiring them out as an excavation crew. They'd quite literally work for peanuts!

LC:

I got a small tarp from Harbor Freight...for the first 10' of my run....the rest, I just zig-zagged fishing line....Hawk can see it but won't try to fly through it....since mostly my girls free range the backyard, it hasn't been put to the test....I have had only one ground assault on the grow out pen...I think a racoon....but no damage...I also have many raptures fly over...only three serious incursions...no damage yet and my crew is pretty sensitive to looking up.....I also have a number of thickets for them to hang in and that helps too...I have also hung a number of CDs from trees to frustrate the hawks....none have incurred since...but who really knows....

 

[stake]

All:

While I'm posting like a maniac, I have one more story to tell from my neighbor(She'll have chicks in the spring)....She related a story of a friend with a backyard thing with three chooks....no problems...their gsd passed and a month later a fox came in a got all three....I know my pair have chased a fox about a 1/2 mile last year when they got loose...(I was walking the dogs later and a property owner related having my dogs running through her backyard in hot pursuit...)...If you have chooks I think a pooch helps alot.....my two cents