Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[OneMountainAcres]

yep me too....one of DH's BC Marans is looking a bit boyish...(not certain yet), I'll be offering him out there too,,,,In my coop my boys are blue...(so far)...if you get a lot of responses...throw some my way....

You got it! Chances are though that we're probably stuck with all our boys lol. I have about 20 BCMs and it looks like 12-15 are boys lol.

 

[stake]

Well, folks:

Chicken math is working on my again....as fate would have it, I have no brown egg layers....seems I need to fix that....will be looking for x2 orps and x2 wyandottes....if anybody has any....PM me!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

North of Scranton here, what a wonderful forum this is, so helpful and loaded with information for dummies like me...

Lori

I can't remember if I welcomed you already or not but just in case, WELCOME from Cambria county! This site is such a wealth of information and there are so many helpful enablers people on here anything you're looking for, someone on here will know where to find it lol.

 

[fisherlady]

I can't remember if I welcomed you already or not but just in case, WELCOME from Cambria county! This site is such a wealth of information and there are so many helpful enablers people on here anything you're looking for, someone on here will know where to find it lol.

Welcome @bella253 ...
And we just like being neighborly...if that happens to involve sharing birds then oh, well....the more the merrier!

 

[LeBlackbird]

Got home from night classes at college at 10pm, decided it was time to move the 3 week olds out to the brooder coop. JUST got done (2am). Jeez, forgot I sold my soul to the chickens 5 hours of sleep and then it starts all over again

 

[TillyPeeps]

This is about to get VERY interesting! This will be my biggest hatch to date (so far)

Nice! looks like most of them make it to lockdown. No Bielefelder survives?

 

[TillyPeeps]

Got home from night classes at college at 10pm, decided it was time to move the 3 week olds out to the brooder coop. JUST got done (2am). Jeez, forgot I sold my soul to the chickens

5 hours of sleep and then it starts all over again

I wish that I can move my 3-week olds to coop, but DH hasn't finished it yet. I stayed awake till midnight last night, not because of my chicks but a hyper toddler who's not used to the daylight saving hours.

 

[BullChick]

Quote:
I got a parenting tip from Little Noses. The week before, you put the kids to bed ten minutes earlier each night. Duckling is a great sleeper for me, so I had no problem. I am sorry for you!

 

[TillyPeeps]

I got a parenting tip from Little Noses. The week before, you put the kids to bed ten minutes earlier each night. Duckling is a great sleeper for me, so I had no problem. I am sorry for you!

Thank you for the tip. My son is always fighting sleep since day one like he's afraid to miss something. The daylight saving hours only make it worse. I will try your method next year.

 

[TillyPeeps]

This morning, I found Ruff-Ruff pooped with blood in it. It's not diarrhea and looks like this one but less blood:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/988739/blood-in-poop

She was very active and cuddled with me as usual. So I assume this is shed intestinal lining instead of coccidiosis? I have added Corid in their water (1/2 tsp/ gallon), since I saw red in Penny's poop two weeks ago and Penny was weak and small. By the way, Penny is active now and starts to catch up.

Because the Corid dosage is only for preventing not treating cocci, should I add more corid in their water to be safe? Or should I just keep the preventing dosage longer? I was going to stop giving them Corid in a couple days.