Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[Sally Sunshine]

LMP,,,, just for you..

Snickers x3

Quote: aware....trying to keep the gross factor down .
LOL how can anyone that keeps chickens not be able to deal with gross factor he he he

Wow the PA thread is quite active lately! Over 900 posts! Sorry, I didn't read them all.

I wanted to share that my NYD hatch went well enough. I hatched 11 or so chicks, 2 died during the cold snap. I have a batch in the hatcher now. I think there is 12 out, 2 pipped and 1 zipping. Two other eggs with no noticeable movement. The first chick out took a 3 Sportsman Story fall to the hatcher - it's my very first F1 Choc Bantam Cochin chick! Yes, it's a little chocolate girl! This project has taken me so long to get going and I am so excited about my first chick! I need to get some leg bands now.... Anyways...

If anyone is looking, I still have to part with me Toulouse pair.

What is your location I have an elderly couple that have a pond and had some pred issues and got all but two goosers. let me know cost too please. I can forward. They usually get them penned up but the pond froze real early before they got them in

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Anyone Close enough for Chicks I have MALE Crested Cream Legbars available, serama, and a ton of White faced spanish, straight run for the spanish and Serama! Message me if you need a CCL roo or others! Thanks! NORTH BERKS I am on the mappage!

 

[wingstone]

I got Sweetgrass eggs from Arielle last year and none hatched. I did get some of her Bourbon Reds to hatch, though! I really want Sweetgrass, too. Someday...

I never have many hatch on shipped turkey eggs,,,,,shipping must be harder on those.

 

[SilkieSensation]

"all you have left".....looks like quite a bunch to me, but I know you had a lot more...my goodness...so much to care for. Sorry..just being lazy this-morning.......Good morning- by the way !


***Hope everyone is getting their dose of happy already today...i am on my 5th dose...not working so well for some reason.....easy like Sunday morning.....
the chickens really like the pallet I had to put out there yesterday,( enjoying their muck & mire play ground, gross), something new...got to keep them out of the larger skank water holes  .....I happened to look out our back kitchen door..straight shot to see the coop/run, well..there was Chicka on top of the coop like a rooster...trying to find a way down...finally did, but not gracefully..and it scared the others..they came running out of the coop area...crazy birds...but entertaining. 

Considering I had over 300 birds at 1 ppint in the past year & had nearly 200 adults just 4-6 months ago, yea, 56 birds is a BIG cut in my flock.

Has any of you with interest in the sweetgrass contacted Arielle,,,wondering if she still has them,,,,,,   I may move the plans up a little if she has calico...

I saw her post on that this morning. She posted a couple pages back on what she's raising this year I think.

 

[LisaYolkUm]

no, I have not. But I am reading that thread...still at the beginning though...

Question fro any & all: with stationary runs..it just turns into a mess. What do you all do in the spring to kind of "clean it up" after the long winter?..

I was think of raking all the debris out..it is droppings/dead yard stuff mostly...then filling in any low-lying areas to help prevent what I am dealing with now. Going to fill with brick/cement pieces, then cover with soil.
I had an idea to help make "grass" areas in the run..put a pallet or two down in the run to keep the chickens out/off of the area and let the grass grow..do you think this would work, could also make a "box" and cover it with 'chicken' wire so when the grass grows, they can only eat it to a certain point.
Anyway..have a lot of ideas to improve the situations, would like some ideas for de-funking the area...thank you -Danielle

I was wondering similar things............about the grass growing thru a box with wire in the middle............I was wondering how this might impact their feet. I do like the idea of them having grass and of the grass continuing to grow....

anyone had some experience with this.

I think if grass is grown under something that is too dark--------it would be too shady and might not grow...........this is just my current brainstorming.....I have not tried this.

I am also thinking of contacting some tree work people who look for places to drop off wood chips.........so I might put in a whole lot of wood chips on the ground.

in the fall I had a big pile and tended to rake out the dirty stuff........and put in a new layer of wood chips just in case of germs etc from all the pooping etc.

 

[wingstone]

Quote: I have a small area that grows grass under thick wire, will try to post picks this week......but basically it is wiring flooring out of the hog house laid on wood blocks with seed under neath

 

[stake]

Good afternoon folk:

Cleaned out the coop today....pretty nasty stuff....but good for the garden.....my CCL boy is doing great and I may send him back to the girls tomorrow mid day....

Sally:

How are your CCLs doing....hope you didn't need to cut any of them...but if you need to then it is what it is....don't need any boys, but if you have a couple of girls to part with PM me...

Lisa:

Wood chips are a good cover, but, they will steal the nitrogen out of the soil....(per NPR gardening show),...might build a screen for my run....and use a few handfuls of scratch to seed...

Hope everyone is enjoying a nice sunny warm day...

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Has any of you with interest in the sweetgrass contacted Arielle,,,wondering if she still has them,,,,,,   I may move the plans up a little if she has calico...

Arielle got back to me on the Northeastern Congress thread, her turkey are not laying right now...

 
Has any of you with interest in the sweetgrass contacted Arielle,,,wondering if she still has them,,,,,,   I may move the plans up a little if she has calico...

no, I have not. But I am reading that thread...still at the beginning though...

Question fro any & all: with stationary runs..it just turns into a mess. What do you all do in the spring to kind of "clean it up" after the long winter?..

I was think of raking all the debris out..it is droppings/dead yard stuff mostly...then filling in any low-lying areas to help prevent what I am dealing with now. Going to fill with brick/cement pieces, then cover with soil.
 I had an idea to help make "grass" areas in the run..put a pallet or two down in the run to keep the chickens out/off of the area and let the grass grow..do you  think this would work, could also make a "box" and cover it with 'chicken' wire so when the grass grows, they can only eat it to a certain point.
Anyway..have a lot of ideas to improve the situations, would like some ideas for de-funking the area...thank you -Danielle

I routinely rake out the main run and put down dry straw, in the summer I fill in with soil and rock as much as my back can tolerate.

 

[chiques chicks]

Hardware cloth on 2x frame. I had some 1/2 around. It has worked well.

 

[Katt66]

no, I have not. But I am reading that thread...still at the beginning though...

Question fro any & all: with stationary runs..it just turns into a mess. What do you all do in the spring to kind of "clean it up" after the long winter?..

I was think of raking all the debris out..it is droppings/dead yard stuff mostly...then filling in any low-lying areas to help prevent what I am dealing with now. Going to fill with brick/cement pieces, then cover with soil.
I had an idea to help make "grass" areas in the run..put a pallet or two down in the run to keep the chickens out/off of the area and let the grass grow..do you think this would work, could also make a "box" and cover it with 'chicken' wire so when the grass grows, they can only eat it to a certain point.
Anyway..have a lot of ideas to improve the situations, would like some ideas for de-funking the area...thank you -Danielle

I put a pickup load of sand in there in the fall. Then messed it all up, like I said a few pages back, with straw. D:
The sand I have left I'm just going to add more PA Quartz sand to. It seems to be really nice yet. Dry and easy to keep the poop scooped up out of. Even when it's below freezing it stays pretty movable so I know it's not getting really waterlogged or anything.

Supposed to be going to get a load of sand tonight I think actually. Just got done cleaning out the coop too. And raked what's left of the sand in the run. Chickens are having a ball right now with half a pot of chicken noodle soup I threw out on the compost pile. It's the first time they've gotten noodles. They're so funny! ^_^