Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[fisherlady]

Quote: that's a good idea! I was tjinking blue australorp also?
Blue Australorp are beautiful!

What are you doing with the chicks which hatch from the eggs you got from me?

 

[pagumby]

Anyone looking for geese? I have 2 Toulouse/embden mix ganders that hatched 6/13. Thought I would ask here before listing them elsewhere. Asking $25 each.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

I have 3 permanent runs. They are all situated on higher elevation and covered, this helps keep the mud down. I use spent hay, it's free for me and gives the chooks something to scratch around in, it 'catches' a lot of the droppings, so when I rake it out, I get a lot of the droppings too. The bottom 2 feet of our runs are hardware cloth, we also run chicken wire underground from the outside walls of the run 2 feet out and about 8 inches deep (to discourage predators from digging. I would recommend making a run tall enough for you to stand for cleaning and catching the birds..

Thanks! I will definitely make it acesiable for standing, I had heard that tip before, but it surely bears repeating.

Annie... are you building in your yard area or near wooded areas? My preference is that if it is an area which may be prone to predators such as fox or raccoon then the wire you use to enclose the run must be much heavier than chicken wire... unfortunately chicken wire just doesn't stop fox, coons or coyote at all, they will tear right through it.  If you are in a predator prone area you should go with a heavier hardware cloth or even chain link fencing if you can find it reasonable price... it is much more expensive, but can help prevent a tragedy. I think you can still use the push in posts with the hardware cloth if you wanted. 

another thing we did to further secure ours, since it is against a wooded area... is we collected every rock we ever dug up around here and piled it around the base of the fence to create an 'impossible to dig' zone... the rock pile extends at least a foot or foot and a half away from the base of the fence and any predator trying to dig under the fence would have to dig down and then tunnel quite a way to get into the run.

We are in the burbs (see avatar name ) with a fully fenced in back yard, so predators should be pretty limited from the fencing and our dog. We have seen a fox, but never in our yard. I found some metal fencing for free last yeah so I will use that, and IId I run out, I have hardware cloth as well. I love the rock pile idea. Decorative an functional!

Those fox are out and about right now,,,thinking they might have babies with them by now,,,been seeing lots of them on my way home from work lately

Boo foxes in the yard!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Recent Chicky pictures:

Finally moved everyone into the dog crate. They seem to enjoy running around, pecking, scratching, and occasionally charging each other. They found one of the perches quickly too! It's a bad picture, but they appear to be comfortable!

 

[GR Chicks Jr]

Recent Chicky pictures:




Finally moved everyone into the dog crate. They seem to enjoy running around, pecking, scratching, and occasionally charging each other. They found one of the perches quickly too! It's a bad picture, but they appear to be comfortable!

Awww there so cute!!!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

 

omg Eli that image is so far from you its hilarious!! 

A couple people said that's what they pictured I looked like.

serious? thats hilarious! 

Yes, seriously. .

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Recent Chicky pictures:

Finally moved everyone into the dog crate. They seem to enjoy running around, pecking, scratching, and occasionally charging each other. They found one of the perches quickly too! It's a bad picture, but they appear to be comfortable!

This is a great set up!

@wing, I've got BCMs n OEs. Also a mix of BLRW, Orp, Silkie, And a few others being covered by a BCMs cockerel. Maybe we could meet up?

 

[dheltzel]

would be great if someone here was breeding them,,,I would take a couple dozen eggs a year,,,seems they are like leghorns and only lay good for a year or two.

No red sex links, but how about black sex links? I may be able to get those eggs (or chicks) later this spring, and they'd be half Welsummer, so hopefully darker eggs.

Or blue sex links (Just for something different). These will not be as good a layer, but the chicks I have so are starting to look pretty.

 

[wingstone]

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Quote: that blue sex link sounds interesting but I have to pass on them,,,for some reason hubby likes the look of the red sex link...has nothing to do with the egg color....

 

[linzross31890]

Are any of you from south western PA?