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[rancher hicks]

I thougth this was a posting for Delawares but I'm seeing everything but. Apparently there will be no "world domination" by delawares here. Is this some kind of comspiracy? If I can get this thing working I'm going to fill it with Del eggs and offer them for free til the whole world and every back yard is fill with Delawares.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Morning all.....Fall weather has FINALLY arrived

Its about 60 here this morning with high only reaching 78. Looks like the 10 day forecast has some 40s at night and no higher than 70s during the day!!! I am soooooo glad summer is finally over.

Quick chicken question....I have a BR girl who appears to have an eye infection. I have Terramycin ointment, but I've forgotten frequency/dosage....can any of you help me out there?

Job hunt continues although I am making a "final proposal" Monday to a company I would REALLY like to work for and have known for many years. Please pray that if that is where God wants me, that the opportunity presents itself.

Ladyhawk...praying for you this morning. I know that the mortgage stuff is really a mess right now due to the economy. Praying that the right situation works out for you and DH 9....and Cheyenne of course). Keep us updated

Headed to let the chooks out to free range for the day.....everyone have a great day!!

 

[joletabey]

Scott, you and Cetawin head up my prayer list! Keep us posted!

Tim, it's mostly Dels, but this is a family, so we talk about LOTS of stuff - hey I joined the APA and got a 2008 yearbook that lists a Don Perrin in NY as a Delaware breeder- is that someone you have heard of? If you want the phone number, pm me! I am not all the way through the book yet, but earmarked that page for you if you want more info.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Will be thinking about you all day, praying things go your way!

I told DH about the house issues last week, and that you were ready to look at other houses.
He said, "They won't move."
I said, "Why not?"
He said, "Because Bill loves that barn. He picked the place for that barn for his smithing. They won't move."

 

[NellaBean]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, LH

Today begins phase 2 of Nellabean VS Hawk. I closed off the small 8x8 covered pen.....added a rabbit hutch to it and moved all the young kids in there. They have been in a small covered tractor so were rip roaring around there this morning.

Moved 4 young very small birds I had locked up in the garage so they wouldn't get eaten....they moved into the covered tractor.

I picked out 20 birds to take to the sale tomorrow. 9 pairs and 2 extra boys. If I sell them, that will leave only 1 or 2 extra boys in my rooster pen. They will move to the small tractor, the 4 small birds will become 2 small birds as 2 are on the sale list....remaining 2 will move to the 8x8 covered pen with the "babies".

Then I will put up some covering over most of my big rooster pen and move all remaining bantam GIRLS in there. I think I will have 2 boys to go in with them as well. That will leave all of my large fowl in the big yard and coop. That should be the perfect amount to overwinter in that coop, and hopefully are big enough to avoid hawk attacks. I decided to NOT sell my two extra large fowl cochins (silver laced)....they tend to hang out in the low part of the yard and should help with hawk attacks. That leaves 5 large fowl roosters in with my big flock (30+ girls). I'll have to find all of my saddles and get them back on the girls, sigh.

My dad is flying in tomorrow...I am going to "let" (ha ha ha) him help me clean out both coops for winter and get the rooster pen covered. Once mowing season is over, I will run some zig zagging line across parts of the yard......I left a pallet cocked up against something out there today to give them something to dive under for cover now that my covered pen is gone. They still have a million hiding places but, now they have a million and one.

Scarehawks are still out. Probably time to move them a little bit. I want some of those fake deer too LOL.

 

[Cetawin]

Tim....ssssssshhhhhhh The Delaware are conspiring on their next takeover and the strategy...don't give it away for them.


Thanks all and Scott, you are in my prayers daily.....the right thing is coming for you and your family....I just know it.

Lori....Jim is a smart cookie!

 

[rancher hicks]

Sorry I forgot to put an emoticon on the posting. Still I'll single handedly populate the backyards of the world with Delawares.

Oh and I do have the incu/brooder in the back of my van. My sil's father found it in the old farm house they bought years ago. I have the paper work but have been to busy to take it out and have a good look at it. An ad for it says it sold for $7 in 1907 for the brooder and for both the incu and brooder $11. Not sure which I have. Plus I have two otagon shaped brooders. Big things with the muslin curtain. Neat but they may need rewiring. One has the red light bulb and the other has the wafer heater thingy.

It has done nothing but rain so as most of us on the east coast know to wet to work outside. Good garden o' peas! I saw the chickens go by in a canoe, being pulled by Canadian Geese.

 

[kathyinmo]

Yard full o' rocks :

Quick chicken question....I have a BR girl who appears to have an eye infection. I have Terramycin ointment, but I've forgotten frequency/dosage....can any of you help me out there?

I had a Jersey Giant that got his eye poked on a fence wire. I used that Terramycin ointment. I just applied it like a ribbon across the eye, a couple times a day for 3 days. It worked great.​

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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I had a Jersey Giant that got his eye poked on a fence wire. I used that Terramycin ointment. I just applied it like a ribbon across the eye, a couple times a day for 3 days. It worked great.

Thanks Kathy

 

[kathyinmo]

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I bet you will get it done, too. You will have Delawares in every backyard!

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That is the coolest antique incubator! Are you really gonna try to use it? I bet it is worth alot of money .... so don't go messin' it up!

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You all wanted rain, now you complain?

We have the same Canadian geese here each fall/ early winter. They stay on the lake behind our house. They also hatch out their babies there. Three years ago the neighbor did an experiment. He took some of the eggs and hatched them, and raised them. He wanted to see if they would stay here, with the white geese he had. Well, they did stay for a couple years. They always kept to themselves, never mingled with others. Then, this year they left home. I bet they will be back though.