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[roosterhavoc]

you bred them they're yours.

I suppose but a couple years of breeding hardly warrants a pat on the back for myself.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I see your Toyota in the background if it like my tundra anything brake related buy lifetime warranty parts. Changing rotors and pads again. Seems like a yearly thing. It eats brakes bad.

I'll keep that in mind when I have them done. I used to work on my jeep all the time but now I'm tired of that. Ball joints, steering, suspension, wheel bearings etc. I just don't find that fun anymore. Too many sensors and crazy wiring anymore.

 

[centrarchid]

Anyone tried or seen the use of 55-gallon barrel for housing single broody hens? I am trying to concentrate incubation and brooding during the first week post hatch in an area where fighting is easier to control and in particular, I can cut down on time required to take care of everyone.

By accident i messed up where the opening is cut on a barrel. Hen gets in and out just fine and she only fights hen trying to get into barrel which they seldom do. Chicks can not get out until they can fly at least 24" up. Hen comes out as needed and I can place all chicks need in barrel. Barrels a lot easier to clean that typical pens. Hens really good about going back only to their own barrels. Laying in each others nest minimal so far.

 

[B123]

Anyone tried or seen the use of 55-gallon barrel for housing single broody hens? I am trying to concentrate incubation and brooding during the first week post hatch in an area where fighting is easier to control and in particular, I can cut down on time required to take care of everyone.

By accident i messed up where the opening is cut on a barrel. Hen gets in and out just fine and she only fights hen trying to get into barrel which they seldom do. Chicks can not get out until they can fly at least 24" up. Hen comes out as needed and I can place all chicks need in barrel. Barrels a lot easier to clean that typical pens. Hens really good about going back only to their own barrels. Laying in each others nest minimal so far.

Centra, do you have a pic? Would this work in the heat, or be better in the cool spring? Sounds like a good idea.

 

[B123]

I see your Toyota in the background if it like my tundra anything brake related buy lifetime warranty parts. Changing rotors and pads again. Seems like a yearly thing. It eats brakes bad.

Thanks for the heads-up. I need to get the breaks done on my Tacoma. Like Havoc, I used to work on my trucks, but just don't enjoy that any more. I would rather be out with the birds and found that I can mess up more on the newer trucks than I can fix.

 

[sdm111]

Thanks for the heads-up.  I need to get the breaks done on my Tacoma.  Like Havoc, I used to work on my trucks, but just don't enjoy that any more.  I would rather be out with the birds and found that I can mess up more on the newer trucks than I can fix.

you're welcome through extensive indulgence in something I would have rather not learned about Toyota put too small of brakes on the tundra its a fact than if someone puts larger wheels and tires it exacerbates the problem there's even an upgrade to the Tacoma brakes in which people are putting tundra calipers and pads on them cause the mounting is the same and its closer to what "normal" should be. Then on top there's 3 different shapes (all same mounting) of caliper so the only way to know what u have is by the casting number on it. Get the highest grade pads that are still fiber cause ceramic pads are too hard and I read issues of them cutting up and warping rotors.
Any way back too chickens

 

[B123]

you're welcome through extensive indulgence in something I would have rather not learned about Toyota put too small of brakes on the tundra its a fact than if someone puts larger wheels and tires it exacerbates the problem there's even an upgrade to the Tacoma brakes in which people are putting tundra calipers and pads on them cause the mounting is the same and its closer to what "normal" should be. Then on top there's 3 different shapes (all same mounting) of caliper so the only way to know what u have is by the casting number on it. Get the highest grade pads that are still fiber cause ceramic pads are too hard and I read issues of them cutting up and warping rotors.
Any way back too chickens

Learn something new every day! I had one of the early T-100's. It was the basic 4wd reg cab. That truck would go anywhere and haul anything. Wish I never sold it, but I digress.

Young one's are feathering out nicely. Saw Shubin had a pic of a hen on her fourth batch, wow! I have one working on her third clutch, just couldn't resist letting her try again as she is such a good mother.

Have one young pullet that has some serious attitude. I think I like her! From the time she was a young chick, so would try to show me who was boss. She still grabs me when I handle her. She really struts around the yard.

 

[centrarchid]

Centra, do you have a pic?  Would this work in the heat, or be better in the cool spring?  Sounds like a good idea.  

I will make pictures this evening. Heat will be an issue. Hens did use the barrels for incubation even when temperatures were above 100. Chicks seem to handle feat well.

 

[JShubin]

Learn something new every day! I had one of the early T-100's. It was the basic 4wd reg cab. That truck would go anywhere and haul anything. Wish I never sold it, but I digress.

Young one's are feathering out nicely. Saw Shubin had a pic of a hen on her fourth batch, wow! I have one working on her third clutch, just couldn't resist letting her try again as she is such a good mother.

Have one young pullet that has some serious attitude. I think I like her! From the time she was a young chick, so would try to show me who was boss. She still grabs me when I handle her. She really struts around the yard.

Unfortunately the reason she is on her 4th batch is because two of her clutches were decimated at early age... (mostly by other mother hens.) She was penned and her chicks are vulnerable outside the pen.

 

[JShubin]

Only Black Stag this year