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[jeremy]

I would gladly do an egg swap! If I had breeding pens set up... my fault, I know.

You won't be disappointed with Bill's eggs. I'm sure that outcrossing will be very beneficial to your program.

Like I said before... patiently waiting... twiddling my thumbs... Hm hmm hm.

ETA: SnowHunter, well you just be glad it would take me an enormous effort (...catching a plan, figuring out exactly where you're at, um somehow getting out of work...

) to get across the country to your coop... I tend to be a tricky one!

You'd have to be quick to get a target on me!

 

[X2Farm]

Ohhhhhhhh Stacy! I was gonna get in touch with him bout some too... guess I need to get on the ball with that

I'd be all for an egg swap with Jeremy when timing works out

Jeremy... LOL!!!! You can have some of Lil Lady's kidlets, much easier then a plane ride

No eggs yet here... but I'm figurin about February is when I'll start having them in a seperate breeding pen, though depending on how things go, (DH might have a new job soon

) I might be able to get things set up to start much sooner then that!!! Kind of a wait and see game right now....

Now if I could get off my duff and start the coop addition...that'd be a huge help

 

[jeremy]

SnowHunter, my breeding pens should be set up sometime around then too... like you said, it's just a matter of getting off my duff and actually doing it!

Speaking of... I don't know what I'm going to do with my cockerels. Claude is a determined fence jumper, I guess for some reason he wants to be where Stewart's at too. Even though they both know they can't get along. Well when I got home everyone was fine and dandy, in their respective runs where they should be. I go outside just now to lock up for the night and what do I find? Stewart in the layer's run, where Claude usually is and Claude in the "teenager's" run where Stewart typically calls home. To top it all off, Stewarts face is covered in blood!

My best guess is that Claude jumped over the fence to get at Stewart's women, and Stewart wasn't having it so they started quarreling. Well it's not really fair considering Claude has NO wattles or hardly any comb to pull at when in a tussel (he's a BW Ameraucana) but boy does Stewart have a face full! I guess Claude grabbed on extra hard tonight and ripped open Stewart's left wattle, leaving his face and chest covered with blood.

Stewart must have lost this battle and jumped the fence to get away from Claude, which is a surprise to me because Stewart's getting to be a big boy, I didn't know he had the ability to scale a 8ft fence.

So I don't know what I'm going to do now. Is it my fault? They're separated only by a fence that's in the middle of the two runs, would this cause constant sparring between the two? I wonder if I removed a section of the fence and turned the run into one large area if someone would finally back down and the other could establish total dominance over the flock. I'm getting tired of having to wash blood out of Stewart's feathers, it leaves him dingy looking.

Not to mention that he's now got blue splotches on his head and hackles due to the Blu-Kote that I used on his wattles. I don't think it's entirely Claude's fault though, he's not overly aggressive, I think he's just always trying to one up Stewart and then the fight is on.

I wonder if clipping Claude's flight feathers would keep him on his side of the fence? I honestly don't think I could part with either of the boys at this point, so I'm just going to have to figure something out to settle them both down...

 

[fratmor]

I have read the the toes can curl during incubation the amount of moisture or lack of can make it happen.I received one from the hatchery that way I splinted it right away and the chick now have almost perfect toes . feathersite .com shows how to splint

 

[X2Farm]

Dang Jeremy, I hate to hear that bout the Boyz

Home Depot sells green plastic netting stuff.. its like $8 for a 40"x50ft (might be 25 can't remember right) So its a fairly cheap alternative to covering runs so no one flies over?

Just means get the stapler and zip ties out (I think out last count was about 600

)

 

[jeremy]

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That's a good idea. Then I wouldn't have to worry about hawks either. Looks like I should head to the Home Depot this weekend...

 

[X2Farm]

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That's a good idea. Then I wouldn't have to worry about hawks either. Looks like I should head to the Home Depot this weekend...

I'll warn ya.. thats GA price.. in Oakland... probably more $, as things usually are... but a cheap alternative none the less

and I'm all bout goin on the cheap

easy to patch too

 

[tnchickenut]

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That's a good idea. Then I wouldn't have to worry about hawks either. Looks like I should head to the Home Depot this weekend...

It's what I use for alot of runs.... the cats lay on it and it holds up.lol. Maybe I should write the company that testamonial and hope for a free roll or two. lol.

Oh! I also use it with "T" posts for day pens for chicks. It's completely reusable.

 

[jeremy]

It's about $20 per 3ft. X 25ft roll here in CA... jeez, cost of living here kills me!
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs...tting&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

It's worth it though, like Stacy said, I'm sure I could find more than one use for it.

 

[X2Farm]

ouch Jeremy! I sure don't miss COL out there, thats for sure!!!!!

Maybe we can start a black market for green plastic mess for yall