South Carolina

[Lroach711]

Was looking on craigslist and came across an ad for free wood crating. I know some people use these to build coops so thought I'd share

here's the link:
http://greenville.craigslist.org/zip/2523982827.html

 

[huckleberryfarm]

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You should sue her for stealing your name! Seriously, I thought it was so funny when I saw it. And no last name. Just Amy Nadine.

Wonder if she loves bantam cochins?

 

[pinkwindsong]

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your loosing the little lav girl reminds me of apple head tiny chihuahua's we breed chi's and people all want the little ones.. I guess to be like Paris.. cough- roll eyes

anyway they are so fragile that people don't realize that this little bittys are really not supposed to be here. if they were born in nature they would not have survived.. to cont. we had a client come back and get another pup from us.. the chi was up on the deck with Mom who was reading the paper while her husband was cutting the grass.. on one fateful pass the mower thru up a rock one single rock and it hit that little dog right on the top of its head and pierced its brain... who would have thought in a million years that could happen.. so I can see that a peck in just the right spot would defenatly do damage to a pullet,

I would love blue orph but I need to make arraingments for them hopefully you will have more in the future to offer..

)O(Pink

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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OMG~ 50!!! That's alot of Roo's! You know I completely understand there is a booming population of Roo's and not enough homes. I'm just such a softy~ cause this one has totally won my heart over. I can swoop him up into my arms and just pet him and he just snuggles up to me and makes the sweetest little noises. I'm leaving in 3 days to go to Florida so I will be missing the swap~ otherwise I would try to go there. I did have an listing on Craigslist but that was about 2 months ago. Maybe I can give it another try. Thanks Amy I guess we all have to go through the hard part, that's life with chickens!

Tiffany, if you put another listing on Craig's List for your rooster put is on Friday morning. I seem to get the best results if I post Friday morning or Saturday morning! Good luck finding him a home!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

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your loosing the little lav girl reminds me of apple head tiny chihuahua's we breed chi's and people all want the little ones.. I guess to be like Paris.. cough- roll eyes

anyway they are so fragile that people don't realize that this little bittys are really not supposed to be here. if they were born in nature they would not have survived.. to cont. we had a client come back and get another pup from us.. the chi was up on the deck with Mom who was reading the paper while her husband was cutting the grass.. on one fateful pass the mower thru up a rock one single rock and it hit that little dog right on the top of its head and pierced its brain... who would have thought in a million years that could happen.. so I can see that a peck in just the right spot would defenatly do damage to a pullet,

I would love blue orph but I need to make arraingments for them hopefully you will have more in the future to offer..

)O(Pink

I have that problem a lot with Silkies. I'm convinced that many times wry neck comes from them getting pecked on their vaulted skull. That's crazy about the dog!

 

[gofasterstripe]

Amy did any of your ducklings hatch or is it not time yet

 

[tiffanyg2]

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OMG~ 50!!! That's alot of Roo's! You know I completely understand there is a booming population of Roo's and not enough homes. I'm just such a softy~ cause this one has totally won my heart over. I can swoop him up into my arms and just pet him and he just snuggles up to me and makes the sweetest little noises. I'm leaving in 3 days to go to Florida so I will be missing the swap~ otherwise I would try to go there. I did have an listing on Craigslist but that was about 2 months ago. Maybe I can give it another try. Thanks Amy I guess we all have to go through the hard part, that's life with chickens!

Tiffany, if you put another listing on Craig's List for your rooster put is on Friday morning. I seem to get the best results if I post Friday morning or Saturday morning! Good luck finding him a home!

Thanks I will try that this week!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Got them in the hatcher now! One has pipped.

On a sad note, none of the Polish eggs hatched. I opened them today and they had developed but none had pipped and they were dead in the shell.

It is my firm belief that without proper nutrition a lot of chicks wind up this way. I have hatched for many other folks and from what I have experienced with their eggs, brought to me by them, that their hatches often do not do as well as mine.
Not saying I have the perfect recipe but, case in point, just last week I hatched for someone I had not hatched for before, she is the friend of my friend with the still air bator I use for her. Of the 2 dz she brought me from her pens, 2 eggs exploded in the bator (thank goodness it wasn't mine but I still had to clean the stinking thing!) and half did not develop and some did develop (about a dz) but did not pip. She also loses a lot of her chicks. I can't get much info out of her about how she feeds or collects her eggs but it obviously isn't anything like mine.
She is the one I got the Muscovy pair from, Herman and Penelope, parents to my lovely ladies, Kisses and Huggs. Penelope went broody a few months back but none of the eggs hatched so she decided to trade them to me and Penelope just hatched out all the eggs she was left with (from, I am guessing, a snake) and Huggs hatched out 3. So I am saying nutrition.
These Muscovy get laying mash, starter and sweet feed plus bugs and other treats.

Also, I want to add, this is the first time I have had eggs explode in a bator! Disgusting! My house is usually a wreck but that, I swear, is the worse stink ever to have been in my home!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

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Got them in the hatcher now! One has pipped.

On a sad note, none of the Polish eggs hatched. I opened them today and they had developed but none had pipped and they were dead in the shell.

It is my firm belief that without proper nutrition a lot of chicks wind up this way. I have hatched for many other folks and from what I have experienced with their eggs, brought to me by them, that their hatches often do not do as well as mine.
Not saying I have the perfect recipe but, case in point, just last week I hatched for someone I had not hatched for before, she is the friend of my friend with the still air bator I use for her. Of the 2 dz she brought me from her pens, 2 eggs exploded in the bator (thank goodness it wasn't mine but I still had to clean the stinking thing!) and half did not develop and some did develop (about a dz) but did not pip. She also loses a lot of her chicks. I can't get much info out of her about how she feeds or collects her eggs but it obviously isn't anything like mine.
She is the one I got the Muscovy pair from, Herman and Penelope, parents to my lovely ladies, Kisses and Huggs. Penelope went broody a few months back but none of the eggs hatched so she decided to trade them to me and Penelope just hatched out all the eggs she was left with (from, I am guessing, a snake) and Huggs hatched out 3. So I am saying nutrition.
These Muscovy get laying mash, starter and sweet feed plus bugs and other treats.

Also, I want to add, this is the first time I have had eggs explode in a bator! Disgusting! My house is usually a wreck but that, I swear, is the worse stink ever to have been in my home!

That's just gross. Yuck!

 

[pinkwindsong]

Amy I hate that none of the polish eggs hatched.. soo sad.. it must be like you said the nutrition of the parent birds..


got a question.. I want to purchase chicks ( yea from a hatchery0 this fall looks like they send them up into sept. I would rather put heat lamps in their box then to deal with this heat .. Im hopeing that way by next summer they will all be adult enough to make it thru the summer and be laying. here's the concern... will it still be too hot for the,m to ship.. at a day old I dont want to cook the little chicks?

I am looking at
5 golden laced polish
10 EE pullets
5 wht egg layers ( still not sure on which would be the best breed other than leghorns--- ideas?)
5 LF cochin pullets (thinking of at buff or blue) pullets for my beautiful gold barred roo Midas from Amy.

what do yall think sound like a good grouping? I was thinking 10 EE's because they are so hardy, their sweet , not quite the beauties of my brahmas but pretty still.. or is there another breed I should look at.. ?

Pink..


ps can you believe the forecast for the next 5 days.. it hot with a chance of hot and hot the next day.. ajhhhh its too darn hot to do anything during the day.. Im gonna pull tomatoes and corn at twilight just for a little break..