South Carolina

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I have no clue what that one is of mine ... It is one I hatched from Reese Poultry.

I know y'all came for hatching eggs but can't remember what. That was before I started keeping a book.

Uhhhhhhh....wyandottes and.... i have no clue what else.

ETA: I snuck the guinea eggs in through the mail LOL

 

[Larkspur88]

Well, I have 7 total chicks. Had lots dead in the shell and only about a day or two away from hatching! I dun get it! D:

I have 4 speckled sussex, 2 blue ameracauna, and 1 BLRW. I would have had two coronation sussex but nooooo. My smart self decided the poor sad 7 needed food and water. GUESS what water does in an incubator?

And the 2 eggs that would have hatched seemed extremely damp when I opened them up cause guess what the chicks did???

They went swimming!

Yes, I was gone only an hour came home and was like

All 7 were sopping went and so I had to quickly moved around chickens and find them a container to stay in and get the heat lamp rolling.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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I have seen that Lowe's has good prices on their kennels. I would really like a couple more to connect to the ones I have....

Shhhhhhhh I prefer craigs list.

I took over one of our dogs kennels.......DH had hooked the house on the outside of it, so it does not take up space. I hate he cut the wire to do it, but it gave our dog more room to run & kept her from getting on the house to get out.......now there are ducks & my layers in there for the winter - and they cannot roost ON the house since it is outside the run........ it is 10x20x6
I got a good deal on CL on one that is 10x10x4 and it has silkies in it.......

Yes, but often by the time I call on Craig's List Listings they are already gone--reason I had put a wanted ad on there.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

How is this? There are 2 Coral Blues and 1 Lavender in the picture. Lavender is middle right.

Both colors are blue but the Coral Blue birds have a sheen to them of a very beautiful pearl like blue that the lavenders do not have--does this make since?

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Magnificent! The pen and the blues!
I would get more pens but that means more work and I already have so much to do.
Our wind changes directions around here all the time. I thought for sure that the wind would not be bad from the east but last April it smashed up that one dog pen so bad I was afraid i had lost my chickens. I live in an area called Little Chicago for several reasons and one is because of the wind.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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Acorns are for deer hunting...to put out if you hunt an area without oaks as an attractant!!

of course Baiting deer in is illegal in Sc.. so I dont suggest trying it.. my husband knew a guy that did and wheww they ripped him a new one... hugh fines and they confiscated his riffles big big.. serious punishment..

My horses love acorns. but they get a lot of gas from them.

. and its like being around a peanut butter factory.. PEEEAA wheww..

only so much of that smell you can take.. and I haven't had a PB& J sandwich since they started eating them ahha..

. and this year there is an abundance, which if you go with -wives tales -, means its going to be a hard cold winter.. when mother nature provides more nourishment to animals.. early Watch out.. she's a come'in !
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[RedBugPoultry]

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Magnificent! The pen and the blues!
I would get more pens but that means more work and I already have so much to do.
Our wind changes directions around here all the time. I thought for sure that the wind would not be bad from the east but last April it smashed up that one dog pen so bad I was afraid i had lost my chickens. I live in an area called Little Chicago for several reasons and one is because of the wind.

The heavy, sudden rains worry me here with the kennel. I have to make sure I have enough peak to the tarp on top--we collapsed a kennel here early this year with our dog in it. It even shocked DH!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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Hope you get a good turn out. The weather looks like it will be nice. A couple of us ladies are going to the Clemson show so I know we won't be down that way but I am sure others that live closer will make it. There should be some good chicken selling going on this Sat. all over SC!

hey do we know is Robert and Kris coming? so he can bring up name tags.. hahhah I'm getting very excited about the show.. of course it couldn't be a worse time for me money wise.. It will be a lot of window shopping but I can get names and numbers for spring...
I sure hope ya'll have a good turn out in Aiken too bad its the same day.

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[WestKnollAmy]

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I never thought I would love my Guineas as much as I do. I was down in the barn a few minutes ago to collect eggs before heading back up to the house and about 25 Guineas had to follow me in to see what I was doing. I do not feed them in there, they do not even sleep on that side of the barn but they had to join me and talk me through it all.

Cryp, my lav Guinea girl that was in the shell too long, slept out on the barn roof the other night. DH and I tried to get her to come down to go to bed but she refused. I was so afraid an owl or early morning hawk would get her but she was fine and last night I made sure I got her penned before feeding time. She has been escaping the trampoline. I need to get them moved over but rearranging birds is such a hard task for me.
DH wanted me to put her down but she hobbles around fine, will probably lay eggs fine and if she had been a he then I would have had to but being a girl is a plus. Her only worry is when everyone roosts but her. That may be why she slept on the roof. The new pen will have to have a shelf for her. Like she will use it! You know how stubborn they can be!

 

[pinkwindsong]

Jackie did you find your chickens ? did they come home? I hate that some thing happened to them ..


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