South Carolina

[lillyman]

Hello all; Let tell you about my morning. My two jack russell's awakened me this morning at o5:30 so I turned on the back yard light. and I opened the back door to let them out ,& was greeted by all of my roo's taking their turn crowing. they must have crowed four or five times each one after another . I have seven roo's . so at the begining of this I thought it was kind of neat \\/cool but as the crowing continued I started to wish that they would be quiet. since I could see the neihbors around me with their lights on getting ready for work. luckly I am in an area zoned agriculture. Still I'm trying to stay on good terms with the neihbors .so when it wsa light I did the chicken house keeping/cleaning raking ,cleaned the waterers sprayed vinegar and water solution inside & outsiide the coop. spread D E inside the coop to control any oder and any little critters, that the coop might have. I do this about once a week. it was so dark at 5:30 I could see the constellation of ORION wich means we are getting closer to fall ... this being the end of August. Won't be too many weeks moe till it cool's off .I had 66 degees this morning at 6:00 am.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Right back atcha!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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this !!!! Just Beautiful!
and when you add plants make sure to get drought resistant and maybe deer resistant... maybe two Miscanthus sinensis ( Zebra Grass ) on either side and some fushia colored double-knock out roses underneath. LOW/NO maintence and pretty from spring to the end of fall, Just a few ideas I love to garden and have both these plants, and wish my yard was full of them cause I do nothing to them at all, except cut zebra grass down in late fall and do one good pruning to the rose bush mid feb. Hope this helps with ideas!

I love Knockout Roses. They are so pretty and maintenance-free! Thanks for the ideas!

Yancy, you probably cringed when you saw my yard! I would love to set out flowers and plants of all sorts but the chickens and ducks "help" too much so I gave up. Some stuff does survive well but I lost a lot of Iris (my favorite and easiest plant) when the ducks decided to help.
I should change the name to Wild Acres farm! The animals run wild and the flowers and weeds do, too!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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Nope, no eggs yet. she put a dog house in their pen ( my girls love their doghouse for laying , but their big standaard sized girls too?) dont know i=f that makes a difference.. Wonder what is the best nest box for the little girls?

same for Colton's little BB bantams.. he is breeding the girls but no eggs. so I wonder if its becasue i dont have the right kind of box/privecy..

the EEs I got at the chickenstock ( only one is a ameracauna i think ) they aren't laying yet wither and all my EEs should be old enough or within a week or so.

. they better start laying me some eggs....!!!!!! ohoh shusssshhh don't tell them I threatened them... shishhhh.. that's right lay Mommy some eggs girls..

... Please...

.. I almost jinxed them.. ahhh how horrible that would have been hahhahahha...

so far I have 4 laying out of oh dear gods how many do i have now.????

lets see... the 2 barred rocks are giving me pretty little brown eggs, my barred holland is giving me a steady laying of white eggs, and my leg horn is laying .

. that leaves... 2 polish not laying

, 5 EEs not laying,

, 2 dark brahmas not laying

, 2 bb bantams not laying,

1 unknown black girl not laying,

1 dominque not laying

,then I have my 3 babie blue jersy giants,

1 lavendar wayndotte, babie.

all not laying ..

then I have 6 roosters.

Ahhh this dam chicken math...

1 LF Golden barred Cochin ( crele ?) Midas

1 then a black Ameracuana ( they thougth it was a roo. I question it.. no crow, no eggs .. we'll see.

.) his name is Ronny

the Barred Rock rooster "Bennie" that we won at chickenstock > girls don;t like him enough to turn him loose with them yet.

I only have 2 doubled roosters

.. the 2 polish Roos and I have now 2 EE's,

one of the ones, I got the other day at Chickenstock is a roo.

. ( Earl- cause all the girls say Goodbye Earl.. Earl's got to die.. na na annnnnnaanhhhh na... < dixie chicks song> watch out it gets in your head.

. hahahha but yea the girls don't seam to like Earl, so I thought that song and the name was perfect for him.. he's small and silver.. he's sweet..

I still have Uncle Daddy he is getting sooo pretty.. still does not crow,,,

then last but not least Coltons little BB rooster Lincoln .


Oh and now the 20 broiler chicks. not getting names..

so that's pretty much what I have .. I think?????

Im afraid to go to the auction after the 4h show now. and then we have the georgalina chickenstock in Agusta in nov.. Im afraid very afraid.

.. what will I get next if my addiction is not kept in check???????

 

[pinkwindsong]

What is wry neck is it fixable?

 

[pinkwindsong]

Oh my gosh almost forgot to tell ya.... yesterday Im in the coop. working and making it bigger for everyone to have plaenty of safe room etc.. and boom ! no warning colt is shooting in the garden.. Wt heck? so he came walking over to me with 5 hens surrounding him ahd jumping up at him untill one grabed... a RAT he shot a rat that was in the Garden ( he said the girls helped him nonsense out ( hunting hens hahah) well they grabbed that thing and ripped and just scredded it... I think they consumed most all of it.. couldnt belive it.. they ate it like they hant been fed for weeks,.. yuck...

 

[dixiebeast]

Oh Pink...I know how you feel...I want sooo many more!!! If you only have 4 laying then thats all the chickens you have!!! Better get some more! None of mine are laying yet and my mom got a flock of mixed that lay EVERY DAY!!! ahhhh...We have provided her Polish gal with some variety to lay in ...I am hoping she is just young still,same with my self blue hen...no egg...and both my silkies are crowing now!!

Good news is Lucky(my FAVORITE BLRW that my dog tried to murder) Crowed his first real crow yesterday,he had stopped trying after the assasination attempt! Its cute,I have the 2 BLRW roos and 2 RIR hens...they get along so well and are paired off as couples in the same run!!

I am planning on going to Augusta too...we will have to make a convoy! I am also waiting to hear on another self blue hen...He says it may be a few weeks though before he has one he can be sure is hen! My bday is next week so fingers are crossed!

And I LOVE the earl song!!! Now I will be singing it all day!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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so glad things are going well for your little guy ( what is his name?) who had an atempt against his life.. ahhahh.... I remembetr the first timeLafiate crowed you'd have thought it was one of my kids taking their first steps I was so proud f his new voice

I real;y think I will go to the 4-h show and pullet auction.. they will all either be laying or at the point of laying.. think Ill check it out. still...its in Abbeville are y9u going.. ? it'll be right down the road fro ya'll. ?

I tell ya what. My mom is hooked.... she adores the polish.. so we call them hers of course.. and they are like your pairs.. they are just fine with being together and are defenatly 2 fixed pairs.

then she saw the Frizzeled Sizzeled

and I had to keep pulling her away.

. she is seriously thinking of different colors of polish now. we'll see I love the blues and the reds ...

I tell you ti get a real Ameracauna and not a EE is proving to be as difficult as finding LF cochin hens for Midas... no one has them! I thin they are what we need to work on. the ones no one can find. everyone has the little banties but not the LF.. I like the duel purpose of the LF chickens.. more bang for the buck so to speak..

lets face it I need more Bang..

wait more bucks?

Ah heck I need it all bang and bucks

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Does my chicken poop stink??

Sorry, I know what you mean. I have visited a few other threads too!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Boy Pink, I wish your mom lived closer~I could really fix her up with some Polish!