Stella's Social Club

[Jake Levi]

I'm with Diva, how do you raise those tiny ones????

What diet, what fed with? How do you 'house' them? The works.

I love both those species of finches, and all of the rest, I once had a nice fly aviary with finches, and button quail on the bottom. I miss it.

So please instruct us on how you do it.

, really want to know.

I havent been here since last week, I made a too long trip to WIs to bring back a Lab pup, and spent the next two days getting over it, those drive all day trips I need to put behind and cut the mileage way down per day, so I am thinking seriously of building a 'Travellers Wagon'. Only towed by my van instead of a horse. We'll see, but it'd be great for long weekend campouts. My Irish heritage poking out.

My youngest brood of Icelandics is going to just make it to full feathered status when they move outdoors before the cool fall weather is here, which it feels like right now. They have the half enclosed pen with the brooder to go into, and I am going to put electric in all the pens and a 100 watt bulb overhead for them along with water heaters in every pen.

My Isi is doing great, eats from my hand and watching over his girls just great.

Life is good, and better with Icelandic Chickens !

 

[1muttsfan]

I really like the layout and colors in this shot, and wanted to see what Mary thought as a photo expert (yeah he went back into the water after, way too small to eat)



Definitely better with a horizontal layout!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I like the blue netting and the yellow coloring of the fish. Very nice picture!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I like the blue netting and the yellow coloring of the fish. Very nice picture!

x2

 

[Happy Chooks]

Mary - I forwarded your issue on to be looked at. I have an Ipad and use Safari and haven't had that problem. Weird.

 

[kathyinmo]

I really like the layout and colors in this shot, and wanted to see what Mary thought as a photo expert (yeah he went back into the water after, way too small to eat)



Definitely better with a horizontal layout!

That's a great picture!

 

[kathyinmo]

We went to the feed store this morning, then stopped at the Saturday Farmer's Market on the Square. We bought a 1/2 box of organic fresh food "mixture." One item in it is okra. I do not like okra. We also bought some fresh baked bread, zucchini bread, and some bread pudding. We ate some of the bread pudding with our morning coffee...... oh my gosh, it was soooo delicious! The baker said it was just out of the oven a couple hours earlier and his "syrup" topping has rum in it. Sooooo, now I am drunk, but happy!

Yesterday I made a recipe I found on facebook - pulled pork made in crock pot with Dr. Pepper and vinegar. OH MY GOSH ! ! ! Delicious! I also made baked beans (Pioneer Woman recipe) to go along with it. Tyler and Taylor came out for supper and left stuffed. Brownies for dessert - but I just used a box mix.

Early this week I lost a couple more chickens. I wish the heck we could catch that dang coyote or whatever it is..... Anyway, my chickens are all locked in their pens again. No more free ranging or fresh grass and bugs.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Early this week I lost a couple more chickens. I wish the heck we could catch that dang coyote or whatever it is..... Anyway, my chickens are all locked in their pens again. No more free ranging or fresh grass and bugs.

I'm sorry you are having predator issues.

 

[debs_flock]

Deb how on earth do you hand raise teeny tiny little things like that? I would think even an eye dropper is to large. You must have the patience of a saint. or be totally nuts like the rest of us. You know there is a fine line between genius and madness.

Being retired helps, lots of time to do fiddly stuff, LOL

I'm with Diva, how do you raise those tiny ones????

What diet, what fed with? How do you 'house' them? The works.

I love both those species of finches, and all of the rest, I once had a nice fly aviary with finches, and button quail on the bottom. I miss it.

So please instruct us on how you do it.

, really want to know.

I am still certainly not the master at hand-feeding finches, they are tiny! I start them out feeding with the blunt end of a flat toothpick. I feed Kay-Tee hand feeding formula. I keep it in the freezer, since I use such a small amount with the finches. I have it for weak poultry chicks as well.

It's much simpler if the parents will raise the finches of course, but my gouldians were lousy parents. I didn't let them breed again after this. They raised one clutch and then tossed all their babies in the next three clutches.

The singers are great parents. All my finches are fed on Lafeber pelleted food, much better than a seed diet. They then get "green" food every day (veggies, fruits, egg, etc). When I have nestlings in the cage, I also supply a cup with nestling food (also great for poultry chicks). My biggest brain inspiration was feeding "fresh meat" insects. Because of my frogs I raise flightless fruit flies. I put some in a cup, dust them with vitamin powder, put them in a cup with a lid and stick it in the freezer. Ten minutes later I have fresh frozen "meat". I put that in a cup and put it in the finch cage. I swear those birds listen for me to open the freezer door. In a huge rush, they fly back and forth feeding those defrosted FF's to their babies. They worked out really well for raising babies that have any amount of insects in their wild diet.

I really like the layout and colors in this shot, and wanted to see what Mary thought as a photo expert (yeah he went back into the water after, way too small to eat)



Definitely better with a horizontal layout!

I LOVE the fish, beautiful.

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I'm getting enough late night hits, the neighbor even called to say he was in his yard in the dark the last couple of days and saw raccoons circling our pens. The trap was reset last night! I haven't checked it yet this morning.

 

[debs_flock]

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I'm getting enough late night hits, the neighbor even called to say he was in his yard in the dark the last couple of days and saw raccoons circling our pens. The trap was reset last night! I haven't checked it yet this morning.

Now it's been checked..............................................debs_flock 1/raccoons 0...........................best can of cat food I ever bought. At least this time it wasn't "black and white".