Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[cathiesue]

Happy Half Price Candy Eve to everyone!

 

[Leahs Mom]

You too!

 

[TxFlowers]

Has anyone heard from Walli lately? Haven't seen her around in weeks.

I had been wondering about her myself. I hatched some of her eggs about a month ago and sent her a PM letting her know how the hatch went but she hasn't checked her msgs in all that time. Hopefully it is just her internet. Have several beautiful chicks and I have to say that I have never seen eggs packed so well for shipping as hers! lol Definitely an example of EXTREME packing! I had nearly every egg begin to develop and the air cells were in really great shape for shipped eggs. I didn't hatch as many as I should have but it was just due to all the rain and high humidity we had the last couple of weeks of their incubation and the eggs just didn't lose enough moisture by hatch time.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

 

[ki4got]

Quote: i'll agree, she packed extremely well. the only oddity I noticed was as I unwrapped each egg, beads of water would condense on the shells then evaporate quickly. turns out, it was probably because the PO was air conditioned and the eggs were cooler than my open home.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Happy Half Price Candy Eve to everyone!

I like half price candy and it means Thanksgiving is on the way.

 

[ki4got]

ok well it's official. LOL I have 2 red/white and 2 blue mille of leighs, 1 of each group is crested. and I THINK that Confetti (KY loud mille cockerel) is going to stay too. the penguin I got from her is also crested, but also quite possibly a roo, and I want only clean-shaven boys. LOL

then I also have 1 penguin and 3 mille (somewhere between blue/black) from wildhorseannie too. none crested there.

on the pen building progress, I've got the roof wire on, the back wall's ready to go up, then I can wire the 'between' wall, fronts and outside wall an start using it!
it's more secure than my doghouse pen which something managed to barge into and eat 2 of my bantam cochin roos (the 6 girls got away), which I have no replacements for (red and silver laced)

whatever it was chewed thru the ratchet strap holding the doghouse to the pen, then shoved it away from the pen about 3' and popped the top off. that thing is NOT light, so whatever did that was one strong SOB. discovered yesterday in the daylight, it also tried clawing the roof off one of my other pens, busting 1 hinge, so hubby screwed the lid down tight, for now, until I can relocate them too. till then feed and water go thru the wire.

at this rate i'm NEVER going to get any good silver laced cochins going. maybe I put another order in for some more eggs and these girls can just lay eating eggs till then...

 

[SunnySkies]

Not a good way to wake up. The winds are howling here. We live on top a hill too. It easily tops 50-60 mph at my place without a storm sometimes.

Was asleep, heard some crazy noise and decided to go out to have a look. Well, my SFh coop had blown over and down the hill. Maran coop had blown over and was laying on its side.

My black SFH roo is unaccounted for I hope he turns up when the sun comes up, that maybe he ran for it and found some hidey-hole where I couldn't see him in the dark and rain.

The wind took the roof off a third coop and part of the barn. We were hoping to re-roof the barn anyway, but the howling winds might prevent us from working in it today (hubby is off today, for the first time in months...we have so much to do!).

Part of me is glad this happened now...before we get a blizzard and we are out there trying to fix up the coops in the freezing cold, snow and high winds.

Now....to figure out how to anchor my coops down. Last winter, the winds actually got so bad here that it broke the airline cable and ground anchors, picked up and destroyed one of those garage in a box things from TSC. I am thinking about chains, locks and those large concrete anchors, railroad ties. etc.

Yes, I know a permanent structure would be the best solution, but I have to build coops on my own, as hubby isn't here 60-80 hours a week. I can't dig holes deep enough in our rocky earth to put posts in the ground...we have broken two pairs of post hole diggers and had to rent an augur to place fence posts. Sigh.

 

[ki4got]

Not a good way to wake up. The winds are howling here. We live on top a hill too. It easily tops 50-60 mph at my place without a storm sometimes.

Was asleep, heard some crazy noise and decided to go out to have a look. Well, my SFh coop had blown over and down the hill. Maran coop had blown over and was laying on its side.

My black SFH roo is unaccounted for

I hope he turns up when the sun comes up, that maybe he ran for it and found some hidey-hole where I couldn't see him in the dark and rain.

The wind took the roof off a third coop and part of the barn. We were hoping to re-roof the barn anyway, but the howling winds might prevent us from working in it today (hubby is off today, for the first time in months...we have so much to do!).

Part of me is glad this happened now...before we get a blizzard and we are out there trying to fix up the coops in the freezing cold, snow and high winds.

Now....to figure out how to anchor my coops down. Last winter, the winds actually got so bad here that it broke the airline cable and ground anchors, picked up and destroyed one of those garage in a box things from TSC. I am thinking about chains, locks and those large concrete anchors, railroad ties. etc.

Yes, I know a permanent structure would be the best solution, but I have to build coops on my own, as hubby isn't here 60-80 hours a week. I can't dig holes deep enough in our rocky earth to put posts in the ground...we have broken two pairs of post hole diggers and had to rent an augur to place fence posts. Sigh.

get some long rebar rods and pound them in for the corners to anchor to. takes a heavy mallet to pound in, but they will split rocks they encounter, or divert to the side for smaller rocks, but even so, if they're put most of the way in that's a good 2' anchor. and as they rust they become near impossible to remove. (but big enough it would take YEARS to rust completely)

we have one of those metal carports, and they couldn't even drive the rebar more than half way in on a couple spots, it's been there for 12 years now and hasn't budged. even when hubby ran the truck into one corner. LOL

 

[madamwlf]

Not a good way to wake up. The winds are howling here. We live on top a hill too. It easily tops 50-60 mph at my place without a storm sometimes.

Was asleep, heard some crazy noise and decided to go out to have a look. Well, my SFh coop had blown over and down the hill. Maran coop had blown over and was laying on its side.

My black SFH roo is unaccounted for

I hope he turns up when the sun comes up, that maybe he ran for it and found some hidey-hole where I couldn't see him in the dark and rain.

The wind took the roof off a third coop and part of the barn. We were hoping to re-roof the barn anyway, but the howling winds might prevent us from working in it today (hubby is off today, for the first time in months...we have so much to do!).

Part of me is glad this happened now...before we get a blizzard and we are out there trying to fix up the coops in the freezing cold, snow and high winds.

Now....to figure out how to anchor my coops down. Last winter, the winds actually got so bad here that it broke the airline cable and ground anchors, picked up and destroyed one of those garage in a box things from TSC. I am thinking about chains, locks and those large concrete anchors, railroad ties. etc.

Yes, I know a permanent structure would be the best solution, but I have to build coops on my own, as hubby isn't here 60-80 hours a week. I can't dig holes deep enough in our rocky earth to put posts in the ground...we have broken two pairs of post hole diggers and had to rent an augur to place fence posts. Sigh.