Texas

[RichnSteph]

Just wanted to pop in and say hello from Adkins!

 

[srosales1996]

Hahaha!

 

[SlipsWife]

I have incubators running all the time and am still excited about hatches. I never get over it. I am truly a crazy chicken lady! BTW I'm in Barnhart so not real far from you

As far as Texas goes, we're practically neighbors!

Still no signs of anything changing. I have the eggs in cartons for hatch, with the bottoms cut off. I swear they are laying in different positions when I check on them, leaning to a different side, but if I sit there and watch them, I don't notice any movement.

I wasn't suppose to have anything going on today but 2 of my kids have called with after school plans and needing rides to practices and such so....fingers crossed that's when everything will start kicking into gear!

I have Turken eggs that are shipping my way today...

 

[srosales1996]

I have incubators running all the time and am still excited about hatches. I never get over it. I am truly a crazy chicken lady! BTW I'm in Barnhart so not real far from you

Hey I am in Angelo!!! talk about neighbors

 

[lovingmyhens]

Welcome from Katy! Glad to have you

 

[Cassie Collins]

Beautiful Photo!
Welcome from Pleasanton!

Welcome from Ft.Hood/Killeen !

 

[Cassie Collins]

Hahaha!

BAH HAHAHA!!!

 

[henless]

Hello fellow peeper keepers...
Got some updated picks of some of the gang

This is Foghorn a white leghorn..of course
Newton is the brown leghorn already getting a little color

You've got some good size combs there! Mine are 8 weeks old now, and none have combs anywhere near that size, so hopefully mine are all hens!

Good evening ya'll! Austin, TX here. I just found this thread & thought I'd say "Howdy".

- TieDyeMommy

Welcome from East Texas! Love your pic!!

Today should be hatch day for the chicks in our incubator. I'm trying not to get to excited... We did hear a few chirps on Saturday when we would tap the incubator. I think I heard a tapping this morning but it might just be me being excited. I candled yesterday but didn't notice any internal pips. I was hoping that since we put 3 bantam eggs in that they would hatch early, but they didn't...

I wish I had something to keep me busy today!!!

Good luck with hatching day!

Popping in to say "Hello" and Happy Belated Easter! Took the kiddos camping over the weekend and I'm pretty wore out. I must be getting old.

Serious question though....Should I worm my Chickens? I do not see any visible worms in their droppings and none of them currently display any symptoms of having worms, but I've read on this forum that a bi-annual worming program is recommended.

I've also read that once you worm you must wait 4 weeks before you eat any eggs. My girls are 12 weeks old today so if I worm them at say 14 weeks old, they should have the medication out of their systems by the time they get ready to lay at around 18 weeks. Is 14 weeks too young for the paste-type wormer?

What say ye more educated folks from BYC Texas?

Great question. I'll be glad to hear this response myself. Wanted to say Clovis, love the new chicken coop you are building. It's going to be a really nice one!

Just wanted to pop in and say hello from Adkins!

Hello from East Texas! Great thread here. Hope you enjoy!!

We had a lovely weekend. Weather was nice, and my granddaughter had fun hunting Easter eggs. It was kind of hard to hide them, she she got Jack, my Jack-Rat terrier, to help her find them, lol.

We never got around to making my bucket feeder, but we did make the bucket waterer. I really like it, and the chickens picked up on the horizontal nipples right off the bat. I didn't even have to show them what they were.




They seem to be drinking from the nipples just fine. You always wonder if they are getting enough water or not. This is pretty easy for me to fill. Even when it's full, it's not that heavy for me to carry. I like the large opening. I plan on putting frozen water bottles in it this summer to help keep them cool. This lid isn't hard to open like some of them are.


Hope to have the bucket feeder finished this weekend.

Also, don't know if I ever updated about the fire ants, but the boiling water didn't work, so put some fire ant poison on them and they were gone within two days.

We're supposed to have a chance of rain this afternoon. We also have ball practice, so hope we get it in before the rain gets here.

 

[bnjrob]

They seem to be drinking from the nipples just fine. You always wonder if they are getting enough water or not. This is pretty easy for me to fill. Even when it's full, it's not that heavy for me to carry. I like the large opening. I plan on putting frozen water bottles in it this summer to help keep them cool. This lid isn't hard to open like some of them are.

Some people say that their chickens didn't get enough water from using nipples - I haven't seen that with ours. Yes, it does mean that they may have to spend more time drinking than if they were just scooping up water from a bowl, but I don't think it's a bad thing. When there is a lot of pecking/bullying, "they" make recommendations to feed crumbles, so that the birds have to spend more time eating to get the same amount as opposed to just swallowing a pellet. To me, the nipple watering system is the same way. They spend more time actively getting water instead of getting "bored" and harassing other chickens.

 

[magpiesing]

I see three boys here...

Really??? The leghorns are obvious. How can you tell about the maran. I'm just going by appearance...little comb...uneducated experience.
That being the case ...I have no idea what I have then. Thought I was pretty lucky to get only 2 roo out of 10 chicks.