Texas

[Squawkers]

Time flies so fast. It does feels like she was just hatched yesterday and look at her now. Wednesday is a stunning Splash DNA Sexed pullet at 3 months old. Still growing and she would make a lovely hen! Ugh, I love her so much!! I kept her and her two sisters who are Blue Frizzle and Dark Blue. They both are stunners for sure. I will have to post both pictures asap! XD

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Sooo cute!!!!!!

 

[NagemTX]

Time flies so fast. It does feels like she was just hatched yesterday and look at her now. Wednesday is a stunning Splash DNA Sexed pullet at 3 months old. Still growing and she would make a lovely hen! Ugh, I love her so much!! I kept her and her two sisters who are Blue Frizzle and Dark Blue. They both are stunners for sure. I will have to post both pictures asap! XD

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Cute!

 

[janiedoe]

I just saw this thread. I'm in Friendswood, south of Houston. I got baby chicks about 4 years ago and then signed up on here. This site has taught me everything I know. Out of my 4 chicks, one turned out to be a cockerel so I gave him away. The other 3 did great up until last summer. I went out to the coop and one was laying there dead. No idea what happened. We check on them daily. Then hurricane Beryl hit us and damaged my coop pretty bad. I patched it up best I could but about a week later came out to the coop to find a trail of feathers leading over to the brush. Something had gotten the last 2 birds.

Now I'm starting over. About to start building a new big stout coop and getting some more birds pretty soon.

Welcome to the Texas thread! I'm sorry about your hens. I hope your new flock will prosper.

 

[janiedoe]

Time flies so fast. It does feels like she was just hatched yesterday and look at her now. Wednesday is a stunning Splash DNA Sexed pullet at 3 months old. Still growing and she would make a lovely hen! Ugh, I love her so much!! I kept her and her two sisters who are Blue Frizzle and Dark Blue. They both are stunners for sure. I will have to post both pictures asap! XD

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Just gorgeous!

 

[007Sean]

I’m new in Texas, south Dallas area, finally starting the chicken breeding project of my dreams.

Still getting the coop set up (rainy and cold days keep interfering!)

I’m hoping to find anyone within a 3-ish hour drive of Dallas who sells Blue Sumatra chickens of any age.

Howdy, and Welcome to the Texas thread!

 

[The Chick Addict]

I'm new here. I'm from the outer San Antonio area in Texas. This year I'm planning to sell chicks for the first time so anyone interested in some dark chocolate eggers, olive eggers, blue eggers, or barred rocks to complete your rainbow basket just let me know. I'll be putting my first batch of eggs in the incubator this week.

Hello! Welcome to the Texas thread, glad to have you here!

 

[ATXInstantFlock]

So my jr chicken farmer and I had a super productive Sunday. Since we're all wimps now, we waited out the "chilly" morning temps and waited until it was in the 60s/70s in the mid afternoon. On top of the usual Sunday chores to refill their food/water, we decided the coop was getting a bit too poopy so I dumped out the contents of the coop and shoveled 3 wheelbarrow loads of chicken poop/dust out of the poultry pen and over to my little compost pile. We gave them fresh pine shavings for the nesting boxes, fresh pellets for the coop, and cleaned/refilled their oyster shells feeders, too. Not too bad for a roughly once/quarter activity. I think I overdid it with pellets last time, so I'm going to try just a single bag this time and supplement as we go.

There's only one problem. One of my doga keeps hanging out near the compost pile that's aging all the chicken poo, pine shavings, and pellets dust. Argh, we have all these biosecurity protocols to avoid tracking chicken poop into the house and my dog goes and undermines everything! Argh!

P.S. if anyone has any particular helpful links on the best way to manage chicken poop into usable compost (potentially used for lawn top dressing, trees, and plant beds), they would be much appreciated.

 

[NagemTX]

So my jr chicken farmer and I had a super productive Sunday. Since we're all wimps now, we waited out the "chilly" morning temps and waited until it was in the 60s/70s in the mid afternoon. On top of the usual Sunday chores to refill their food/water, we decided the coop was getting a bit too poopy so I dumped out the contents of the coop and shoveled 3 wheelbarrow loads of chicken poop/dust out of the poultry pen and over to my little compost pile. We gave them fresh pine shavings for the nesting boxes, fresh pellets for the coop, and cleaned/refilled their oyster shells feeders, too. Not too bad for a roughly once/quarter activity. I think I overdid it with pellets last time, so I'm going to try just a single bag this time and supplement as we go.

There's only one problem. One of my doga keeps hanging out near the compost pile that's aging all the chicken poo, pine shavings, and pellets dust. Argh, we have all these biosecurity protocols to avoid tracking chicken poop into the house and my dog goes and undermines everything! Argh!

P.S. if anyone has any particular helpful links on the best way to manage chicken poop into usable compost (potentially used for lawn top dressing, trees, and plant beds), they would be much appreciated.

At lest hes not rolling somethings excrement and you don't notice till hes on the couch.

I don't even really try anymore on the bio except when going to TSC. Shoes for the chicken stuff and other shoes for other things. No dog here but cats and I can't keep them from walking in it.

 

[RUNuts]

So my jr chicken farmer and I had a super productive Sunday. Since we're all wimps now, we waited out the "chilly" morning temps and waited until it was in the 60s/70s in the mid afternoon. On top of the usual Sunday chores to refill their food/water, we decided the coop was getting a bit too poopy so I dumped out the contents of the coop and shoveled 3 wheelbarrow loads of chicken poop/dust out of the poultry pen and over to my little compost pile. We gave them fresh pine shavings for the nesting boxes, fresh pellets for the coop, and cleaned/refilled their oyster shells feeders, too. Not too bad for a roughly once/quarter activity. I think I overdid it with pellets last time, so I'm going to try just a single bag this time and supplement as we go.

There's only one problem. One of my doga keeps hanging out near the compost pile that's aging all the chicken poo, pine shavings, and pellets dust. Argh, we have all these biosecurity protocols to avoid tracking chicken poop into the house and my dog goes and undermines everything! Argh!

P.S. if anyone has any particular helpful links on the best way to manage chicken poop into usable compost (potentially used for lawn top dressing, trees, and plant beds), they would be much appreciated.

Chicken poop is hot (high nitrogen content = ammonia). I mix mine with wood chips, leaves, amazon boxes, junk mail & other browns (carbon) to absorb & convert to garden gold. 10 gallons coop scoop to 10 gallons of wood chips in alternate layers. Best to wet it, but i wait for rain. Watering the compost will speed up the conversion.

For the dog, build a better fence.

 

[TokoBird]

So my jr chicken farmer and I had a super productive Sunday. Since we're all wimps now, we waited out the "chilly" morning temps and waited until it was in the 60s/70s in the mid afternoon. On top of the usual Sunday chores to refill their food/water, we decided the coop was getting a bit too poopy so I dumped out the contents of the coop and shoveled 3 wheelbarrow loads of chicken poop/dust out of the poultry pen and over to my little compost pile. We gave them fresh pine shavings for the nesting boxes, fresh pellets for the coop, and cleaned/refilled their oyster shells feeders, too. Not too bad for a roughly once/quarter activity. I think I overdid it with pellets last time, so I'm going to try just a single bag this time and supplement as we go.

There's only one problem. One of my doga keeps hanging out near the compost pile that's aging all the chicken poo, pine shavings, and pellets dust. Argh, we have all these biosecurity protocols to avoid tracking chicken poop into the house and my dog goes and undermines everything! Argh!

P.S. if anyone has any particular helpful links on the best way to manage chicken poop into usable compost (potentially used for lawn top dressing, trees, and plant beds), they would be much appreciated.

Back when I lived on a horse farm, we had a dog that LOVED to roll in the fresh horse manure over in the compost pile. She especially loved smushing her face and chest into it.
The only options that worked were:

1) Keep her on a leash, or in a fenced paddock with whatever larger animals she was meant to guard
2) Fence the compost pile so she can't get in.
3) Let her get gross, but she's not allowed back into the house until she has a proper bath OUTSIDE.