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[showbarnmom]

Ahhh! I've just got to share. Meet Gator!

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

We've used dog clippers to do nails and spurs. You really just take the barest tip off of them because the "quick" comes out a lot farther into the nail/spur than the quick of a dog or cat. I thought I had taken just the tip off on a couple and still they ended up bleeding like stuck pigs. Grabbed some flour and stuck the bleeding part into it for a few minutes to get it to stop bleeding. No illl effects fortunately but I am sure the chickens were thinking "what in the world is wrong with that idiot trying to cut my toes and spurs off?"

lol I imagine so. Do they complain as much as dogs and cats do if you hit the quick?

I have a cross-beaked Welsummer that I have to trim down every now and then, and I use a pedi-paws tool. If I have time I make her a treat dish so she associates trimming with goodies. You can use regular nail clippers too. It depends on how dark the nails are.

I need to get one of these. I don't have a crossed beaked chick, but I might use them on the chickens nails as well as my dogs nails after I clip them with the clippers to make them smooth.

Okay, I need to find homes for 2 silver penciled Plymouth rocks hens. They have only been with an SPR Cock, so for the next month (give or take) they will lay pure eggs if you want to hatch. Willing to trade 2 bags of layer or game feed. This is a really good deal. They are direct from Dick Hortsman, however, while pretty, I can not say they are SQ since I don't show. The Cock is my fav boy, not "cuddly" but not aggressive and follows me around until I try to touch him. Safe with my kids. Willing to meet around the Austin Area. They were born March of last year, so just now hitting 1 year.

I so would have gotten them if I was in the area. <3

Ahhh! I've just got to share. Meet Gator!

Oh! Love <3

Any update on the fav's Kilsharion? =) if not tis cools. I can wait till you see her again.

 

[bnjrob]

lol I imagine so. Do they complain as much as dogs and cats do if you hit the quick?

Nope. At least mine didn't.

 

[Texasmja]

They are all really nice. Why are you getting rid of them? If I was closer I'd snatch them up even though I don't breed Rocks. Your cock is really nice.

Okay, I need to find homes for 2 silver penciled Plymouth rocks hens. They have only been with an SPR Cock, so for the next month (give or take) they will lay pure eggs if you want to hatch. Willing to trade 2 bags of layer or game feed. This is a really good deal. They are direct from Dick Hortsman, however, while pretty, I can not say they are SQ since I don't show. The Cock is my fav boy, not "cuddly" but not aggressive and follows me around until I try to touch him. Safe with my kids. Willing to meet around the Austin Area. They were born March of last year, so just now hitting 1 year.

 

[TattooedKeeper3]

Spent the whole day working on the coup, and it should be ready for move in for next weekend! It will serve as an outside brooder for another week or two before they get steady access to the run...mainly because i still have to cover it.

I have 9 chicks that are 4.5 weeks old, these guys are moving out asap, i then have 6 chicks that are 2 weeks behind them. Will there be a major integration issue? I was planning on letting them brood together in the coup in another week or 2 once the younger ones feather out a bit more before i start opening the run for them.

Will i be able to just put them together since they are pretty close together in age, or will i still have to segregate them?

When I had 2 sets of chicks about a month apart and integrated them the older ones accepted them without to much fuss. That was a year ago at the start of my chicken raising adventures.

Now I only have my four hens left out of that whole group. A friend of mine bought the rest, thank goodness, all 50+ of them. Recently I have been asking myself the same question about integration of age groups. I have my chicks (2 1/2 to 3 weeks) and my ducks (2 1/2 weeks) that I am trying to get integrated in with my year old hens. I hope I can because I really don't want to have to divide the chicken yard in half. I would like everyone to roam through the whole yard.

 

[TattooedKeeper3]

Wow! Good to know! I have never done any of this before so i honestly ddnt know what i was gonna do aside from tilling compost into the soil. I will definately keep sand in mind as well! Thanks!

Also for TexasLisa: I had the same issue when I was living in Richards (not far from Navasota). I went to the local auction barn, for me in Navasota. I asked them if I could fill up the bed of my truck with the manure they cleaned out of the stalls and runs. They said sure and it was free of charge, all I had to do was shovel it into the bed of my truck. It worked out great. I use a hand tiller and tilled that stuff in. I soaked it as much as I could for the first week then just regular watering from there on each day. Oh I also sprinkled some on the top of the soil.
I had huge cucumbers that year, lots of snow peas, strawberries, okra, lettuce, mustard greens, 4 different types of tomato plants totaling to about 20 tomato plants, and they all did wonderfully. I was short on money to buy what I needed to improve the soil and a woman at Tractor Supply suggested I talk to the local auction barn.

I know the manure is supposed to sit for several months but mine broke down perfectly after a month. It might have been all the watering I did. Before each watering I also turned up the soil a bit as well.

 

[GFamily]

hello everyone it's been a few days sense I was last on oh boy a lot of reading to catch up on lol. Well my hubby finally built that coop I was asking for, well sorta I came outside to see what he was working on and told him wow nice brooder and he told me no is your coop I just laughed at him and said how's that going to hold sixty + chickens yo

[/URL]u should have seen the look on his face lol
I now have it listed on Craiga list for 150 with free chicks lol

It's been a few days since I've been on and this made me laugh SO HARD.

 

[Kilsharion]

Okay, I need to find homes for 2 silver penciled Plymouth rocks hens. They have only been with an SPR Cock, so for the next month (give or take) they will lay pure eggs if you want to hatch. Willing to trade 2 bags of layer or game feed. This is a really good deal. They are direct from Dick Hortsman, however, while pretty, I can not say they are SQ since I don't show. The Cock is my fav boy, not "cuddly" but not aggressive and follows me around until I try to touch him. Safe with my kids. Willing to meet around the Austin Area. They were born March of last year, so just now hitting 1 year.

Question for you - do you need to rehome the rooster as well, or just the hens? What kind of layer feed?

 

[Kilsharion]

They are all really nice. Why are you getting rid of them? If I was closer I'd snatch them up even though I don't breed Rocks. Your cock is really nice.

I choked on my coffee when I read this. Only on a forum like this could you say something like that and not be considered naughty.

 

[Kilsharion]

Wow! Good to know! I have never done any of this before so i honestly ddnt know what i was gonna do aside from tilling compost into the soil. I will definately keep sand in mind as well! Thanks!

You can add gypsom, as well. It breaks the clay down really nicely...