Texas

[backyardklukker]

Hello everyone,
My name is Luke. I live in Elm Mott, Texas, near Waco. I finally joined this site and someone just recently sent this link to me as being the Texas Room for bloggers. I didn't know there was such a thing. So, again, "Hello."

 

[TexasLisa]

Hello everyone,

My name is Luke. I live in Elm Mott, Texas, near Waco. I finally joined this site and someone just recently sent this link to me as being the Texas Room for bloggers. I didn't know there was such a thing. So, again, "Hello."

Welcome from Rosenberg, TX!!

Lisa

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Hello everyone,

My name is Luke. I live in Elm Mott, Texas, near Waco. I finally joined this site and someone just recently sent this link to me as being the Texas Room for bloggers. I didn't know there was such a thing. So, again, "Hello."

Welcome! What kind of chickens do you have?

 

[backyardklukker]

I have:
Plymouth Barred Rocks
Buff Orpingtons
Delawares
Silver Spangled Spitzhaubens
Rhode Island Reds
Rhode Island Whites
Silver-Laced Wyandottes
Blue-Laced-Red Wyandottes
Salmon Faverolles, and
Seramas

They have indoor/outdoor heaters in their coop and and automatic watering system where they drink through nipples screwed into pvc pipe that is also heated with heat wire and there is a barrel de-icer in the watering barrel. You can see the watering system in the first picture mounted beneath the nest boxes via the white pvc pipe. I just got started 3 months ago. I've never owned a chicken before this. I grew up with Homing Pigeons. So birds are not new to me. I have had to cure coccidioses/CRD/gape worm/and eye worms from all the birds I bought and brought in from different places. They way I see it, most of my birds were rescued!!!!!! I own 70 adult birds and I have 120 eggs in the incubator now, which I also built and tested for 6 months. I've learned a lot about them, and all of my Googling has lead me back to this site....lol...so I finally joined. It was well worth it.

 

[backyardklukker]

Here is the incubator I built and it has hatched quite a few now, with 95% hatch rate. I have also, gotten all my birds PT tested so I can legally sell from my place of residence within the state once I get everything going the way I want it.......I still have some new breeding pens to build in another building...which is not in the pictures. I also have 75 Homing Pigeons here too...I do all of this from only 1 acre of land. So I have to keep it neat and organized to keep them healthy and clean.

 

[Ms Jellybean]

My Christmas project (my family is doing "handmade gifts") is coming along....kinda. I have had limited experience using a jig-saw so I did the best I could cutting the pieces for the garden baskets I'm making. They are going to look "homey" to say the least.

We were trying to get away from the "exchange gift cards" that we've been doing for years. There is only one child (niece) on my side of the family and she is still getting store gifts and/or gift cards...she is almost 11 and it's hard to buy for that age!

Are any of y'all doing anything different this year for Christmas gifts?

I made these for my sisters this year and I put handmade soap in each one. I bought the soap on etsy, but I am going to learn how to make my own cold pressed soap soon.

I bought one of the books at an antique store and was given 2 more. It kills me to cut up a book so I tried to find books that weren't anything special. Just inexpensive. [I found the complete set of Sherlock Holmes stories published in 1960 and bought that one to give to my son to read. HE loves to read. ]

I am making these from the book pages now. I need to get my glue gun back from Trevor. He borrowed it for a school project and still has it. Maybe I will just pick up a new one.....

 

[hungnguyen]

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Hi again BackYard Luke. It's me. And I am from Austin.

 

[Ms Jellybean]

I have:
Plymouth Barred Rocks
Buff Orpingtons
Delawares
Silver Spangled Spitzhaubens
Rhode Island Reds
Rhode Island Whites
Silver-Laced Wyandottes
Blue-Laced-Red Wyandottes
Salmon Faverolles, and
Seramas

They have indoor/outdoor heaters in their coop and and automatic watering system where they drink through nipples screwed into pvc pipe that is also heated with heat wire and there is a barrel de-icer in the watering barrel. You can see the watering system in the first picture mounted beneath the nest boxes via the white pvc pipe. I just got started 3 months ago. I've never owned a chicken before this. I grew up with Homing Pigeons. So birds are not new to me. I have had to cure coccidioses/CRD/gape worm/and eye worms from all the birds I bought and brought in from different places. They way I see it, most of my birds were rescued!!!!!! I own 70 adult birds and I have 120 eggs in the incubator now, which I also built and tested for 6 months. I've learned a lot about them, and all of my Googling has lead me back to this site....lol...so I finally joined. It was well worth it.

That is quite the set up have! Very nice.

Are your Delawares aggressive?
Are your Wyandottes mean?

 

[backyardklukker]

Hey, thanks for the link here. I didn't know there was a place for Texans to communicate here.

 

[backyardklukker]

My wyandottes are only 4 months old right now. However, they were placed with many other birds in the same coop for the first couple of months, so they as of now, they are not aggressive at all. The Delawares are almost 7 months old and haven't started laying yet, and they were treated the same as the wyandottes and are not aggressive either.