Texas

[kenmlang]

I am from the Athens area. I am new to this chicken keeping thing but I have been reading everything I can on these forums. I started out with 6 day old chicks.

2 Production Red Pullets
1 Barred Rock (cockerel)
2 Black Sex Links (1 cockerel and 1 pullet who died after our heat lamp went out on day 4)
1 New Hampshire Red who died a week ago at 7wks due to unknown illness (possible vitamin deficiency)

3 days after getting my first batch of chicks chicken math got ahold of me and I went back and got 9 more.

3 Mottled Javas (sex unknown)
2 more Production Red Pullets
1 white Cochin ( I suspect cockerel because of red in the comb even though the comb is small)
3 Easter Eggers. (1 we gave away due to it excessively pecking the others and the other two turned out to be cockerels)

They are 8 weeks now. We will give away all but 1 of the cockerels. We will keep either the cochin or one of the EE. It would like to process my extra cockerels but DH is much more an animal lover than me and says we cannot kill animals we raised in our living room. He will never admit to liking my chickens though. I am already window shopping incubators and have a wish list of breeds I want to add to my flock. I want to hatch at school with my third graders.

On my wish list:
A Fizzled Cochin
Easter Eggers or Ameracaunas
Olive Eggers
Marans

I want a colorful basket.

from Cut-N-Shoot!!!!

 

[Brookshire11]

Good day all...
Was a busy weekend...hope all of you Dad's had a great day!
We built DH"S Dad a soaker irrigation system for his garden, that was his gift, works great too.
DH got tools...never go wrong with tools.

Had a bit of a bitter -sweet weekend though.

I got 'em! Finally got 2 Black Australorp pullets. DH found them on Craig's list for me. It was a 120 mile round trip Saturday, but it was all country roads so was a nice trip. Went to Onalaska. Paid $15 each. Seemed fair to me and I've really been wanting these girls. I hope they were right about neither being a roo. They are about 12 weeks old, pretty much the same size as our teenagers which will be 12 weeks Wednesday..

This is Matilda...



...and this is Shela

Matilda is bigger but they both appear healthy. I took a big chance and put them straight out in the yard. I had no place to quarantine them and it's too hot to hold them in a dog crate. We checked them over for mites and lice and they look bright and are active and were accepted quite well by the others.

On a sad note...found my little cuckoo maran had passed away Sunday. She'd been on antibiotics quarantined for over a week. She appeared fine, no symptoms so i was letting her out during the day Friday and Saturday. When we checked on everybody Saturday night she was roosting by herself. She hadn't really reintagrated into her flock either so I didn't really worry too much, but I picked her up and she felt cold...her feet were cold so we put her in a nest box. When we came home from church yesterday I didn't see her in the yard, but found her on the floor of the coop. Think she died sometime in the night,,,may have fallen out of the nest...don't know...she was such a sweet bird too. But can't have any weaklings....must think positive.

Will catch up on reading later...take care all

Sorry about your cuckoo baby Those Australorps look great!
I want some, but I'm having a hard time finder them from a breeder.

I keep telling her I don't keep free loaders, if she don't lay I'll eat her. But I guess she knows I won't really do it, so that threat don't work, any others I could try? Lol.

I tried that with my girls
Didn't work either lol

 

[sm2teach]

where you located? Im selling my ameraucana trio. Pure ameraucana, not easter eggers

I am about 30 miles west of Tyler and about 80 miles south of Dallas near Athens. It seems you are quite a ways away.

 

[Starfire669]

Good day all... Was a busy weekend...hope all of you Dad's had a great day! We built DH"S Dad a soaker irrigation system for his garden, that was his gift, works great too. DH got tools...never go wrong with tools. Had a bit of a bitter -sweet weekend though. I got 'em! Finally got 2 Black Australorp pullets. DH found them on Craig's list for me. It was a 120 mile round trip Saturday, but it was all country roads so was a nice trip. Went to Onalaska. Paid $15 each. Seemed fair to me and I've really been wanting these girls. I hope they were right about neither being a roo. They are about 12 weeks old, pretty much the same size as our teenagers which will be 12 weeks Wednesday.. This is Matilda... ...and this is Shela Matilda is bigger but they both appear healthy. I took a big chance and put them straight out in the yard. I had no place to quarantine them and it's too hot to hold them in a dog crate. We checked them over for mites and lice and they look bright and are active and were accepted quite well by the others. On a sad note...found my little cuckoo maran had passed away Sunday. She'd been on antibiotics quarantined for over a week. She appeared fine, no symptoms so i was letting her out during the day Friday and Saturday. When we checked on everybody Saturday night she was roosting by herself. She hadn't really reintagrated into her flock either so I didn't really worry too much, but I picked her up and she felt cold...her feet were cold so we put her in a nest box. When we came home from church yesterday I didn't see her in the yard, but found her on the floor of the coop. Think she died sometime in the night,,,may have fallen out of the nest...don't know...she was such a sweet bird too. But can't have any weaklings....must think positive. Will catch up on reading later...take care all

Nice chicks. And tell your hubby, nice ink! I love tattoos, got a few myself.

 

[magpiesing]

Nice chicks. And tell your hubby, nice ink! I love tattoos, got a few myself.

Thank you and I will. We like tats also. We are both tat artists...retired now. We had a tattoo studio in Willis for three years. Was called Skin FX. So I did most of his work and he did all of mine. Haven't had a new piece in two years since we closed the shop.

I am content for now that I got the Aussies. Next year I will be very selective on new birds.

Your ducks are beautiful. I'm sure they are very entertaining.
What a treat to have wild ducks visit you. The only time I've had any contact with a wild duck was last fall. Dh was cleaning up behind the barn and he yelled. It's a duck!
Someone had shot a mallard drake and it couldn't fly. We thought it was just grazed so called our ranger friend to see if we could keep it. Sadly it was dead the next morning so it was probably hurt more than it appeared. Really ticked me off too because it was out of season for hunting duck.

 

[magpiesing]

Got up this morning to 4 crowing roos!!! Or at least trying to. Kanga, who is 7 months old just started crowing last week. But the two leghorns are just 3 months and they are both working on it already. They sound really rough like rusty hinges and it takes all the wind they can muster...LOL They are both "randy" roos too. They are already chasing and mounting my big hens. The girls want nothing to do with them and let them know too. They squawk and Abraham comes running...."Get off my ladies you little punks!"

 

[tiedyemommy]

I keep telling her I don't keep free loaders, if she don't lay I'll eat her. But I guess she knows I won't really do it, so that threat don't work, any others I could try? Lol.

I have no advice for you. I just ignored The Ladies because I thought I was another month, or more, away from laying...and BAM...EGGS!

 

[Brookshire11]

Thank you and I will. We like tats also. We are both tat artists...retired now. We had a tattoo studio in Willis for three years. Was called Skin FX. So I did most of his work and he did all of mine. Haven't had a new piece in two years since we closed the shop.

I am content for now that I got the Aussies. Next year I will be very selective on new birds.

Your ducks are beautiful. I'm sure they are very entertaining.
What a treat to have wild ducks visit you. The only time I've had any contact with a wild duck was last fall. Dh was cleaning up behind the barn and he yelled. It's a duck!
Someone had shot a mallard drake and it couldn't fly. We thought it was just grazed so called our ranger friend to see if we could keep it. Sadly it was dead the next morning so it was probably hurt more than it appeared. Really ticked me off too because it was out of season for hunting duck.

Neat! My Hubby worked at shop in Huntsville or a bit. Just piercing, he's not an artist.
His best friend up here is a tattoo artist too. I don't have any myself yet...things always come up that I figure need the money more. lol
Josh has 15 or 17..I can't remember if the 15 was before or after he got the kids' names.

Got up this morning to 4 crowing roos!!! Or at least trying to. Kanga, who is 7 months old just started crowing last week. But the two leghorns are just 3 months and they are both working on it already. They sound really rough like rusty hinges and it takes all the wind they can muster...LOL They are both "randy" roos too. They are already chasing and mounting my big hens. The girls want nothing to do with them and let them know too. They squawk and Abraham comes running...."Get off my ladies you little punks!"

 

[winteree]

No, no issues. I brooded the chicks, goslings, and ducklings outside after the temps warmed up. No losses from it. My first batch of chicks and goslings were brooded inside for a month before going outside. I kept them on heat, especially at night. My other batches of chicks, goslings, and the ducklings went straight outside into a nursery section that is draft free and has a heat lamp. The ducklings are my last babies for this year (unless I lose control again, lol). They only needed heat for 2 weeks at night because our summer temperatures were kicking in. I hope that helps.

i brooded my anacona duckling inside for the first week and a half to make sure their was no leg problems after they hatched. So last night i put them out in their pen and they haven't eaten or drank anything since last night. I was in a hurry because i was getting eat alive by bugs and put them in the brooder before i put their bills in the water etc but the feeding station hasn't changed it's still the same Tupperware should i be worried? When i was putting them in the brooder they ALL jumped out of my hands into the brooder but it was only about a 6in drop onto a 4in pile of hay but i didn't think anything of it because they all ran to the back of the brooder and laid down in a pile could they have gotten hurt and me not know it?

 

[winteree]

Got up this morning to 4 crowing roos!!! Or at least trying to. Kanga, who is 7 months old just started crowing last week. But the two leghorns are just 3 months and they are both working on it already. They sound really rough like rusty hinges and it takes all the wind they can muster...LOL They are both "randy" roos too. They are already chasing and mounting my big hens. The girls want nothing to do with them and let them know too. They squawk and Abraham comes running...."Get off my ladies you little punks!"

lol's yeah my bantam rooster hellion started crowing full time he is only like 18 weeks old its so funny though because he and the 2 white 8 week old chicks are the same size, color and hellion has a pea-comb so every-time i see him crowing i yell out "you are too young for that!" and hellion turns around to look at me like he saying "what?" then i notice it's him "never-mind"