Texas

[chicken fever]

Do you have any contacts in the Tyler, East Texas area?  Thanks, Ann

I go out there pretty often because my parents have a ranch near mount pleasant!

 

[jepdude]

Hello from Lampasas, TX. I'm looking for some laying hens anywhere down 183 from Lakeline Mall to Lampasas....This is my route home so I could stop by on the way home if you have any chickens for sale. I'm have 17 eggs in my incubator from my 3 hens but need more since my girls have started to slow way down on production and I won't see eggs from my bator till March...

Look forward to all the clucking...)

 

[RachaelS]

Hello from Lampasas, TX. I'm looking for some laying hens anywhere down 183 from Lakeline Mall to Lampasas....This is my route home so I could stop by on the way home if you have any chickens for sale. I'm have 17 eggs in my incubator from my 3 hens but need more since my girls have started to slow way down on production and I won't see eggs from my bator till March...

Look forward to all the clucking...)

Not sure if these are still available but this is an "Austin Backyard Chicken" Group

http://www.meetup.com/AustinBackyardPoultry/messages/boards/thread/27531272

Best of luck!

 

[knightie]

I'm nearish to Tyler, what's up?

 

[Gittx]

I live a couple of miles east of Edom...Always good to "talk chicken" with a neighbor!

 

[toocountrymel]

Do you have any contacts in the Tyler, East Texas area? Thanks, Ann

Ann, I am in Alba. Not too far from you. Melba

 

[chicken fever]

Anyone near dalas have pure ameraucanas? If so what colors...I'm looking to buy a few pullets or laying hens

 

[texasmomma]

If you want to keep the coons out you will have to use welded wire on your coop, not chicken wire or cyclone fencing as they can reach right through those and grab a chicken.  Also, do you lock your chickens up in the coop at night, or let them stay out in the run?

When we got the chickens they didn't have a coop. So we ended up making a 3 sided coop of sorts in the run as an interim measure before we make something real for the chickens. My dh is making a mobile coop first. I think he's doing the mobile one first to see if he can do it. LOL We let the chickens out as much as we can. We did put wire around the outside of the coop and put up some hardware wire as well. So far, that has deterred the raccoon. I expect the mobile coop to be finished next week and then we can get to work on the real coop.

We think the raccoon was small, youg, or both. It was in the coop. We saw evidence of that. It only got one of the four young pullets. It actually left most of the one it killed for me. We also have some month old chicks in another coop that the raccoon never touched. They are much easier targets. And boy, are they yappy!

I have a shed to lock them in if worse comes to worse.

 

[KnobbyOaks]

I have cutter ants and chicks. We put DE on the outside of the pen. We did not want to kill the healthy bugs in the pen. I hope it works for you. It took 2 days for us.

I'm sad to report that the DE isn't working on my cutter ants. I have had DE in the sand floor of the coop all along and sprinkling it around the outside of the coop only caused a momentary hiccup in their diligence. I had shut down two of their large tunnel opening with 10% Sevin. Now they are opening up new openings inside the pen. I don't let the chicks outside of coop yet, into the pen, because of their young age. If I use the 10% Sevin around the base of the coop, that's sand that they'll eventually be running around in. I don't know if it would be safe to use that strength so close. Comments, anyone?

It's also possible that they could just outfox me and open up holes inside the chicken coop since the DE doesn't affect them, completely circumventing the Sevin-ed pen. Does anyone have any more advice? I'm willing to try as this is getting out of hand and I'm just subsidizing the ants. They're not getting to the food dispenser but to the food that the chicks spill. Sure didn't know that the cutter ants could use chicken feed to grow mushrooms. And I always thought the chickens would eat the ants. *sigh*

 

[slick4591]

We have a pest control guy and I pointed those out to him when we first hired him. He followed the trail and found where they started coming up onto the fence (5 or 6 feet from where the run starts) and set out an ant bait station. That's been about three months ago and I haven't seen any since.