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[insanity]

Is it always so hard to pick who stays and who goes? I raised extras this year to help a family friend start a flock and today was the day to seperate them. She wanted 10 hens and a roo out of my 25 hens and 8 roos. Well after saving back the ones with names and "the only one of that breed" I could only find her 7 hens and a roo. It will have to due because I don't want to part with anyone else.

 

[ronott1]

SCG, I decided to use a Generation 3 Rat killer bate that is D3 based. I put some in a bait station and they would not eat it. I read an article that said to ditch the bait station and string wire through the sticks. Anchor the wire to something and leave it out for the rats to eat. I put 4 sticks out last night and today one is 2/3 gone! Another has about 1/4 gone.
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This is Organic certified and will kill blood thinner resistant rats.It can get wet, is mold resistant and can take temps up to 200 degrees. It is called Agrid3.

 

[scottcaddy]

Is it always so hard to pick who stays and who goes? I raised extras this year to help a family friend start a flock and today was the day to seperate them. She wanted 10 hens and a roo out of my 25 hens and 8 roos. Well after saving back the ones with names and "the only one of that breed" I could only find her 7 hens and a roo. It will have to due because I don't want to part with anyone else.

Is this a way of saying, I need to raise more next year?

Scott

 

[wolftracks]

I need help. Was hoping Renee was around and could put up the chart with the pics of aircell placement during incubation. I'm trying no hydro or anything in the bator, just watching cells, but I can't find my file I saved the chart to.

 

[ronott1]

I need help. Was hoping Renee was around and could put up the chart with the pics of aircell placement during incubation. I'm trying no hydro or anything in the bator, just watching cells, but I can't find my file I saved the chart to.

I have it!

 

[wolftracks]

I have it!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

 

[ronott1]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Your are very welcome!

It seems like we are too dry to not add water in the Central Valley of California.

I do hope it works for you though! Keep us posted.

 

[wolftracks]

OK I have a question.

At 13 days my cells look more like day 7. They were straight out of the hens, so very dinky when I set them. Less than a dime size diameter. Do I need to add water? I have none at all in there right now. I can't remember if I add or if I need to bring down the humidity. I figure if it's to humid in there I can put a dish of rice inside, but I think I need to add. Is that correct?

 

[wolftracks]

Your are very welcome!

It seems like we are too dry to not add water in the Central Valley of California.

I do hope it works for you though! Keep us posted.

I've had horrible hatches in the bators, but the broodies really hatched them out for me this year. We just found 2 dead chicks yesterday, so there's a nest hidden somewhere and I haven't found it. Actually 4 hidden nests, but I found 3 and they aren't what I need hatched out. With molting going on I'm not getting much of anything from the breeds where I got way to many roos and few pullets if any, so I'm trying again.

 

[gryeyes]

Is it always so hard to pick who stays and who goes? I raised extras this year to help a family friend start a flock and today was the day to seperate them. She wanted 10 hens and a roo out of my 25 hens and 8 roos. Well after saving back the ones with names and "the only one of that breed" I could only find her 7 hens and a roo. It will have to due because I don't want to part with anyone else.

I know EXACTLY what you mean. When I had to rehome some beloved roosters, I offered two hens with each rooster to ensure I got folks who wanted to keep chickens, not just pick up free roosters to eat. Not only was it heart-breaking to part with George, Alex, Charlie, Hitchcock, Nugget, Wilbur and the two Cardigan boys, I had to pick out hens to go with him. Although some hens were pullets and not yet named, it was just awful. One nice lady would point at a hen, I'd say, "no, not her..." and look around for a different, likely prospect.

I had three white Leghorns all named Josie which I had hatched from Trader Joe's grocery eggs; two went away. Two Buckeye hens went away, leaving me two. My only Cinnamom Queens left, all three. I could NOT part with any Orpingtons, as I only had one Buff and two lavenders. Not my GLW "Red," as she was a rescue and didn't deserve to go to another home, especially as I didn't know how old she was, although she is still laying. No, not Rebecca, not Samantha, nor Paprika or Cinnamom (not a Cinnamon Queen) - these were all my EEs. Not Molly my BA, not Slvia my SLW, not Belinda my BR, not Rhoda my production RIR, not..... It goes on and on.

Finally, Charlie and Hitchcock went without hens to a farm a feedstore employee found for me - the farm owner was pleased to get a bantam Buff Brahma and a Salmon Faverolle in his flock. (After he clipped their wings, they each showed off and found themselves ladies to wing-dance by the time I left the farm. They were the only roosters I didn't have to give up hens to go with 'em.)

Nowadays, I will sell mutt hatching eggs as a "build your own flock kit" to anybody with a broody hen in their rooster-less flock, but when chickens hatch in my incubators or under my hens, I am not at all willing to part with them.

Hence this purchase of 8.28 acres where I can hoard - I mean RAISE - all the chickens I want.