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[JW12]

Ok ..... Where is everyone finding their zones? I may have missed a link. I was not paying much attention back a few pages ago when the nonsense was going on. I'm sorry but when all that starts I zone out and just kinda keep up so I can see when we start talking chickens or gardens or something.

 

[bamadude]

I googled usda plant hardiness zone 36374 (my postal code). Im in zone 8a

 

[perchie.girl]

Ok ..... Where is everyone finding their zones? I may have missed a link. I was not paying much attention back a few pages ago when the nonsense was going on. I'm sorry but when all that starts I zone out and just kinda keep up so I can see when we start talking chickens or gardens or something.

LOL.... I started it with http://www.plantmaps.com/91934 which is my zip code you can just put yours in to find your zone.

There are several other maps out there.... this wasjust the one I found first that was easiest to use.

For what its worth every area has micro climates which vary from what is listed.... Its just a guide...

deb

 

[Cynthia12]

Great, I am a dog lover

My last little Goldendoodle went to his forever home last night. I miss this little..big boy.
I spent a week with just him. He didn't mind the chickens, and the chickens didn't mind him. I called him Jack since he was real young, and the people liked it, Jack it is.

 

[drumstick diva]

What a living doll and he got along with chickens. Please take him back. Ooooooooh

 

[Sylviaanne]

In one of the articles that I read late at night, of which I understand very little and retain even less, it mentioned prolactin levels in chickens and it's relationship with broodiness.
High prolactin = broody.
Lower prolactin = egg laying.
Lowest prolactin = rearing chicks.

If you can safely lower prolactin levels you may be able to pull them out of broodiness. Deficient levels of B6 and/or zinc can raise prolactin levels so supplementing with them *might* help. Several of the other suggestions frequently used by BYCers were also mentioned, increase ventilation, etc. I'll have to look for the article after I see why some chicken is calling me.

Where can I buy prolactin? I want some broodys! ROFL

 

[Cynthia12]

http://themetapicture.com/ladies-interactive-mirror/

 

[drumstick diva]

I could use a mirror like that - I think we all could

 

[vehve]

Maybe I'll just have to go with the clear corrugated plastic then. Still have to figure out a handy way of hanging them so that they are easy to take off come spring.

My interactive mirror would probably say "You missed a spot there, no on the other side, on your neck. There, now you got it."

@tridentk9 We just got some new feed for them, maybe that will help a bit. It's a half concentrated feed, 27% protein and higher amounts of other nutrients too. We ran out of our previous layer feed and only had hippie feed left, and I'm not comfortable leaving them on that through the winter so we got some of the concentrate to supplement it.

Cyn, he looks a lot like our neighbors labradoodle Thelma.

I wonder where I would place on that gardening zone thingy.

 

[perchie.girl]

@vehve what ever you make you could build a frame for it and mount the plastic to that.... Have theframe on the side toward the chickens... then mount Hooks to the frame and eye bolts on the coop. that would work for just about any plastic you choose to use.
then in the spring take em off and stack em somewhere out of the way..

deb