The Old Folks Home

[sourland]

Hey, Old Folk. Hope that all are well.

 

[ronott1]

Hey, Old Folk. Hope that all are well.

Welcome back!

 

[pertnear09]

Chickens are tough!

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Can't help but wonder what that chicken is thinking. "Good Lord, what have these people done to themselves "?

 

[ronott1]

Can't help but wonder what that chicken is thinking. "Good Lord, what have these people done to themselves "?

I know!

Climate change is a huge factor in this. We have seen nothing like this ever

 

[cheepteach]

I know!

Climate change is a huge factor in this. We have seen nothing like this ever

all weather systems are so extreme--never a thunderstorm but always a severe weather alert, category 3,4,5 hurricanes--so many of them!

 

[lovesfarms]

My Mom used a treadle sewing machine when I was growing up. It was an amazing thing!

I still use one

 

[pennyJo1960]

wow - they don't build them like that anymore! No built-in obsolescence in those days. Good luck finding a bulb for it.

Unless your have a store that is just for us

Hey, Old Folk. Hope that all are well.

Hey I am alive hope you are too Uncle

I still use one

There is new home where I get my manicures and such

 

[ronott1]

I still use one

My Mom still has the old sewing machine. I bet it still works too

 

[microchick]

My cockerels are needing to be separated. They're doing some fighting now. For those with bachelor pads, talk to me. If I do a bachelor pad, does that mean I should make it so the boys can't see the females? I can do that easily, and it would be a lot easier than trying to put them each into an individual cage.

I have a bachelor pen and no, my boys can see the girls through the fence. They say it's better if they can't but no way that is going to happen with my set up. Does it cause trouble? No. Do they still fight with one another? Not any more. They were pretty scrappy with one another when I first segregated them but once they worked out their pecking order they settled down nicely and everyone now gets along.

One word of warning. If you keep the bachelor pen as a permanent feature, do not try to add new roosters to that pen. From my own experience trying to do that, it does not end well for the newcomer. The tribe will beat him up.

So far I have 7 or 8 roosters in a bachelor pen and 7 (I think) cockerels from this spring and summer's hatchings. I will not be able to integrate the young cockerels with the 'old' birds in the bachelor pen. I'm not sure what I will do with them, they are all nice boys, One SDW, Three Fayoumi crosses and one SDW bantam crossed with an Amish Barnyard. This summer I was able to hatch one full blooded Fayoumi rooster and there are three who's gender is still up for grabs. The way my luck runs they will be roosters.

 

[ronott1]

I have a bachelor pen and no, my boys can see the girls through the fence. They say it's better if they can't but no way that is going to happen with my set up. Does it cause trouble? No. Do they still fight with one another? Not any more. They were pretty scrappy with one another when I first segregated them but once they worked out their pecking order they settled down nicely and everyone now gets along.

One word of warning. If you keep the bachelor pen as a permanent feature, do not try to add new roosters to that pen. From my own experience trying to do that, it does not end well for the newcomer. The tribe will beat him up.

So far I have 7 or 8 roosters in a bachelor pen and 7 (I think) cockerels from this spring and summer's hatchings. I will not be able to integrate the young cockerels with the 'old' birds in the bachelor pen. I'm not sure what I will do with them, they are all nice boys, One SDW, Three Fayoumi crosses and one SDW bantam crossed with an Amish Barnyard. This summer I was able to hatch one full blooded Fayoumi rooster and there are three who's gender is still up for grabs. The way my luck runs they will be roosters.

Thanks for the rooster tips!

I was wondering where you were and then you posted! @chickadoodles has been mia for16 days now