Utah!

[Daloorashens]

Oh, and if the buckets are heated with those nipple waterers, the water doesn't freeze in the nipples?? How does that work?

 

[RedIII]

Dalooras, you're gonna be inundated with eggs!

Yep, lots of wind today. My birds didn't mind it too much, and thankfully it calmed down right around when I was cleaning the coop. I'm glad, because I really wasn't looking forward to used chicken litter spraying everywhere. I'm looking forward to snow, though I need to make sure the turkeys have somewhere dry to roost.

 

[Daloorashens]

Red, you and your stories about the turkeys crack me up, seriously!! I didn't realize you had Andalusians?? What do you think of them?

 

[Sphinx]

Red, not only have I visited Japan a couple times, but I actually LIVED there for a year. Amazing place. Loved it. I can talk your ear off about it, but I try not to. I would love to see video of those turkey on the teeter totter.

Delarooshens, I'm so excited for all your eggs this spring. Very cool!!

The wind was NUTS today!

 

[Cynthia12]

Still windy here! My number 6 baby didn't make it. I have no idea why. It was in the bator drying off. Still not quite up on it's legs yet. I went out for a while with our son, came back, and it was gone. ?? So, 5 babies. Not too bad. And, I think you can tell the color these are going to be pretty early..I see black in one of the ones that are more white. The others have a brownish color around the neck and wings. Yaay. I think I have some cinnamon! The black in the wings will be the reg. Sussex. We will see.

 

[Daloorashens]

Been folding laundry so I'm still up, with toothpicks in my eyes....

Sphinx.. Japan?? very cool!!

Cynthia... Pics PLEASE and VERY interested in the places you have found that the eggs do/don't ship well from.. do you have a list compiled or is it all in your head???

Going to repeat.... how do you keep the water from freezing in the nipples themselves... or am I missing something?

 

[SashaT]

SNOW!!! We've been in the 60's, and now we have accumulating snow! What the heck? LOL Can't wait to see my chickens reaction when I let them out later this morning.

Nope, don't have the bator yet, as Red said, but I know I'll get it one way or the other. Last resort, I'll be driving a cousin down to the MTC on November 14th and can pick it up then. (She's going to Ecuador!) Aravis, what city are you in?

I use a 3 gallon bucket with 3 chicken nipples in the run, but not in the coop. Since I have both LF and banty girls, I put two bricks together kind of off to one side of the bucket, and the banties easily figured out how to stand on the bricks to reach the nipples. My LF Wyandottes attack the nipples and spray quite a bit of water, so I don't think I'll ever put one in the coop. At least not as long as these 2 messy Marvins are around.

Was going to say something else....but I've been up since 4am, it's 5:30am now...brain is fried.

This week is a crazy work week for me. Working every day at the elementary school from 10am-1pm, then working from 4 or 5pm to closing at Petsmart. Missing my family and critters a little extra, but thankful for the work.

 

[aravis227]

So for those who have the nipples only in the coop or in the run, what do you use in the other space? Remembering that mine will be pretty small, if I put a bucket with nipples in the coop do I need to put water in the run, too?

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Sasha, you have a crazy schedule! Argh! My dog got my son's parakeet last week....ohhh he cried and cried....so we need to make a trip to see you at Petsmart again If they get a huge batch in let me know.

Cynthia, yay to babies! it is bad the one did not make it....darn it! But hopefully you will get your cinnamon girl at least.

The lady from Jackson is coming to my house in the next week still, she called today, to get my rooster (S), yay! And she said she would stop and get my EE from Daloorashens on her way, my morning is good I told her she needs to get on BYC, hope she shows up to say hi in the next few weeks. She is a fun gal.

So, the snow, what to do about that!? It rained all night, poured, then the snow came, I think a couple heavy slushy inches out there this morning. I had meant to buy a few straw bales to put on the West side of my run, for a little shelter from the wind, and then last year the girls really liked scattering it around to keep the dirt dry and less messy. I decided not to shrink wrap the run this year, the plastic works great, but it gets so dusty inside without the fresh air.....and I have a lot more girls this time around. So I am going to stack some straw on that West side and use it to keep the mud down on that side where the snow blows in from the side. But I am late. It is a mess out there this morning, and they are tracking mud all over the coop and nests. Lesson learned! I guess I will have to get moving and get that fixed

 

[RedIII]

We got some rain on and off last night. I hadn't realized it was going to rain yet (silly me) so I was up at 4 am moving the turkeys into the run. They didn't seem to mind very much.

Dalooras, I haven't had the Andies for long. They're some of the hens that Elk needed to rehome before winter, and she didn't want them going into someone's soup pot. I have them in the run out at my BF's house, and I can tell that they are very flighty birds. However, the BF reports that they have started to calm down and will come right over to him while he's out there. Sweet girls, from what I can tell so far. Haven't had much chance to see them since I got them.

Cynthia, sorry your one baby didn't make it

I'm glad that the rest are doing well, though.