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[TouchO'Lass]

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Yeah! What CR said

Missed your intro cuz I'm DAYS behind in reading, lol!

Welcome...
I'm just starting my coop, and my crew are almost 8 weeks old. The coop innovation in BYC is just amazing to me! What people use and use well is just so cool to see! Check out the coops at the main page for ideas, and depending on where you are and how many fuzzies you want, you can get started for WAAAAYYYY less than a grand...

I'm in orchard country, so I've got a 4'x4'x2' apple bin that I put a hinged lid on, rigged a sliding door and some ventilation and set it in a covered dog run until I have my coop done. But a good friend of mine has 3 adult layers and they've lived in an apple bin for years!

Hang around here and you'll be hooked! Again, Welcome!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

TouchO'Lass :

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Yeah! What CR said

Missed your intro cuz I'm DAYS behind in reading, lol! http://bestsmileys.com/waving/2.gif Welcome...
I'm just starting my coop, and my crew are almost 8 weeks old. The coop innovation in BYC is just amazing to me! What people use and use well is just so cool to see! Check out the coops at the main page for ideas, and depending on where you are and how many fuzzies you want, you can get started for WAAAAYYYY less than a grand...

I'm in orchard country, so I've got a 4'x4'x2' apple bin that I put a hinged lid on, rigged a sliding door and some ventilation and set it in a covered dog run until I have my coop done. But a good friend of mine has 3 adult layers and they've lived in an apple bin for years!

Hang around here and you'll be hooked! Again, Welcome!

OOOOO the possibilities of apple bins !!!! Add em together to make larger coopett's HEY HEY HEY I maked a funky new chicken word Coopett ; larger than a chicken tractor (see definition [must be one somewhere] ) but smaller than a full size walk in chicken coop!!!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

My first brooder was an apple crate! We still use it too!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Looking at the weather radar: this is a really good day not to be in Welpinit. The system that's been washing 4312 is pretty much drowning the upper part of Lake Roosevelt and everything just north of it.

It's looking pretty good right now, except for the fact that I've got a load of jeans in the washer and somebody coming to work for me and the combination might draw rain in the desert.

The new BLRWs will go in a prototype hoop house in the yard north of my front door; they'll be out of quarantine by the time I get my wether lamb at the end of June, and that's the closest to the house so I can watch them closely. It's a hair bothersome because it's outside the dog-proof fence; I may have to buy three more livestock panels sooner than I'd planned.

It's my ultimate plan to have the yard and the road fence all in livestock panel, but I've got it budgetted over five years.

Also: nobody ever has sufficient money, in my experience, except saints (who always have enough to give away) and the absurdly wealthy, and it does nobody any good to envy, but I notice when I go green-eyed it's always over fencing materials.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Congrats!! I just checked fertility in my 2 splash Silkie girls, and found a bullseye!! They are in with a black bantam Ameraucana cock to make Silkied Ameraucana bantams!!

yay for fertile eggs!!!

This is way more than just fertile eggs, this is FRENCH Cuckoo Marans, with feathered shanks & TOES and Dark eggs the way they were meant to be, no english cuckoos here!!!!!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_cuckoo_project_babies_005.jpg

CL great pictures, but you need to get the feathers off of the middle toe,

This is From the MOA website.
Outer toes lightly feathered, middle toes free from feathers

sorry to be the one to tell you, but hay if the eggs are nice peopel will want them just let them know they are project birds still.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I got a line of Marans years ago that one or two didnt have rumps, they all went by by.

 

[broodytood]

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Does BO = Buff Orpington?

It does but I actually have blacks and blues. Don't have eggs from them yet, I was just curious what the cross might produce for egg color.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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The dry stuff IS the vaccine, the liquid is just to use to mix it in.
Follow the directions & be ready with syringes and alcohol & keep the big bottle of mixed vaccine in a bowl with ice while you work .
You need small short needles for the birds, and a big needle to mix some of the liquid into the dry little bottle, then shake, then draw it back out & shoot it into the big bottle & shake.
Then draw some out & fill the syring & PUT THE SMALL needle on the syringe to shoot the birds under the skin at the back of the head/neck. Wet with alcohol, it is easy to shoot the needle in at an angle & upwards and squirt in a tiny "bubble" of vaccine.
It hardly takes any time at all.
It is easy.

yes ma'am I understand the vaccine part what bothers me is that I thought it was coming already mixed as in it would last longer than an hour?? does that make sense?? Like I just got goat vaccine, I don't have to mix it and I can draw my how ever many mils and give and put it back in the fridge till next time, with the dry of course, you have to mix it and use it and there goes what 978 vaccines down the drain?? Thank you CL for the instructions I appreciate it!!

I just don't want to waste the rest of the vaccine??? But, I guess I need to find a source for small quantities if that is possible, for now all I could find was the 1000 dose

I'm used to shooting dogs cats and occasional horses, little chicks will be interesting!!

Oh Oh I got this one

You have to freeze it but you will need to draw it up into many syr. for the amount and than pop in Freezer.... Hope Im to late to let you know this...

 

[hokankai]

Well, I've got a sick chick under my broody and 3 from my brooder. I think they might have gotten it from the last batch of chicks I received

. Now what do I do? Take the broody baby and stick it in with the sick brooder babies? Will mama accept it back? Or do I just let it run its course since it looks like they're all gonna get it anyway?

Everyone is currently being treated with tetracycline (duramycin) the girls in the coop look normal still, and the antibiotic appears to be working on the sick hens.

This has been an extremely frustrating and heartbreaking experience. WHEN WILL IT END?!?! If anyone makes it through this round we are not adding ANYMORE unless we hatch them ourselves

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[Zgoatlady]

TouchO'Lass :

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Didn't take it wrong at all. I'm having trouble figuring out how a couple of under 50 lb dogs could do that much damage and not be at least limping! Actually, to me, they looked almost like a couple of basenjis, just without that brindle coloring. The Deputy looked at the pics and said he thought definitely one was yote, the other could be...
not a great pic; they were about 300 ft away and this is the most my camera would zoom https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/84860_100_0591.jpg
Right behind them where the scraggle trees start is the end of our prop and goes up a hill where they have at least 2 dens that I've watched in the past.

I also thought they could belong to some of the orchard workers, because we get new uncollared, intact animals here every year about this time, but they're normally more friendly. These guys skulk like coyotes, but don't look quite as lean or hungry as the yotes we've had in the yard in the past...http://bestsmileys.com/clueless/1.gif

Jus' don't know, but meantime, got the ladies on close watch and my 40cal standing by... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/84860_gun_totin_peeps.jpg

Oh they can do that kind of damage easy... They need to find the owners if there are any because they can pay pay pay for the animals.​