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[KMHunter]

Quote: No not cedar chips. Just the regular bark chips from Home Depot. There are cedar chips and you can get cedar mulch, but you wouldn't want that. itsren if your cedar chips have beed outside for a long time they shoudn't be toxic anymore. It's the oils in the wood that can cause a problem. Should be washed away.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Here are my new babies! Below is the one Faverolle that would sit still for picture time! Lol!

Such fluffy chicks! I was surprised.


My Silkies

Oooh - they are so cute!!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Hmm, I was considering adding sand to my big coop/run ground this year. We have bare dirt in there now and I just don't like the way it looks. What kind of bark chips are being used? Is this something I can find at Lowe's or Home Depot? It sure would be easier to carry than sand!
Yes! The big bark chips. So far even when it's wet, my eggs are clean and there is no more mud!!!

We put loads of bark chips in 2 yrs ago. It was great the first year. Now they have totally completely sunk into the mud in the winter. Now that their runs are dry, there is NO sign of the bark chips! So beware, you will have to replenish them. Unless your run is covered.......

 

[Kenshan1]

I'm in the Washington desert, a.k.a. the Tri-Cities, Kennewick to be exact. Anyone else around me? I'm so glad to have a reprive from the horrible wind we've been having. I was worried my chickens might blow away!

Well my lil sister, BIL & their 2 kids live over there but sadly don't have chickens. She use to show dogs until the young ones came along, 1 is now 2wks old & the other is coming up on 2yrs.

Shannon

 

[Kenshan1]

OK well I'm off to see where the heck to buy sand. I only had ONE 100lb bag of sand in the garage; don't know if it was the right type, but the run was getting pretty bad and impossible to clean out yet as it's still just dead grass in there. I need sand so I can rake it out every day! Today will be sand day and find-an-armoire day for the run

Home Depot should have it. I just used playground sand.

Shannon

 

[Chicken Rustler]

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a wonderful day to be neighbors, would you be mine, would you be mine. Won't you be my neighbor!!!

Not sure if I remembered the words to that right but oh well. It is so nice out!

Also how do I introduce turkeys to each other???

Tom this is yer brother Tom and yer other brother Tom !

Sorry Mr Rogers made me say it!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Okay, thinking of getting a second incubator.....

But I'd need it and a turner within the next few days. I've had wonderful success with our Hovabator 1602N and turner, so I'd probably go with one of those or something equally successful. But I don't want to pay LOTS of money since I'll still need to pay for eggs

Before I call stores or order online, does anyone have one??

SILKIEBATOR SILKIEBATOR SILKIEBATOR ! ! ! Set it and (almost) forget it. No worry's. No need for a turner. Needs no electricity.

 

[Kenshan1]

If you can wait until the Monday after 4th of July, we'd LOVE to try to hatch something for you. We just bought a couple of mini incubators from Chubby Chicken and we really want to do a science project with the kids over the summer. I'm having them study animal husbandry and the life cycle of the chicken. Then they'll write a "what I did over the summer" paper about it for their teacher. I'd really like for them to see the hatching process - but, at the same time, we can't keep chicks that hatch during August because of a scheduled vacation.

If you find the eggs - we'd be more than happy to do that. Did I catch that right - you're in Bonney Lake? We're in Auburn.

I'd love that only I was hoping to find close to the same age chicks to go with the chicks we have now that way they grew up together & not have flock that doesn't bond together. I just lost a chicken that never bonded with the flock, everytime she got scared she ran away from the flock & that's how the Owl got her.

The funny thing about Bonney Lake is that our road is split down the middle, we are on the Lake Tapps side & the other side is Bonney Lake. So we are outside city limits by half the road lol. We are near Lake Ridge Middle School off of Myers Rd.

Shannon

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Here are my new babies! Below is the one Faverolle that would sit still for picture time! Lol!

Such fluffy chicks! I was surprised.


My Silkies

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

If anyone is interested in a bantam cockerel, either for a backyard flock, or for dinner, Rob is going to be here on Sunday, and can bring them home with him to be picked up there. I have 2 buff Faverolles project boys, one bearded, one not. I also have a black PQ Silkie cock, who is an experienced free-ranger, and would be an excellent flock protector.

If someone wants to process them, they are all good sized boys for bantams.