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[justbugged]

Quote: Yes this is all types of fowls and rabbits, and the auction starts at 11:00 am. If you are selling then you will need the birds at the auction before 10:30 am. There is a live band that plays every morning, and a cafe.

 

[justbugged]

Quote: I tend to have the same problems at the auction, so I mostly drop off my extra birds, and leave. lol

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Take the other water source out. I have been surprise at how fast young birds find the nipple and if they are with other birds that use the nipples they will learn very quick.
Yeah, all of mine did fine once one or two got it. They are just so not apart of the flock that I worry. But I will take it out tonight and see what happens in the morning. I started all of my chicks on it at about a week. (I have smaller ones for my brooders) They figure it out faster than anything!
small bucket with nipples is a good idea too. Nature - in your video you use the buckets for laying boxes and also for feed. I use buckets for feed - but you hang it up? Helps for less kidking out?
I feel it helps plus I don't see mice droppings in the bucket. I also wanted to keep the lid clean from chicken poop. I nest box worked great for smaller birds but my Sussex and orps would not use it so I changed to a 3' long box with no dividers.

 

[SweetSilver]

BLEACH? or Chlorine?
Its my understanding that the 2 are different? Am I wrong?

Chlorine in the form of sodium hypochlorite is an ingredient in bleach:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach

But I think people use the term interchangeably. Chlorine used in pools is not bleach.

 

[SweetSilver]

Ok I have a question for all....
Of those here who have roosters...
can you hand feed them?
pick them up?
carry them around?

We just have cockerels, and yes, some let me do all of these. One almost begs for me to pick him up, another is easy to catch. Another is really tricky to catch, but those times when I've had to he is incredibly calm and falls asleep. Only one is both hard to catch and won't settle. They are all 17 weeks.

They are, by the way, available to a good home. Including, BTW, a pretty-boy beardless EE "bantam" (he's pretty little anyway) named Mr. Green Jeans.

 

[SweetSilver]

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington Project Rooster "Lemon" still not positive on male female but gets chased by the roosters and is very large. Not crowing yet.....




Roosters are free to BYC peeps.... please reserve now if you want one. I need them gone and will start processing the crowing ones tomorrow....

Last question, do you know her/his age? I still can't shake how much she looks like a pullet, despite the suspicious feathering in the other picture. Now I'm dying to figure it out. My girls and I like hopping on the "What Breed/Gender is this?" forum and guess.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

How old of a Roo are you looking for?

Quick! Get one from Fly Robin Fly before she processes her chickens today. She has 4 handsome Cockerels!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Yep, we ALL know the answer to that one. They do it because THEY WANT TO....LOL.

For some reason they pick a box and that is the "prime box" and EVERYONE wants in it. That is just what they do. I have seen photos of 4 and 5 hens stacked in a box.

I read that they want to lay their eggs in a safe place. If there are eggs there already then it must be safe!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington Project Rooster "Lemon" still not positive on male female but gets chased by the roosters and is very large. Not crowing yet.....

I have 2 Lemon Cuckoo pullets. I was sure that one was a rooster as a 2week old because my Cream Legbar cockerel would challenge her when ever I put her back in the brooder. But, at 22 weeks, no crowing, small comb and docile personality and they are huge compared to the Cream Legbars, nearly twice the size. They same pullet now has stitches in her head cause they ripped into it. Maybe it's because she is much larger than they are and maybe they don't like yellow? No idea. She and her sister will be moving in with the big chickens after she recovers. Nice barring on your picture. One of mine looks like this and the other looks like a buff with no barring.

 

[Chickielady]

BLEACH? or Chlorine?
Its my understanding that the 2 are different? Am I wrong?

Thankfully Im not in Africa.

Im not quite on board with the daily bleach water, but I am interested in what you are saying. What kit did you get for testing? Im gathering that the nipple waterers would be the most sanitary way to go. Wouldnt that be a better solution?

Chlorine Bleach, one thing.
We call it Bleach but chemists call it Chlorine.
Chloramine is a processed form of Chlorine that somehow is made more stable so it does not evaporate out of the water as Chlorine does.
Nipple waters can be just as bad as any other font system, where so many drink from the same cup.
If one is sick, the rest will get it from the nipple, unless the water is chlorinated.
We ordered basic Coliform bacteria test kits.
Our spring was contaminated after construction, lines, hoses, pump, culvert & tanks all have to be "shocked" with chlorine.
There is no other way to shock a system.
Severely polluted wells can be shocked with Potassium Permanganate, but Chlorine is easier & readily available.
99.9% of the time the well water is not contaminated as is the construction, the tanks, pump, hoses, etc.
Next year (after all this construction) we will dig up this spring construction & make it bigger & more permenent, and a gang UV sterilizer system and a chlorine injector like the ones Municiple water systems use, but on a smaller scale.
Chlorine is ultra sensitive by UV radiation (sunlight) and can be 'killed off' quickly if in water left in the sunlight.
Chlorine also evaporates out of the water within 24 hours.