Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[LittleLakePhil]

PCT..... Pacific circle tour?
Am I close?

Guess not......

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Now that I'm leaving it had really started snowing harder....

 

[CapricornFarm]

thank you...

It irks me when my flocks don't look good. .... but.... not much to do when the ground is frozen but there is melted water on top.

Add plant material, dried leaves, hay, sawdust or shavings.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Keets hatching, up to 3 now and some pipped.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Heading out... Y'all have a great day!

 

[Alaskan]

Gosh I miss the good old days..... When cars were cars ......

Hope you all enjoy this.....I know chickisoup will....

watched that with the boys! we loved it!

 

[Alaskan]

Add plant material, dried leaves, hay, sawdust or shavings.

noooooooooo

saw dust would turn into a very stinky rotting mess.

I don't have leaves.. ever.... well.... I could maybe find a few....

only hay I would put on the ground is already so saturated in goat poo and pee...

Nah.... Best is to wait it out... or use pallets to give more mud free areas for them... It would be nice if I could build up the run more with sand. But the dirt floor coop is dry... so it just is what it is.

 

[bobbi-j]

What happens if there's no driver in the family & you're in the boonies? How you get that far just to get meds you need? Ticks me off that everyone assumes you can go wherever they want you to so they're not inconvenienced in any way.

Controlled substances like opioids and some other pain meds are required by law to have a hand written prescription.

 

[WVduckchick]

Omg I forgot to tell you all the funniest thing. A robin was pulling a worm out of the ground and Howard snuck up on it . . waited until it pulled the worm out and pounced! Stole the worm!

too funny

Excellent article my friend! If you had a 28 egg incubator but not enough eggs to fill it, would you stand them big side up or lay them on their sides? Thanks in advance!
My first candling last night was very ...interesting! It was really hard for me to tell if they were viable embryos or not.

Thanks dear!
I still incubate chicken eggs upright, even if the bator isn't full. But laying them down is fine too. Which ever you feel more comfortable with! Actually my new Harris Farms they incubate laying down, so I guess I'm doing it both ways! lol

Candling is fun! You should first see a spider web of red blood vessels, or a black dot of the eye.
@pyxi did a wonderful article detailing day to day development.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/development-of-a-chicken-embryo-day-by-day.72537/

Hey @Ravynscroft - could you hop over to this thread? Really intelligent OP - but I'm at the end of my advice...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...rom-beak-wiggling-neck.1235189/#post-19821649

noooooooooo

saw dust would turn into a very stinky rotting mess.

I don't have leaves.. ever.... well.... I could maybe find a few....

only hay I would put on the ground is already so saturated in goat poo and pee...

Nah.... Best is to wait it out... or use pallets to give more mud free areas for them... It would be nice if I could build up the run more with sand. But the dirt floor coop is dry... so it just is what it is.

I have a bunch of little shallow drainage ditches (more like depressions) to guide the water certain directions.

 

[Alaskan]

I have a bunch of little shallow drainage ditches (more like depressions) to guide the water certain directions.

That is why the water is not in the coop (because around the base of the shed is ditched) ..... .... but the land outside the run is currently higher than the run because of all of the snow and ice ... and until the snow and ice outside the run melts .... there is no place for the water to go.

it can't be absorbed by the ground either... the ground is still frozen.