Where did they come from???

[pennyJo1960]

Happy Thanksgiving

 

[Crooked Chicken]

You are right, and not insensitive at all. Thank you. I've considered releasing the final 2, but just can't bring myself to do it yet. I'm going to see if they calm down any after a while with me, then decide.

Thank you! They are gorgeous little birds. Hard to even get good pics of them yet, but here's an internet pic of one

This is my 5, before some took off.

Very cute!

 

[oldhen2345]

're the chickens sleeping under the coop, you could go in after dark and gently put them inside the coop. They'll get used to it after a few days of doing this and go in on their own.

My babies were put in the "baby barn" after they got too big for the brooder. They slept beside the door- just outside it. I would have to go out and pitch their crazy selves inside and close the door for safety. One night I could not find them- looked everywhere- finally looked in the big girl coop- and they were in there snug as a bug in a rug- not on the roosts yet, but in the corner. So proud of them.

 

[oldhen2345]

I'm laughing, but this video hits too close to home. LOL

 

[AllenK RGV]

We get pretty dang cold here... The water froze up last week...which sent me scrambling for a heated waterer. Right now we're having 30 mph winds with 50 mph gusts....and I'm out in it working on the coop. Lol

I'm so happy I don't need such a difficult waterer, had to fiddle with mine to stop it leakng but find them knocking the magnetic anti roosting cover off now............Guess I'm going to gorilla glue thing down now as they found a new way to fowl up their water. Endless battle with them keeping it clean.

 

[oldhen2345]

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A compost tumbler can be useful if one keeps a "manicured" yard, and does not have a lot of compostables. I have one, but really found that it was a waste of money, and it does not function as "claimed."[/QUOTE]
MY compost tumblers worked, but I had a problem with the pine shavings decomposing. They would not- even after 6 months, they were still pretty solid. I turned the tumblers faithfully and kept them moist. It did not smell- just the smell of earth- but I did have an over population of palmetto bugs (waterbugs) living in the composters. EEEWWWW. They would migrate to the house- I had kept the Orkin man busy. So, I switched to using a poop board. I cut a line down my garden with the hoe. Every couple of days, I take the poop board out of the coop and use a paint scraper to scrape it off in the open row in the garden. When a bit of the row is filled, I cover it up with dirt. When each row is complete, I dig out another one. Works well. By spring, I have a very fertile garden. In the spring, I put the poop in a large bucket and let the poop "age", but yep- that does smell.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I like this idea very much. Do you drill a hole in the bucket to run the cord? If so...where on the bucket? Do you happen to have a picture of your set up? I'm a visual learner...and things make more sense to me when I see it.

Would my local Ag store carry this...or is this an online thing?

I'm catching up late but you haven't found tractor supply yet TSC can get ya anything.

 

[AllenK RGV]

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A compost tumbler can be useful if one keeps a "manicured" yard, and does not have a lot of compostables. I have one, but really found that it was a waste of money, and it does not function as "claimed."

I love just letting the chicken loose on the compost pile as a special treat. I'm just using 55 gallon drums and tossing it in with the top and bottom removed. There are usually those palmetto's in there plus the black fly larva at the bottom. I just am composting for the birds but moving the barrel every other month or so to spots I want to improve the soil.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Pffft...just tossed in a a boatload of leaves in the run...may as well have been a coyote! Jeesh...

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Now they got it!!! Fun, fun, fun! Lol. And....they are no longer petrified of the flock block!