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12 hours ago, Petee said:
The little girls are busting out of their pen and going into the big girls pen to eat the layer feed. Any serious problem with that?
Trust me, the box is worth waiting for.
Yes, I will raise another bunch of chicks in the spring when I've finally had enough time to get bored. I asked hubby what we're going to do with the chick house and he said we'll stash it till next time.................
These chicks are 4 months old now, so they will be fine eating layer feed. I would be switching mine over about now, but I have a few in there that are about a month younger.
I'll send you a couple dozen next year from my prolific rooster, then you can feed a batch of these
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11 hours ago, Petee said:
Hubby said that the kids were lined up at the coop door to get inside tonight. They're getting into the swing of things. Once they get up onto the perch with the big girls I'll probably be able to let them back into the general population. Now they're getting up into the top of the nest boxes and hiding out till morning. Hubby has to pry them out in the morning and put them into their own end of the run. He's really gotten attached to them.
I've been keeping several different breeds for over 7 years now, and these are by far my favorite ever. They just have the best personalities, and when you start getting those eggs you will really love them.
You don't owe me anything, really, it's been fun for me watching the progress from a few states away
I just wish you had gotten a few more girls. If you want to try again in the spring, I will have many more girls with a few new boys that will keep me in a stronger supply of fertile eggs. I only had 12 girls this spring, but I'm going to have around 30 laying by December. I'm thinking about starting a new blue only pen. I'm not hatching enough of those to keep up with demand, and if I put a blue rooster over some blue girls I could hatch a few splash as well.
Right now I have 28 four week olds in the grow out pen. Those little buggers are eating me out of house and home
That's the most I've ever grown out at one time, and it's astounding how much food and water they go through in a day. I should be able to pick the girls out with confidence in a few more weeks, so maybe those sales will offset these bags and bags of chick feed
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On Friday, August 04, 2017 at 8:00 PM, steelnut said:
Did you folks see this? I just caught it today while watching the news.
http://www.9news.com/news/weird/boulder-county-chicken-lays-tiny-tiny-egg/461864697
That is one tiny egg!
My guess is that is what is called a "wind egg". My silkies will lay those from time to time, though not that small. A wind egg happens when an egg forms without a yolk. I bet if that egg was cracked it would be the white only
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23 hours ago, Petee said:
If another chicken bothered the chicks, the mother would probably have chicken for dinner! I guess I may have to look into a Silkie just for the fun of it!
I discovered that there is a hatchery with older chicks near Altoona, so when I go to visit my daughter I may just take a turn by there to see what they have. My other daughter is still touchy that she got all of the roosters so I may have to pick her up a few young hens. Her son said they didn't eat the eggs because they were brown and I believed him. Besides, why would I give her the beautiful little hens when a varmint was getting her chickens? I say, feed the varmint the roosters!
However, she got the fence fixed and she is enjoying how friendly the little guys are. I guess I should plan a trip to the Hatchery.
Oh, I have had bad experiences with chicks hatched in the pen. My cuckoo marans look at them like little mice, just attack them and kill them as soon as they scare the mama away from them. I won't let them brood any more.
If your daughter just wants eggs, I always tell people that want girls only that hatcheries or feed stores are the way to go. I will sometimes have chicks last long enough to sex, but I can sell 8 week old black copper pullets for $20 each. The average chicken keeper will be just as happy with pet quality chicks for a lot less money.
Those are friendly little birds, aren't they? These are my favorite flocks I've ever had
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My broody black coppers started hatching out their babies this week. I've got 14 new ones since Wednesday. They are making great mothers, and the chicks are completely fine in the pen with the adult birds and rooster, no pecking or fighting. I've only seen that in silkies, so I'm thrilled
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1 hour ago, Petee said:
Most of my garden and the berry patch, plus the greenhouse is right there too. One golf cart ride and I'm in the middle of it all. Once the electric fence is complete then we can even let the dogs out with us and not worry about the huge bear roaming the neighborhood. No deer to bring in ticks, no bunnies or groundhogs to eat the gardens. Yippee.
I would love to be able to fence in a few acres and get a Pyrenees, but just don't want to spend the money on it right now. Too close to roads to let a dog like that roam, but one or two more raccoons and I may seriously consider it
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On 7/29/2017 at 10:30 PM, Petee said:
We had to be comfy while watching the Chicken Show!
That is awesome! We have a similar setup with furniture I made from pallets. Such a relaxing area.
I can not believe that your confused hen has stripped that barred rock bare. She looks like she is penned with an aggressive rooster. I don't know if I could handle that
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14 hours ago, Petee said:
Well, the little girls are in with the big girls. There was a lot of weird squawking and some charges with chest bumps, but everyone seems to have weathered the move. Oreo, the Barred Rock, was absolutely hysterical. She acted as though someone has released the Mongol invaders into the run. The little girls voices are changing from a peep to something resembling a hoarse grunt. Hubby went out to check to see if the VFW is still open without his presence, and when he gets home he will have to round up the little girls and put them into the coop up onto a roost. We'll see what happens in the morning.
Chest bumping is fine, pecking order is a real thing. That will usually settle after a week or two. Just watch their head feathers. If the older girls are pecking them and hanging on, then that's a very aggressive move, but bumping and warning pecks are normal. One of my little roosters tried crowing for the first time this morning. He'll be chasing the girls soon
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2 hours ago, Pompeii said:
Here are some older photos I got a hold of.....
Look where the trucks and the equipment are in picture 1. Look at what you see all to the left of the leading edge of that working face. Now look at picture 2 and see what was on the lift the trucks were sitting on, and what was under that. It's not rocket science
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Those two "composite liner system" bubbles are what is under almost every MSW landfill. They take months to construct, and cost millions of dollars per cell. You are talking 10-15 acres, typically, of processed clay, composite liners, geosynthetic liners, protective cover, leachate lines, etc...
All of that is to protect groundwater from the leachate produced by the waste we accept. Uncontaminated construction debris doesn't produce leachate, so it is allowed to be dumped into unlined cells. Those cells are much, much cheaper to construct, so the dump rates are much lower. Even if we were to drop our rates to get more of that material, which we have done, large MSW landfills are spaced far apart. No one wants them in their back yard, so typically you only get an MSW landfill where you can show a need. C&D landfills are everywhere, so even if our rates are lower, most customers would have to drive further to get to us, and the hauling fees would outweigh the savings
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Just now, Petee said:
Do items such as cut stone, bricks, logs, etc. help or hinder a landfill?
Help, but those are typically relegated to C&D (construction debris) landfills. Those landfills are unlined, so the dump fee is much cheaper.
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I had my motives questioned a lot on the original thread, so I'm not going to do the picture by picture breakdown again, but the second and fourth pictures show all that anyone familiar with a landfill needs to see. Look at picture number 2, really look at it and visualize it in your mind. Now look at picture 4 and imagine that's the same cell a year later.
2+2=4
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On 7/26/2017 at 7:02 PM, steelnut said:
So it should be under one month now until they conclude the investigation.
I would think so
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On 7/24/2017 at 10:48 PM, Petee said:
How would you suggest that I add the three little hens to the 4 old biddies? They are quite big and I think it's time. Into the coop at night or during the day?
Sorry, been out for a few days. Yes, mine are big enough to go in, but I'm holding them until October. They will be going in with an active rooster, so they need to be of breeding age before I introduce them.
3 on 4 is good odds. The fact that there are almost as many new ones as old ones will help. I've heard of some people keeping them in the same pen, but separated by a fence for a few days, but in your situation I would go with a straight introduction. Put them in the coop one night, then let them wake up with the older girls the next day. That always works best for me. There will be some chasing and pecking, but shouldn't be anything violent. Sometimes they even get along. You will probably have to usher the new ones into the coop at night for the first few days until they get comfortable
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Just in the last week I've heard a lot of people talking about this, people that wouldn't normally know. Local inspectors, haulers, and operators. People are asking if regulations will change because of it. A lot of us hope they do. I think the whole industry is waiting for the results of the investigations
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15 hours ago, Pompeii said:
I am updating today, nothing is in stone. I still have to edit notification alerts.
I have to pass along this suggestion, and I wish for all the world I had come up with it, but I have to give the credit to Watoos. It's genius.
Under the new "reaction" button, could you replace the hearts with a log? You know, for the fire ring?
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20 minutes ago, Petee said:
Someday I hope to add a male and a female Pekin Ducks to my group but I have to arrange an additional area for them before that. Maybe the Silkie would hatch their eggs for them.
I have a friend that hatches Pekins with a silkie, but I think it's a two egg max
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11 hours ago, Petee said:
That's what I've heard. Maybe if I find one at the fair. I've been working there daily since Sunday and I'll be there again on Thursday because I'm pooped and need a day off. I figured there should be some neat birds maybe for sale.
They will sit on anything, the broodiest birds I have ever seen, but my black coppers are proving to be pretty good broodies, too.
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23 hours ago, Bon said:
That is really neat, and would have been much easier. I just went to Google images and searched "brown and white moth fuzzy arms" then scrolled through the pictures til I found it
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Yep, 3-4 weeks is definitely not the cutest phase in a chick's life. I kind of get stuck with them at this age, because I have a pretty good guess which ones are girls and boys, but not quite enough to guarantee them when I sell them. The girls sell for too much to let them go at chick prices, so I take my ad down and grow them out for a few more weeks until I can guarantee their sex. Those little cockerels will go through a lot of feed by then