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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #60 on: April 22, 2012, 04:05:11 PM »
   Sounds like you had a great day...highlighted by shooting a vintage rifle.
   Those trees getting killed really hurt.  My woods is being decimated down near the creek..beavers are doing real damage.  They have built a dam perhaps 125' wide, and flooded 2-3 acres.  Saplings up to 6" in the region of the dam are used up and they have cut down so many trees 12" to 14" diameter..then seem to reralize they are too big...and just leave them lay.
  Their engineering is indeed interesting though...
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #61 on: April 22, 2012, 04:42:46 PM »
RHI,
 How about an update photo of the "fowl"?
Ironglow in his last post mentioned beaver problems. About 15 years ago, on our property in E.Texas, beaver came in and damned up a small creek in the S.W. corner of our property and created about a three to four acre slough! Talk about trees cut!! They cut all kinds,pine, hickory, oak. etc. So naturally that screwed up the squirrel hunting but created a haven for wood ducks, boy that was a  sight to be sitting in your deer stand not to far from the slough and hear those "woodies"
coming low overhead just about daybreak and actually see them funnel down through the trees and hit the water!! Well as the years passed the trees all died and ducks do not visit as often as they used too. One morning, I was deer hunting and slipped up to the edge of the slew behind a big stump  where I could see a fair amount of the slough. suddenly I saw a large wake in the water heading in my general direction, so I thought Ok you big flat tail varmint and raised up the .45-70 to let him have it! Well about that time the wake was heading to downed log and broke water to get on the log. Well it was not a beaver ! It was one of the biggest otters I had ever seen. Evidently this was a female because she dove back into the water and a few seconds later here comes another wake in the water but it is much smaller. It heads right towards me and comes out of the water about 15 feet from me and it is one of her " kits"! It comes almost 10 feet from and it is rolling in the grass and cleaning its face and body and then bingo! Right back into the water again! Last year I was checking out the slough and saw no sign of otters, ducks, or fish!!
Those otters were sure neat, sleek, hyper animals. Unfortunately they have a voracious appetite for fish. >:( >:(
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #62 on: April 22, 2012, 04:55:32 PM »
Ducks evolved on water, a refuge realtively safe except from air attack and even when nesting thier site is usually in a wet approach. Less stress required for survival. Jungle fowl, live on the ground, nest on the ground, attacked on the ground and from the air, they need to be more psychotic to make it. Goofey critters arn't they.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #63 on: April 23, 2012, 03:57:22 AM »
Over the weekend we were letting the chicks out at about 9:00 am or so, after the sun had hit the lawn and warmed things up a bit. But today the noise from the chicks was incessant. They wanted out NOW, immediately if not sooner. Here's a few pictures from this morning's tour of duty.
 
In the morning when they are first let out for the day, the chicks like to congregate at the feeder and load up for the day. It just amazes me how they have really started feathering out. The feed conversion is so efficient. The ducks are still covered with down, but if you look closely you can tell that it won't be long and they too will be feathering out.
 
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #64 on: April 23, 2012, 03:59:38 AM »
Over the weekend we noticed that the chicks spend a lot of time coming back to the waterer throughout the day, and if I moved the waterer they could still find it. They will also load up on feed at the start of the day, but then they are hunting and foraging and show little interest in processed chick feeds until the end of the day and they headed inside for the night. Their little crops were quickly full this morning. Once full they like to fluff up their feathers and settle in for a light nap under the chicken coop.
 
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #65 on: April 23, 2012, 04:01:51 AM »
Ducks are experts at concerving energy... or are they just lazy? It seems that laying in the grass and drinking presents a better angle at the waterer than sitting on the concrete and drinking. Gerty moved 2 or 3 times before finding that just perfect drinking angle.
 
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #66 on: April 23, 2012, 04:04:23 AM »
The chicks have discovered....."SLUGS". Here's a delicasy for ya. Its called, "Slug on a Stick" and creates quite a comotion whenever a chick finds one. Once a grubb is found the chase is on...and its a mad  free-for-all until someone is able to swallow it. I caught the start of this race, but the action was to fast and furious for me to get any other photos that were worth posting.
 

 
The ducks don't participate, they just wtch, shake their heads and go back to whatever they were doing before the chase started.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #67 on: April 23, 2012, 04:07:02 AM »
Seems the ducks have shown the chicks that the best grubbs can be found where the grass meets the pavement. The ducks have been grooming this area pretty closely several times throughout the day over the weekend. The chicks are just figuring this out.
 
The ducks also like to hang out under the cherry trees. The trees are going to be loaded with cherries this year, if the blossoms are any indication. As the bees polinate the blossoms the petals are dropping like a steady rain onto the lawn, and the ducks vaccum these up with gusto.
 
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #68 on: April 23, 2012, 04:09:36 AM »
Most of the time the chicks will stalk through the grass looking for any bite sized morsels that move. They will go after even the tiniest things. I was watching this chick snapping at invisible nothings, until I got real close and could just barely make out these teeny tiny itty bitty black flies.
 
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #69 on: April 23, 2012, 04:26:26 AM »
Slowly the chicks are finding that apples are food. We have an apple tree that is loaded with apple blossoms this year. If we don't get a late frost, we should have a nice crop of apples.
 
I want the chickens to like apples so that they will clean up all the apples that fall to the ground. I remember as a kid that the eggs from chickens that had been hitting the orchard in the fall were such good tasting eggs. Buffs are heavy birds, and the branches are quite high off the ground. I'm not too worried about the birds flying up into the trees, though they may try.
 
We'll see how it goes. 8)
 

 
My wife's father used to raise a few birds for slaughter each year. In the fall, about a week or so before it was time to process the birds, we'd pick a bushel or two of apples to add with a little cracked corn in their diet. Twice a day we'd give the birds some of those apples. Poultry that has been fed this mix of feedstuffs as a finisher just seem to have so much more flavor than birds that were finished on processed feeds or a corn/processed feed mix.

There's where you need a chicken tractor...home raised meat chickens are like non-other, and raised under the protection of the chicken tractor...such and efficient system.
 
Years ago, I finished some turkeys with a mix of cracked corn and apples beginning about 2 weeks before slaughter. Dang that was a good Thanksgiving turkey we had that year.  8)
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #70 on: April 23, 2012, 07:54:21 AM »
Mine will not eat them! I have tried, they give a peck or three but I end up tossing them in the compost.

We had the birds as plots and tried the apples nearly imeadiately. They do like a cabbage head! and meal worms as treats!

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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #71 on: April 23, 2012, 03:23:44 PM »
Gathering up the chicks and I'm finding that its always the same chick that is the last be caught. This last chick is also getting to be the hardest one to catch. All the other chicks come runnin, and by the time that they figure out that its time to go inside, its to late I already have them. This little terd will come to me all day long, but as evening sets in...that's when he gets skiddish and becomes hard to catch.
 
I need to finish that coop. :o
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #72 on: April 23, 2012, 05:17:31 PM »
RHI!
 
 The little rebel chick has got you playing his game!! ;D ;D
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #73 on: April 23, 2012, 06:48:57 PM »
Set up a small fenced area where you can put the feed and close the gate behind them. If he doesn't come in he doesn't eat. When the food is gone open the gate and see if he will go in the coop after you leave, or some derivative. That is how we got our chickens it the house, a yard in front of the house to scatter feed then they would go in the house when they got through eating, gait closed behind them. ear
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #74 on: April 24, 2012, 03:17:41 AM »
Thank you for the advice...I need to develop a plan. I have a 100 foot roll of 2x4 welded wire, I think you have a great idea there... 8)
 
Yes, I'm playing the game with this little terd-ball. But once the coop and the run are finished it will quickly become a non-issue. The chick in question follows the others where ever they go. The problem is that usually its the ones that are the biggest problem that turn out to be your best producers.  ???
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« Reply #75 on: April 24, 2012, 03:30:40 AM »
Yes, the ones that are a PITA will usually survive when the others don't also. ear
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #76 on: April 24, 2012, 03:47:30 AM »
Thanks for making this thread.  I've been trying to talk my wife into us having some chickens when we move into our place in the country this fall.  She's not on board at all, but maybe I can get her to read this and she'll at least tolerate having some chickens.
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« Reply #77 on: April 24, 2012, 04:46:27 AM »
Glad that you are enjoying the thread there teddy12b.
 
I understand your position. My wife took a long time to convince that having a flock of chickens would be a nice addition to the family. I have been collecting books, buying magazines and reading on the subject for a few years now. What finally pushed her over to a "yes" position was when my daughter's Fiance' started bringing eggs from his family's home flock. After a few months of these fine quality eggs, she just could not go back to the lower quality of store bought eggs. And with home grown eggs selling for a little over $5.00 a dozen in our area, easy choice.
 
Another small plus is that I'm going to maintain a very small flock of 4 chickens, that is how I'm able to get away with a flock under my deck and close to the house. The Buff Orpingtons are more of a utility breed, not bad egg layers and not bad meat birds. There are breeds that will lay far more eggs than the chcken breed that I chose. But these Orpingtons should still provide my family with about 12 to 18 eggs a week.

Predators had me concerned, but I have a yippy little dog that likes to alert the entire house-hold whenever even a squirrel gets in the backyard, or one of the neighbors steps outside to have a cigarett on their back patio. Cheap alarm system I guess.
 
The Kaki Cambells ducks are a light egg laying breed. This pair should provide 9 to 12 duck eggs per week for my daughter and my wife to use in baking. My wife has a few friends that would like to have a local source for duck eggs, so she can also sell the excess duck eggs to others for use in their baking needs. Duck eggs always bring a small premium.
 
If I had a flock of a dozen or more birds...I'd have to keep them way away from the house and the mess would be significantly greater. Infact for the sake of my neighbors I probably wouldn't even be considering having the chickens unless we were in teh country and had more room. Course we haven't got there yet, once the chickens are outside and full grown I may find that under the deck may still not work...I'll keep you all posted on that one.
 
There is such a difference between the eggs from a well raised home flock and store bought eggs. I could have been buying Farm Fresh Home Grown eggs from the most expensive person in my neck of the woods; I should have hit on that years ago. My dear sweet wife loves to save a dime.   8)
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« Reply #78 on: April 24, 2012, 05:24:27 AM »
Before I started this project, I asked myself what I wanted the end result to be. That is when I defined my goal(s) for my poultry project and I asked myself a set of questions: Do I want to have fresh eggs for the family and to sell any excess production; are these animals going to be pets; or am I going to use them for meat? Will this be a family activity that will also teach my children the responsibility of caring for animals? Am I looking to maybe have show-birds? Or do I just want to gain a personal sense of enjoyment by watching and caring for poultry?

I think that those of you that have been following this thread already know that several of these apply directly to my situation. The primary goal is a source of quality eggs for the family. I do gain a sense of enjoyment watching and caring for them…yes they will be family pets. I doubt very seriously that I would ever be able to eat any of these birds. And I just through the “show-birds” thing in there…I’m not a show circuit type of person.

I checked with the local ordinances and found what my limit of poultry is in my community. I then spoke very openly to my neighbors about my plans and what I wanted. They know that I am particular about my property and that messes and garbage would drive me nuts…and messes and garbage was their chief concern.

So after a reasonable amount of time for my neighbors to digest the idea, I started this project.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #79 on: April 24, 2012, 06:01:04 AM »
Quote from: cwlongshot on April 23, 2012, 07:54:21 AM
Mine will not eat them! I have tried, they give a peck or three but I end up tossing them in the compost.

We had the birds as plots and tried the apples nearly imeadiately. They do like a cabbage head! and meal worms as treats!

CW

I have been giving the chicks a few apple cores while they wre in their aquarium for the last week or so. My kids love apples and fruit in general, so when they finish an apple they just toss the core to the chicks when they are done. If an apple gets soft and mushy in the fruit bowl, and no one will eat it, I cut it into wedges and then either step on it to mush it or put it under a piece of wood and smash it before giving it to the chicks. The chicks will peck these apple bits and do a fair job of cleaning them up.
 
Right now I just want the chicks to develop a taste for apples. Once they see apples as food, they'll peck the snot out of them when the apples start dropping in the fall from the trees. I also have lots of European Paper Wasps around the house. These wasps really tear up my apples, so that the ones that do drop usually are riddled with cavities that the wasps have eaten into them. Since I don't like to use poisons around the home; I'm thinking that the chickens will be able to easily devour these discarded apples and take care of a good    %-tage of my wasp issues at the same time.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #81 on: April 24, 2012, 08:36:57 AM »
Quote from: teddy12b on April 24, 2012, 03:47:30 AM
Thanks for making this thread.  I've been trying to talk my wife into us having some chickens when we move into our place in the country this fall.  She's not on board at all, but maybe I can get her to read this and she'll at least tolerate having some chickens.
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     Maybe this will help you to convince her.  How about some chickens that lay "Easter eggs"...Araucanas do just that and Ameraucanas may do better, I've only raised the Araucanas.  The eggs are supposed to be lower in cholestrol too.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #82 on: April 24, 2012, 09:24:40 AM »
My wife wanted those as well. She liked their puffy cheek feathers and their blue and green eggs. But we are limited to 4 birds.
 
If we could have had more then 4 birds, the others would be the Easter Eggs Birds; and those birds are supposed to be great egg layers.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #83 on: April 25, 2012, 05:59:20 AM »
I bought 6 pullets at the store because I wanted to have birds that layed eggs. But I'm noticing that I have a chick or 2 that are NOT behaving like a traditional pullet.
 
I have 2 chicks that fly at eachother and chase the other birds in the flock. They could just be agressive pullets or ...I may have 2 cockerels...DANG!!!  ???
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #84 on: April 25, 2012, 07:44:45 AM »
Quote from: Rock Home Isle on April 25, 2012, 05:59:20 AM
I bought 6 pullets at the store because I wanted to have birds that layed eggs. But I'm noticing that I have a chick or 2 that are NOT behaving like a traditional pullet.
 
I have 2 chicks that fly at eachother and chase the other birds in the flock. They could just be agressive pullets or ...I may have 2 cockerels...DANG!!!  ???
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #85 on: April 25, 2012, 06:00:50 PM »
 :D  Very good.
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #86 on: May 24, 2012, 05:46:56 AM »
any updates? I have enjoyed reading this thread

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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #87 on: June 07, 2012, 06:15:17 AM »
Hey Guys,
 
Please accept my apologies...at the end of the school year with finals, graduation and now doing summer research at UNC. I could not juggle as many items as usual...so this thread has fallen by the way side for a moment.
 
All is well with the chicken project. I'm uploading photos so that I can post updates. I hope that you've enjoyed the thread so far...
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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #88 on: June 07, 2012, 06:27:30 AM »
Quote from: Rock Home Isle on June 07, 2012, 06:15:17 AM
Hey Guys,
 
Please accept my apologies...at the end of the school year with finals, graduation and now doing summer research at UNC. I could not juggle as many items as usual...so this thread has fallen by the way side for a moment.
 
All is well with the chicken project. I'm uploading photos so that I can post updates. I hope that you've enjoyed the thread so far...

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Re: Makin the Plunge & Gettin Chickens
« Reply #89 on: June 07, 2012, 09:34:28 AM »
My  daughter; my wife and the rest of my family came over one weekend to help with the coop. It was a great day and we got so much completed. The first thing that we did was put the cedar siding on the coop.
 
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“Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Mother Gue said to me; ‘Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men.’  "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was right. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.”
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