Wow - I clicked on my page by accident and can't belive I haven't updated it in almost a year! So much has changed! Where to start...button quail: I've had my fill of the little buggers. They've been kind to me but I have so many other birds and so little time; something has to go. I sold...
July 8, 2008
Welcome! As I write this, I'm am "patiently" (yeah right) on day 18 of my first ever chicken hatch. I'm not a patient person, so the waiting is killing me. I think it's a Leo thing.
My name is Cindy and I live in Ohio. I have two children, a boy and a girl, ages 15 and 18...
I'm surprised yours haven't started yet. They usually start mating shortly after the males get their drake feathers. Egg laying starts probably a month, maybe two months later. Our runners that hatched late July/early August started laying eggs about 2-3 weeks ago.
Your ducks are very pretty!!
We went through that last winter with our ducks. We took the worst one to the vet who put her on antibiotics and metacam (anti-inflammatory) but I don't know if it really helped. We soaked her foot in saltwater, then peroxide, and tried to pick the core out. We did this every night for...I...
There's a bunch of free patterns on any yarn website (Lion Brand, Paton's, etc) as well as www.Ravelry.com. I found this one on the Lion Brand website (Pattern #: 40534K). You could use hats you already have and knit the heart earflaps, then just sew them on the hats. Here are the directions...
I'm CSzabo on Ravelry and I have a children's hat pattern on my project page. I knit them for my nieces for Christmas and they were easy and quick. I forgot about the search engine but yes - it's a wonderful feature!
Check out www.ravelry.com - it's free and they have a ton of great free patterns. I've found alot of easy hat patterns there and have learned alot. If you want to learn how to do a specific stitch, just do a search on the stitch name. There's alot of videos out there that show you step by...
Good news! Jim is still making these feeders and joined BYC! Here's a link to his auction!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5080225#p5080225
Great stories!!! We were at the county fair and DD said she wished we could have chickens. That started it! We knew nothing about them or had ever even thought of raising chickens! DH (at that time, DBF) went online to MyPetChicken.com and ordered 16 or 17 peeps. That was about 3 years ago...
Wish I had some words of encouragement, but unfortunately I don't. I tried cd's and a plastic owl on a pole. It worked for a while until they got smart and ignored them. The hawks (coopers and red tails) managed to kill almost all of my chickens even though I had an enclosed pen and a garage...
To update: the egg hatched just fine. We hatched 20 out of 23 runner duck eggs and I have no idea which one it is but all are ok. We layed it on its side and the air cell moved from the little end over the top of the egg. The duckling pipped out just fine, with no help at all.