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Post by Timbo on Oct 5, 2011 10:21:50 GMT -6
Hello everyone the seasons are changing and cool temperatures are on their way. Hope you have those water lines and faucets covered. Daylight is shorting so time to start get those lights on to keep the chickens on their 14-16 hour daylight. To keep those eggs coming. Hope everyone is doing well. I know this is a busy time of year and post slow down, but we hope you stick with us thru the slow season and start planning for spring. But keep those post coming. Thanks
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Oct 5, 2011 20:42:23 GMT -6
I actually hope the eggs stop or slow down to a near halt. Less to put in the incubator and less to have to keep warm thru winter. I do need to get these going that are in the incubators now. I have 2 full. When sales stop I want the girls to stop too. I bet they all start to lay. Kathy Moore is coming out tomorrow for our redo on the NPIP for another year. Thank goodness Gavin is spending the week. He can go in some of the more difficult pens for me and catch the birds. lol I saw that the Nationals is being held in Indianapolis at the end of this month. I would love to go just to look at all the pretty birds. There is no way mine are ready for that one. I'd like to go just to drool over the fluffy silkies. ;D
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Post by Timbo on Oct 6, 2011 19:57:52 GMT -6
Wish you luck!!!!
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Post by Backwood Barns on Oct 9, 2011 7:57:03 GMT -6
Nothing I have has produced a single egg. Not a chicken, duck, or turkey and most everything was an early spring hatch so I figured I'd have a few by now. I'm hoping the weather holds out a couple more weeks til we get this wedding behind us.
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Post by ellisfarms on Nov 4, 2012 15:31:01 GMT -6
Jest closed my pens up for winter. I think its on the way .
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Post by Crystal Lake Farms on Nov 4, 2012 16:14:52 GMT -6
Finished my winter cleaning and cleaning today. All ready now
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 4, 2012 20:01:25 GMT -6
I went around and gathered up all the tin and fiberglass sheets we use to close up the pens. With the construction of the new pens we used some of the fiberglass so we'll have to use tin sheets instead for some of them. I don't usually put lights in the pens and they seem to lay better in the winter for some reason. With the slow summer this winter may be different. If it's a freezing cold winter i'd rather they stopped anyway. Nobody will be having eggs shipped anyway so no sales for me. It will just tempt me to incubate more. I promised myself I wouldn't do that again this winter.
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Post by ellisfarms on Nov 5, 2012 10:10:40 GMT -6
I know jest hatched my last group I think lol . How are other members closings there pens up for winter
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Post by Crystal Lake Farms on Nov 5, 2012 18:26:11 GMT -6
3/4 plywood pieces screwed over the vents. I have 7 in the incubator and am planing on hatching all winter so I can have them ready for spring and know what to keep and not to keep by then. Of course I do have a heat source and lights with some birds so they will lay all winter
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Post by ellisfarms on Nov 6, 2012 9:18:47 GMT -6
That sounds good
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Post by herb on Nov 6, 2012 12:51:09 GMT -6
I'm running behind as usual.
I'm hen hatching as eggs come in- all winter probably. I need to hatch next years show winners in Dec or Jan.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Nov 6, 2012 21:53:01 GMT -6
I'm hatching too but not as many as last year. I lost one of my paint girls to a hawk so I need to replace her and add a few more. And i'm trying to get a few more porcelain hens too. I'll have plenty to sell in the spring.
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Post by ellisfarms on Jan 16, 2013 9:28:42 GMT -6
I don't like ice trying too feed and pen doors are frozen shut and waters are frozen . Ropes on gate's are tied in a frozen knot and too add to it tractor battery dead. charged it and still won't start .lol it finally started and all is eating now . Hope ya'll have a better day than me. Sent from my C771 using ProBoards
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Post by Timbo on Jan 16, 2013 15:20:39 GMT -6
I feel your pain
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Jan 16, 2013 23:14:17 GMT -6
Same here. I really really don't like winter. Having to pack water in jugs, carry the egg basket and feed bucket. I need another set of arms. Good thing the grandsons are here. I put out straw today which I should have done it days ago. My toes where frozen by the time I got done today. When the cold and ice sets in I always wish I had thinned the birds down more before winter hit. At least i'm not hatching so many chicks this winter as I did last year. I managed to curb my hatchaholic addiction. I made the turkeys go in their pen the other day before the ice hit so they wouldn't roost outside and become turkeycickles. They aren't happy about being cooped up but it's for their own good. They just don't know it. It took me and both grandsons to get them in their coop and blocked their door to their run.
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