The Chicken Club (The Flock)

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Comment by Cari Duffy on January 20, 2011 at 9:08am

Help! My 23 week old rooster will not shut up! Once he starts crowing in the morning it goes on and on all day long. Will he grown out of this or is this a permenant personality trait?

Comment by Jamie Jedinak on January 16, 2011 at 1:30pm

 

 

Cockeral Born on The Equinox, needs a new home



This little guy is now 4 months old as of yesterday and needs a new home - his tail feathers are actually blueish green like his father's are!

He is already beginning to mount my chickens so if you are looking to fertilize your eggs - he is ready.

He is a cross between a Salmon Favorelle Rooster
and an Americana Mother

 

The mother lays bluish eggs

He is hand tamed and fairly gentle, as roosters go. He needs a home b/c he no longer is able to stay with my flock.

He is too scrawny to eat, so he's not for the stew pot - unless you are hungry and then by all means eat him.   ~  Thanks,  Jamie

Comment by Deanna Lloyd on January 14, 2011 at 6:29pm

We use a red bulb and our hens get all giddy with it.  So giddy we were hearing them do their morning "I laid an EGG!!!" cluck at 4am....not good for our sleep or the neighbors.  Our coop is small so we don't have a place where we can do the ceramic bowl method, but rather have our lamp clip to the roof and shine down.  So at some ungodly hour of the day in an act of desperation we just covered the lamp (a big aluminum one) with aluminum foil.  The heat seems to get through to the ladies just fine, keeps them in relative darkness and keeps us sleeping soundly!

Comment by Alicia Wills on January 14, 2011 at 6:03pm

I have used both red heat lamps and also a 75 watt black light, depending on how cold it is.  I guess I was imagining Angela's contraption to be like one I saw briefly a long time ago in a baby chicks situation.  String the light bulb through the hole in the top of the ceramic pot.  Set the pot upside down on the floor or on wire, which helps to shield the light and the pot makes a good warmer without using the 250 watts that a heat bulb uses.  Anyway, I'm going to try it in my coops (now that winter is on the way out - hopefully!!)

Comment by Jamie Jedinak on January 14, 2011 at 4:55pm

Hi A, I use a red bulb and they settle well with that and get the warmth.....

Comment by Angela MacLeod on January 14, 2011 at 4:49pm

Nah...I probably won't get around to taking a picture. And the bulb in the pot is far from elegant. Better left to the imagination. It's pretty junky looking really, just a sideways pot with a sideways lightbulb in a utility fixture. Still puts out too much light.

Anyway, I'm already onto another idea given to me by Joe....That is to use a curling iron in the ceramic pot. That would give the heat but without the light. I like the ladies to have the natural darkness.

Comment by Jamie Jedinak on January 14, 2011 at 3:34pm

Yeah, Angela, I look forward to you posting a picture of just what that warmer looks like!  Please please...????   :)  Jamie

Comment by Alicia Wills on January 14, 2011 at 8:04am

I love how we just keep learning from each other.  Angela told me how she was heating her coop the other day and it's such a simple solution.  Maybe everyone already knows about this but me but...  Put that light bulb you use all night for heat on really cold days into a ceramic pot.  The pot keeps the chickens from getting too near the bulb, shields the light and the ceramic acts as radiant heat.  I love simple elegant solutions!

Comment by Erin Dixon on January 10, 2011 at 9:47pm

Hi Deanna,

I would be interested in taking the hens.  My phone number is 592-2014.

Erin

Comment by Deanna Lloyd on January 10, 2011 at 7:22pm

I have a friend who has 3 laying hens who need a new home....her dog doesn't want to get along.....  Let me know if you're interested and I will pass on her phone number to you.

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