Monday, September 30, 2013

[CHICKENS-101] Fw: Emergency Sale Pekings and Guineas

 


 

Emergency Sale

Emergency Sale
Take advantage of our low prices!
Cathryn,
We are expecting an over hatch of poultry left for shipment this week!! Must be shipped 10/2/13. Call NOW to place your order or order online at our website. 1-800-243-3257 Option 2.
Minimum order is 25 chicks or 20 ducks per order. Regular small order charges and air mail charges will be applied. Special is not valid on previously placed orders. Varieties can not be combined to receive special price.
Sincerely,

Ideal Poultry
phone: 254-697-6677 opt. 2
Orders will be shipped through the United States Postal Service to your local post office. Be sure to let your postal service know that you are expecting live animals.
Hatchery Choice Guineas
Assorted Guineas
Assorted Guineas are the hatchery's choice of all the varieties that Ideal hatches which have not been sold as specific guinea varieties. Guineas, which are known as keets, are very active and easy to raise. After about 4 weeks of age, they require very little attention and will take care of themselves by hustling for their food. When available, as many varieties of keets as practical will be included in the assortment. Ideal does not guarantee which varieties will be included in the shipment. Some of the benefits of having a farm flock of guineas are as follows: very fine "watch dogs", keep snakes away from the farm and consume grasshoppers, ticks (including those which carry Lyme Disease) and other insects.
Regular small order and air mail charges apply. This special is only valid for our 10/2 hatch and once we are sold out will no longer be valid. This special is only valid as long as the chicks are available, so place your order now. Minimum order is 25 chicks per order. Varieties cannot be combined to meet minimum quantities.

Special Price:
$2.75 each
Order Now!
White Pekin Ducks
White Pekin
White Pekin Ducks, which belong to the Heavy Weight Duck Class, are the most popular of all ducks. In the United States, White Pekins are raised more than all of the other breeds of ducks combined. They have become very popular because of a combination of traits: hardiness, good fertility, excellent hatchability, calm temperament, large size, superior growth rate, excellent feed conversion, yellow skin and white plumage.
Regular small order and air mail charges apply. This special is only valid for our 10/2 hatch and once we are sold out will no longer be valid. This special is only valid as long as the chicks are available, so place your order now. Minimum order is 20 ducks per order. Varieties cannot be combined to meet minimum quantities.

Special Price:
Straight Run: $2.50 each
Order Now!

Bantam Special
Bantam Special
Bantam Special is the hatchery's choice of Pure Bred Bantams, which have not been sold as specific breed bantams and have not been used in other assortments. A nice variety of bantams will be included in this special. Ideal has more varieties of bantams than any other hatchery.
Regular small order and air mail charges apply. This special is only valid for our 10/2 hatch and once we are sold out will no longer be valid. This special is only valid as long as the chicks are available, so place your order now. Minimum order is 25 chicks per order. Varieties cannot be combined to meet minimum quantities.

Special Price:
Straight Run: $1.50 each
Order Now!



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Re: [CHICKENS-101] RE: housing issue

 

Yes, chicken wire is poorly named. I am using hardware cloth with a very small opening so mice and rats can't get in. So far, it has been an excellent choice. My coop is completely enclosed with a perimeter of buried stepping stones turned on their side to discourage digging into the coop.

I live in a Redwood forest with bobcats, raccoons, coyotes, mountain lions and foxes all happily hoping to get a fresh chicken dinner. So far, they have been out of luck!

Cassie


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Chicken wire keeps chickens in but keeps zero predators out. Any strong determined predator can shred poultry fencing.

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Re: [CHICKENS-101] RE: housing issue

 

Chicken wire keeps chickens in but keeps zero predators out. Any strong determined predator can shred poultry fencing.

 
Cathryn  rainbowsilkiesTM  in  Michigan

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Subject: [CHICKENS-101] RE: housing issue

 
Earlier this year, I was so glad that I took time to close up my girls at night when I came out one morning to discover that something had dug and tore open the chicken wire near the door of the yard.  don't have bears but this could have been (according to the fish & game guy) a coyote, large raccoon, or possibly a dog.

I don't allow the girls to spend the night outside since early one twilight a mink got one of my girls.  It was small enough to get through the chicken wire (no contest) and fast enough to corner and kill one of the girls.  After that as soon as the sun touches the horizon the girls are sent to 'bed-bye'


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[CHICKENS-101] RE: housing issue

 

Earlier this year, I was so glad that I took time to close up my girls at night when I came out one morning to discover that something had dug and tore open the chicken wire near the door of the yard.  don't have bears but this could have been (according to the fish & game guy) a coyote, large raccoon, or possibly a dog.


I don't allow the girls to spend the night outside since early one twilight a mink got one of my girls.  It was small enough to get through the chicken wire (no contest) and fast enough to corner and kill one of the girls.  After that as soon as the sun touches the horizon the girls are sent to 'bed-bye'



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Greetings all you chicken experts, I have a question.
I have a rather large coop (About 8' by 4') with a large roost area and 6 nest boxes built into the walls. Outside of that I have a pen area that is about 10' by 18' that is fenced in all around including the top. My perimeter fencing goes down and then horizontal inward for at least 12" and in the more vulnerable areas, it also goes outward at least 12".
I have a door that closes on the coop that I shut at night.
My question is, do I really need to close the door? Nothing short of a bear (which we do not have around here) could get into the pen. We also do not have mountain lions, cougars or any large cats.
Thanks for your replies.
Cheers
~Dr.Doug

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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Pullet with strange tail

 

Rhonda, Is it her spine or only her tail?  Sounds like either kinky back or wry tail. Both can be caused by a genetic defect.

 
Cathryn  rainbowsilkiesTM  in  Michigan

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Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Pullet with strange tail

 
One of my barred rock pullets, hatched at the end of May, has developed a weird physical characteristic. Her tail is cocked off to one side, as if her backside had been given a quarter-turn. She's otherwise perfectly normal--not lame, bright-eyed, active. The only difference in the way she moves is a sort of "side-winder" gait, like a pacer, for those who know horse gaits (yeah, like Samantha the pacing goose in "The Friendly Persuasion!") I think it was about a week ago that I really noticed it--have to see her from in front or behind to really notice the twist in her tail, it'sot obvious from the side. I know she wasn't that way from the beginning. (Hey, at least I can tell the two apart now!)

Any ideas what might have caused it?

Rhonda


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Re: [CHICKENS-101] housing issue

 

I dug potatoes, sitting on the ground with gloved hands at my parents. Then put the bacteria gunk on the broccoli and cabbage; the bacteria that kills cabbage lopers and other caterpillars that like cabbage too. While I dug potatoes, I reached over on the other side of me and weeded carrots.  Then when I was done I unloaded a truck load of dirty bedding all by myself. (had it loaded into the truck in barrels and trash cans back when I paid a family to clean my barn, this was the last load)  Tomorrow I wash and sort potatoes, dry them in my feed room with a fan running in the wagon that has a screen like bottom and sides.  I'll feed, gather treats from the garden via gas powered wheel barrow, wash water dishes and water. Then I'll take the potatoes back to my parents and pick apples on my way there.  I am going to beg the man to let me take my truck across the yard to the trees. Then I can pick into little buckets and fill the larger buckets  with out lugging them.   When I am done I will come home, shower, tuck my birds into their beds/barns, and get ready for another week of school.
Cathryn  rainbowsilkiesTM  in  Michigan






From: shannon nelson <woodside101@andycable.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:01 PM
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Go get those Apples !!! i can just see an Apple Cobbler and Ice Cream on top ....... wow  !!!
 
Those poor people that need handouts are the ones they don/t want to vote (afraid of them) lol (hitler had the same ideas with no one to stand in his way for quite some time . 
 
Go home and get that needed REST (can You spell that ?) ???
 
Shannon
 
 
 
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Shannon, Yahoo this morning is missing the reply buttons at the top, to add to all of the other headaches their format has caused!  It is close to the same in Michigan except you need to be on some kind of hand out to get their vote.  They are determined to squish flat everyone who is working and leave them dirt poor with no benefits left.
I've lucked out, the people who bought the home with the apple orchard on the way to my parents have been letting me pick their un sprayed apples.  I've picked thru carefully picking apples good enough to eat out of hand, and carrying them in little buckets to the truck, to fill up my larger buckets. (Will I ever get strong enough to be able to do something with out a hundred extra steps?)  I am hoping today they will let me pull my truck up and fill it full of perfectly good huge apples on the ground that only have a bruise on them.  I'll make apple sauce for me and the rest will go to my silkies. 

 
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[CHICKENS-101] Pullet with strange tail

 

One of my barred rock pullets, hatched at the end of May, has developed a weird physical characteristic. Her tail is cocked off to one side, as if her backside had been given a quarter-turn. She's otherwise perfectly normal--not lame, bright-eyed, active. The only difference in the way she moves is a sort of "side-winder" gait, like a pacer, for those who know horse gaits (yeah, like Samantha the pacing goose in "The Friendly Persuasion!") I think it was about a week ago that I really noticed it--have to see her from in front or behind to really notice the twist in her tail, it'sot obvious from the side. I know she wasn't that way from the beginning. (Hey, at least I can tell the two apart now!)

Any ideas what might have caused it?

Rhonda


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Re: [CHICKENS-101] housing issue

 

Go get those Apples !!! i can just see an Apple Cobbler and Ice Cream on top ....... wow  !!!
 
Those poor people that need handouts are the ones they don/t want to vote (afraid of them) lol (hitler had the same ideas with no one to stand in his way for quite some time . 
 
Go home and get that needed REST (can You spell that ?) ???
 
Shannon
 
 
 
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Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] housing issue

 

Shannon, Yahoo this morning is missing the reply buttons at the top, to add to all of the other headaches their format has caused!  It is close to the same in Michigan except you need to be on some kind of hand out to get their vote.  They are determined to squish flat everyone who is working and leave them dirt poor with no benefits left.
I've lucked out, the people who bought the home with the apple orchard on the way to my parents have been letting me pick their un sprayed apples.  I've picked thru carefully picking apples good enough to eat out of hand, and carrying them in little buckets to the truck, to fill up my larger buckets. (Will I ever get strong enough to be able to do something with out a hundred extra steps?)  I am hoping today they will let me pull my truck up and fill it full of perfectly good huge apples on the ground that only have a bruise on them.  I'll make apple sauce for me and the rest will go to my silkies. 

 
Cathryn  rainbowsilkiesTM  in  Michigan





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