Hi I'm Shelli from Oklahoma actually a little Itty bitty town called Barnsdall I have 28 girls and 2 boys and I love each one like I gave birth to them. Lol I have been raising chickens for 10 years and I'm a addict. Lol I have not been on BYC in a long time. I have to say if it was no for BYC I...
Hi My name is Shelli I live in Okla, in between Barnsdall and Avant I have 20 chickens 3 horses 6 dogs and numerous Longhorns and everyone has a name acourding to my kids,
I love all my animals dearly and cant even imagine having to eat any of them, sounds weird i know having a farm and...
lol lol its hard too breathe when u are a momma isnt it??? lol lol ok thank u so much for your recomendations i just wish that when u are at the store they say did u have the chick feed did u forget the duck feed?? lol then a light bulb or maybe a bell might have rang in my head duh!!! yes i...
Hi I'm sorry to barge in on everyone here i just need to find a answer too my question i have been on websites for a hour now trying to fins a answer and havent found one!! I bought some ducklings today from attwoods and chicks its been years since i bought ducks and i forgot too buy duck food...
why have I been just hatched since 2008???? lol i guess i have too talk more to be anything else maybe??? I read alot more than i talk im sure you cant tell that right now but its the truth!!! lol:D
oh and i do have pictures but i dont really know how too do that on this site, they are beautiful too look at though and very cute when little, they just become a headache when they get to be 12 to 15,000 pounds
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NOOOOO you do notttt want longhorns unless you put up a steel fence or electric fence, my lord i have never ever had a fight in my life until i took on a longhorn bull and even now we just went out this evening and i have 4 of them in my yard, right now as we speak, they just rip down...
ok so what do most people feed their chickens as feed or do you just depend on bugs??? no wonder my chickens are so fat!!! lol i have always fed them pellets and scratch then i quit buying pellets because they acted like they liked the scratch more, well no wonder who doesnt like treats better...
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Welcome to BYC ..Iv lost some chicken's the same way this week they just couldnt take the heat anymore...
lol well do you know where avant or barnsdall is???? lol most dont!!! and dont be googling it either lol that would not be a truthful answer lol
oh my lord you mean im not suppose too feed scratch to chickens but only as a treat??? they eat it every day and have been for years and it does have corn in it!! what does the corn do to them in the heat!!! like i said they are free range most of the time but in the evening i give them a few...
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well i dont have misters either i didnt know u could get those for chicken coops lol i just have a small pool i keep filled and 2 waterers and i have a small pond mine are all free range most of the time
lol sixshooter you dont ramble as much as I do lol and thank you for the welcome wagon I have been on byc many many many times i just read though and dont say much, thats a GREAT idea though about the fan i never thought of that, people think im crazy because i have a radio in my chicken house...
Hi I was wanting to know if chickens can die of heat stroke??? I found one of my favorite red hens laying in the middle of the chicken house this morning she has always been a fat healthy happy chicken it looked like she just fell from the roost and died, Then today Henny one of my other red...
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i am so sorry too hear of your loss, me and my kiddos moved from the big city life in tulsa too tiny town 3 yrs ago, we have too many animals too count lol but everyone has a name!! even the longhorns, and it is still hard when we lose ANYTHING, for my daughter who is 12, she cries over...
I was called out to a house fire lastnight at 12am i helped fight that fire until 3;30 this morning, I remember how it felt when i was a kid and we lost everything we owned just got out with our pajamas on, this couple lastnight lost everything, they were at work when it happened, please keep...