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You mentioned earlier that these barrels were set to get the best breeze...are there vent holes drilled on the other end opposite the door opening?

yes, I'm familiar with the half circle plucking yet leaving the semen feathers around the vent. Since Samson and Delilah are from his line, we did that last season and got some improvement in fertility. Samson is now three years of age and Ai will work better. He is a great flock rooster and...

Wow that last rooster is a looker! is the hen to his left one of your hens or your friend's ? She has a nice full body type...I like her look.

My CW flock is from Carl. when he decided to focus on Bantams, I got his five hens and Roos. I had purchased a juvenile trio from him earlier in the year. When he saw my rooster Beau, he told me to keep my roo and put his roo in the stew pot. He also is responsible for my older Cochin roo...

He will cover each pen three days and the rotate to another pen for three days then into the last pen for three days. the the rotation repeats. Should I do this differently? Also I added some info on the Birchen pen description....

I have a 70 year old friend who will be setting up his breeding pens in January and will be finished the end of April before the heat hits our area...Oklahoma. Does this sound okay. Also, this is my plan for my breeding season..any suggestions? I plan on setting up 1). a CW roo over...

The sparrow had a adenovirus infection and infectious bronchitis. I didn't know they could get the last one but it showed up in the necropsy and the agar smear. I'm still trying to catch up on the thread. Was off the thread for the Shawnee Expo and couldn't participate in the quiz since I've...

Here is an update on my flock...from my posts several weeks ago......several told me to keep ya'll posted on the progress. I was beginning to sweat bullets when the number of deaths just kept rising. And several comments from the OTs and others about dust and MG were helpful. We have had such...

White mushrooms sprouting in Southern California about now are called "death caps" according to my nephew, a biological geneticist who live there. Poisonous to people and some animals. Al your birds are enormous. the one pictures in the cage was about 18 inches tall using the 2 inch wire...

Just posting a nice bumm photo of what I think is a nice tent on a pol 8 month old Blue Wyandotte bred from a hatchery Blue hen and my Columbian Wyandotte breeder roo. Need to work on the yellow leg. It was windy today a 7 month old sister out of a CW breeder hen and same sire And the...

Amen to that! And thank you to the OTs who have deposited so many shiney pennies in my pocketbook of knowledge! Happy Birthday t a wonderful thread and great people.

Thank you Al. Chronic Respiratory Disease is what we believe my flock has instead of MG. As you know our winter in Oklahoma has been really weird with the two years of drought and these unseasonable warm humid days.

I do not have MG in the flock.....Thank goodness! I was reading stuff on the internet and in the Gail Damerow book "The Chicken Health Handbook" and panicked at my own untrained diagnosis. I have been in contact with a couple of other OT breeders in my area and the OT breeder/mentor where I...

Haven't heard much on the OKIE thread about who is going or not, but I bet we can encourage a group to meet for lunch on Saturday for "Mezcan". Look forward to seeing you there.

Hope to see you in Shawnee next weekend. Questions: 1) MG - I know it runs its course in 2 - 3 weeks and that surviving birds will be carriers. Do you automatically cull birds with the first symptoms or what treatments do you utilize? I'm losing birds now to what I think is MG (watery eyes...

Now that I'm getting older...ah..much older, my hearing isn't as good and I don't move as fast so I don't always hear the phone and I'm sure not going to get up out of my recliner to run get the phone in the kitchen. Even though our girls know that, they continue to call on the landline instead...

The floor silkie sounds a little broody too.

I have three out of 100 with mites. Noticed them on my favorite roo this morning. Treated him with ash and neem oil. Checked and found one more and treated her. Then after all the turkey dinner crowd left I checked all in the coop this evening. went ahead and treated all. Only found one...

Thank you . I'll tarp the ones on the pallet behind the barn then instead of hauling them into the barn. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Bee says to let them freeze several times in the barn. This allows the starches to turn to sugar and they dehydrate down...hopefully not molding. I'm feeding a big one right now that was just turning and the chickens have gutted it and are now working on the flesh. It's a buffet.