***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Sooner]

I agree that the heat lamps will blow when you leave! Seems to always happen, if they are in a warm room you will be fine other than the smell & clean up LOL.

Six, your leg has kept you from building I bet you will be a man on a mission once you are all healed up!

I downsized my flock & will be building some new pens come spring, I keep thinking I will get startd early but too many irons in the fire. DH has the inside building walls going up & will be getting electric on Friday.

 

[Sooner]

Wayne I like your cochins. Thanks for the thoughts for my day

 

[artsyrobin]

he's here!! gorgeous boy!!



he's young, about 5 months and leaving him in his isolation cage, so he can get accustomed to it here- he is letting everyone know he is here...LOL!

 

[artsyrobin]

ackkk...gotta love double posts!

 

[artsyrobin]

Wayne, he originated from http://www.nagfarms.com/, but a friend had him in dallas and offered him to me, free shipping, couldn't refuse! so he with flo and puff will be the start of a better silkie project...

Morning everyone.

Robin where did you get the new roo from? How many do you have now?

Morning Sooner,good luck on your busy day! hope it all works out for the good. sebrightsicelandics cochins

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Nice puff ball Robin!lol. He sure stayed clean while being shipped.

Its like spring here this morning,sprinkling and storms are on the way. I let the icelandics out for their morning sprint! They seem to enjoy just running to and fro as much as scratching and eating! Very strange acting chickens. Trying to get a hen to make up her mind weather she wants to set or get off the pot(or into it!lol) Put her in a small cage with a box of eggs to see if she will settle down and stay on the eggs.

Looking forward to the sat auction day. I have a couple of empty coops that are driving me crazy!lol

 

[Ksane]

Has anyone ever found a collection of audio files for the different vocalizations of chickens? I had a stressful moment yesterday when my blue Andalusian roo (from LynninOK) called an alarm. It sounded like he was being squeezed then released, squeezed and released. When I reached the pen, he was fine, but he had his head cocked sideways and was pacing. I looked up and saw two carrion birds, the big ugly shoulder shoppers that look like vultures, flying over the barn. As soon as they were gone, he was back to normal. I'd never heard such a soulful, anxious sound from a rooster before. He and his lady bird have not blessed us with any eggs yet. I hope to be able to set eggs from them by the end of February. They have become quite a nice looking pair.

He's beautiful! I don't know what their different sounds mean but I do love listening to them.
WHAT kind of bird is that gold laced one?????

morning guys! I'm getting a new silky cockerel today!!

a friend is shipping him to me, he is in the muskogee post office right now.... so- how big of a box is one bird shipped in????

The size of a cardboard cat crate, you know-the ones that fold at the top.
Good thing she's sending one-you were almost out of boys

 

[Sooner]

My day is getting better! Looking forward to lunch!

Anyone ever grown sorghum? If you have tell me your thoughts.

 

[Ksane]

Robin, I'm reading about the roaches and they need like 90 degrees to breed. They can't fly, jump or climb so they don't escape even without a cover. Even if they do they wouldn't be able to breed in a house because it isn't warm enough for them. They're actually kind of cool and I'm really kicking myself for not paying enough attention all this time when Kass was talking about them.

Here's one of the pet quality OEGB I got from Jarvis's, does anyone know what color she is? Maybe Carl will hop on and let me know. She's just a little darling, chatters non-stop at me and is 1/2 the size of my Serama boy.

She was a cross of two varieties for type improvement but that cross did not work out nearly as well as teh other one. they were neat colored though.
She would like you to know she turned out WAY better than the other one at being a perfect pet

lol

Morning everyone.
Robin where did you get the new roo from? How many do you have now?
Morning Sooner,good luck on your busy day! hope it all works out for the good.
sebrights icelandics cochins

I LOVE those beautiful birds, Okla! In hindsight what I should've done is just get 10 or 15 chickens and allow those to raise mixed babies if I wanted more. Because some of these mixes I'm seeing are pretty awesome looking.
I tried moving my Cochin bantam the last time she was sitting on eggs and she wouldn't sit anymore that day. Course she's been sitting every day since-I can't make her stop, she's got her feathers all rubbed off underneath. I've moved her and moved her yet with her next egg the next day she goes to sitting again. So I put some Modern bantam eggs under her 3 days ago. I think I'm going to build her and her sister their own pen and let them hatch eggs if I want any more chickens. These 2 are Broody Queens, I have no doubt they'll hatch out anything I put under them.

he's here!! gorgeous boy!!
he's young, about 5 months and leaving him in his isolation cage, so he can get accustomed to it here- he is letting everyone know he is here...LOL!

Robin, he's a purdy one! I've only got 1 white Silkie boy but he happens to be bearded and is really pretty, he's the one who lives in with the Faverolles. For some reason all my whites stay spotless just like that boy of yours. They can dig in the dirt all day and yet they still look painted with white-out.

 

[gritsar]

Gritstar, that's so nice that you want to do that for your Silkie mix. I don't have any but hope you can arrange to find a few.

Thanks. I have to do something and soon to keep her hatchmate/coopmate from hurting her.

If I don't find her a new coopmate by this weekend, I guess I am going to go ahead and move her coopmate to one of my larger coops and let her stay in her coop and run during the day and bring her in the house at night.

I've had an offer of free silkie eggs, but little Dragon needs a friend now, not in a month or so.