***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[muesky]

Hey Everyone!
It looks like a storm is blowing in. Good thing I waited to clean the coop. It would only be a wet mess tomorrow and I would have to clean it again.
Well I have 7 little cochin chicks in the brooder. One just came out of the egg like a few hours ago and there in two busting out. Thank goodness this is the last of that unplanned for batch to finish hatching. I will say my birds must really be healthy and the hens good broodies because I had 100% hatch rate and all the chicks are health and zipping around.

Now if only my LF cochin eggs hatch so well I will have a bunch of black LF cochin babies starting to hatch next weekend. So far I have 9 eggs being sat right now. My hen is laying 5 out of 7 a week. Think I am going to put another one of my black hens in there and get a few more going. If anyone is interested in the LF cochin chicks I will be selling some of them but I would rather trade for LF cochin chicks. Hint, Hint you know who you people are!!!!

Well I need to get cleaned up and start heading to Newcastle. Have a 10 nesting box I am selling and a few dozen eggs. Did not have time to get much more then that together. Hope to see a bunch of BYCers there.

 

[Buster52]

I had to read it twice, that's great

I have my days.

Not many, but I do have them.

Getting ready to head out for the Great Elgin Mystery Auction. Hope to see some of you there!



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[Kassaundra]

You guys have fun at the auctions, I'll be hanging out in Webber, hopefully w/o any green beer overdrinkers.

 

[mefordz]

You guys have fun at the auctions, I'll be hanging out in Webber, hopefully w/o any green beer overdrinkers.

now thats funny kass, no green beer overdrinkers. has it ever made a differance what color it was?

 

[Imma Okie]

We are butchering a few EE Roos next wk (yes we do love our birds, and we have some that are pets) guinea fowl are suppose to taste like pheasant, but I doubt an EE would. Imagine it taste like chicken!

 

[Imma Okie]

and also thank you to those that welcomed me!

 

[Kassaundra]

now thats funny kass, no green beer overdrinkers. has it ever made a differance what color it was?

Not the obnoxious druken part, but the vomitting all over the ambulance part.

That slap was to the drunken idiots, not you.

 

[Ksane]

Now if only my LF cochin eggs hatch so well I will have a bunch of black LF cochin babies starting to hatch next weekend. So far I have 9 eggs being sat right now. My hen is laying 5 out of 7 a week. Think I am going to put another one of my black hens in there and get a few more going. If anyone is interested in the LF cochin chicks I will be selling some of them but I would rather trade for LF cochin chicks. Hint, Hint you know who you people are!!!!

You want to trade the black chicks for different colored chicks, you mean?

Imma Okie, that cockerel is beautiful. I'm one of those people who can't turn loose of a bird I raised so I've got too many boys as it is, my husband is worse than me come to find out. But yours sure is pretty. You could always build him a bachelor pen and give him a couple girls, that's why I'm in the process of doing. I don't like to eat enough to butcher my little buddies, no one at my house is going to starve to death if they don't eat chicken
We got the 4x4's set finally for the pen for the 3 turkeys in the back yard. It's going to be 15x20. It doesn't look too small when you're standing in it, I hope there's enough room. I wish I could let them free range since they're such big birds. But I just know they'd fly right into the front yard where all my dogs are. They can easily get over the dog's 5' fence even with clipped wings. So they'll have a covered pen and I won't have to clip their pretty wings. Got the posts set for 2 other 10x10 pens, too. Even if none of my eggs hatch at Carl's I'm going to try again for Ameraucanas and Dark Brahmas, I want those 2 breeds. Out of the 6 Bantam Faverolles as far as I can tell I've got 5 girls and 1 boy-too cool if that's the case.
My Serama, Channing, is going to have a small pen with a park bench and table and umbrella in it so he can be outside and scratch around like a real chicken when I'm outside. I can't bear to leave him out there overnight though, he's so little he'd get carried off by a beetle :-(

 

[Buster52]

At the Porter Hill auctions. Nice turnout already.

 

[Sooner]

Ok I'm beat! If there was an auction to go to tonight I don't know if I could muster the energy.

Got the fence up around the garden, everything planted that I could, 2 loads of laundry, moved a grape vine, cleaned the gutters (thank you oak tree's), layed out the place for my bee hive so I can start on it later or tomorrow after church.

Robin, not sure my son would be able to clean up what you need done, he spends all of his extra time from his regular job scapping metal. He makes alot of extra money doing that & not sure he would give that up.