***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Poco Pollo]

bfrancis - ya, when there's not an auction at Newcastle it kinda blows the whole auction-going momentum. I wish there was one (that I know about) in the eastern part of the state. There's an auction in McAlester on Friday evenings, and sometimes they have poultry there, but it's not a sure thing. I haven't been to the one in Stilwell before but may give that one a try sometime. It's just not the same, though, without all the BYCers.

This Friday there will be an auction (Crozier Auction Company) at the Wagoner county fairgrounds barn. It's in Coweta across the street from the middle school. You can check in birds in the afternoon, and the auction starts at 6:00 p.m.

KELLY - About half the little trees seem to be thriving. The other half are going brown and losing leaves. I'm keeping them watered, but maybe the stress of pulling them up was too much for them. The big sapling lost half its leaves. I'm going to fertilize all of them this week. I may move them to partial shade, as well.

 

[Poco Pollo]

POCO- here are some pics of some EO chicks that i just pulled out of the bator you can use them for comparison

Thanks for posting the pictures, Joe. They will help me identify my new babies. I'm going to put leg bands on them so that I can keep track of them more easily. My hatch was big, and there are a lot of similar looking chicks hopping around in the brooder.

 

[Kassaundra]

for all the newbies.

Geese that scare off MILs!!! Can't believe people weren't jumping on this?!?

Great ideas!

Oh wait...you speaketh the truth

Ya know, I don't think broodies or chicks count, so I'll bet you're still under your limit.

We brought home Silkies too. What color did you say he was again Betsy? Frosted or ????? I don't remember.

For years I made it in quart canning jars inside a cooler w/a heating pad set on low.

The kids and I have only tried it once and apparently we didn't get all the air sealed out properly.

around one edge. Our cellar maintains the perfect temp though, so may have to try again.
+1 on what ksane said.

If your MIL is nice enough to be scared by the geese you probably don't need that service. lol

 

[NanaKat]

This is Dexter who was suppose to be a blue ameraucana.......really curious as to what she will look like when she is an adult. I guess she is a splash but all I see are white ones when I google it. Then again I'm no expert here and don't know if they just change color as they get older or what.



Now these three live in my room. They have fresh water and food and they are eating. But they are not putting on any weight. They are just bones. I put in the save a chick stuff the guy at the feed store gave me. But what else should I do??? I don't want to lose them. And when I put them outside they huddle in a corner and don't move. The other chicks beat them up bad. My red stars and silkies pay them no mind. But the brahma and other am's are just mean!! I don't get it.

I have had luck adding Corid to thei drinking water. It is a liquid med for coccidiosis.

Hi, newby here. I am in Broken Arrow. I only have 1 rooster, 2 hens and 2 baby chicks. I believe the adults are Blue Cochins, not sure what are the baby chicks.

 

[Greybear23]

Morning all, I over did it some yesterday, helped my wife work on a chicken pen and move some chicks around. Think Ill take the day top recuperate today, tired and sore, hope everyone has a wonderful day, Lynn

 

[jcatblum]

I see the weather forecast showing that it will be heating up this wk. I have a dilemma with a broody silkie. She is in our movable city coop. Bottoms half of the coop holds the food & water & is connected to a run. The top half of the coop is fully enclosed, has the roost & nest boxes & it has wire floor to allow air flow in the summer plus a vented roof (in the winter we put a piece of vinyl & hay on the floor for warmth).
Well the silkie is sitting up top in the nesting box & I am sure when it is 90 outside it will be 100 or so inside.
I previously requested we move the coop to the shade, but of course DH didn't take me serious. Now she is sitting --- how mad is she going to get if we move the coop a large distance? I am thinking we will take the other 2 birds out of the coop then put the coop on the trailer bring it up here where there is shade. Maybe it would be easier just to move her & the eggs? I really don't want to bring her inside though!

 

[Poco Pollo]

I see the weather forecast showing that it will be heating up this wk. I have a dilemma with a broody silkie. She is in our movable city coop. Bottoms half of the coop holds the food & water & is connected to a run. The top half of the coop is fully enclosed, has the roost & nest boxes & it has wire floor to allow air flow in the summer plus a vented roof (in the winter we put a piece of vinyl & hay on the floor for warmth).
Well the silkie is sitting up top in the nesting box & I am sure when it is 90 outside it will be 100 or so inside.
I previously requested we move the coop to the shade, but of course DH didn't take me serious. Now she is sitting --- how mad is she going to get if we move the coop a large distance? I am thinking we will take the other 2 birds out of the coop then put the coop on the trailer bring it up here where there is shade. Maybe it would be easier just to move her & the eggs? I really don't want to bring her inside though!

She won't stay mad forever. I'd move the coop to a shady spot.

ROBIN - I sent you a PM.

 

[averytds]

If your MIL is nice enough to be scared by the geese you probably don't need that service. lol

My MIL was plenty nice, she desperately wanted grandkids and I was her last shot. She still found ways unintentional though they may have been, to drive me insane at times.

Like when we finally broke DS off the bottle (it was his security blanket and a big ordeal) and she and FIL were to watch him for a few hours while I was having DD. They show up at hospital, couple hours after getting him and yeppers, she had given him a bottle. Had to start all over again. Sigh...still miss her though.

She won't stay mad forever. I'd move the coop to a shady spot.

+1 all our losses to heat last year were in tractors.

 

[artsyrobin]

I see the weather forecast showing that it will be heating up this wk. I have a dilemma with a broody silkie. She is in our movable city coop. Bottoms half of the coop holds the food & water & is connected to a run. The top half of the coop is fully enclosed, has the roost & nest boxes & it has wire floor to allow air flow in the summer plus a vented roof (in the winter we put a piece of vinyl & hay on the floor for warmth).
Well the silkie is sitting up top in the nesting box & I am sure when it is 90 outside it will be 100 or so inside.
I previously requested we move the coop to the shade, but of course DH didn't take me serious. Now she is sitting --- how mad is she going to get if we move the coop a large distance? I am thinking we will take the other 2 birds out of the coop then put the coop on the trailer bring it up here where there is shade. Maybe it would be easier just to move her & the eggs? I really don't want to bring her inside though!

being she is a silkie, she would be fine, another option is give her a frozen milk jug with a fan in her current area..but silkies are very forgiving

 

[Ksane]

Christina, given the fact she's a Silkie my guess is she won't miss a beat and will stay sitting. If not then you'll have finally hit on a way to get a Silkie off the nest.
For Mother's Day my daughter and husband and I used 2x4's and tin & roofed the 3 remaining pens in the back that didn't have roofs for shade. We just roofed 6x10 of the 10x10 pens for now and will do the remaining later on down the road. It goes fast once you get going. I was in a panic to get some sort of roofing for shade. That's why we've been trying so hard to get the chain link fence up in back under the trees-my Cochin girls have too little shade in just their pen. They've got an 8x8 building but even with a fan going it got hot in there when it was only in the 90's. I remember so many people lost birds last year in the heat and that scares me. I'm trying to give all the pens in the back access to a shaded chain link fence yard. Then when I mowed yesterday and got to walking around my eyes saw ALL this room where I could put fences and yards

The Ameraucanas will hatch in 2 wks (if I get lucky) and God & Joe willing I'll get some Aracauna chicks in a month. Everyone's pen and yard will be done & ready. It'll be getting too hot to hatch and try to brood chicks so I want to just finally sit back and enjoy these new batches of chicks and decide how to enlarge all their yards. I don't see where you all get the energy to hatch hundreds of chicks. Maybe I'm just old lol