***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[erinszoo]

Lol. Thanks. I'll remember that.

 

[sdsknifeworks]

I sure do feel better after reading everyone elses adventures here. I realize I'm not the only one who lives an "interesting" life! I love hearing the stories.

Took my daughter to Mary's swap meet this morning. We didn't go to buy anything, just to look. My daughter informed me last night that we needed a "Daddy Daughter Day". We rode the motorcycle to breakfast, then rode over to the swap meet. She had a ball looking at all of the different birds, guinea pigs, guineas, peafowl, ducks, goats and pigs. She overheard the price on the piglets and promptly informed me that she has that much money saved up so she is going to get a pig. I told her she had to take that up with her mom!! I just thought we had a hard time talking her into chickens!!

Rose is acting like a completely different bird today. She has not be in the nest boxes but she is up and around the yard and pretty much bullying the two younger aussies. I'm hoping we are past the hump and she won't have any more problems.

SDS

 

[Ksane]

I got the new pen done so I moved "Uncle Red" and my Lemon Blue and BBS hen into it so know maybe I can start on my LF Lemon Blue Cochins!

OMG the babies will be gorgeous between these 2 in the picture!
I hope he's behaving himself for you.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

hi yall i just whanted to share pic of my wifes babys

BANTAM BARED COCHIN and i mean fluffy supper fluffy butts LOL







soo what do yall think is he worth keeping or not LOL

 

[Ksane]

Joe, the barring on him is so clear! He's beautiful!

 

[mjgigax]

hi yall i just whanted to share pic of my wifes babys

BANTAM BARED COCHIN and i mean fluffy supper fluffy butts LOL







soo what do yall think is he worth keeping or not LOL

No, they are terrible. I will do you a favor and take them off your hands.

 

[MacGuyver]

Best advice i ever got was
'buy lots of pajamas that you think your neighbors will like seeing you in"

 

[Poco Pollo]

Met a really nice lady through Facebook today. Her son is interested in Barnevelders (already has a roo but didn't have any hens), so I was able to help by providing a couple of pullets. It was great to talk chickens, goats, and kids with someone like minded.

I visited a big, used bookstore in Tulsa after delivering the pullets (Gardner's Used Books). What a great store! I bought some craft books, a few novels, and a clean copy of the current MLA documentation handbook. There are sooooo many books I'd love to take home, but I can tell already in my planning of next school year that there will be little time for recreational reading.

Time to go round up today's last free-range group. I let them out a few hours ago, and they trooped over to the Rose of Sharon to dust bathe around the roots. The soil there is usually moist from watering, and the heavily covered branches provide shade. I know the birds look dirty and unkempt after wallowing in moist soil, but they aren't complaining about the heat, which makes looking at their messy feet and feathers okay. I'm taking them some watermelon to tempt them back into their pen. Watermelon / dirt... watermelon / dirt... I think they'll give up the dirt for a crop full of watermelon : )

 

[Buster52]

So, I went to pick up my 40 layers this morning, and by the time we were done counting, it turns out to be 32. "Huh", he says. "Guess we lost more to predation than we thought". I had to laugh. When you have a couple dozen birds, you notice every single loss. When you have several hundred, it gets hard to keep count.

Anyway, two got away, so I took home 30, although I paid for 32 anyway. There were 24 RIR, 1 Easter Egger, and 5 Anconas.

Anconas. I don't remember seeing these anywhere, even at auctions, let alone owned any. Supposed to be good layers, second only to Leghorns. And they don't go broody, which is a big plus for me. I swear, this summer every single Marans has gone broody multiple times. That wouldn't be so bad, except they forget which eggs were theirs and they end up in another box, thus ruining multiple eggs.

He promised more for fall.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

this summer every single Marans has gone broody multiple times. That wouldn't be so bad, except they forget which eggs were theirs and they end up in another box, thus ruining multiple eggs..

9 of my Buff Orpington hens have gone broody at one time or another this year and have done the same thing, they will be sitting on a nest full of eggs and another hen lays an egg in an empty nest and the broody will move to that nest by the time I catch what's happened the nest full of eggs are quit so have to start over I tried to separate the setting hens to a pen with only themselves in it and didn't have good hatches out of them, I think next season I'm going to block off all but a couple of nests so they have to share more the only problem I see with that will be fresh eggs may get incubated all day before I can pull them out when I get home from work or I could do what has worked for me in the past and feed them crushed red pepper once in a while and they won't go broody, I know not everyone agrees that that works so I may do it just for the experiment, the last time I did that I had a layer flock of 100 mixed barred rocks, Dominique's and rhode island reds and not one went broody for 2 seasons after adding it to their feed.