***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[shelbydog]

I'm up for a lunch gathering in Shawnee. I like food

 

[Kyzmette]

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Oh Robin, I'm so sorry for your loss. I fell in love with Cressy as soon as I saw the post about her the other day. To hear you just lost her breaks my heart.

 

[NanaKat]

Nanakat,
Give me a call when you arrive, and if all else fails I will take you to lunch. I look forward to catching up.

Will do...look forward to talking family and chickens.

 

[Kyzmette]

Can we plan BYC lunch somewhere? It would be great to meet everybody!

 

[Poco Pollo]

Too cold for me outside. I'm in for a second cup of coffee and a dry pair of socks. No school in Muskogee today because everything that melted yesterday turned to ice overnight.

My flock seems cranky. They don't like the cold, but a few are developing their flying muscles. They fly from high, dry spot to high, dry spot. One of the packing peanut capons chose my shoulder as a high, dry spot, and he stayed there for three trips into the barn and two trips into the house to defrost water buckets. On the second defrosting trip Therese and Agatha (house cats) realized the chicken was not a natural part of my jacket, and they started circling my boots, calling to the cockerel, and making "Come down and play with us" faces. As soon as I got outside, the cockerel rejoined his friends. I think the cats spooked him. He is used to the barn cats, since they ignore the chickens. The house cats were too attentive. I think they would have enjoyed a nice game of cat-pile on the chicken if he'd left my shoulder while inside the house.

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: so colder will make male possibility higher...hmmmm.. something to keep in mind...

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: some chickens really are personalities and this girl was for sure- i had to take this lamp down once she discovered it-

 

[Kyzmette]

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I'm not sure that it would make male possibility higher, I think it just increases the likelihood of males hatching and females not hatching. Unless chickens are one of those species where gender isn't determined by the intial cross-pairing of genes. Anybody know that off the top of their head?

 

[Kyzmette]

Okay, so somebody knowledgeable in this Shawnee show-thing please fill the rest of us in. Do we need to be there early to have a shot at getting some of the sale birds? Do the sales start later? Shelbydog and I aren't showing, but we'd like to maybe pick up a decent breeding bird or two.

 

[Kyzmette]

Oh, and just throwing this out there... I have these two gorgeous Buff Brahma Cochins, a pair. I'm pretty sure they're breeding quality, but I only got them so I could nurse the third part of the original trio back to health. They had mites when I got them, but I've been treating them, and otherwise the roo and hen seem healthy. I just don't have a place for them in my flock, but they're such beautiful birds.

Anybody have any suggestions what I should do with them?