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[Kyzmette]

Kyzmette, PM me your address.  I cleaned out some of the iris yesterday and have some tubers to send you.  I can get them to you faster if I mail them. Do you want a few daylilies too?

SQUEEEEEE!!!e

PM sent! This is going to be like waiting for chicks to hatch! Or Christmas!

I love daylilies too, have mauves and pinks and some yellows. I don't care for the oranges for some reason (I think that has something to do with a childhood memory of some tiger lilies and a bed of ants), but I will happily take whatever you will bless me with and find them loving homes on my property.

For anybody else who may want to start flowerbeds, but doesn't want to have to put a ton of work into them, asiatic lilies are the way to go. They're pretty self-sufficient, need little watering, aren't fussy at all, will take over a space all on their own, and come back year after year. Just remember that all means you may have them in that area for a long time, even if you decide you don't want them anymore.

I had some I bought from home depot the year I had some illness and ended unable to plant them. Those things ended up surviving in that tiny starter pot for two years in my kitchen.

 

[bardies]

Good morning everyone! Also having coffee while thinking about all the stuff to do today. Did a county fair yesterday, birds and kid did well. Son even showed a steer for the first time that his sister was supposed to have shown (but did not due to grades). I found out that broken wing feathers (even in silkies) get a lot of points taken off. So you would want to time the shows into the right pattern with molts!

But the best news!!! My really nice hen (which spent the day yesterday resting quietly in a pen at home) layed an egg!!!!!

So, one would think that it can not be egg yolk periontites? Or that she can't be that sick? I think she has an issue, but if the issue was that bad and making her ill, then would she really be still laying?

Due to our travel schedule over the next month or so, I was not planning on hatching anything more - but I guess the plan has changed!

Anyway, would appreciate thoughts on if sick birds lay or not. Regardless, will be bringing her in to get her looked at.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Late morning, everyone:

Youngest grand baby has a chest cold, so we were up most of the night. After a breakfast of farm-fresh scrambled eggs, turkey sausage, bananas, and juice, we went out to collect eggs. Turns out three of the pullets obliged. We found one Wheaten Marans pullet egg, one Marans cross egg, and one standard Cornish pullet egg. I need my second-season and third-season hens to contribute. They're dirt bathing and visiting, but they're still not laying.

 

[TRUE5]

@lonnyandrinda . Ooh....you guys got Tasha's trio....I love the blue based hen in that trio. I wanted a drake out of one of the groups but I couldn't get them to hear me ask if they would allow buyer's choice. I will hopefully have some scovy ducklings soon if you want some for the kids.
Are the NN chicks all the same color?

@TRUE5 did you get Tasha's blue Cochin hen that has a bronze/gold-ish hue? If yes, I thought she was very pretty. Congrats on the eye candy. I thought about bidding on her.

I got home from the auction a little before 4. I got a Toulouse goose and a scovy hen (I feel sorry for adding her to the yard today since the drakes are in mating frenzy mode). Had to get the chicks and ducklings Poco Pollo brought for me settled in. Got to sleep about an hour and then feed everyone before going to work. But I had a great time at the auction. I used to go to auctions with my ex and didn't enjoy them quite like I do now. What a difference being in good company makes.

I've got 6 orloffs, 3 olive eggers, 1 English orp, 2 legbars, and 4 le flèche in one brooder box that were hatched within last 7 days. I've got 5 new hamp reds and 3 welsummers in another brooder box that were hatched in late January. And have 6 black east indie bantam ducklings that hatched this past week in their own brooder box.

I did get her blue Cochin! Oh she is beautiful and a sweet heart! I love her personality! I got her home and she has a bad respiratory infection going on (not a big deal this time since I know how to treat) and sounds very croupy. Her face is wrinkled like it was swollen at one time. My cockerel's face did that too but it all evened out eventually. She was out in her yard when I then noticed her bare naked butt. I looked and she doesn't look like she has mites or lice. She doesn't have scabs or anything. It's just from the vent on down. I think she must have been butt pecked bald. Poor thing. Oh, I'm not complaining! I just ADORE her! Naked butt and all Lol! Tasha's birds were so beautiful!

Haha you know what I thought you were familiar BUT... I see so many faces connected to "chickens" I just always smile and act friendly because I'm SURE I know you! And I have a terrible memory for faces. LOL. The kids actually did REALLY well I thought. I managed to stay for 2 1/2 hours this time. Turned out the reason why Lydia (the 2 year old) was being so snuggly was she didn't feel good- I was up until after midnight with her feverish and pulling at her ear. Thank goodness for tylenol and colloidal silver- she is almost better today. Still a low-grade fever though.
X2 Even the porous ones you can tell by around day 10-14.


Uh... yeah that was my hubby that brought those home...

I had to leave early to take the kids home to bed. Him being at the auction unsupervised is not a good thing. I need to bribe someone to sit next to him and hold his hand down.

But at least he has finally learned to watch for signs of sick ones. He learned that one the (very) hard way when we had to put down everything he exposed by not quarantining.

So that leads to what we spent ALL DAY LONG doing- building a duck pen down by the pond. Because he just had to bid on a quad of Chocolate Muscovy ducks. I am so beat tonight... he came home with way more birds than I had planned, as usual, but luckily we somehow had some empty pens so they can quarantine fairly comfortably. I'm a little worried about some young cockerels I had to put in with some grown roos but I will keep an eye on them tomorrow and separate if necessary.

My 8 year old is ecstatic that daddy bought naked neck chicks!!! We are going to have to keep at least one he has asked for them for such a long time. @TRUE5 your daughter was ogling them as we were holding them. I don't think you saw but I let her pet one.

Haha I'm sure Cathy Sue has an extra SFH roo for you.

The lady behind you was Lisa LeRay from Tahlequah and her friends that carpooled with her. She's on FB but I don't thinks she's on here. She has an amazing registered Alpine goat flock and I want some from her so bad. As soon as the old house sells we will have a little more wiggle room for fun stuff like that.... She has some of my Cream Legbar line and just took home a young trio of blue Isbars.


I think hatching depends A LOT on your individual incubator. It takes some trial and error to find what works best. The very best way to know how things are going is to watch the air cells. You want 1/3 of the egg to be air space by hatch day or you will lose chicks to drowning.

I find my sportsman is much more sensitive to having the door opened than my little white styrofoam one. If I have to open the door for any reason the day of the hatch I have to open it again that evening to check and assist any chicks that got "glued" in their shell from the humidity swing. I have finally learned to leave the door SHUT until the day after the hatch. I want SO BAD to get the clear door that can go on my sportsman so I can still SEE... maybe next year!

LOL! I know, my daughter LOVES chicks! My husband took one look at them and "Those are so ugly". So I know I will never have NN. Lol. I'm sorry your little one was sick. I always hated it when they got sick because you know they are miserable. My youngest had a cold and bad cough for awhile then fever and so we had Tylenol and ibprophren (sp?) on hand. Yes, thank God for modern day medicine!!!

I would have been in trouble big time if I had gone to the auction! @lonnyandrina did you get your flowers from Tasha? She sold me my first trio. Really nice folks. @true5 as soon as I know what I've got I will save a roo for you. It is windy out there right now. I was going to play musical pens today but maybe it will get warmer later.

Thank you Cathiesue! I hope it gets warmer today. It was pretty brisk when I went out not long ago. I just put my 3 month olds outside from the garage. Quite a bit of a shock for them. They are having to share the pen with the bantams. I feel bad but I can't put them anywhere else and they have to learn the pecking order the hard way. You would think that since they are bigger than the bantams they would have an advantage, but they are still scared of getting pecked. My baby chicks (my 24 and my friends 16) all went to the box the 3 month olds were in and they all took flight. They were SO happy! I don't blame them. They have much more room now and I plan on using that box as a brooder for now on. So I know what you mean by musical pens. I'll be glad when everyone calms down and is settled.

 

[shelbydog]

@True5. The bald butt may be due her having vent gleet at one time or she was plucked for fertility. Just a thought.

 

[Kassaundra]

I am setting eggs today, and boy to I wish the came w/ some label, like "awesome genes set me" and "so/so genes go ahead and eat me"

 

[froggiesheins]

This is about the fight of a 5yr old girl to keep her beloved silkie roo Dallas in a tiny farm/agriculteral UN-incorperated town in Dufur, OR.

OK ALL YOU OKIE PEEPS...PLEASE READ THIS AND SIGN THE PETITION .
I AM THE SELF APPOINTED CHEERLEADER FOR THIS CAUSE!.

AFTER YOU READ AND SIGN PLEASE SEND IT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

EVEN BETTER; SEND AN EMAIL TO DUFUR CITY COUNCIL!

.LETS LET THIS TINY TOWN OF DUFUR, OR. KNOW THAT AMERICA IS WATCHING THEM!

Thank you kindly......

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/974/870/400/saving-dallas-the-rooster/

https://www.facebook.com/savingdallastherooster

 

[Ksane]

Robin, I want a Boaz II sooo bad! Is he from Junebug also? How would I get one frizzled like him? If I ever find one I'm going to name him Bo-Bo lol Could he be put with Ebony? I'd pay dearly for eggs from those 2! I can't hatch til after my son's wedding in May in NC and it's just killing me. It's full speed ahead when we get back though. I am SO going to look for a Boaz and Ebony for myself, you're so lucky.

Bardies, sick hens do lay but I've never ever had one deathly ill who layed an egg. The laying ones seem to be the ones that are going to get better. I'm crossing my fingers for you.

The wind blew over the 10x10 chain link kennel my most favorite 4 mo old chicks were in and it fell over on one of them and killed her :-( She was the only one out of the 8 yr old rooster who the neighbors moved off and left years ago (long before I got into chickens). So "Sprocket" was special. I'm hoping I'll have the chance to hatch more from that rooster before something happens to him.
Oh, and for the record-Cochin/Orloff cross cockerels are huge at 4 mo old! And so pretty.

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: could you get someone to hatch some of the eggs for you?? That is sad losing one that way

Yes Boaz is from June, he is the same age as channing, originally got the three of them together- Boaz and Ruth, and Joe- i sure miss that boy!







Do you still have serama eggs?? Ebony laid a few days after loosing jet, so i put it in the bator hoping.....

 

[Kassaundra]

Going in the bator today, all NN