***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Ksane]

Rinda, here's the ones I took in January. Their parents came from a really good breeder in Oklahoma.

 

[shelbydog]

^^^^those are soooo cute!!!!

I know this is hard for you to part with your birds.

 

[NanaKat]

We just got back from helping a neighbor search his 160 acres for a calf that was born last night. Mom came up to feed this morning with the other cows and it was obvious she had not passed her afterbirth. Instead of letting her out of the lot, he kept her in because he wanted to follow her back to her calf.. She then could not find her calf. About half of his property is heavy woods and he looked from a quad runner....you look for a calf in the woods on foot. When we got the call, he was on his way back to the city to meet with his tax consultant. We were unable to find the calf or even locate where she might have had the calf. We are thinking that the calf was either taken by coyote or the cougar that has been frequenting our local ranches. This guy is a hobby rancher with 25 head of cows...nice guy...willing to learn and takes advice well. Guess we will check his herd in the morning to see if Mom cleaned up and if she found her baby. We have a vested interest in his herd since the cow this morning is actually one he traded for with us. She is a great mom cow...sure would hate for her not to have a calf to raise.

Yesterday my snap traps I ordered arrived. The boys set the traps around the juvenile pen so that any critter that has been snacking on my birds would be caught. Sure enough this morning a possum was securely caught and dispatched.
War on critters has been pretty good:
Kirby has killed two coyotes
Roger got one of the rabbits
Possum has been nailed
Still watching for the hawk.

We had two calves born yesterday...both from first time moms. Both did great and calves are bouncing little bundles of energy.
Chickens got to free range today while I worked in the garden this morning. Still prepping beds for the tomatoes, peppers and squash but with the hail and freeze predicted, I wont set any plants out until after Tuesday. Potatoes are up and onions are looking great. We will cover everything Saturday evening to protect from the hail. Last year, crops were decimated by hail...don't want a repeat.

 

[shelbydog]

We just got back from helping a neighbor search his 160 acres for a calf that was born last night.  Mom came up to feed this morning with the other cows and it was obvious she had not passed her afterbirth.  Instead of letting her out of the lot, he kept her in because he wanted to follow her back to her calf..  She then could not find her calf.  About half of his property is heavy woods and he looked from a quad runner....you look for a calf in the woods on foot.  When we got the call, he was on his way back to the city to meet with his tax consultant.  We were unable to find the calf or even locate where she might have had the calf.  We are thinking that the calf was either taken by coyote or the cougar that has been frequenting our local ranches.   This guy is a hobby rancher with 25 head of cows...nice guy...willing to learn and takes advice well.  Guess we will check his herd in the morning to see if Mom cleaned up and if she found her baby.  We have a vested interest in his herd since the cow this morning is actually one he traded for with us.  She is a great mom cow...sure would hate for her not to have a calf to raise.

Yesterday my snap traps I ordered arrived.  The boys set the traps around the juvenile pen so that any critter that has been snacking on my birds would be caught.  Sure enough this morning a possum was securely caught and dispatched.
War on critters has been pretty good:
Kirby has killed two coyotes
Roger got one of the rabbits
Possum has been nailed
Still watching for the hawk.

We had two calves born yesterday...both from first time moms.  Both did great and calves are bouncing little bundles of energy.
Chickens got to free range today while I worked in the garden this morning.  Still prepping beds for the tomatoes, peppers and squash but with the hail and freeze predicted, I wont set any plants out until after Tuesday. Potatoes are up and onions are looking great.  We will cover everything Saturday evening to protect from the hail.  Last year, crops were decimated by hail...don't want a repeat. 

I was in your area today. I would have been happy to help with the calf scouting party if I knew.

 

[mjgigax]

Faverolles chicks and wine... lots of blackberry wine... mmmmmmmm. And I wouldn't fistfight you. But I give a heck of a wicked stinkeye! You would dang sure know you'd been stinkeyed when you get stinkeyed by me!

Your post just gave me a clue as to why teachers are attracted to chickens - the stinkeye - we are very practiced at giving the stinkeye!

It has been a very long week at school but when I got home tonight I just changed my clothes and went right back outside and stayed busy nonstop til about 30 min. ago. Love this weather!

 

[mjgigax]

Oh yeah, remember I can't go to Afton on May 17 b/c I got that race that day but I can go May 18.

But I'm up for Coweta too.

I'm excited about next Saturday! Muesky and I will leave OKC at about 10:00 and will bring some Maran's and Turkey eggs to sell. We will bring chairs this time. Those bleachers get hard after several hours.
All 6 of the 6 BLRW eggs Rebecca bought there were fertile, as were the 12 OE and 20 of the 24 EE eggs we bought.

 

[mjgigax]

I am still having internet issues, borrowing the "waves" from my FIL's house right now.


Those of you wondering about Rudy( i ) my naked chick, he is still alive and making huge improvements, I am guardedly optimistic about his chances. Decided to name him Rudy or her Rudi after the foot ball player who survived such incredible odds.

He has a combo of genes that make him both featherless and scaleless, meaning he does not even have feather follicles on his skin or scales on his legs. This a completely natural genetic possibility when combining these genes. His rough start had nothing to do w/ these genes, but had to do w/ the shrink wrapping of his egg and his forced hatch before he was ready (about 12 ish hours as near as I can tell). If I had not forced the hatch the shrink wrapping would have killed him in the egg. He is hatched from a green egg. He carries fibromyletic genes too, that is why his skin has a grey tone.

At hatch he had a huge abd hernia which I bandaged in increasingly smaller bandages as it got better, he needed tape shoes to straighten his feet and a hobble for 3.5 days to help him walk, he has the shoes and hobble off now, I will check on the hernia bandage when I get home and see if it can be removed now.

He is eating on his own, has been accepted by the rest of the hatch, and is wobbly but walking and balancing on his own now.

My little wobbily Speckeled Sussex is doing pretty good too. Since he has now made it 4 days i am more optimistic.

Your Nekid chick hatched from a green egg?
Is he/she technically an Turken?

I think he or she is adorable. GO Rudy!

 

[Poco Pollo]

I'm excited about next Saturday! Muesky and I will leave OKC at about 10:00 and will bring some Maran's and Turkey eggs to sell. We will bring chairs this time. Those bleachers get hard after several hours.
All 6 of the 6 BLRW eggs Rebecca bought there were fertile, as were the 12 OE and 20 of the 24 EE eggs we bought.

We should save spaces for chairs. I'm bringing 4 chairs (mine and two for grandkids plus one extra). I will have a diaper bag, too. This is going to be interesting.

 

[mjgigax]

We just got back from helping a neighbor search his 160 acres for a calf that was born last night. Mom came up to feed this morning with the other cows and it was obvious she had not passed her afterbirth. Instead of letting her out of the lot, he kept her in because he wanted to follow her back to her calf.. She then could not find her calf. About half of his property is heavy woods and he looked from a quad runner....you look for a calf in the woods on foot. When we got the call, he was on his way back to the city to meet with his tax consultant. We were unable to find the calf or even locate where she might have had the calf. We are thinking that the calf was either taken by coyote or the cougar that has been frequenting our local ranches. This guy is a hobby rancher with 25 head of cows...nice guy...willing to learn and takes advice well. Guess we will check his herd in the morning to see if Mom cleaned up and if she found her baby. We have a vested interest in his herd since the cow this morning is actually one he traded for with us. She is a great mom cow...sure would hate for her not to have a calf to raise.

Yesterday my snap traps I ordered arrived. The boys set the traps around the juvenile pen so that any critter that has been snacking on my birds would be caught. Sure enough this morning a possum was securely caught and dispatched.
War on critters has been pretty good:
Kirby has killed two coyotes
Roger got one of the rabbits
Possum has been nailed
Still watching for the hawk.

We had two calves born yesterday...both from first time moms. Both did great and calves are bouncing little bundles of energy.
Chickens got to free range today while I worked in the garden this morning. Still prepping beds for the tomatoes, peppers and squash but with the hail and freeze predicted, I wont set any plants out until after Tuesday. Potatoes are up and onions are looking great. We will cover everything Saturday evening to protect from the hail. Last year, crops were decimated by hail...don't want a repeat.

I hope the calf shows up. The poor Mama.

My dog caught at least 20 mice around the pens this evening. I put the water hose in every mouse hole I could find and he just sat by exit holes and just chomped and spit them out one after another.
I so hate those mice. They get fat feasting at my feeders. The bantam birds will only bother with the smaller mice. Guess I will just have to get more LFs. Oh no, I NEED more chickens!

We planted some tomatoes and peppers two weeks ago. Will have to cover them a few times this week.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Rinda, here's the ones I took in January. Their parents came from a really good breeder in Oklahoma.

@Ksane gorgeous! I am very interested. We need to figure out how to chicken train these sweethearts to me! Remind me again whereabouts you live? I will need to get a quarantine pen set up they will have to stay separate from my other breeds until I can get someone to come npip test them for me.