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[Poco Pollo]

Afternoon : )

It's been about a week since I've been able to log on and stay on. We have lousy Internet service, and if we go over our allotted monthly usage, the ISP cranks the speed down and we can't do anything productive.

Welcome to the newbies! I love to see new names and faces on the thread. We're a friendly bunch; no question is ever too small.

Robin - Your d'uccle roo starts his fast tomorrow. I'll be working with him on Saturday morning. I'll let you know how he does. Now that I know he's a special case, I can modify restraints for him so that I don't go in too far forward.

Kassaundra - Hercule is an amazing roo. He and his standard Cornish hen patrol the yard together each morning before I let the ducks out. He's not a fan of the Indian Runner drake. They don't fight, but the stare each other down if they approach food or water at the same time.

Ksane - I'm still working on the diaper for Leon. His curly feathers present a problem I hadn't experienced with straight feathers.

Lost a group of little ones yesterday to a bull snake. I thought I'd discouraged it (threw T-posts, rocks, whacked at it with a shovel), and I didn't expect it to return. At dusk there was a commotion in the side yard: dogs barking but no alarms from the chickens. The stink-pot of a snake had returned, and he had four distinctive lumps in his length. He was already moving towards the pasture fence, and I didn't have a shovel, so all I was able to do was throw rocks and insults as he disappeared through the chain link. The little ones won't be free-ranging without supervision any more. I need to enlarge their run so that they won't feel like they're overly restricted. Stink'n snakes.

 

[SharkmanDan]

A chicken doesn't always think the "end of the day" is defined as we define it.  I have found that letting all the birds (young and older) go into their  coops on their own is less stressful on me and the birds.  I shut the pen gates for those that coop earlier and then go out one last time with the dogs and lock up the last pen.

At issue, is re-cooping them, when I need them to go in. If I'm planning, occasionally, on an evening away from home, I can't just wait for them to decide to go in. And, for the most part, I only have 2, or 3 who are problematic. Most, seem to get with the program.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Afternoon : )

It's been about a week since I've been able to log on and stay on.  We have lousy Internet service, and if we go over our allotted monthly usage, the ISP cranks the speed down and we can't do anything productive.  

Oh, so you have HughesNet, too. I recognize that scenario.

 

[Kyzmette]

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I'm up in Skiatook, work in Tulsa, but that's a long way to drive for just some eating eggs. I don't think we have anybody who posts regularly that's from west Tulsa, but we might have some people who go through west Tulsa. You might ask Dusti, since she comes from Bristow. She's Shelbydog.

 

[NanaKat]

Please keep this couple in your prayers....Spent the day with the SIL at the treatment facility where her husband is now residing for detox. He apparently threw a fit last night, called 911 several times and escaped thru security locked doors and came up swinging at the staff with his cane. Looks like the doctor is going to look into dementia along with the other issues he has. New meds tonight to help him remain calm should help. He desperately wants to go home, but she can't handle him in this state of mind. She is just knocked to her knees. They were childhood sweethearts, married, divorced, spent their adult lives apart and remarried 3 years ago. So much of his past life is now surfacing. She wants to do everything she can to bring him home. They have long way to go.

My order for 50# of pickling cucumbers, a bushel of canning tomatoes and 1/2 bushel of jalapenos....came in today too. So I'm running new jars thru the dishwasher and prepping to start the Kosher Dill pickles and the Bread and Butter pickles this evening. Then we will work on the Soup Starter and the Hot Salsa tomorrow.

Moved birds around last night like I hoped. Have a few more to get situated. Babies are hatching under a Delaware Bantam...2 out so far with 4 more to go.
More Serama eggs arrived from North Carolina so will set those tonight. I have a digital thermometer in that incubator and the tempe was reading 95 instead of 99.5 - 100. So that has been fixed. Will give a few of the Serama eggs to a broody OEGB.

Life sometimes has its ups and downs...you just learn to enjoy the rollercoaster ride.

 

[shelbydog]

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I'm up in Skiatook, work in Tulsa, but that's a long way to drive for just some eating eggs. I don't think we have anybody who posts regularly that's from west Tulsa, but we might have some people who go through west Tulsa. You might ask Dusti, since she comes from Bristow. She's Shelbydog.

Berryhill is my boyfriend's stomping grounds. I'm near it but unfortunately my ladies are on strike. I found a stash of bantam duck eggs but it's been hot enough outside they will have to go to the dogs.

 

[Kyzmette]

@Nanakat prayers and good thoghts by the bushel for them. Dementia is such a horrible issue to deal with, for everybody involved.


So I thought of everything I had on hand that would be safe for external application on chickens and finally settled on crisco to mix with the food coloring. And today I came home from work and found a blue egg with green streaks! The bad thing is that I've been right about which egg was Ella's. Man, I hate the idea of having to pen them up. They love free-ranging when I get home so much.

If I pen them up for a while to get used to being a closed flock, will they continue to flock together when I start letting them out to free-range again?

 

[subhanalah]

@Nanakat prayers and good thoghts by the bushel for them. Dementia is such a horrible issue to deal with, for everybody involved.


So I thought of everything I had on hand that would be safe for external application on chickens and finally settled on crisco to mix with the food coloring. And today I came home from work and found a blue egg with green streaks! The bad thing is that I've been right about which egg was Ella's. Man, I hate the idea of having to pen them up. They love free-ranging when I get home so much.

If I pen them up for a while to get used to being a closed flock, will they continue to flock together when I start letting them out to free-range again?

I missed it, why did you need something to add to the food coloring?

It takes a while for two flocks to combine, but the two flocks still stay pretty near each other during the day, safety in numbers.
Why do you want to pen them up? Sorry I missed that part!

 

[HeyBigRhondaq]

@Nanakat prayers and good thoghts by the bushel for them. Dementia is such a horrible issue to deal with, for everybody involved.

So I thought of everything I had on hand that would be safe for external application on chickens and finally settled on crisco to mix with the food coloring. And today I came home from work and found a blue egg with green streaks! The bad thing is that I've been right about which egg was Ella's. Man, I hate the idea of having to pen them up. They love free-ranging when I get home so much.

If I pen them up for a while to get used to being a closed flock, will they continue to flock together when I start letting them out to free-range again?

My experience is that they tend to hang together in their chosen groups. When I let mine out (40 of them in my silo coop), one group darts off to the garden, one stays close to the coop, and another group takes off for the trees. They all get back to the coop by nightfall and usually roost by their group-mates. I find it fascinating!

Crisco--good idea!

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: we have had better service with Hughs than we did with Wild Blue- wild blue was a nightmare




are we ready for the first hints of what winter may be this year???




@Loriemarler your little birchin girl is still small but quite a pretty little girl