***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[NanaKat]

Moved Peepers from the incubator to the brooder and it is slipping into a warm spot in the middle of the pile from the left. Tiny thing is sure strong willed for such a tiny body. The pile has shifted 3 times already. Peepers is cheeping loudly for a spot. The other chicks are Bantam and LF
Peepers is out of a Black Mottled Cock over a Black hen...must be some hidden genetics in the Serama parents.

 

[NanaKat]

Those of you going to the Shawnee Show, there is a raffle set up in the middle area that will run after lunch. There are always great items on the tables. You purchase tickets during the day and drop them in the sack numbered like the item. The raffle goes quickly. Local store owners and individuals donate items for the raffle....some chicken related and some not.
Our own DGibson has helped the Show committee for many, many years and helps run the ticket table.
Go by and visit with this great cocker...he is a sweet corker too.

 

[ashtree]

Does anyone know where to find poultry bands for day old bantams? Think there will be any at the shawnee show?

 

[BetsyannOK]

Smith Poultry Supply from Kansas usually has a table there. They will have every size band you can imagine!

 

[ashtree]

Smith Poultry Supply from Kansas usually has a table there.  They will have every size band you can imagine! 

Great! Thank you so much

 

[agailey4]

Hi everyone! I live in Northeast Oklahoma and am new to the chicken world. I just wanted opinions on the best egg laying chickens for my area. Any advice, tips or pre cautions are much appreciated.

 

[Cjarvis]

Does anyone know where to find poultry bands for day old bantams? Think there will be any at the shawnee show?

Toe punch works best for day old, then you can record matings based on the toe punch, band the good ones cull the rest. Take extensive notes on each mating as to culls and you will know what to duplicate or not do again.
I can e-mail you a copy in excel or word, but this is what I use for breeding records.

Cock

Hen 1

Hen 2

Hen 3

Hen 4

Pen #


Insert Image

Insert Image

Insert Image

Insert Image

Insert Image

Insert Toe Punch Image















Number Set

Number Hatched

Number Raised

Number Culled
































Type Culls












Overall Size

weight

width

leg length

back length

head shape

Comb


























Color Culls












Wing Primaries

Wing Secondaries

Wing Edging

Tail Primaries

Tail secondaries

Coverts

Leg color













Ticking

White

Back

Heavy Lacing

weak lacing

shafting

beak color













Face color

eye color

white lobe


































Feather Culls












Soft

Loose

Narrow

Fluff

Underdown color

Brassing




























Comb Culls












Large

Wide

Thumb prints

Flat

Narrow

Points / Blade

 

[Sagetown]

Hi everyone! I live in Northeast Oklahoma and am new to the chicken world. I just wanted opinions on the best egg laying chickens for my area. Any advice, tips or pre cautions are much appreciated.

That would be of the Leghorns laying white eggs.
From there you have egg size, and color, from various breeds.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

@Cjarvis would you mind e-mailing me a copy of that breeding chart? Looks very well thought out. [email protected]
Thanks!

Rinda

 

[erinszoo]

Quote:
Possums, weasels, owls, skunks ... will all just eat the head and leave the body. Sometimes they do it because they can pull the head through the fence but nothing else. We lost half a flock of young turkeys to a possum that way. And my favorite duck of all time. I was very sad.