***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[lonnyandrinda]

Does anyone have young chicks available in the Tulsa area? Or know if atwoods still has them? I'm trying to get my broody hens off the nest. (My rooster is about 10% effective right now, so no chance of hatching our eggs.)

I'm in Coweta. I have Black Copper Marans, Russian Orloffs, mottled orpingtons, and a few silkies available. If you are wanting day old chicks for broodies I have a batch that hatched Monday that may work, or I'll have a new batch hatching in 2 days.

 

[Kassaundra]

How long after you can hear the peeping will they hatch?

I have always heard up to 24 hours.


I know I have a shrink wrap problem so I don't let mine go that long WITHOUT ANY progress, I don't let mine go more then 8ish hours without progress.

 

[NanaKat]

We have had some hard losses this week...
I had an owl attack several days ago killing a nice Buckeye hen that had somehow escaped her pen during the night. We have cooped up tight since. The owl returned night before last and actually pulled a young juvenile thru the 2 x 4 inch wire cover killing it and injuring another young bird. It was definitely an owl by the claw markings in the mud in front of the coop.
That injured bird had lost feathers and an eye. It passed today. Now I've added additional protection to the juvenile coop.
Then this afternoon I had to put down Robin, my last Rhode Island hen. She was seven years old and was obviously suffering from a large abdominal mass that was getting larger. She did not come out of the hen house today to free range with the other hens. I just could not let her suffer any longer.

 

[artsyrobin]

How long after you can hear the peeping will they hatch?

can take up to 24 hours- i keep looking an hoping they will be fast hatchers

 

[Kassaundra]

We have had some hard losses this week...
I had an owl attack several days ago killing a nice Buckeye hen that had somehow escaped her pen during the night. We have cooped up tight since. The owl returned night before last and actually pulled a young juvenile thru the 2 x 4 inch wire cover killing it and injuring another young bird. It was definitely an owl by the claw markings in the mud in front of the coop.
That injured bird had lost feathers and an eye. It passed today. Now I've added additional protection to the juvenile coop.
Then this afternoon I had to put down Robin, my last Rhode Island hen. She was seven years old and was obviously suffering from a large abdominal mass that was getting larger. She did not come out of the hen house today to free range with the other hens. I just could not let her suffer any longer.

So sorry NanaK

 

[Kyzmette]

Can't wait to see what kind of babies i get from my bantams. Silkie was setting on them then she quit so i borrowed a bator and had one hatch the other day but didn't make it (look like a buff cochin) but i have 6 more in there and i can here two peeping and all the others excpt one wiggled in the water candling. Hoping they hatch out ok and are healthy.

What breeds are the speckled birds? I love that flowering! Sharkman Dan that chick igloo is looking great! So ingenuitive. Nanakat seven years is a lot of love.

 

[TipihlowLadies]

We have had some hard losses this week...
I had an owl attack several days ago killing a nice Buckeye hen that had somehow escaped her pen during the night. We have cooped up tight since. The owl returned night before last and actually pulled a young juvenile thru the 2 x 4 inch wire cover killing it and injuring another young bird. It was definitely an owl by the claw markings in the mud in front of the coop.
That injured bird had lost feathers and an eye. It passed today. Now I've added additional protection to the juvenile coop.
Then this afternoon I had to put down Robin, my last Rhode Island hen. She was seven years old and was obviously suffering from a large abdominal mass that was getting larger. She did not come out of the hen house today to free range with the other hens. I just could not let her suffer any longer.

to catch a owl put a victor#7 beaver trap on top of a tall wood post close to the pins and set it the owl will try to perch and watch the chick in the morning you will have the coulpret

 

[miohippus]

What breeds are the speckled birds? I love that flowering!

Sharkman Dan that chick igloo is looking great! So ingenuitive.

Nanakat

seven years is a lot of love.

Two of them are calico cochins i got from MJ and one is a mille fleur d'uccle

 

[miohippus]

Is this normal for a newly hatched chick should I do anything to it like iodine?

 

[artsyrobin]

Is this normal for a newly hatched chick should I do anything to it like iodine?

i'd dab a little iodine, he is still absorbing some yolk