***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[BetsyOK]

Nancy's Fresh Apple Cake

Prepare pan as usual.

Cream together: 1 cup oil, 3 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 2 tsp. vanilla.

Mix together then add to first mixture 2 1/4 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tsp. salt

Add to mixture and bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes: 2 cups peeled, chopped Granny Smith apples (2 apples), 1 cup chopped pecans ( I always put in about 1 1/2 cups)

Just as you pull it from the oven melt in sauce pan: 1 stick real butter, 1 cup golden brown sugar, 1/4 cup milk. Boil 1 1/2 minutes, beat with a spoon. Pour over cake, letting it run in puddles until it stops.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have a cucumber beetle plan this year. I am interplanting all my cuberits w/ non yellow colored flowers (like morning glories or poppies) then away from where the cuberits are growing I plan on haveing a large big row of bright yellow big as life sunflowers (which they can't harm) I'm hoping to camaflage the yellow cuberit flowers and distract away from the garden w/ the large sunflowers. Has anyone tried something similar to this?? Any success??

 

[NanaKat]

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Looks like the trio is settling in nicely!

 

[TimsHens]

Any Okies with Jersey Giants?

 

[gigiok]

Any Okies with Jersey Giants?

I got three in March. They are huge - much bigger than the other breeds I also picked up (SS, astrolorps, RR's, EE's, and Welsummers). They are very friendly and curious. I named them the three Madams - Madam Curie, Madam Bovary, and Madam Butterfly)- lol. Can't wait to see their eggs...

 

[NanaKat]

Home from taking 85 year old MIL to her doctor appointment. Her blood pressure was up only slightly...she is a tough lady: A mother of 5 children, she has already lost one son to a heart attack when he was 69. Yesterday Roger's brother Ronnie (68) had a mild heart attack in the emergency room of the hospital where he has been receiving radiation and chemo treatments for his kidney cancer for the past 4 weeks. He will undergo heart by-pass this week, "if his body will allow it" according to the ER heart doctor. They were able to balloon his artery and get the blood temporarily flowing again in a Y intersection on the back of the heart. MIL's comment "what better place to have a heart attack than the ER of a good hospital!" Please keep this family in your prayers.

 

[TimsHens]

I got three in March. They are huge - much bigger than the other breeds I also picked up (SS, astrolorps, RR's, EE's, and Welsummers). They are very friendly and curious. I named them the three Madams - Madam Curie, Madam Bovary, and Madam Butterfly)- lol. Can't wait to see their eggs...

yeah I have 2 that are 9 weeks and huge and I like them a lot my cousin gave them to me she got them as extra with some hatching eggs I have 10 French copper marans and 3 ameracunas and would really like a couple more Giants I actually thought about crossing the marans and giants and would really like to see what they look like as mature birds. if you don't mind me asking where did you get your giants?

 

[BScott03]

It is getting so hot here! My babies are only a week old but absolutely hate the heating lamp. They runaway and pant... Would it be okay to let them out in the coop during the day?

 

[Kassaundra]

It is getting so hot here! My babies are only a week old but absolutely hate the heating lamp. They runaway and pant... Would it be okay to let them out in the coop during the day?

Mine are almost 2 weeks and have been spending days outside in a covered protected run (since they were one week) They still are to small to be outside w/o protection (covered run w/o any adult chickens in it)


Mine have also been off heat lamp for a couple of days, and before that for several days only at night.

 

[BScott03]

Mine are almost 2 weeks and have been spending days outside in a covered protected run (since they were one week)  They still are to small to be outside w/o protection (covered run w/o any adult chickens in it)


Mine have also been off heat lamp for a couple of days, and before that for several days only at night.

Okay! That makes me feel so relieved! Yes they have a very well protected run with other animals! I should probably wean them off of the lamp at night, right?