***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[BScott03]

The Silkies are about 5 weeks and Silver Penciled Wyandottes are 4 and 5 wks . She had some Paints and Splashes , Whites , and Lavender . Mine is a beautiful solid Lavender color . I will try to post some pics , the Lavender is much smaller than the White one .

I'm getting "White blue black some lavender more whites" I'm really excited since you had such good things to say!

 

[mjgigax]

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The first fart egg I ever saw I laughed and laughed and showed anyone who would look! Over the years I have collected them...and since there is usually only egg white they will dry nicely over time and basically preserve themselves. I just leave them alone in a bowl or glass and a few months later you have a decorator egg! And no, they never smell bad or I wouldnt keep em! They are just too darn cute to throw out


A couple of days before POOPS one my Ameraucanas layed one and I brought it for one of the kids to put in the Egg Contest. It was the only blue one there.

 

[eramsey99]

 

[mjgigax]

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The silkies on Craigs List look fairly good.  However, the ones shown are splash; definitely not lavender.  Hope you were able to get some.

I agree. Lots of confusion on the genetics of Splash vs. Lavender. Splashes are part of the results in breeding with the Andalusian Blue gene where breeders get Blue, Black and Splash colored birds in their results. I don't have the formula of the percentages of color memorized but I remember that if you breed black to black you wii always get black. Blue to Blue (Andalusian) will mot breed all blue birds.
Lavender (or Self-Blue, as the Cochin breeders are calling them), is from a completely different gene, the Self-Blue gene and it creates a light blue/grey that is even all over the bird with no mottling or lacing. Self-Blue to Self-Blue will always make Self-Blue chicks.
Breeding birds with the Andalusian Blue and Self-Blue genes together would be very complex and wouldn't really gain anything color wise. IMO

 

[FunChick]

Hola Peeps! Today my mare's water trough sprung a leak in her stall and has apparently become a chicken magnet! The puddle around it seeped under the stall wall and into the mile fluer cochin run next door. The hens have had a GREAT day excavating and playing in the damp soil. Good thing it was warm today! They are super cute and are entirely delighted and entertained by the water. Too cute! Now to fix that trough...doh!

On Saturday we used the tractor auger to dig holes to plant some bare root hybrid poplar trees around the barn. We ordered them from Jung's catalog and they arrived literally as sticks. They have leaves on them already and I hope they grow the 5-8 feet per year as advertised. On Sunday I began having soreness in my neck and upper back...from having my head turned toward the back of the tractor while in the operator's seat to watch the auger do its work and to be sure DH was safe. Of course I didnt realize I was straining myself at the time. Today I can barely move but fortunately it feels like its all muscle and not skeletal pain. Whew! But I am glad the trees are in. I like shade!

 

[FunChick]

Does anyone here raise hogs? We are considering adding a meat hog or two to the farm. We need to know best housing ideas on the cheap...easy on the bank account but that will still allow them to be as comfortable as possible. We have had many hogs in the past but that was when we lived on the central coast of California...and 85 is considered a hot day there. We just want to be sure we dont lose them from overheating or ??? just because we didnt know the best way to do things here.

 

[artsyrobin]

Lol! x2

Finally my silkie boy and his new girl are talking to each other in the yard and sharing grains and green tidbits with one another. My boy seems to be kind of like a 13 year old boy who isn't quite sure what to do with a girl even though he's over a year old. But I think he's getting the hang of it. They aren't fighting, which is good but until today have just been sort of walking around one another in the yard ... except for the day when my boy showed the girl where the asparagus bed was and they ate all the tops they could reach ... sigh. Chickens give teamwork a bad name.

awwww...that is too cute!! so good to hear they are working things out!!

weather says its going to be 90 tomorow! yuk!

the ducklings are doing well,keeping mama busy, and doing their part to curtail the fly population

 

[Hearts4Animals]

have a question what does this pullet look like to you? got her from Atwood's in sapulpa okla. they told me she was a RIR but she don't look like one to me cinnamon Queen or n/h ??????? thanks for looking.

Looks like my Red Sex-links.

 

[mjgigax]

awwww...that is too cute!! so good to hear they are working things out!! weather says its going to be 90 tomorow! yuk! the ducklings are doing well,keeping mama busy, and doing their part to curtail the fly population

So cute

 

[miohippus]

Does anyone here raise hogs? We are considering adding a meat hog or two to the farm. We need to know best housing ideas on the cheap...easy on the bank account but that will still allow them to be as comfortable as possible. We have had many hogs in the past but that was when we lived on the central coast of California...and 85 is considered a hot day there. We just want to be sure we dont lose them from overheating or ??? just because we didnt know the best way to do things here.

we do,



my DH bilt these little sheds.




the one for the piglets has a wood floor to keep them warm at night when they are small the others have no floor.

we have cattle panels and an electric wire for fencing.



this is one be bought from someone else.

in the summer to make sure they stay cool we make them a mud wallow. last year we put one right inside the shed one of the sheds; in the corner of the last photo of our grow out pin is the mud wallow we put an old sheet over the top of it last year because this spot dose not have any shade that is what the t post are for.