***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Kassaundra]

It's one of those Little Giant styrofoam things. I've been keeping the humidity above 70% since lockdown, and the only time it dropped was as I was setting up for lockdown. Doggoneit, I set those things on Saturday for a reason! They were supposed to start hatching on a day when I was going to be home! If it's not out when I get home, I'll do something.

Yours may not have the same issues as mine, hopefully you'll be greeted by noisy little ball of fluff when you get home.

 

[Kyzmette]

Yours may not have the same issues as mine, hopefully you'll be greeted by noisy little ball of fluff when you get home.

This is me until then.

 

[Kassaundra]

This is me until then.

This would be me

and

 

[Kassaundra]

A block I have been working on for an upcoming swap.






It has a few problems, but it was my practice block. The bottom left 1/4 block is off on size I trimmed it wrong. The rt side is larger b/c before I realized I cut the one block wrong I thought the block was going to be to small so I made the second half a tiny bit bigger. Over all I think the colors and placement work though. They won't all be this same star color, but I think the inner turquoise will pop w/ all the other star colors too.

Anyway I couldn't be happier w/ the block over all.

 

[Creamlegbargirl]

Hello, am sort of new to chickens. At least to nice chickens. I just started raising Cream legbar's last spring, Wellsummers and Cuckoo Marans. The cream legbars have been awesome, very healthy and happy. They just started laying although not very consistently. The Wellsummers were very weak from the get go. I am still waiting a response from the hatchery to see if that particular hatch had problems. I only have 3 left out of the 22 that I started with. They just keel over and die. The Cuckoo Marans have not started laying either as the Wellsummers but are vey healthy. Looking forward to the day I find my first dark egg. I am in Tahlequah and would love to know of any chicken events other than the Inola 412 auction.

Thanks!

 

[Kassaundra]

Hello, am sort of new to chickens. At least to nice chickens. I just started raising Cream legbar's last spring, Wellsummers and Cuckoo Marans. The cream legbars have been awesome, very healthy and happy. They just started laying although not very consistently. The Wellsummers were very weak from the get go. I am still waiting a response from the hatchery to see if that particular hatch had problems. I only have 3 left out of the 22 that I started with. They just keel over and die. The Cuckoo Marans have not started laying either as the Wellsummers but are vey healthy. Looking forward to the day I find my first dark egg. I am in Tahlequah and would love to know of any chicken events other than the Inola 412 auction.

Thanks!

from Henryetta and

and the Okie thread. There is a chicken gathering they have been having near Tahliquah I think the next one is sometime in the first of Dec.

 

[Kyzmette]

Hey @Creamlegbargirl good to have you here!

 

[Ksane]

Oh Kim, Im so sorry

After you posted that I remembered reading about it happening to someone else. I guess I've been lucky it didn't happen to me. Oh how sad. I've got 21 fertile Silkie and Sizzle eggs in the incubator. I had no idea I'd get that many fertile ones from shipped eggs. I only want like 7-8 more chicks. Do you want the rest if there's over that many?

Shelby, I'm using one of those red livestock scoops. I figured out the perfect way to do the buckets though. I feed around 8 gallons a day so what I did was leave about a gallon of feed in the bottom of each bucket when I was done, filled it 1/2 way with water and added the dry feed. The jury's still out but it should be fermented fine that way in 48 hrs when I go to use those 2 buckets again. I'll just do the same every day and have 4 buckets running. It worked pretty well today. I've never seen these birds clean their feed pans out, but there wasn't a speck of anything today from when I'd fed them yesterday. Not in any pen or any yard. I fill their feed pans and gather the eggs from that pen, yard or coop and crack their eggs and dump them on top of the wet feed. Really-you can feel the ground shake when Brahmas and Cochins run

 

[NanaKat]

 
Hello, am sort of new to chickens. At least to nice chickens. I just started raising Cream legbar's last spring, Wellsummers and Cuckoo Marans.  The cream legbars have been awesome, very healthy and happy. They just started laying although not very consistently. The Wellsummers were very weak from the get go. I am still waiting a response from the hatchery to see if that particular hatch had problems. I only have 3 left out of the 22 that I started with. They just keel over and die. The Cuckoo Marans have not started laying either as the Wellsummers but are vey healthy. Looking forward to the day I find my first dark egg. I am in Tahlequah and would love to know of any chicken events other than the Inola 412 auction.

Thanks!

 to the Okie thread. 
Sorry to hear about your Welsummers. Hope the hatchery gives you a response.

Don Gibson raises Welsummers in Shawnee. He will be assisting with the APA show in Shawnee Dec 9.

 

[artsyrobin]

anyone near elk city? Post 5 is a gal with some birds needing homes

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/710953/2-chicks-to-giveaway-oklahoma

i think everyone is set for the cold here- coops wrapped, and snug as a bug...