You should try the Tulsa thread. I believe that is where I found a lot of info where other chicken events were. I do know that every second sat. of the month Pryor has a chicken swap/sale. I didn't get to go to it yet but it is at Orshelyns... Orchlins... oh the feed store on 69 going towards Adair that sounds like those but may not be the same spelling.
If it has internally pipped I would help it, but not unless it has internally pipped at least.
Very nice block. I like how the outer square frames the star. Good job!!!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.
Brahmas and cochins, especially LF cochins are eating machines. Holy cow my feed bill tripled since I got them...Oh Kim, Im so sorryAfter 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
Oh Joe is going to be thrilled... hehehe!
Been there, done that!!!
Enabler Alert - you could get more hens so he would "spread the love" so to speak and each hen would get less attention.Random. I have four hens and one roo (borrowing roo from the neighbor to just be a look out while they are free ranging and he does a poor job at that). He repeatedly mounts my sex link hen and she is SO upset that she is squaking and today she layed there afterward (I thought she was dead!) so I picked her up (she NEVER lets me do that!) and I put her next to the coop, and she never came back out. Each time he started to come near her she RAN into the inclosed part of the coop squaking so I stood between him and her and he backed off. She stayed in the inclosed part for the rest of the evening. It's so sad because she is constantly running away from him. She is molting bad but he is making her loose so much more on her back and really bad on her rear. I am getting so fed up with his picking on her that I am ready to give him back to the neighbor but the neighbor got him two times already. Each time the desperate little guy just kept coming back. I would find him sitting there next to the coop waiting for them to come out. I'm thinking he needs to go back but now he wont stay there. I think my ladies would be a little happier (especially my sex link... poor girl) if he were gone. At least for now he can be a heat source for them while our temps lower the next few nights. They do tend to huddle next to him so I guess he's not all bad. Sorry. I had to get that off my chest. I am just frustrated with that rooster.
