***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[mjgigax]

I just want to go to watch, visit, and maybe get some eggs. We're starting our new schedule (35 minutes added to each school day) this week, and by Friday I'm going to be needing a happy-dance catalyst. I've got the grand babies next weekend, so an auction before a weekend of super daycare-granny will put me in a better frame of mind.

good plan

- a chicken a day keeps the blues away

 

[artsyrobin]

getting ready to put these eggs in the bator.... large cochins- check how they were packaged!

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm bringing my camera to the auction. Find me and let's take a group BYC photo. I'll be wearing my bright yellow "What the Fox Says" T-shirt.



I support good causes, especially when it affects our campus. Maverick is a young man in our school district. I wish an English teacher had been asked to proof the text before the shirts went to the printer. Using lower-case I in place of upper-case I shouldn't happen. I want to support good causes, but I don't want to be part of the dumbening.

You should get two permanent markers a red one and a black one and make a cross out w/ the red marker, then the correction w/ the black one. lol lol lol

 

[Poco Pollo]

getting ready to put these eggs in the bator.... large cochins- check how they were packaged!





They look like precious cargo.

Happy hatching vibes headed your way. Let us know how your hatch turns out.

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: thanks, i am part of a egg swap, traded some EE's for them...

 

[TRUE5]

@artsyrobin- I unfortunately found out the hard way what happens when you don't quarantine. Ugh.


Thought of keeping the Cochin girl but am flip flopping because of all these chicks I have now. Hard to figure out whos to stay and whos to go. I want to keep ALL my SFH and there are 6... just to figure out who is a boy and whos a girl. I would like to keep one boy but I have thought of getting a boy from a non related blood line... have a SFH flock aside my other flock. I think if I get a boy form Greenfire I will keep him. Or if anyone else has a boy from Greenfire recently let me know if you want to find a home for him.




My Cream Legbar girl still has labored breathing. Her tail and wings move with every breath. She still runs around and does what she does but I haven't seen her drink or poop yet. I looked around the BYC but nothing is mentioned about a diagnosis or a treatment except they are too hot. She isn't hot. I rose the heat lamp where it's a little cooler and there are spots in the tub she can run to in order to get out of the warmer area. She's the only one like this.

 

[artsyrobin]

@TRUE5 did you give her any vitamins? that may help, or get some 'sav-a-chick its a powder you put in the water

 

[Ksane]

My Cream Legbar girl still has labored breathing. Her tail and wings move with every breath. She still runs around and does what she does but I haven't seen her drink or poop yet. I looked around the BYC but nothing is mentioned about a diagnosis or a treatment except they are too hot. She isn't hot. I rose the heat lamp where it's a little cooler and there are spots in the tub she can run to in order to get out of the warmer area. She's the only one like this.

One of the chicks in my Bantam Faverolles hatch had those same signs. It wasn't the temp, I'm sure. He did die a few days later. It reminded me of preemie babies who have underdeveloped lungs. Maybe some chicks (through no fault of our own) have immature airsacs.

 

[shelbydog]

I'm having broody bantam battle royale over here. I was wondering why one of the bantam faverolles was bald on back of her head and found today is b/c she was trying to steal the d'uccle's nest and d'uccle was having none of that. So I put a long narrow box (dark and private) with hole cut in end in the bantam pen and showed it to the faverolles hen and she bolted right in. Gave her 2 eggs and she got down to business.

Picked up the smooth breasted Sebastopol gander from Tim K last night. Love, love, love him. He's gorgeous! I ended up getting 2 brown African geese for him, I'm trusting the person I got them from was honest in selling me just females. But I wish I could have found him 2 embden females instead of the brown Africans. They talk a lot and he says very little. No aggression between the 3 yet.

I'm having the darnedest time getting my new salmon faverolles integrated into the flock. The Wyandotte Roos are giving him the hardest time so they are back in rooster jail. One of the columbian dotte Roos flew up and hit me in the hand hard from behind this morning so got a swift kick to the chest. He's freezer camp bound anyways. But the blue birchen I want to keep may turn out too aggressive for what I want to deal with. The marans Roos settle matters fairly quickly but they are also 1 and 2 yrs older than the dottes. I have no human aggression issues with the 2 marans Roos.

My 8 marans youngsters are outside. They were November hatches. Was intending on keeping them in tractor for rest of month but that plan has blown over as a couple made a break for it when I opened the door to feed them and a couple of hens snuck in so since it looked like everybody was getting along figured they could mingle with big girls today.

 

[CayuseRanch]

OK Rebecca, I am waiting to hear if you bought those beautiful splash Americana from the auction last night.