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[mjgigax]

Wish me luck- I just loaded my "new" Sportsman with 9 dozen eggs-
1 dozen Speckled Sussex
2 dozen lavender Ameraucanas, (all purchased at the Newcastle auction)
6 dozen from my birds: Mottled Cochin, Lavender/Black Cochin cross, Blue/Splash Marans, Oliver Eggers and last but not least, 7 Mille Fleur Cochin eggs- my Mille girls FINALLY got on the laying bus!

 

[muesky]

Sure wish Spring would settle down instead of dancing with Old Man Winter. we had a nice few days and now have rain, frigid temperatures and high cold winds today.
My jonquil blooms are being whipped to shreds, the garden is soaked, the cabbage are loosing leaves and the chickens decided not to come out of their coops....smart birds.
The poor Purple Martins that arrived three days ago are holed up in their gourds. I put meal worms and scrambled eggs out for them this morning on their feeding platform and saw several sampling.
The two wild geese who return to the farm each Spring showed up four days ago and began picking out a nest spot by one of several ponds, but they demanded food in their tractor tire feeder by the pasture gate. Lucy and Goosey have nested and raised young here for going on 14 years. They are hunkered down between the hay bales in the storage lot.
Thankful for the rain, but wishing for sunshine!

Oh and chicks are hatching under a broody Delaware Bantam today and also in the incubator.
So how many of us are hatching today?

Robyn..glad Jacob is improving.

I am so ready for spring!!! Like you I am glad for the rain but could really do without the cold.. My birds all came out today but were not happy about the cold. Still got a dozen eggs today..

We ended up getting 10 chicks last Sunday from Atwoods. So far so good! The kids love taking care of them. I'll post some pics later, I can't get them to post from my phone.

It is my firm opinion that Atwoods is the gateway drug to chicken addiction.. It was what hooked me...

Hey there my fellow muesky buddy... well if 11 degree temps mean a defrost than yes. Hahaha.. actually we appear to be hitting the thirties this week... so hoping it means spring will be around the corner.

See now that is why I don't live that far up north. Heck as bad as this winter has been I am thinking I may need to move further south..

Just a quick Hi from NE Okla!

Okie Style!!!

Be careful there are a plethora of enablers on this site.. Hey do you need a chicken??? hehehe!

 

[Kassaundra]

Welcome to the new Okies.

It has been a loooong day. Started w/ hatching drama, then spent most of the day at the Capon clinic, which went awesome, then ended w/ more hatching drama. of the 30 eggs that went into lock down there are 8 fluffies in the brooder, 8 in the incubator icu, and 14 very dead. Most but not all lost to shrink wrapping.

The new caponizers all did 5 each and all survived, they deserve a round of

Poco did an outstanding job in organizing it and went way above and beyond.

 

[muesky]

Welcome to Apple Bill and RnRidgerunner! Hope you pull up a chair and stay with us other addicts.

Muesky & Mj - did you get the speckled Sussex?

No we didn't. They went for $30 each.. Crazy prices!!! The blue wynndote hens went for $32 each. Way too expensive for me but MJ and I did get a blue maran hen each, so all was not lost.

Hello fellow Oklahoman's!! We just relocated here last June. I spent most of my working life in Oklahoma City attending the FAA Academy for training. I also lived with my family in Bethany and worked at the FAA Academy as an Instructor in Electronics. Any we have a 20 acre place just outside of Grove about 8 miles and north of the Grand Casino about a mile up on a ridge, which I affectionately named "Rock and Roll Ridge" because all the rocks roll out from my feet. LOL!
anyway check out my thread here on BYC. I wasn't born here, but I got here as soon as I could, and we are loving it.
Great to be here, and raising chickens again. We had a few in Louisville, KY and again in Vero Beach, FL. I really missed them greeting me when I got home form work as the pen was next to the garage.

here is my thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/863266/new-chicks-on-rock-n-roll-ridge-oklahoma

Yeah, we are up in the most NE part of OK, 'pert near Missouri. Just 4 miles to a boat ramp and the Grand Lake of the Cherokee.

I just finished my new brooder. I use a plastic tote as well but have it done up a bit different.

Wish me luck- I just loaded my "new" Sportsman with 9 dozen eggs-
1 dozen Speckled Sussex
2 dozen lavender Ameraucanas, (all purchased at the Newcastle auction)
6 dozen from my birds: Mottled Cochin, Lavender/Black Cochin cross, Blue/Splash Marans, Oliver Eggers and last but not least, 7 Mille Fleur Cochin eggs- my Mille girls FINALLY got on the laying bus!

Whoot! Whoot! Eggs are in the oven!!! hehehe!

 

[Kyzmette]

FABulous day with AHmazing people! Thank you Coral for hosting a great clinic and thank you Kass for being a great mentor!

Now, you chicken geniuses, I stopped at Atwoods the other day, and in spite of the fact that I don't need any more chicks, guess what I did, anyway. And I have no idea what they are. I just had to have these specific two as soon as I saw them, and that's all there was to that. So... help me figure out what they are?

This one... she was wearing her supercute hat!

And this one... who could resist such a beautiful blue girl with pretty yellow highlights??? And here I swore I would never knowingly buy a bantam.

And just because... look what I came home to! I just knew the bator had ruined the eggs again, but I have two half-EE/half-Buttercups! Good heavens, but those are going to be beautiful birds.

 

[Kassaundra]

FABulous day with AHmazing people! Thank you Coral for hosting a great clinic and thank you Kass for being a great mentor!

Now, you chicken geniuses, I stopped at Atwoods the other day, and in spite of the fact that I don't need any more chicks, guess what I did, anyway. And I have no idea what they are. I just had to have these specific two as soon as I saw them, and that's all there was to that. So... help me figure out what they are?

This one... she was wearing her supercute hat!



And this one... who could resist such a beautiful blue girl with pretty yellow highlights??? And here I swore I would never knowingly buy a bantam.



And just because... look what I came home to! I just knew the bator had ruined the eggs again, but I have two half-EE/half-Buttercups! Good heavens, but those are going to be beautiful birds.

Cute chickie.

Did you count toes on the white one?

 

[Kyzmette]

Cute chickie.

Did you count toes on the white one?

Just four.

 

[muesky]

This is the front view of the brooder. The two pipes are for feed. Combined they hold almost two gallons of feed.

This is the inside view. In the corners are the waterers. I have plastic hardware cloth screwed into two side panels I cut out and into the top for ventilation.

The waterers are plastic mayonnaise jars with a water nipple mounted in the lid and wire wrapped around the middle made into a hook to hang in the brooder.

This is the inside front view of the feeders. The bases are plastic containers I get 3 for a $1 at dollar tree. I cut the PVC so the food will flow out and there are small holes so the chicks can get their heads in to get food but not get inside the feeders. works great. There is a third whole cut in the middle to add an additional feeder or waterer if needed.

Everything is plastic or metal so it is easy to sanitize. Adding the new waterers will hopefully keep the bedding cleaner longer because it will not be getting as wet. The main goal in building my brooders is to make them easy to keep clean, with feeding and waterering as easy as possible. Over the years my brooder design has evolved and I am always looking for ways to make them even more efficient. If anyone is interested in building one of these let me know and I will give you instructions. I also build these to sell.

 

[Kassaundra]

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I looked it up and polish only have 4 toes so that is my bet.

 

[Kyzmette]

I looked it up and polish only have 4 toes so that is my bet.

Sweet! I always wanted a Polish, thanks!

@Muesky nice brooder box!