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[miohippus]

@huntseat was noticing your avatar to you like chem? my DH is a chem teacher.

 

[huntseat]

@huntseat was noticing your avatar to you like chem? my DH is a chem teacher.

I am a former Chemistry teacher both HS and college. This year I got to stay at home and play with the critters, I mean manage the livestock.

I just picked the easiest major that didn't have a foreign language requirement. Bingo, bango...Chemistry with a math minor. I will warn students that although I didn't have any foreign language classes you better be able to understand your professors as most in math and science are usually non-native English speakers.

It (bored + chemistry degree) makes for some crazy rainy days around here...like when I started making my own laundry soap years ago (and still do.)

 

[huntseat]

Huntseat,
Yes. We bought 11 guinea keets, that are now about two weeks old. I am looking forward to the guineas doing, what guineas do, and annihilate those ticks. Grow, babies, grow!!!

The rest of our flock:
We also have bought a total of 15 turkeys, and have lost two. We started with two bronze, but after the predator got one of them, we bought another thirteen. 11 Narragansetts, and two white midgets. One of the whites just wasn't strong enough, to hang out with those Narragansetts, that are three or four days older. The bronze, that we lost, was getting pretty big, I think nearly two months old, and five or six pounds, when he stuck his head through the fence, at the wrong time, last week, and a predator got his head.
The remaining bronze, seems to like to hang out with those chickens, who seem to be a little smaller than he is. But, I think that's because he started hanging out with them, when he was much smaller than he was, or they are. Now, we refer to them, as "The Five". Two young Frizzles, two young Polish, (unknown age, but looking mostly full size, but not yet producing any eggs), and this Bronze turkey, are all buddies, and love to forage, together. But, the bronze, still seems like he misses the other one, who was lost to the predators. When he is out free ranging, he calls and calls and calls. We have wild turkeys on the property, and every so often, we'll hear one, answer back. He seems like he wants to go after the gobbler, in the woods, but likes the security of the flock. Of course I say he, not really knowing if this one is a jake, or a jenny.
The grown black Australorp hens, mostly hang out with their rooster, but the poor brown leghorn, seems to be left out of the flock, or at least is at the bottom of the pecking order, as the adult birds go. She kind of wants to hang out with the rooster, but he only wants her, for one thing, then, he ignores her. All three of these hens are laying pretty consistently.
Then we have these 8 week old birds. 3-Black Sex Links, 1-Columbian Wyandotte, 2-New Hampshire reds, 3-Buff Orpingtons, something white, that I can't quite figure out, what it is. It was supposed to be a pearl while leghorn, but as it has grown, there has been quite a bit of yellow, come out in her feathers, and two gold laced Polish.
And, then we have seven more, two week old chicks, of various breeds. One New Hampshire Red, one White Leghorn, and five that came in a meat/egg combo.
In about three weeks, we have another 30 chicks, coming in. Five each, Delaware/Hampshire cross, Brown Leghorns, Jersey Giants, Silver-Laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, and Sultans. Hoping that most survive, we expect to have quite an eclectic flock, with quite a variety of eggers, meat birds, and novelty birds, to give it some character.
That's our flock, for now.
When might we start expecting the young ones, to begin laying eggs?

Point of lay can vary by breed and bloodlines but usually somewhere around 5-6 months. As for the turkeys and guineas, I don't have a clue but I'm game to learn.

 

[miohippus]

I am a former Chemistry teacher both HS and college. This year I got to stay at home and play with the critters, I mean manage the livestock.

I just picked the easiest major that didn't have a foreign language requirement. Bingo, bango...Chemistry with a math minor. I will warn students that although I didn't have any foreign language classes you better be able to understand your professors as most in math and science are usually non-native English speakers.

It (bored + chemistry degree) makes for some crazy rainy days around here...like when I started making my own laundry soap years ago (and still do.)

My DH started out in HS now he is teaching College because the thought that college could use some more English speaking Chem and math teachers he also has a minor in math and teaches algebra and other math courses sometimes.

I have a friend that makes her own laundry soap, lol

 

[Ksane]

Just hatched two new Bumpies! They seem to hatch great, maybe because the extra shell gives them so much room to move around. Have the giant egg in the Brinsea with the peafowl egg I got in Coweta. Thats the Bumpy egg on the right.

Bumpers is such a show-off
The birds I've hatched from humongous eggs have all done exceptionally well over the years. It may be a combination of more room, a bigger yolk with more nutrients plus the bigger eggs normally coming from a mature he nvs a pullet. I've got a beautiful Splash Ameraucana/Cochin pullet (8 mo) who lays huge Blue double yolked eggs, every egg she lays is that way. I'm anxious to see if the Bumpers girls also lay gigantuous eggs like their mama.

 

[Ksane]

Oh! Almost forgot-nobody answered about whether there's an auction tonight-anyone know?

 

[bardies]

We used to get wheat berries to sprout through the oklahoma food coop. It's been awhile since we looked but I bet someone still has them!

We belong to the coop too! Wheat's been having a hard time this year with those earlier hot temps....about a month or so ago. A new order just opened up for this month, but I have not logged in yet to see if they had any. The site is oklahomafood.coop if you want to check it out. It is a good place!

 

[mjgigax]

I am a former Chemistry teacher both HS and college. This year I got to stay at home and play with the critters, I mean manage the livestock.

I just picked the easiest major that didn't have a foreign language requirement. Bingo, bango...Chemistry with a math minor. I will warn students that although I didn't have any foreign language classes you better be able to understand your professors as most in math and science are usually non-native English speakers.

It (bored + chemistry degree) makes for some crazy rainy days around here...like when I started making my own laundry soap years ago (and still do.)

Lots of teachers on here! - Nanakat, Pollo Poco, Muesky, myself.... who else?

 

[huntseat]

I think teachers like chickens because they thrive in chaos!

 

[bardies]

Lots of teachers on here! - Nanakat, Pollo Poco, Muesky, myself.... who else?

I am not really a teacher, but do teach. I tutor math and sciences online.