***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[mjgigax]

Wow, did I miss a chance at some nice birds!

Hello everyone! It has been a long while since i have been on BYC. I am so busy with school and ect. I have also had 3 sinus infections, Bronchitis and Pneumonia and, starting last Friday, I have caught a cold. I really need to figure out why my immunity is so low.

I cut back on my birds a little but missed dark brown eggs so I am building back my Blue Marans. I have a pretty Blue Copper Olive Egger that has feathered legs and a big beard and lays great khaki eggs. I want to hatch some more birds like her too.

 

[Ksane]

Wow, did I miss a chance at some nice birds!

Hello everyone! It has been a long while since i have been on BYC. I am so busy with school and ect. I have also had 3 sinus infections, Bronchitis and Pneumonia and, starting last Friday, I have caught a cold. I really need to figure out why my immunity is so low.

I cut back on my birds a little but missed dark brown eggs so I am building back my Blue Marans. I have a pretty Blue Copper Olive Egger that has feathered legs and a big beard and lays great khaki eggs. I want to hatch some more birds like her too.

Hey! I've missed you!! That's odd so many are getting sick. I got pneumonia last summer and it seriously wiped me out for months. Still didn't feel like I was quite over it and got a really bad sinus infection. I'd never had either in my entire life before and got one after another.

Why do some roosters turn out to be mean? My friend had one who kept on attacking her kids. I've had a few in my lifetime, but really not that many.
Is it the breed?
I've had Rhodies, White Leghorns, Ameticanas, Buffs all a big mix on my former ranch. Here and there some grumpy females but overal I haven't had big issues with my chickens.
E.

I've got......probably 75 roosters total in all the different bachelor yards. Out of aaaalllll those roosters there's only one that's mean. He was hand raised and coddled by my daughter and it's me he's mean to, no one else (he lives here now and she doesn't). I've "hand raised and coddled" lots and lots of them myself but they're fine. I have 1 Bantam Faverolles who used to jump on my foot but once I took his girls away and put him with boys he was fine. I love rooster dynamics. I wish they held classes on things like that. Probably wouldn't be worth their time because I'd be the only one who showed up.

 

[artsyrobin]

Ok Serama folks....Would I be better off putting fertile Serama eggs under a broody hen instead of trying to incubate them? I've heard stories about how difficult they are to hatch.
Out of 10 fertile eggs, only one hatched and we lost Peepers over night. Two others that went into the hatcher were fully developed, but one did not hatch and one quit about 2 days before hatch.
I have 3 eggs in the hatcher now and 6ix more to go in on the 22nd. All are growing in the shell so I have my fingers crossed for a good hatch.

I have Bantam Delaware and a d'Anver hen that are great brooders but don't have one broody right now.

With seramas, i have always had better luck with a broody, also after they hatch they chill easy, another reason the broody is a better option- when i used a broody, she hatched 5 of 6 eggs, with the brinsea, i am lucky to get 1-

 

[NanaKat]

Wow, did I miss a chance at some nice birds!

Hello everyone! It has been a long while since i have been on BYC. I am so busy with school and ect. I have also had 3 sinus infections, Bronchitis and Pneumonia and, starting last Friday, I have caught a cold. I really need to figure out why my immunity is so low.

 I cut back on my birds a little but missed dark brown eggs so I am building back my Blue Marans. I have a pretty Blue Copper Olive Egger that has feathered legs and a big beard and lays great khaki eggs.  I want to hatch some more birds like her too.

How is your neighbor Jackie C....Roger is asking. Didn't he have Marans too?

 

[NanaKat]

Thanks Robyn...that's what I needed to know.
Didn't know the chicks chill easily. I can rig up an incubator as a brooder for the tiny babies if any hatch this set.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hey! I've missed you!! That's odd so many are getting sick. I got pneumonia last summer and it seriously wiped me out for months. Still didn't feel like I was quite over it and got a really bad sinus infection. I'd never had either in my entire life before and got one after another.

I've got......probably 75 roosters total in all the different bachelor yards. Out of aaaalllll those roosters there's only one that's mean. He was hand raised and coddled by my daughter and it's me he's mean to, no one else (he lives here now and she doesn't). I've "hand raised and coddled" lots and lots of them myself but they're fine. I have 1 Bantam Faverolles who used to jump on my foot but once I took his girls away and put him with boys he was fine. I love rooster dynamics. I wish they held classes on things like that. Probably wouldn't be worth their time because I'd be the only one who showed up.

I'm sick, too. I've been toughing out a cold since Friday but last night it moved into my chest. Also had an earache yesterday that is moving into a painful ear infection. Trying home remedies for today if it isn't better in the next day or two I guess it's off to the doctor for me!

 

[BetsyOK]

Missed you, MJ. You're one who's "always" there!

 

[BetsyOK]

This is just an opinion--no better nor worse than anyone else's, but it seems obvious to me why everyone is more susceptible to colds, ear infections, sore throats, asthma--especially our small children. We are slowly but surely ruining our air with various pollutants! I believe by doing things like being careful not to fill our cars with gas, car pooling to lower emissions, not mowing our lawns and other things to lessen pollutants on "ozone alert" days, we're helping the companies who add huge amounts of pollutants to our air. By lowering our own pollutants temporarily and en masse, we are helping give a falsely low reading on those days, thus preventing other measures to help control the emissions of those who are the major offenders.

There are many efforts now being made to lower air pollutants, such as in car manufacturing and energy production, but if we don't take drastic measures to clean up our air and water, nothing much else will matter. And I won't even go into what we are doing to our oceans.

I always get a repiratory infection when we visit India, because of their air pollution--one of my worst problems is with diesel fumes, and would surely have had the same problem in China last year if I hadn't worn a face mask most of the time we were outdoors. The children in those and other countries (including ours) are the first to suffer (did we know many children with severe asthma, or chronic ear, nose, or throat infections requiring tubes in their ears when we were young?) and asthma deaths among all ages are rising alarmingly.

Enough of my soap box, but couldn't keep from expressing my opinion on this (to me) very important problem.

 

[mjgigax]

So many of the kids at my school have ashma, quite a few little tiny ones have it severely. Last year one of our Pre-K teachers ran to the office carrying one of her students and saved her life - we have to keep their treatments in the office because we only have a part-time nurse - 700 kids and a 1/2 time nurse!

An air conditioner, in the ceiling above my classroom, had a drain hooked up incorrectly and leaked over one of my cabinets and ruined allot of my drawings and setting up some mold. The maintenance man swore he sealed up all the mold but I am quite allergic to some molds and I think that is why I had 5 sinus infections last year and already 3 this year plus the Bronchitis, Pneumonia and this latest cold

 

[mjgigax]

Jack has been in Houston, since Summer, at the VA hospital that has a Quadriplegic wing. He had a compression sore with a serious infection that wouldn't heal. He is doing very well, much better than the Dr.s hoped. They didn't have to do surgery and he will be home some time in January.

He sold all his birds except the Welsummers, Gold Salmon Marans and Delawares. Ellie Mae and I have been taking turns looking after them and Jack's sheep. - actually my DH has been doing allot of my share since school has been taking up so much of my week days.

Tomorrow is my first day of vacation and I am not sure where to begin on all the stuff I have been putting off.