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[Hearts4Animals]

Picked up a Black Copper Marans today at Newcastle. She must be happy to have gone home with us because when I took her out of the cage she had been setting on an egg.

 

[mjgigax]

Seven beautiful silkie babies hatched this morning under mamas: two are blue, two are paint naked neck silkies, and three are paint regular silkies. Maybe things re getting better.

(Paint Naked Neck! - they must be unbelievably cute!)

 

[Ironsights]

And you have indeed found the best Okie thread   

Do the collars really work though?

I was talking to a neighbor and mentioned I am going to get a few hens and wished the city allowed a rooster, they said that no one has ever said anything to the couple of other people that live in the same block that have them so thinking I may have to see if I can get away with it

Sometimes it's easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission,!

 

[NanaKat]

Hey ya'll

I need some advise on integrating this years new chicks with old hens. I have one group of 4, 5week olds another group of 5, 9 week olds and my group of 6 eleven month old hens.

How would you all integrate them together? I have them, all in separate groups, but only 2 coops and runs. The five week olds are still in the broader.

Thanks so much.

In a corner of your coop, make a protected area with food and water for the chicks where they can escape the excess attention from the older hens. Make a slat opening that the chicks can enter, but not big enough for the hens. After a week of sharing the coop, things should settle down.

 

[BetsyOK]

Just read about the Avian Influenza epidemic in Iowa. Said 21 farms have now tested positive and 16 million chickens will have to be eliminated. Scary.

 

[NanaKat]

Went to the Bob Dylan concert at the WinStar Casino on the Oklahoma/Texas border. At 71, he can still put on a show...a little slower than usual and the arrangements on some of the songs was really different. We had fun.

Hubby said we had a new calf after I left yesterday. And 077 let Little Joe nurse without going into the squeeze chute...progress already. She is also now licking the calf

One Columbian Wyandotte chick hatched yesterday morning under hens in that pen. With rain coming, I pulled it to go in the brooder. That pen gets really muddy.

Headed out for coffee!

 

[SharkmanDan]

Well, my hatch that was going to be questionable, at best, wound up pretty dismal, but better than expected.
I expected ZERO to hatch. I had 2 hatch. The first to hatch, was not very healthy. It had organs exposed, and though it fought to survive, for more than a day, it just couldn't make it. The second one that hatched, is a beautiful, happy, healthy, Golden Lakenvelder chick. So, right now, I have some 2 week old Golden Lakenvelders, Cuckoo Marans and Black Australorps', and one, 3 day old Golden Lakenvelder.
If any of y'all are interested in any of these chicks, please, let me know. I'd be happy to gift them to some of y'all. The generosity extended to me, from the folks here, has been so wonderful, that the best way I see, to "pay it forward" is to offer chicks back to others here. I'm getting buyers, here and there, locally, but I have far more chicks than buyers. Giving to this group, would make me very happy, if anyone wants any of these breeds.
And, I just built a new brooder, for them all. Here are photos.

AND, I am still looking for:
Marraduna Basques (NEED a roo, want more hens)
Blue Andalusians (NEED a Roo and hens, prefer black and splash)
A replacement, for my Rose Comb RIR, who recently died.
Any Sussex's, especially Speckled or Coronation
Gold Laced Wyandottes
that I can find at a reasonable price, are also sought.
If any of you good folks hear of any of these, please, let me know.

 

[Firefly89]

Some of you may remember Laverne and Shirley, my battered up old frizzle Cochin hens. Well they both go broody at the drop of a hat, or egg as it is. If I miss collection for a day or 2 either one or both will not come out for range time. I generally shoo them out and collect the eggs but as soon as there's eggs again they will sit. Well Shirley has been on duty lately, and since I have eggs in the bator I have been letting her sit hoping to give her chicks. Well i moved her to a "breed pen" over the week so she could be settled. It's much safer and quieter for young chicks and the fencing is smaller so babies can't get through. She acted like she was going to sit then began sitting less and less each day by the weekend she was sleeping on them but it seemed that was it. So I put Laverne in there hoping they would settle together. Well they are not settling and now begging for range time. And one of them pecked an egg open! Ugh I just was really hoping to let them be mamas meanwhile I have 2 fluffy butts hatched and plenty of pips to keep me busy a while. Does anyone think there's any hope or shoul I just turn the girls out again?

 

[Kassaundra]

Some of you may remember Laverne and Shirley, my battered up old frizzle Cochin hens. Well they both go broody at the drop of a hat, or egg as it is. If I miss collection for a day or 2 either one or both will not come out for range time. I generally shoo them out and collect the eggs but as soon as there's eggs again they will sit. Well Shirley has been on duty lately, and since I have eggs in the bator I have been letting her sit hoping to give her chicks. Well i moved her to a "breed pen" over the week so she could be settled. It's much safer and quieter for young chicks and the fencing is smaller so babies can't get through. She acted like she was going to sit then began sitting less and less each day by the weekend she was sleeping on them but it seemed that was it. So I put Laverne in there hoping they would settle together. Well they are not settling and now begging for range time. And one of them pecked an egg open! Ugh I just was really hoping to let them be mamas

meanwhile I have 2 fluffy butts hatched and plenty of pips to keep me busy a while. Does anyone think there's any hope or shoul I just turn the girls out again?

I personally would see what they do w/ chicks instead of eggs. You should be able to tell (very supervised) if they are going to take to the chicks or not. If not let the out to range, if so woooo hoooo you can party while the "nanny" raises the kids!!!!! lol lol lol

 

[MrsDickey]

Well, my hatch that was going to be questionable, at best, wound up pretty dismal, but better than expected.
I expected ZERO to hatch. I had 2 hatch. The first to hatch, was not very healthy. It had organs exposed, and though it fought to survive, for more than a day, it just couldn't make it. The second one that hatched, is a beautiful, happy, healthy, Golden Lakenvelder chick. So, right now, I have some 2 week old Golden Lakenvelders, Cuckoo Marans and Black Australorps', and one, 3 day old Golden Lakenvelder.
If any of y'all are interested in any of these chicks, please, let me know. I'd be happy to gift them to some of y'all. The generosity extended to me, from the folks here, has been so wonderful, that the best way I see, to "pay it forward" is to offer chicks back to others here. I'm getting buyers, here and there, locally, but I have far more chicks than buyers. Giving to this group, would make me very happy, if anyone wants any of these breeds.
And, I just built a new brooder, for them all. Here are photos.

AND, I am still looking for:
Marraduna Basques (NEED a roo, want more hens)
Blue Andalusians (NEED a Roo and hens, prefer black and splash)
A replacement, for my Rose Comb RIR, who recently died.
Any Sussex's, especially Speckled or Coronation
Gold Laced Wyandottes
that I can find at a reasonable price, are also sought.
If any of you good folks hear of any of these, please, let me know.

I don't know where you live but I just found a 1 year old rir with a rose comb in dewey and I know a guy who raises coronation sussex in Talala.