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[kassward]

I'm looking for gold laced Orpington hatching eggs. Does anyone know where I can get some here in oklahoma. Buying shipped eggs just isn't working out for me.

 

[lmaletz]

Hi I'm from Monticello Georgia, relatively new to having chickens. Have a rooster and hen (rir) and 2 buff hens. The buffs are separated from the rir reds until they get a little older. Love my chicken s!!!

 

[mjgigax]

A few pictures... Mothers with chicks The Black Wyandotte with her week old chicks and the Columbian Wyandotte hens with their shared chicks [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] Mildred and One-Eyed Jack with her 2 week olds And then Miranda running her chicks to shade and the Cochins moving to the coop for dinner [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] And a photo of the peaches...

there is nothing better than a fresh and juisy peach

 

[mjgigax]

Do you ever see seedlings under or near the tree?  I would be interested in getting a starter.

No problem, there are lots of seedlings and Jack has offered them to me before. A couple of the existing trees are seedlings from his origionals. I think the first trees came from his Mom's trees in Eufalla.

 

[mjgigax]

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That is what I was thinking, the blooms remind me of a fancy clematis.  I will leave he vines and see in the spring.

Gotta love pics of broodies and babies.


My peach and cherry tree died this spring, were drown.
[/quote ]Thats a bummer to loose those fruit trees. We lost the Honeysuckles that were below my big chicken pen. The combination of the rain and "fertilizer", that their roots were sitting in, did them in quickly. Just the week before all the rain, both bushes were lush and full of very fragrant blooms.

 

[mjgigax]

Both hubby and I come from a long line of recycling/repurposer families. In fact we used to call his father's barn...The Store...because of all the stuff he had tucked away in there. Anyway, my sister in law sent me a whole stack of oval plastic Blue Bunny ice cream cartons with lids that hold about 7 cups of ice cream. I have been trying to decide what to do with them and after cleaning cages today in the brooder room, the light bulb went one. Several of the cages have birds in them that love to scratch out their feed which then falls thru the wire bottom to the tray below. This not only wastes food, but the mice love the free buffet. Chicks in the brooder are the same way. So this is what I have been experimenting with.... A serrated knife and a sharp pair of scissors along with a permanent marker was all I needed. . Trying to figure out how to attach the feeders/waterers to the sides of the cages, I used the pieces cut from the openings and figured out two different hanging ideas. [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] The S hooks have a bigger end to accomodate the thickness of the lip of the carton and a smaller end for hanging on the cage wire. The second is so I can use nail heads. the plastic bends easily although the painted surface cracks and peels. [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] Several configurations on the cuts for chicks, bigger birds, food wasters.....Of course, the large fowl could just have the containers attached in their cages without the lids. Even with all the cut out openings, the plastic is surprisingly strong. The lids snap on and off easily from the front of the container..

I love to repurposed like this! My Grandmother crocheted rugs for the washroom floor out of bread bags. When I was living in Japan, where they really go overboard wrapping and bagging groceries and other purchases, I was bothered by all the plastic bags that I was accumulating and I remembered those rugs and I developed a pattern for baskets made out of shopping bags. My good friend from San Diego said that the stores there no longer bag up groceries in plastic bags.

 

[NanaKat]

Hi I'm from Monticello Georgia, relatively new to having chickens. Have a rooster and hen (rir) and 2 buff hens. The buffs are separated from the rir reds until they get a little older. Love my chicken s!!!

Imaletz to the OKIE thread. Do you have family here? We love to share photos of our chickens.
Georgia is a beautiful state. I was thru Montecillo about ten years ago and spent time in Atlanta for a conference.
You might be interested in checking out the Georgia thread also. There are lots of chicken enablers there too.

 

[mjgigax]

My 4th .............................................Drinking, driving, boating, water sports, explosives  ...................................... me at work 

lots and lots of fireworks in our neighborhood tonight - guess not too many folks worried about brush fires this year.

 

[NanaKat]

My July 5 chicks have pretty much all hatched today! Like little firecrackers they burst out of their shells. I've already moved 23 chicks to the brooder and am waiting on two more pips before I candle for quitters. I recounted the days from set day and they were definitely 24 hours early.

 

[NanaKat]

My 4th .............................................Drinking, driving, boating, water sports, explosives  ...................................... me at work 

lots ànd lots of fireworks in our neighborhood tonight - guess not too many folks worried about brush fires this year.

There is a lot of lightening and thunder here as well as the fireworks...just no rain.
We had to sedate Red. He is frightened of thunder and the loud fireworks just had him shivering....just too much stress for him.