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[therarebreed]

Lol, I've seen the movie a dozen times and you'd think I'd know better!

 

[ThaatGurl]

New Okie chicken mom here. Have 6 BO and 4 SLW chicks, all cute as a button. They seem healthy and happy, coming up on 2 weeks old. Proud! They're all supposed to be female, but we'll see... And well wishes to NanaKat. Hope you feel better soon!

Welcome!

 

[Tika75]

Where is a good place to purchase older chicks? I would like some that will lay blue or green eggs.

 

[Poco Pollo]

NPIP testing is finished for the year! Yaaaaahhhhaaahhhhaaa a a a a a a a. In my head, I counted all the little guys that aren't old enough to test, so I was thinking we'd be working all day. Birds under sixteen weeks of age don't count. You know that this means, don't you? The department of agriculture promotes chicken math.

We finished testing my adult flock in under two hours. The ducks were the most difficult. Beware the webbed daggers of doom! Ducks will swerve when you're holding them, and that little zig when you don't expect it can put a zag in your T-shirt, or your forearm. Elvis, our chocolate drake, shook a foot free and swatted the inspector a couple of times. No blood, but lots of excitement.

 

[Ironsights]

Remember my broody turkeys? First the hawk, then my oldest grandson trying to combine two nests which resulted in two turkeys moving the whole thing and trying to share a nest outside? THAT resulted in my daughter moving the nest to a nest box and I just locked her in overnight hoping for the best. Tonight my youngest grandson (raised in California) gathered the eggs. Go ahead, you can say OH NO! My wife started take care of the eggs and then asked why there were so many turkey eggs. Then she said several of these are rocking! They were already cooling off but they wanted to try and save them. I didn't even have an incubator warmed up because I've been to busy to start hatching but we plugged in one that I built which has an electronic thermostat and heats up fast. I've never won the lottery, but if any survive they'll have beaten those odds.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

NPIP testing is finished for the year! Yaaaaahhhhaaahhhhaaa a a a a a a a. In my head, I counted all the little guys that aren't old enough to test, so I was thinking we'd be working all day. Birds under sixteen weeks of age don't count. You know that this means, don't you? The department of agriculture promotes chicken math.

We finished testing my adult flock in under two hours. The ducks were the most difficult. Beware the webbed daggers of doom! Ducks will swerve when you're holding them, and that little zig when you don't expect it can put a zag in your T-shirt, or your forearm. Elvis, our chocolate drake, shook a foot free and swatted the inspector a couple of times. No blood, but lots of excitement.

Remember my broody turkeys? First the hawk, then my oldest grandson trying to combine two nests which resulted in two turkeys moving the whole thing and trying to share a nest outside? THAT resulted in my daughter moving the nest to a nest box and I just locked her in overnight hoping for the best. Tonight my youngest grandson (raised in California) gathered the eggs. Go ahead, you can say OH NO! My wife started take care of the eggs and then asked why there were so many turkey eggs. Then she said several of these are rocking! They were already cooling off but they wanted to try and save them. I didn't even have an incubator warmed up because I've been to busy to start hatching but we plugged in one that I built which has an electronic thermostat and heats up fast. I've never won the lottery, but if any survive they'll have beaten those odds.

Wow! Good luck!!!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Keep an eye out, especially southern Oklahoma folks. This lady had a very valuable Chocolate Orp hen and almost all of her mottled juveniles in several varieties stolen last weekend. Details in the facebook post. $1000 cash reward.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...82812369.10406.100000059531426&type=3&theater

 

[NanaKat]

@mjgigaxThere were 10 successful hatched chicks! Three Cuckoo, 1 Maran, two Chocolate and 4 EE.....very healthy bouncing fluffy butts and tiny cheeks.
How did the Cochin do? Besides the extra eggs I sent with Rebecca, I have eggs under several hens still to hatch. Let me know if you would like chicks.

@Kassaundra and @robynYou should be proud...Ansel and Pansy have been bringing their 5 babies outside to free range. Ansel is a dedicated and protective father. They all roost together on top of the 10 nest box in the brooder room.

We finally got all the cabbage, lettuce, collards, broccoli and cauliflower planted and have 120 tomato plants and 100 peppers ready to plant hopefully before the coming rains. The garden finally looks presentable.

We will be working 38 calves on Saturday to tag, band and vaccinate...should be a busy morning with the family coming for a big country breakfast before we get down to business.
There are 15 cows still waiting to calve in April.

 

[Kassaundra]

@mjgigax There were 10 successful hatched chicks! Three Cuckoo, 1 Maran, two Chocolate and 4 EE.....very healthy bouncing fluffy butts and tiny cheeks.
How did the Cochin do? Besides the extra eggs I sent with Rebecca, I have eggs under several hens still to hatch. Let me know if you would like chicks.

@Kassaundra and @robyn You should be proud...Ansel and Pansy have been bringing their 5 babies outside to free range. Ansel is a dedicated and protective father. They all roost together on top of the 10 nest box in the brooder room.

We finally got all the cabbage, lettuce, collards, broccoli and cauliflower planted and have 120 tomato plants and 100 peppers ready to plant hopefully before the coming rains. The garden finally looks presentable.

We will be working 38 calves on Saturday to tag, band and vaccinate...should be a busy morning with the family coming for a big country breakfast before we get down to business.
There are 15 cows still waiting to calve in April.

Awesome news about Ansel and Pansy.

120 tomato plants and 100 peppers????? How many raised beds do you have??????

 

[mjgigax]

@mjgigaxThere were 10 successful hatched chicks! Three Cuckoo, 1 Maran, two Chocolate and 4 EE.....very healthy bouncing fluffy butts and tiny cheeks.
How did the Cochin do? Besides the extra eggs I sent with Rebecca, I have eggs under several hens still to hatch. Let me know if you would like chicks.

I had s much better hatch this week too. - got 12 chicks from your eggs, mostly blues, so pretty!
Got 14 from Rebecca's eggs too. And 10/10 Welsummers from Jack's flock.
I now have 100 chicks in my brooders and I am a little scared about next Wednesday. There is another tray of 96 eggs to put in the hatcher and hatch then. Getting a good hatch rate could actually be a problem!!!!!