***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Sooner]

Good Morning everyone~ running late this morning!

I have dishes the chickens can talk through to cool their legs. My pens are all in full shade most of the day & we try to wet the pen down a couple times a day. I will also break up a spot of dirt that they can dust in. This evening they will get some cabage to peck at.

Kassaundra, I love all of your pictures!! Wish I had your tallent!

POCO love the goats, might have to work out something to buy some milk when you are ready so I can taste it, I would also like to make some goats milk soap.

Stimpy it's good to have you around, glad you are doing so much better!

Praying for sixshooter today, he is having surgery!

 

[michiele]

We started with a very small coop & 4 chickens in town. That is 1 chicken for each of us. Most weeks we were only using a dozen eggs & I personally don't even eat eggs! Within a year we now live on 20 acres & I cant count the chickens. I think 75 is a good guess. Plus a dozen guineas. And I am locking eggs down in the incubator every Monday! I started with a brinesea Eco & now have a sportsman. The brinesea is awesome but the darn thing was always full!
Best of luck with 4 chickens!

lol! Well, I KNOW we won't end up with 75 chickens! We only have 1 acre I have to ask, did the chickens cause you to sell your house in town and move out into the country??? IF that is the case, I better stop now! lol

Michiele​

 

[Avienda]

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I've got some cups that when filled with water and frozen fit perfectly into my waterer. So i've been putting two of those big "ice cubes" into their water every day and I have a juice bottle that's filled with water and kept frozen for them to sit next to if they want. Took em three days to decide it was safe to get close too! I also wet down their run a couple times a day, and they have a big tarp over the run and coop. They are also under a big tree so are shaded most of the day. The tarp is just extra for morning and late evening when the sun hits them. I have misted a couple of them when they acted too hot. They were pretty mad at me, but they didn't pant for a good hour or so after!

 

[artsyrobin]

I have dishes the chickens can talk through to cool their legs.

hey sooner! is that a better way to cool them down, letting them 'talk' through???

had to read that typo to figure it out!!!​

 

[janbcoo1]

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lol! Well, I KNOW we won't end up with 75 chickens! We only have 1 acre I have to ask, did the chickens cause you to sell your house in town and move out into the country??? IF that is the case, I better stop now! lol

Michiele

Oh, Michiele,
We started with our chicken adventure in March of this year. We live in OKC (quietly) in a small tract development in the NE side. Nothing like 1/10 of an acre! BUT...we thought 4 would be just about right for us too - bantams at that. We have since "acquired" two juvenile Rhode Island red hens, and another RRR three week old chick along with two other in-between age RRRs and three unknown chicks about three weeks old! They all run about our small yard in a huge dog run and love our garden!

It is hard to imagine where we'd be with a whole ACRE of land!! lol

Hope you can keep your resolve.lol
Jan

 

[NanaKat]

P&B will be mailing you a package.

Lynn...praying your Mom recovers quickly

Sixshooter...praying for you and the surgeons.

Welcome to all the new folks.

Hubby is spraying the far hayfields for weeds and lost a part from the sprayer. We spent an hour this morning combing the field for the plastic part. Would have been much easier if it had been metal...we have a metal detector. We did find it.

Chickens are liking the cooler mornings. Ranged a lot further from their run today before coming back inside.

Have a great day everybody

 

[janbcoo1]

Did someone say yesterday that there is an auction tomorrow somewhere?

 

[Kassaundra]

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Whoa! What was the flying chicken doing? You gotta explain that one!

Traci

Two hens had a minor dissagreement, they were settling it I think.


I have several action shot that I love this is one of my favorites.

 

[Kassaundra]

To help cool the girls in this terrible heat we changed the coop doors to screen (2x4 and 1/4 inch hardware cloth on both sides) for security.

Shade tarps, fans in the screen doors for over night and daytime egg laying. Water containers they can walk through which they love, and wetting down the run area a couple of times a day.

 

[Kassaundra]

Here are some pics of my current declaration of war!!!! If you see these squish immediately if you value your squash!

a sub adult

younger sub adult, they start out very white w/ black legs, very soft easy to squish!

older sub adult still nice and soft for easy squishing though

egg cluster they will lay on the flower, stem, upper or under leaves, they really like right by the veins on the under leaf.

adult, couldn't find any this morning, so this is an already drowned on from yesterday. They are hard, have a distinct smell when touched even slightly, easy to drown, often you will see them w/ butt ends together (like breeding dogs) they aren't very fast and don't bite, easy to pick up (but I still use medical gloves)

Side by side of an adult and older sub adult.