***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[artsyrobin]

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i sure like that pen! wow- gives me more ideas...

you know, what you are going through has been quite a lesson for me- the importance of biosecurity- i'd really not thought about it that much before, but i sure am now!

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Wife is waiting on the late start of the OU game! Glad you all are getting more rain. Hope the bad stuff stays away.

Robin you will love the seramas! They are just the chicken you need. You can keep them in bird cages inside and not have to worry baout outside varmits or weather. Just be careful ,they are more addicting than the cochins even!lol

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm at work at Webbers Falls, and here there is a lot of lightening, and some rain. But I have friends west of Okemah that just posted pics of their vehicles sans windows ......................... the hail knocked them all out and put a hole in their house siding and took a house window out.

 

[artsyrobin]

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thanks wayne- those cochins are really dangerous... i have been giving them some free range time, oh maybe half an hour and they will take off into the leaves- its too funny with those round profiles and fluffy feet!

the more i read about the seramas and did a portrait for a lady that raises them- i got the feeling they were tailor made...

kass- you stay careful in this weather- its getting noisy out there..

 

[Ksane]

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I always was pretty paranoid about diseases. Then it hits with my very favorite ones

The chickens in the 50'x 50' yard with my 1 sheep are all perfectly fine, that's the yard where the 2 Bantam Cochins I got from you are. (They ride around on the sheep's back, he's so patient with them lol) The Silkies in the yard I have to pass through to get TO the Cochin pen are all fine. It's just weird.
Lordy, it rained here!

 

[faerielady]

Drove to Durant and back. South of Pauls Valley, ran into pea sized hail. Hailed on me all the way through PV, stopped hailing then rained really heavy all the way back into the city. That drive back really sucked.

But! I have paint silkies in my living room, so it was worth it.

 

[Ksane]

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Hooray! I can't wait to see pictures!

 

[Just a few hens & a Roo o]

She lays eggs about quail size or a bit bigger, their carriage is upright and dropped wings with tail carried over their back. Are serama's smaller, the two of these might weigh a pound put together. The bantams we had growig up would make two of these birds. We have a dozen other birds of various types, barred rocks, RHR, blue laced red wyandotte, and three mutts. From some eggs we incubated from a cross between EE hens and a black astrulorp roo

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Ksane ,sometimes we can get too fearful of disease and over protect our birds. We had a lady on here a few years back that was santizeing everyday almost,she finally gave up and after a few losses everything leveled out. Sometimes nature has to take its course and find the fittest. Doesn't make it any easier on our minds or pocket books but happens just the same. Don't let the losses cause you to lose the enjoyment of messing with our feathered friends. Sometimes certain strains are just weak.Don't give up,get more!lol Remember your chicken math!

Just a feww... yes believe it or not the seramas are smaller,well some of them,they come in three classes or sizes. They are the worlds smallest chicken!

Becarefull out tonight Kass!

Glad you made it home safe Faeri,know how you hate night driving. Can't wait to see pics of "paint" silkies!

 

[faerielady]

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Hooray! I can't wait to see pictures!

Hey look NN, there's a showgirl in here too:

There are 4 that are seven weeks, and 5 that are 2 weeks. There are two black with possible split to paint, seven paint, all from Elite Silkies, who btw is a beautiful sweet lady and I really wish I'd've had more time to spend with her. However, there was a storm moving in and I was hoping to beat it back (no, I didn't, I got caught in it.

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