***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Morning folks! Going to take advantage of our last pretty day for a while. I still have over 20 clumps of ornamental grasses to cut back. I actually have an apple tree with leaves an inch long and flower buds about to open! I guess I will loose the crop this week! Just hope the other things can survive!

Enjoying all the bee chat,learning some too! I was surprised that you weren't able to harvest the first year,I guess I just thought they were mass producers of world sweetness!

Had a bunch of extra eggs that the broody didn't stick with and some left over boiled eggs from super bowl feast so I gave all my chooks a treat this morning. I also have been running orange peels thru the food processer to get them to tiny bite size so they will eat some of it. Hopefully it will be good for them. There are so many things they will eat if we take time to get it to a size they can handle.

Well off to the garden,have a great one everyone!

 

[Kassaundra]

I run lots of stuff through the food processor, but never thought about citrus peelings.

 

[SimplyMe_AngieD]

I called this morning. I live in Tulsa county, so it might be different for yours. I would call your local OSU Extention office for more specific details.

The rental for the incubator is $10.00 and 18 eggs are $5.00. The eggs are from tyson broilers... so these will be chickens that have to be processed to eat. If you get these, be prepared for that. We planned on ordering meat chickens for ourselves so this fits right in for our plans anyway.

The next program cycle starts tomorrow. So I would call today for more information.

Angela

I want to do this for our home school adventure. Also for 4H project adventure. Some one told me that I can get loaner hatchers and brooders from the extension office so I am going to call them today.

Let us know what you find out. I would love to hatch some at home so my boys can see the steps and learn all about it. We homeschool as well and they are learning a ton with us having just the little babies in the house this weekend. We bought a book at one of the auctions in Harrah this weekend about hatching eggs and my 9year old has been harboring it as his, lol.

Cathie

 

[checoukan]

If you have a microscope you can do a fecal exam yourself. Go to Langston University's website and the procedure is all layed out for you. Of course it is info for goats but hey worms are worms and basically you just clean the eggs out of the feces and then count them.

Now with Ivermec be sure that you don't get the spot-on type for cattle.Up around Miami Ok. years ago at a feedlot they used the spot-on like a drench and killed 2 pens of bulls that were over 1000 pounds. Different applications have different strenghts. And be careful about getting it on yourself too, some people don't react well to being wormed. Collie type dogs should also not be wormed with Ivermec, there is something about them that lets the wormer go to their brain and cause a fatal reaction.

I totally agree about the DE. Even as it is marketed it states that it is not effective when wet. So when do you see a chicken pass a totally dry poop? If there is moisture in the intestinal tract it has to ruin the effectiveness of the DE.

I guess I am one that has had positve results with the DE. Even my vet stated at the last goat seminar, and pointed me out when DE was brought up that I had been using it for years and had postive results with it.
I keep it out for my goats year round and I only have only used a chemical wormer for them once in about 3 years. I know it keeps the flys down cause fley lay their eggs in poop.
Had a problem with lice in my hen house. Lots of hens were bare backed and looked terrible, so I threw DE everywhere in the coop, nest boxes cracks and roostes on the floor in the feed, no more bare backed chickens. So, I continue to use it, and keep having good results with it.

 

[SimplyMe_AngieD]

Yes I am aware I have to be careful. We already have 4 hens here, and we can only have 6 total. Fortunately, our 4H clubhouse also have chicken pens that we can rent out. When these broilers exit the cute and fuzzy state we can move them there and raise them there until it is time to process them.

My kids love our chickens, and I love our chickens, but they had to face up front the harsh reality a few weeks ago that our chickens are for food. Either eggs or meat. Yes I am a mean mom.

Oh I think I can taste the fried chicken already.

Yum.

Angela

Watch out with hatching eggs as a homeschool project-- that is how we started. Now we have over 150 birds & DD thinks all eggs were ment to be hatched!

 

[Sooner]

According to my mentor, you can get honey the first year if there is a good nectur flow & you get your bee's early enough, you just don't count on having honey the first year.

On the link you sent Wayne I saw a manual extractor, didn't realize there was one until then. I have been more focused on the bee's.

Lynn that is sweet that you can now go feed & collect eggs from that little guy, kids are so cute!

 

[Ksane]

The hatch that I have going now (started hatching saturday ) have been very cute, full wellsummer babies, welsummer looking babies with poofey looking head and beards. The cross pullets that just started laying started laying sooner than the welsummer or easter eggers have in the past.
The little boy that lives down from us ( he is 5 ) likes to feed the chickens when they come over to get eggs, he always wants to take one home, he is such a cute little boy, anyway I have become an enbler. Yesterday I sent him and his dad home with 12 fuzzy butts, a portable brooder and chick feed so that he can have his own chikens, he was so excited, he told me now you can come to my house and get eggs and feed chickens.

Oh how darling! Kids and animals crack me up

, I could spend all day watching them.
It's the adults I have problems understanding lol

 

[Oakieridge]

The hatch that I have going now (started hatching saturday ) have been very cute, full wellsummer babies, welsummer looking babies with poofey looking head and beards. The cross pullets that just started laying started laying sooner than the welsummer or easter eggers have in the past.
The little boy that lives down from us ( he is 5 ) likes to feed the chickens when they come over to get eggs, he always wants to take one home, he is such a cute little boy, anyway I have become an enbler. Yesterday I sent him and his dad home with 12 fuzzy butts, a portable brooder and chick feed so that he can have his own chikens, he was so excited, he told me now you can come to my house and get eggs and feed chickens.

awe, that is so sweet! That is kind of how we started. DH went to help a single mom we know with her water well. He came home with her promising to send us 10 chicks as soon as we could get set up for them as payment. He didn't expect payment but she wouldn't accept a "no" lol. Now look at us we have 49 chickens outside and now 46 babies in the house brooding lol

 

[Buckguy20]

Good Monday to everyone,
Sorry I have been AWOL but the new BYC and my old PC make for a slow process for me on here anymore.
The fact that they won't let us change the number of posts per page without being a Platinum member has really made me keeping up very difficult.
Hopefully I can eventually get the bugs worked out.
Anyone else having any problems with the new BYC?

 

[Sooner]

I'm not having too much trouble, seems to be alittle slower here than at home. That is weird for me since I have faster internet here.

You might go to the announcement thread to see if you can find anything that will help you. Iknow when it first upgraded, several said they had to update their browser.