***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Cjarvis]

Morning everyone! Hope everyone gets lots of time outdoors today to enjoy the beautiful weather while it lasts. I wish I was home today so I could rake out coops and help hubby finish up the last of the chicken condos.

Does anyone know how long you can sex barred rock chicks using the spot on the back of their head? Or does that not really work? We have barred rock chicks we got Sat. and if using the spot method works I have mostly females but I am not going to bank on that. I also made a HUGE mistake with this batch of chicks, I named one! I have yet to name any of our chickens and now I done gone and named one Walt. He is such a funny little guy pushing everyone else away from the feed dish at feeding time. He also pecks at my hand when I go to move anything in the brooder. Last night he rushed my hand and then skittered away like he was trying to pick a fight, lol. So much more interetaining than any of the other chicks we have had.

Cathie

You will often find teh young males to be that way in the brooders, they are very inquisitive for some reason. We have friend who has that experience in general with the Barred, they are his most curious birds and the ones he losses most to predators (snakes etc) when young due to thier need to investigate new things.

 

[muesky]

Morning Folks!
Well it is Wednesday, which is good because it is not Monday or Tuesday!

So looking forward to Friday and this weekend but not sure I am going to make it.

Please send good juju my way. My BFF had a cancer scare but we found out Monday that it was not anything as bad as we thought then on the same day one of my other friends, whom I have known forever, tells me she is getting a divorce and is devastated and yesterday another one of my friends for a coon's age has skin cancer. Don't even want to get in about my DD and what she is having to go through. I need for my friends and loved ones to have a break.

Okay so now that I have been Debbie Downer. Let me say I am so glad I found this website and thread. I have met so many wonderful people who I love dearly. The great thing about this site and especially this thread, is it has brought together people who would never met in any other circumstances if not for our love of chickens. A quote I heard a while back that always has stuck with me "No one is so good or wealthy that they don't need friends".

Have a marvelous day everyone!

 

[Cjarvis]

Morning Folks!
My BFF had a cancer scare but we found out Monday that it was not anything as bad as we thought then on the same day one of my other friends, whom I have known forever, tells me she is getting a divorce and is devastated and yesterday another one of my friends for a coon's age has skin cancer. Don't even want to get in about my DD and what she is having to go through. I need for my friends and loved ones to have a break.

Okay so now that I have been Debbie Downer. Let me say I am so glad I found this website and thread. I have met so many wonderful people who I love dearly. The great thing about this site and especially this thread, is it has brought together people who would never met in any other circumstances if not for our love of chickens. A quote I heard a while back that always has stuck with me "No one is so good or wealthy that they don't need friends".

Have a marvelous day everyone!

Morning Rebecca,
I wish you, your friends and families the best through the hard times, it can be rather difficult to get through real trying events.

I love the quote. good stuff. Have great day and better weekend.

 

[old*cowboy]

Morning Folks!
Well it is Wednesday, which is good because it is not Monday or Tuesday!

So looking forward to Friday and this weekend but not sure I am going to make it.

Please send good juju my way. My BFF had a cancer scare but we found out Monday that it was not anything as bad as we thought then on the same day one of my other friends, whom I have known forever, tells me she is getting a divorce and is devastated and yesterday another one of my friends for a coon's age has skin cancer. Don't even want to get in about my DD and what she is having to go through. I need for my friends and loved ones to have a break.

Okay so now that I have been Debbie Downer. Let me say I am so glad I found this website and thread. I have met so many wonderful people who I love dearly. The great thing about this site and especially this thread, is it has brought together people who would never met in any other circumstances if not for our love of chickens. A quote I heard a while back that always has stuck with me "No one is so good or wealthy that they don't need friends".

Have a marvelous day everyone!

Just boxed up some good juju and put it in the mail headed your way. Hope life gets easier. I also have to say that I agree 100% on the bringing people together thru BYC. I have met many nice folks that I would have never known otherwise.

 

[old*cowboy]

Cowboy, you get first dibs. Give me a couple of days to decided which one or ones.
That wagon is really working out well. Locked the girls in a couple of weeks and now it is home to them. Roll it to new ground every few days or so.

Thanks Buster. How many hens do you have in the wagon so far?

 

[Buster52]

Thanks Buster. How many hens do you have in the wagon so far?

I'm not sure. Close to 50, I think.

 

[Firefly89]

Hey just stopping in to blurb about a little merchandising stuff that maybe some of you guys planning chicken get togethers can use. Its 4imprint.com and they do all sorts of business merchandising. Ive got a 10% off coupon voucher if you think you can use it.

 

[fairwindminishetland]

Hi Guys! I had my first chicks hatch this week. I got 3 of them to hatch? Not good rates on a doz? They were supposed to be d"Uccles....I have two of a blue color and one a mottle black? Can you give opinions as to whether these are d'Uccles or not...the lady who sent them, got mixed up and it was a mess...not sure what I got and I've never had d'uccles chicks or bantam cochins chicks...though I have them in the bator! I'll see if I can attach pics?

 

[Ksane]

One of the EE's in the layer yard has a bunch of feather loss on her back, I took the 2 Marans boys out of that yard thinking it was them over-breeding her (even though I never saw them bothering her). Which was odd because the other 15 girls in that yard have no feather loss whatsoever on their backs. I got to looking at her today and it really looks like someone's pulling her feathers OUT on her back. It's not from being bred. I guess I need to separate her and see what's going on.
I took the 1 LF Cochin boy out of the bachelor pen yesterday for fighting and now the remaining 2 were into it as soon as I let them out of their coop. Not sure why they waited to get let out? I think they'd probably do fine together if they were free ranging or something but they're too serious about this fighting stuff to live together in a 10x10 pen. So I'm thinkin' and plannin' on how to separate. My very favorite is this one, he's so pretty. I've considered placing the 2 splash's....but just don't know if I could bear to. I can't believe how much they've grown since this picture was taken 2 months ago!

 

[Ksane]

Hi Guys! I had my first chicks hatch this week. I got 3 of them to hatch? Not good rates on a doz? They were supposed to be d"Uccles....I have two of a blue color and one a mottle black? Can you give opinions as to whether these are d'Uccles or not...the lady who sent them, got mixed up and it was a mess...not sure what I got and I've never had d'uccles chicks or bantam cochins chicks...though I have them in the bator! I'll see if I can attach pics?

They're adorable!!!! They've got beards and feathered legs so I would think that's what they are. Although I don't have that breed so my opinion may not mean much.

While I have you all here......I bought 15 Bantam Faverolles eggs thinking for sure that only 3 or 4 would hatch. The 3 I've got here are growing nicely and 11 of the 12 I gave to Carl to hatch were fine when he candled. That's great news but I didn't really plan on this many. I got 15 eggs thinking I might get 4 max out of the deal. Jackie/Firefly, I'll wait on your answer 1st in case-but it was $35 for the 15 eggs, does anyone want 1/2 of whatever hatches for $17 if more than 7 hatch? There's no guarantee of anything or how many will hatch obviously. We could just meet the day I pick them up and each reach in with our eyes closed and pick 1/2 the chicks lol Any takers? I can't part with them after I've raised them but I didn't want more than 4, this is the only way I'm going to be able to do it, I'm such a weirdo.

Just adding a PS-
If no one wants to do it that way I can probably pay Carl to raise them to 2 wks til they can be sexed and just take the girls and a boy.