***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Kassaundra]

I've got 200 onions put in and I'm working on potatoes and strawberries. I've been doing some reading on strawberries since I have never been successful w/ them they seem to suggest fall planting and pulling them up after they bear and complete replanting in the fall. Anyone w/ strawberry experience have any thoughts on that. Seems so wasteful to keep buying new plants when they have runners, and they are hard to find in the fall.

 

[mefordz]

HEY HEY HEY! no need to be mean!

sounds like fun to me!

we have to be easily amused, we are married to women you know!

and on the strawberry thing, i only have experiance eating them. but my step dad planted a buch 1 year when i was 16, the people that live there now get berries every year.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

This is the new bantam chick we got at Atwoods yesterday. She is a pretty silvery blue. Anybody have an idea what breed she is.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

I'm such a bad photographer. I always think they look good until I download them.

 

[mefordz]

I'm such a bad photographer. I always think they look good until I download them.

it is a bantam, if it has feathers on its feet it is a cochin. if it doesnt have feathers on its feet it is probably an old english game.

what color are its legs?

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

The legs look kinda grey. We are hoping it is an Old English Game.

it is a bantam, if it has feathers on its feet it is a cochin. if it doesnt have feathers on its feet it is probably an old english game.

what color are its legs?

 

[Oakieridge]

Thanks for the advise on the Buff Rooster. We moved him and his girl to their own pen and threw in two of our 6 month old Buff pullets in with them. So maybe having 3 girls to take care of will calm him down. Plus now he is in a different pen. He was fine when I went to feed and water this afternoon. It was a pretty day, we took the 4 week old chicks out of their brooders in the feed house and let them out in the 10 x 10 yard. I think I can already tell who is a roo and who isn't. We had sever of the BO chicks bucking up to each other and giving the stink eye. They had a blast running around the coop scratching. Hopefully they finish feathering out this week because I am ready to move the guys in the house out to the feed barn brooders.

 

[Oakieridge]

Going back to read two pages but thought I'd post these pictures first.
A view from Florida trip



Here is an illustration of a "tight wad". The eight Cochins from the Iowa eggsthat hatched this week in Carls equipment. Thank you Carl!.


A little more spread out for viewing pleasure


There is very little room left in the tank for these babies that hatched in late January. Wyandottes and some Cochin crosses. 20 ot these were moved to the floor pen in the barn. Again thanks to Carl for hatching for me.

Beautiful sunset picture, and I LOVE the baby chick pics!!! Those little cochins are adorable!

 

[mefordz]

The legs look kinda grey. We are hoping it is an Old English Game.

thats what it appears to be.

 

[fairwindminishetland]

Had a good time at the show today and did quite well for only taking 5 birds in two varieties, Nothing placed below 4th but had BV and RV as well in ckasses of 20+ for birds I'm not real happy with yet I feel better but wil stil push harder.

Have a good evening see some of you tomorrow, been a long day.

Makes all the hard work getting them there worth it! Congratulations.