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[NanaKat]

I'm going to be off line for a week, going to visit my parents in Michigan. Joe will be taking care of my chickens (with Jack's help).

I've got 3 dozen eggs in my incubator. It is a home-made cabinet type. Joe won't have to do a thing but turn the eggs twice a day by a lever coming out of the top. I didn't put any "important" egg in it. I'll leave that up to Carl or Jack till I know this incubator works well.
If it does work it could be a very dangerous thing. With the3-hole brooder I got at Newcastle I could brood about 100 chicks!

Hope you have a safe wonderful trip!

 

[NanaKat]

Showing off some 8 week old cuties!

A Blue Columbian Wyandotte.. from a Blue hen and CW roo




A Blue Silver Laced Wyandotte... from the same Blue Wyandotte hen and the SLW roo



A really broodie hen. She is in a hanging open air cage...no eggs....but in desperation she has gathered any little poop ball that didn't go thru the crate. And Puffs up and growls if you even look at her. She is a hatchery BLRW Splash.



The little 9 week old Blue Quail d'Anvers

 

[nocityboy]

Showing off some 8 week old cuties!

A Blue Columbian Wyandotte.. from a Blue hen and CW roo




A Blue Silver Laced Wyandotte... from the same Blue Wyandotte hen and the SLW roo

that is one beautiful bird. are you working to breed them?

 

[old*cowboy]

Showing off some 8 week old cuties!

A Blue Columbian Wyandotte.. from a Blue hen and CW roo




A Blue Silver Laced Wyandotte... from the same Blue Wyandotte hen and the SLW roo



A really broodie hen. She is in a hanging open air cage...no eggs....but in desperation she has gathered any little poop ball that didn't go thru the crate. And Puffs up and growls if you even look at her. She is a hatchery BLRW Splash.



The little 9 week old Blue Quail d'Anvers

 

[NanaKat]

that is one beautiful bird. are you working to breed them?

Thank you. These hatched from eggs collected to go in the incubator with the Cochin eggs. So far we just got the one...possibly another. I have separated the Wyandottes now...and will be trying to get more Blue CW. Hoping to get a Blue Wyandotte with a single comb.

The Aussie Cochins are beautiful too. Will have to post pictures of them. Going to be a nice egg layer and a great meat bird. Some are blue and some are black.

 

[nnbreeder]

I definately have some chickens that are "special". They have had access to all 8 gardens around their coop until this week or so, I have been blocking off gardens as I start to plant some. 7 of the gardens have been basically barren of vegetation, but one is lush and green w/ fall greens and roots that didn't do well but still have lots of leaves and the turnips all blooming bright yellow everywhere anyway basically a chickens dream, but I am having to lock off the barren gardens to force them into the green lush one.

The east garden of each coop I've designated as the summer run, it will be the most shaded and I've got plans for adding to the natural shade. I have been working on the prep work to those two gardens, and blocking the majority of the gardens off from the chickens all day.

We are changing where the chickens come and go so we can have an automatic coop door, this meant moving part of a fence and a T post, I am here to tell you when you plant a T post make sure you aren't going to want to move it!!!!!! Digging through sand stone in very tight quarters, it took nearly 1.5 hrs just to move that one post.

A bumper jack and a piece of 1/4" chain makes short work of T posts.. Tie a tight knot with the knot to the back side of the post so the other side hooks on the do-dads you tie the wire to and then loop it over the bumper jack and start jacking it up out of the ground. A jack from an old Pontiac or a Chrysler works about the best as they are designed to fit into a hole in the bumper and have a little hook on the end.

 

[nnbreeder]

Well, shoot.

I should have listened to my gut. I was leery about getting rid of some of my best dogs, but thought my two Pyrs and a lab would be enough deterrent. I was wrong. The two females tangled with something last night that almost got the best of them. They did their job, because I lost zero critters, but they were put through the ringer. The Pyr is all marked up, and the lab had to go in for stitches... $375 worth. The male Pyr, best fighter in the bunch, doesn't have a mark on him, so I figure he was lazing about while the girls did all the dirty work. Man, I could kick myself.

Going to go out tonight to see if whatever it was comes back.

Then I'm going to start shopping for another LGD.

In the last two years I have seen more Badgers then I have seen in my previous 40+ years. Mom used to tell stories about a single Badger doing a great deal of damage to a pack of Black and Tans that were unfortunate enough to cross it's path while running Coyotes.

And remember not too long ago there was a Couger hit by a car I think around Union City. It was a juvenile male so it had parents.

 

[nnbreeder]

Hello,

I would love to know where and when is the Newcastle auction? I finally found the Blanchard auction after driving all over the countryside. I think my husband is trying for sainthood after following my directions forever from a gps phone with ADD that decides to take scenic detours. Not once did the man growl or say anything!

My favorite GPS story is the one where the person drove off a dock and into a lake at 70mph in Texas. There was at one time a road there.

 

[Sooner]

Good Morning Okies!

NanaKat~ Love the blues! Meforz~ hope that knee gets better, don't you have an auction this weekend? Mjgigax~ have a safe trip & enjoy your visit. Les~ You have the best advice! We use the tractor on the tough one's but I see how a jack would work well!

 

[artsyrobin]

morning folks!! been busy with all the nice weather- course to me anything over 75 is too hot... march and 85?? hate to think we will be stuck with these temps so soon!

had one little one hatch, i had this orphan egg from when olivia was playing the nest box hop- forgetting which one she was brooding- anyway, i rescued this one egg and put it in the bater, looked over the day before yesterday and it had pipped at the wrong end... sheesh, so tucked it uner olivia who i had just moved into the bathroom to make sure she stayed put- this poor little guy was trying to hatch sideways, so i left it but when i went in to check here is what it looked like, no movement so i proceded to 'help' it- well, it was barely breathing and moma hen had crushed the egg, so Dave suggested putting it in the bator over nite- well, other than splay leg, he/she is doing fine, i taped the legs- and gave her back to the hen-

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and the wildlife dept released 18 pair of cougars a few years ago in ne oklahoma, they travel far and wide, they have told folks around here if they go after your livestock shoot them and let them know so they can track which ones they are... heard about that last year, from a friend who started losing calves