***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[mjgigax]

Cowboy your tomatoes will certainly be survival of the fittest!

My girls are panting when they are out in the sun too. April and already panting that can't be good. After all the work it can't get to hot until my summer run is ready!

And time is the only thing I have to wait on for that to happen, it's all set and ready to grow (pun intended)

I know my Yeta isn't the prettiest chicken, but she sure is the smartest in my flock, she is a one of a kind. I was out working around the yard and garden and we have an infestation of small black flying bugs, not sure what they are except annoying, they fly w/ their back end turned up like a "U". Anyway they are annoying both man and beast, all 17 other chickens either are doing their best to ignore them or run from them, what does Yeta do????? Why eat them of course, nabbing them straight out of the air, she reminds me of the metally challenged people you see in the streets talking to people that only they can see swatting at stuff that you can't see. (I hope noone thinks that is mean, it wasn't meant to be, just a very descriptive visual aid to what she looks like) The other chickens just look at her like she's crazy even watching her do it they haven't been able to figure it out.

The last of my last minute preparations are complete for V.H. day tomorrow.

I have a "Yeta", my Louise is such a Busy-body - jumps in the bucket even before she knows hat is in it and always comments on my shoes (or toenail polish if i'm wearing sandals), always has something to say. I just love her, she is one of my 50 most favorite.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have a "Yeta", my Louise is such a Busy-body - jumps in the bucket even before she knows hat is in it and always comments on my shoes (or toenail polish if i'm wearing sandals), always has something to say. I just love her, she is one of my 50 most favorite.

LOL, today I stacked a "wall" of trash bags full of leaves, I had an idea, but decided against it, but left the wall in place for now. Everyone walked around even my boy Oreo, but not Yeta she had to go up and over just to prove she could! lol

 

[artsyrobin]

every flock must have a yeta- just gotta come over and check things out!LOL!

i'd like a pair of peafowl, used to see them alot growing up at the San Diego Zoo, have heard they are actually less noisy than the guineas

i was watching Boaz tonite, and thinking maybe i could put him with a few of my banty cochins? poor little guy is in hormone overload- and poor ruth, not sure if maybe she is eggbound? gave her a bath, a tummy rub and oil on her vent, she's in her cage covered with towels, i sure hope she is better in the morning

 

[nocityboy]

I go the Silver Laced Pair, and also have a Lemon Blue Pair. Need to check with Nocityboy to see if me eggs were good.

I just set 37 game eggs for a coworker, another coworker set at least that many for him. I also candled 5 Lemon Blue eggs all 5 look good.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

I have at least one chick hatched under one of my broody hens hoping that the rest of the eggs will hatch, I only poked under her till I found the first one there could be more she wasn't liking being messed with today so gave her a break LOL I got to show off my little farm today everyone was on their best behavior except Goosey and he was in a mood I guess giving the stink eye to our guest and even biting and I never saw him do that before I guess he's starting to think of himself as a goose these days...

 

[Oakieridge]

Well a long day of work and tomorrow doesn't look much better. I did manage to move all the 3 and 4 week old chicks outside tonight with hubby's help. We bought 3 sets of these hutches for $100 each set has 4 sections so they are perfect for grow out pens for chicks until they reach 5-6 weeks old. Now I just have the 1 week and 2 week old chicks in the brooders in the basement. They all seemed to love the extra space they have to jump and fly around. Plus now I have two empty brooders in the basement which I am sure I will need when I go to pick up chicks tomorrow from Carl, lol.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Evening all! Its turned off cold here. Well its not really cold but feels like it after those 80 degree days in march. And tonight we get a frost and freeze. Glad I haven't put out tomatoes yet. I did get my garden tilled today and corn,squash and cucumber planted. Set two turkey eggs under an ee bantam yesterday,hope she can hatch them! My hatcher guy called tonight and I have chicks to pick up tomorrow. Had 70 out of 90 hatch,thought that was pretty good.
I went to pick up some eggs tonight from a lady for hatching. It amased me when I seen her pens. The poor birds have to roost out under the stars,no roof on the pen" I don't know how she keeps them alive! I moved my baby chicks from the shed to the bathroom tonight ,the lights just couldn't keep them warm enough. Besides I wanted to be able to look at them more often!lol.
I am enjoying getting my rabbit flock together. I sold my dwarfs sat and bought some more harlequins.I think I will like them better. My new pigeon flock is hatching off their first round of chicks. Looks like they are setteling in real well. I am on the look out for some Frillback pigeons if anyone knows of any. They are kind of like the frizzels of the pigeon world!

 

[jcatblum]

Doodle how many icelandic do you have?

Do you have a plan for all those chicks?

 

[Ksane]

I've got 6 Silver Lace Cochin eggs in the incubator now but I didn't have room for any more than that-grrrr. Which is why I ordered *another* incubator that holds 24 eggs that'll be here Friday. But I'm getting a dozen Ameraucana eggs plus putting a dozen of my own Faverolles eggs in there. So basically you all are way bad enablers. I haven't even gotten my new incubator yet and already I'm needing yet a bigger one. I'd love to have some of those Lemon/Blues! The big Cochins will always be my favorite. There's some on Ebay but it's a different color mixture of Lemon/Blue than yours. I was reading about it and you have to mix Brown Red with Blue to get Lemon/Blue. I can't even find any BrownRed Cochins.
Robin, that's a great idea to put Boaz with some little Cochins. He could even stay with them all summer and when it started getting really cold he could live inside and be a bachelor just for the winter, he'd be fine. That's what I was going to do with Channing but Channing didn't want a thing in the world to do with the hen I put him in with. Sigh. He just wants his mama

 

[upcdayz]

So many folks are hatching babies. Congrats to all the new parents.

My silkied Serama hen, the one who had to see the vet a week or so ago when she was egg bound, just laid her first egg since seeing the doctor. It was another soft shelled egg, but at least she laid it this time, and it didn't get stuck like before. I don't know why she keeps having the soft shelled eggs. She gets the same feed that all the other grown up chickens get - Purina All Flock with oyster shell on the side. Maybe she's not eating the oyster shell, therefore not getting enough calcium to form hard shells on her eggs. The vet recommended that I let her go broody to keep her from laying more eggs but she hasn't shown any inkling yet to try to sit for awhile now.

All but two of my smooth Serama hens have all gone broody again. Together they're sitting on about 18 or so eggs. They are some stubborn ladies. I tried (not very hard, though) to keep them from sitting but they insisted. They're all piled on top of each other like before. When one gets up to eat and poop, the others argue over who's going to steal the eggs. There should be some babies hatching in about two more weeks.