***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Ksane]

Yes! I saw that one your son got. I was going to bid on him, he was so pretty! But I saw you bidding and I told my husband I was sure it was for your little boy and there's no one in the world cold-hearted enough to bid against a little boy wanting a tiny rooster lol
I got these 5 really nice looking black (split to lavender) Bantam Cochins. They're from MJ and she's got really nice birds. When we were bidding I didnt' realize there were 5 of them, I thought MJ had said 3, my husband said the auctioneer said 4. But there's 5. Would you want 2 or even 3 of them? They're only 1 week old and teeny tiny. It might make a nice project for your son that likes Bantam Cochins to breed some Lavender Cochins. I think the way it works is you breed 2 split-to-Lavenders together and you get 1/2 Lavender and 1/2 black. MJ will know.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Jcatblum - I'm putting each doe on the milking stand once a day. I'm not taking much, just getting them used to being up there. Naomi has not kidded yet, so I brush her and check her feet. She also gets a snack so she knows that's a perk of being on the milking stand. All three babies are doing great. Milagra's twins are butting heads with Galen's doeling, so everyone is getting along when they're out during the day.

Kass - I'm hatching from my own flock: Barnevelder, Chantecler, NN, Sussex, and Cornish. I also have some shipped eggs: Cream Legbars. I hope they do well. They were theeeee mooooossssstttt expensive eggs I've ever bought, but I've got a good feeling about them. They all candled as viable on day 10, and when I put them in lockdown they were all still looking good.

 

[Oakieridge]

Yes! I saw that one your son got. I was going to bid on him, he was so pretty! But I saw you bidding and I told my husband I was sure it was for your little boy and there's no one in the world cold-hearted enough to bid against a little boy wanting a tiny rooster lol
I got these 5 really nice looking black (split to lavender) Bantam Cochins. They're from MJ and she's got really nice birds. When we were bidding I didnt' realize there were 5 of them, I thought MJ had said 3, my husband said the auctioneer said 4. But there's 5. Would you want 2 or even 3 of them? They're only 1 week old and teeny tiny. It might make a nice project for your son that likes Bantam Cochins to breed some Lavender Cochins. I think the way it works is you breed 2 split-to-Lavenders together and you get 1/2 Lavender and 1/2 black. MJ will know.

Let me take a picture of what we hatched out this last week and you tell me what we already have, lol. We had some hatch from auction eggs they were supposed to be black banty cochin but 3 are either lavender or blue they sure aint black, lol. I will tell Nathanael to keep you in mind if that little roo doesn't work with him. He has one Carl gave him to just eat bugs (he isn't show quality) and that little devil is mean! But Nathanael is determined to make him tame, lol.
Now the ones he got for his bday he has them well on their way to being spoiled rotten! They get treats and he makes sure they get play time in a dog kennel that has an open bottom so they can eat bugs and grass every day.

 

[Kassaundra]

Got the last of my tire towers made today, now I just need to finish planting them. I only have about 8 or so to plant though, most I have been planting as I go. I made them until I ran out of fencing, I lost track and have somewhere between 22-25

 

[youfordz]

Red headed as in skin not hair or feathers.

you stay out in the sun long enough and you will have red head and red neck!

hey, i know a couple of redheaded rednecks!

 

[nnbreeder]

Kass I was putting a composite floor (plastic and ground-up tires) in a utility trailer today and just for fun I put an old mercury thermometer on it while I watched it. 85deg when it was placed and when I took it off of there in a couple of minutes it had maxed out at 120deg. I wonder if the tire towers are doing the same.

 

[nnbreeder]

I put my current hatch in lock down today. I hope they all do well. I have one Sussex egg pipping from the wrong end. I drew a circle around the middle of the egg, like a belt, so that I can identify it when I open the hatcher. I want to be able to check progress on that egg without hunting for it.

I had fence guys come out to give me an estimate to put up a goat enclosure. They'll need to use an auger to set corner posts, and part of the pasture has native rock, so I'm hoping this project will not turn into a nightmare. I want to give the goats the area of the pasture that is hilly and rocky, since I can't plant trees there. The fence guys kept eying the lower pasture, where everything is nice and flat, and there isn't any rock. Easy and Best Use don't always go together.

You might ask around to the neighbors to see if any of them has something similar to a Shaver post driver. Then you can use pipe for your corners and braces and they will go in the ground in just a few seconds. Of course some welding is required.

A good heavy walled pipe should last about 30 years minimum.

 

[Kassaundra]

Mine aren't multiple tires, it is one tire on the ground partially buried in the ground w/ a heavy fence "tube" in the center to grow vines on. I got the fencing to do this inside the summer runs for the chickens to give them some shade and had lots of fencing wire left so I kept making them until I ran out, I'm planting both traditional vining plants (cukes, melons, squash) and ones that will fill and grow in it anyway (tomatoes, tomatillios, malabar spinach, rattail radish) I hope to get around to painting the tires before it gets to hot, but am hoping if I don't the plants will shade it enough.

 

[nnbreeder]

Okay I need some gender guessing experts. Judging by what I thought of the chicks poco posted and what others said they were genderwise I am not very good at it so here are some of the NN chicks what do you guys think genderwise???


This is Ms White, I think he is a roo, but REALLY want to be wrong!

My best guess would be.

#1 Rooster

#2 Rooster

#3 and 4 Both look like hens. But with those they don't have the single comb and are harder to tell because the combs and wattles devolop more slowly. Look at my Avitar pic. That is a one year old NN x Malay with the same comb type.

 

[nnbreeder]

Mine aren't multiple tires, it is one tire on the ground partially buried in the ground w/ a heavy fence "tube" in the center to grow vines on. I got the fencing to do this inside the summer runs for the chickens to give them some shade and had lots of fencing wire left so I kept making them until I ran out, I'm planting both traditional vining plants (cukes, melons, squash) and ones that will fill and grow in it anyway (tomatoes, tomatillios, malabar spinach, rattail radish) I hope to get around to painting the tires before it gets to hot, but am hoping if I don't the plants will shade it enough.

The vines should shade them enough, well what the chickens don't eat!