***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[mamapoppybee]

Nice and windy this afternoon/evening. Have been out picking apricots, picked 7 gallons, have more to pick, up high in the trees. Umm, hubby is working and I am afraid if I fall off of the ladder and knock myself out the chickens will eat me ! They sure did like the apricots that i dropped or fell off the tree though.

i love apricots yum yum

 

[mamapoppybee]

Welcome to Okies in the BYC! I love lavender orpingtons - want some so badly.

hi and welcome just a few miles north of you then.

 

[mamapoppybee]

A ferret would be a possibility, because I'm sure they can climb, but I don't think a skunk. Whatever it was had to go over a 6' fence to get into the pen.

And, I have to tell you, Nana, I told my bullfrogs yesterday that they sure are lucky they live here and not at your place. I sat under the grape arbor and watched two great big ole daddy bullfrogs just sitting on the bank of our pond island and thought of you. I won't let anyone kill the ones here because I enjoy listening to them too much. Luck frogs that I like the sound better than the meat at this point in life!

raccoon they can get into any thing. when i was younger and had chickens they ate threw the wood of a corner of coop and all my pretties where gone.

 

[mamapoppybee]

sorry all for the delayed responses has been a crazy weekend for me. Did a camp out with our girl scout troop. It went ok till the weather moved in at about one in the morning. I did find out that my troop can clear the sight pretty quick. we had 22 people and tents and other gear was packed up in 20 mins. Garden is looking wonderful. More green beans poking out of the dirt and all my maters have at least 7 fruits on them now! Happy monday all.

 

[Oakieridge]

Thank you! It was necessary when I brought home four birds from POOPS instead of one like I planned!

If only our coops could multiply as fast as the chickens do!

 

[artsyrobin]

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do you lock the birds up at nite? or are they in the pen? don't know about the cats- but i had a coon kill one of my ducklings last year- they seem to kill for the fun of it

 

[tgperg]

That would be nice! Still, I built it in a week. I suppose it could be worse.

 

[Oakieridge]

That would be nice! Still, I built it in a week. I suppose it could be worse.

LOL I know, I put my order in with hubby yesterday. Told him I need at least one more hoop house and one more a-frame before June 15th. Now if the weather will cooperate so he can get them built, haha.

 

[countryokie]

Hi All,

I am relatively new to this site. I have been lurking for a while and found lots of great information. The beginning of March, we purchased 7 chicks from At woods (3 black sex link, 2 red sex link, and 2 white rocks) They were doing well and growing up fast but being new chickens I made a horrible mistake and left them out during the day on Friday. We were trying to be nice to them and let then free range. However when we got home from work, we could not find any of them. I figure it was a fox, I don't know what else would eat that many chickens. Luckily on Sat morning, I went out to the truck one of the little black ones was hiding behind the wheel. We looked here several times Friday night so I know she was hiding somewhere.
I was able to find 6 more 6 week old ones on Craigslist yesterday (2 barred rock, 2 buff orpington, and 2 lace wyandottes). I had built a chicken tractor but have decided that a real coop will be safer so I plan to build that soon. We are currently keeping the chickens in an unused horse stall until I can get the coop built.

Anyway Hi to all and I look forward to learning as much as I can from this site. Thank you all so much!

 

[Ksane]

Christina, Cathie & Shellie, You don't think all the eggs might've been dead.....? Now I feel even worse. I candled 3 of them and there were no veins left so I tossed them all. I couldn't even bear to crack any open. I did that one time to find out why a chick had quit growing and found out it hadn't. The guilt was overwhelming :-/ What makes it worse is there were 6 Modern eggs in there from my pair here that I was going to give to Jim.

rofl!!!! It takes a village to raise an idiot....? No, no...I'm getting my saying mixed up

A electric fence in addition to the 5 foot fencing that was in place has ended the predator problem here, the cats sure don't like the electric fencing either, have not seen any of them in the yards. The chickens and turkeys learn fast not to stick their heads through the fence to eat.
And bubba the calf only tried licking the electric fence a couple of times himself !, he tries to eat everything, so far he has disconnected the landline phone, tore the outside vent off from the dryer, eats all the chick grower he can find, rearranges the hay in the nest boxes, eats the leafs off of the vegetable plants he can reach through the garden fencing, chewed on a hat or two. Just like having a little kid at times, he is not as cute as he wa when we 1st got him, so i am thinking that it will not be that hard to put him in the freezer later. Did get the knuckled foot straightened out mostly though. He stands at the back door and bawls if the door is open, still wants a bottle, or wants to be petted.

You raised a monster lol!! We've had several bottle calves also. They're darling at 3 days old. When they're 6 months old and busting through 5' chain link, not so much. I'm sold on hot wire here. I've had a dozen or so dogs for 20 yrs and never once had one dig out or go over the fence. Hot wire is a must for dog owners. It's going around the chicken yards if I ever get them finished, too. They keep getting bigger and more elaborate.
I LOVE frogs and toads, too, OkieT. I baby them around here.

Morning all, slow goin around here this morning, I have to take Dakota to the Dr. today and hopefully get the cast off his leg, it should be healed now (broken ankle), have not been outside yet, acquired two new piggies yesterday I call them Ham and Bacon, The Smoker Brothers!!!! Taking the other two to the butcher on June 16th. So far I have five broodies on eggs, took the momma away from the first batch of chicks a couple days ago and they are doing good. Have a great day everyone, I will check in later, Lynn

I don't even feel bad laughing about that it's so funny lol!!!