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[okracefan]

MJ, sorry to hear about the loss and I feel your pain. In the last 2 weeks I have hatched 3 LF Cochin chicks. Looks like I am going to have a LB Pullet, Blue Cockrel, and a blue ?. I also have two more hens sitting so I am expecting more to hatch.

 

[mjgigax]

MJ, sorry to hear about the loss and I feel your pain. In the last 2 weeks I have hatched 3 LF Cochin chicks. Looks like I am going to have a LB Pullet, Blue Cockrel, and a blue ?. I also have two more hens sitting so I am expecting more to hatch.

Wish I had a Buff cockerel to give you butI still have the parents. They sure do grow slowly. Mine had just gotten to be bigger than the Bantam adults but they were no way near the size of their parents yet.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Evening, Okies,

I got online at 4 o'clock to catch up on the thread (6 days, could I have missed that many?), but then the phone rang and the goats needed attention followed by the husband, dog, dog, cats, chickens, and then the phone rang again, so I'm finally back in my seat in front of the computer.

Joe - Nice birds! I need to take pictures of the NN babies this weekend. I'm up to my eyes in papers that need grading, so I won't be on the thread much between now and Saturday.

Bill - The amazing bulletin board you gave me is now the focal point in my classroom. We're using one side to display artwork, the middle is for assignments and due dates, and the far left side is for extra credit work and makeup work. Most questions can be answered by pointing to the bulletin board. It's a treat to watch students gather around the board to decide which extra credit assignment they want to take home over the weekend!!!! It's a miracle. Every classroom needs one. Thank you : )

Okay, my tea's steeped and today's writing assignment is waiting, so it's time to go back to work. Keep posting pictures, everyone! I'm enjoying seeing all the birds raised by Oklahoma chicken folks.

 

[Kassaundra]

Poco you could just give them all A's that would leave more time for chickens!!!! lol lol lol

 

[NanaKat]

MJ...so sorry to hear about the loss of your birds. Hope the dogs got some buckshot!

On the way home DH spotted a dog on our rd tonight that he said was skin & bones.
He did find a cow in the ditch sleeping right next to the rd, she stood up but refused to move so we don't know where she came from. Hard to see tore up spots in fenceian night. I spent some time calling neighbors trying to figure out who it belonged too. Cattle really should be tagged better! Everytime I call & say black heifer yellow tag #000 no one seems to know if it is theirs! How about initials & a number on the ear. That would help me narrow down my calls!

The cow possibly wouldn't move because she had a calf hidden. Also...seems noone wants to claim an animal outside it's fence...because of the liability. If she has a Bruceilossis tag in her ear, the numbers are recorded by the state....unless she was sold. But you may not want to get that close to her....

 

[MacGuyver]

Hi!
It has been more than two weeks since I have been on and I am not going to try to read all the posts I missed. Let me know if I missed something important. I hope everyone is well, their birds too.
I have been doing a lot of sewing and other craft type designing and have been haunting Etsy for ideas and ect. Also, last Sunday two dogs got in my run and killed 11 of my birds. I have been trying not to think about it too much and didn't want to "type" about it but I am accepting it a little better by now. I lost the 3 LF Buff Cochin chicks. I had just taken pics of them the day before to show Okracefan and Muesky because I was going to give the two roos to them. They were so fluffy and heavily feathered. (I still have the parents and the hen just started laying again, so.....)
I also lost 2 Mille Fleur cockerels, a beautiful Blue Mottled cockerel, a Splash Ameraucana pullet, a bantam Buff Cochin pullet, 2 Mille Fleur pullets (one was a pet and was still alive and died as I held her) and our favorite Mille Fleur hen.
Four birds survived; my best Mille Fleur rooster (though his tail is missing alot of feathers), my two best Mille Fleur hens and a pretty Mille Fleur pullet that is too light to breed but is so pretty I am raising her for the "eating egg pen".
I opened the gate from the grow-out pen to the run at 7:20 and at 8:00 my Mille Fleur hen showed up on the back porch. If she hadn't come up to the house I think the dogs would have gotten them all. She is a smart bird but I think her coming to the porch is a coincidence.

Oh I am so very sorry. That's awful.

 

[MacGuyver]

I had an awesome time at the dinner with Sylvester McCoy. Here are more photos. http://imgur.com/a/qwQqx

 

[Oakieridge]

Sadly lost the paint showgirl and its silver white hatchmate. Neither would eat and I was having to force-feed them. Expected to lose the silver white, as it never acted quite right, but thought the paint would make it. The third hatchmate, a blue showgirl, was just fine from the beginning. I had to force-feed the two lavs that hatched 9 days earlier, but they fairly quickly showed interest in eating from the toothpick and eye dropper, where the other two never did. I've force-fed quite a few tiny chicks, usually with success. Some of them just show no interest in eating, and it is 100 % certain they'll die without intervention.

I think the hot summer babes have a harder time, maybe because of the excessive heat during the time they were laid and brooded. No less sad though. Was so excited about that paint babe particularly.

Oh no I am so sorry Betsy, Kurt just loves his silkies he got from you. Only one of the 4 crowing so far so we are praying he at least gets 2 girls out of the mix, lol.

 

[Oakieridge]

Oh MJ I am so sorry! I hope the dogs responisble are no longer able to do this to anyone again.

 

[Ksane]

A week ago at 2 AM the Bantam Faverolles were screaming & slamming themselves around and the little mix with 1 leg was totally missing. We looked everywhere that night and ever since, we still look. Well last night the birds in my Orloff/Faverolles yard were screaming at 1:00 AM and *both Birchen Modern girls that live with them are gone, some chunks of feathers is all we found. The Modern boy is still there but he misses his girl he grew up with. I had quit shutting the shed door when it got so dang hot, obviously I'll be locking them up and we're going to set traps tonight. But, does that sound like possibly 2 racoons? I don't see how just 1 could get both girls. And why the 2 tiny girls who sleep in different places at night? 1 sleeps in the coop and 1 under the roofed area with the male. Do coons look around for the smallest ones? This is really sad, the Modern boy doesn't have his girl now and he was so sweet to her. I'm assuming coons can climb 6' pickets?