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[NanaKat]

Just got through candling the eggs started w/ 30 kept 12, but know 8 are alive saw them move, just hoping on the other 4, they looked very similar to the 8 I saw move.

for your first hatch

I started out with 46 and due to the heat and low fertility am down to 15...going into lockdown tomorrow with hatch due Monday. TYhe CWs usually hatch out a day early.

Hubby just reminded me that the winds are supposed to pick up in a few hours...50 mile an hour winds expected with "Your banty roosters could end up on the neighbor's farms" 1/2 mile away.

 

[MacGuyver]

Hubby just reminded me that the winds are supposed to pick up in a few hours...50 mile an hour winds expected with "Your banty roosters could end up on the neighbor's farms" 1/2 mile away.

QotD material right there.

 

[Kassaundra]

Nanakat, good luck on your hatch. Mine have another week before lock down, next Sunday I believe is lock down I'd have to look it up to be sure though, or ask Gary, he is much better at keeping track of days then me.

Sorry for the recent losses

 

[erinszoo]

Not sure who it was asking but someone was asking about buying grains to grow for their flock. We bought some today in a kind of lateral thinking move. We bought a 50 bag of mixed whole grains to grow as greens for our birds. It was a bag of grain that they sell for growing for deer. It's got oats, wheat, legumes, brassicas, and some other things in it too.

We found a plan for building a frame that you cover with hardware cloth and place over a patch of planted seed. As it grows the chickens can eat the greens that come up through it without being able to scratch or pull up the roots. After a couple of months, or when it dies down, you just move the frame, let the chickens scratch it all up, and then replant and replace the screen. We thought if we started them in a staggered planting we could keep greens growing for them most of the year that way.

That's the plan anyway. We'll see what happens. Was going to start on it today since we just moved all the garden beds out of the new bird yard and have some great clear soil to use, but I sprained my ankle carrying in feed sacks so I'm now sitting here on the computer with a hot pack on my ankle.

This was NOT in my plans for the day. The fair starts Tuesday and we have a lot to get ready still. Sigh.

 

[Kassaundra]

Sorry about your ankle, hopefully a little rest, ice and elevation will be all it needs.

 

[Kassaundra]

A few pics from the chickens today (and maybe wend night)


Cowboy here is Jackie O


Ari


Mensa and one of the Hoodas


Reba, Poco she has become such a pretty girl, thanks for her.


Reba and Miss Priss, bugs and rodents beware!

 

[erinszoo]

Sorry about your ankle, hopefully a little rest, ice and elevation will be all it needs.

Thanks!

Nice pics. So what's the difference, pardon my ignorance, between the NN's and the Hooda's? Do they both have no feathers on the neck or am I reading the captions wrong? They've grown on me to the point that I'm thinking maybe next spring of getting some.

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks!

Nice pics. So what's the difference, pardon my ignorance, between the NN's and the Hooda's? Do they both have no feathers on the neck or am I reading the captions wrong? They've grown on me to the point that I'm thinking maybe next spring of getting some.

Hooda's are a NN. They are Joe's F1 invention of a houdan x NN. Stage one of an attempted mottled NN. I love the NN w/ the top knots they are an absolute hoot to watch!!!!!!!

 

[erinszoo]

Yep, I love those ones with the top knot too! They are so captivating to look at.

 

[BetsyOK]

Spent a couple of hours in the St. John Urgent Care Center this evening. This morning, fairly intense itching on my upper right chest let me know something had bitten me. It quit itching and I didn't check it until I got home around 2:30. Looked like two spider bites to me, but very little showing other than the two sets of fang marks. However, because I'd killed 6 brown recluse spiders in our home in the last couple of weeks, a call to my doctor netted the advice to go to the urgent care center. Definitely two spider bites. No other symptom yet other than a fairly soft red ring linking the two bites, maybe from my scratching.

Doc put me on antibiotics and told me what to expect. Hopefully, going in and getting it treated before any other symptoms appeared will make it relatively easy to recover from it. He said it can get to looking fairly bad, even with the antibiotics, but the biggest danger is from infection, which we have hopefull avoided.

It was apparently in a blouse I took from a hanger in our closet that I hadn't worn for several months. Never did see the spider so I hope I didn't leave it at the Senior Center!

Also purchsed bombs to set off in the house to kill spiders and many insects. Will do it Monday when we'll both be away from the house. Should have done this earlier.