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[emach0301]

Mitzi, are you trying to rehome another rooster? If so, my Aunt (who lives in NewCastle) is located for one for her girls?

 

[milo1108]

Hello fellow okies! I'm so glad that someone posted the okie thread on one of the other threads. As it says in my avatar, I have just started raising chickens not long ago.....I can't have that many so unfortunately I have to be very careful about chicken math. Glad to meet you all!

 

[Kimbroe1981]

I have a Golden Campine Cockerel I need to get rid of if anyone is interested PM me. He's only 9 weeks old, but definitely a roo.

This is him at about 5-6 weeks. He's more feathered now and starting to get his tail feathers in.

 

[erinszoo]

Well, my daughter decided to let go of her golden sebright mutt. If any of you are interested, he is 6 months old and won a blue ribbon at the county fair. Here's a pic of him. He's been handled a lot and is people friendly but keeps fighting with our other bantam roos. We just don't have enough space to give him his own run and girls or we would. He's a freebie for anyone interested, just send me a pm.

 

[erinszoo]

Meat birds are over 1/2 lb in 11 days!

They always amaze me how fast they grow. Not the most beautiful of birds but man they taste so good.

We're getting two to three turkey eggs a day now. My husband said we didn't build the incubator big enough for him. I guess I'll have to save up and buy him one for Christmas so he can hatch his turkey eggs. Any suggestions on what kind? They had a couple at Atwoods the other day that seemed pretty reasonably priced. All of our duck eggs in our homemade incubator are alive and growing ... all 8 of them. Guess I'd better start looking up duck recipes, lol. The chicken eggs were hit and miss, the brown ones are hard to see when we candle, and the turkey eggs we couldn't see a thing in. I know their shells are thicker than chicken eggs but I still expected to see something since they aren't dark, so I'm not sure if they just aren't fertile (since the boys are only 6 months and I'm not sure they've quite figured it all out) or what. It's all a big learning curve.

 

[erinszoo]

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Silkies have 5 toes. I think this is a pic of our bantam silkie when he was a chick. They have that fuzzy fur even as chicks and everything else is black. They also have feathered legs.

 

[Oakieridge]

Well darn it got home from the Oklahoma History Museum and one of Nathanael's columbian pullets was dead. This morning she was kind of puffed up so we moved her and her 2 pen mates to quarentine and gave them some redcell in their water. She was acting fine otherwise. But was dead when we got home. Will keep the other two away from the other birds for the next few weeks just to make sure it wasn't anything they might also get. If they get sick it seems there isn't much you can do for them. We haven't had any others acting odd so maybe the quick change of weather was to much for her I don't know.

 

[jcatblum]

Sorry Cathie! I always think the weather change contributes to losses.

 

[Ksane]

Mitzi, are you trying to rehome another rooster? If so, my Aunt (who lives in NewCastle) is located for one for her girls?

What size are her girls? I've got bantam Ameraucana (will stay little) and Araucana which are normal sized (or will be-they're only 3 1/2 mo now).
Some of my hatchery Silkies had 4 toes on 1 of their feet. I think it's just something that happens.

 

[MacGuyver]

Traci, hubby will be waiting on your call this afternoon. Just make sure eggs are marked as to what they are so when I set them I can get them all in the right trays. He drives a big green one ton, Ford dualy truck.

Ack. Just saw this now. It's rather late, but I hope it was easy to tell them apart. The Dominique eggs and the bantam Cochin eggs are very different in size, so it should be obvious which is which. Of the Cochins, the lighter colored ones are out of my blue hen, and the darker ones are out of my buff. Dominque eggs are all over the place as far as color goes. Shouldn't matter what trays they go in. They won't be the same color at all.