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[NanaKat]

Converting one person at a time!!!! lol lol lol

Your birds are true missionaries...spreading the NN gospel!

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: and i discovered they are alot easier to give meds to....

 

[bridget-rdh]

I have to go buy feed today in my little car (sx4) so I will get the "stupid chicken lady" look. Plus I am going to ask about grains for fodder (I bought our first bags of grain in Luther and have to go to Shawnee feed store today) so I will get the "crazy chicken lady" look too. I can't wait! LOL

TSC in Stillwater is giving me that look now! lol!

 

[mjgigax]

A few pics from today


Mensa, you can see her pretty coloring in this shot, if not her beautiful naked neck.

I have a Cochin pullet that is the same color as Mensa. I call her Pearl. She is so pretty but rather aloof, not a common attitude for a Cochin.

 

[mjgigax]

Thanks, I had a bad week at work, the camera is my therapy.

Yes, The Chicken Cure - I never skip those meds.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have a Cochin pullet that is the same color as Mensa. I call her Pearl. She is so pretty but rather aloof, not a common attitude for a Cochin.

Mensa isn't aloof at all, has to have her beak in anything you are doing, she has been that way since she hatched. At first I was worried she may be a he b/c she was sooooo much the leader of everything.

 

[rhinomeadows]

I cant believe I finally got my first Welsh Harlequin duck eggs today. I didn't think they would lay until next spring but they laid 2 big surprises on the same day. Now I guess it is time to find a male. If anybody in southeastern Oklahoma has any extra WH or Khaki Campbell drakes, could you please let me know.

 

[NanaKat]

Conbgrats on the duck eggs!

Spent time earlier today busting up the d'Anver pairs until spring since the fertility begins to drop in the fall. Also spent time cleaning and replinishing the gallon waterers. Many of the early summer project pullets started laying this week and there were three new girls in the nest boxes.
Then we spent a couple of hours today under two pecan trees and between us picked up 7 gallons of native pecans.
When we got back, found my Black Rosecomb roo laying in the pen with his hen sitting beside him. He had died, his comb was blue looking. She has been calling for him since I removed him. I'll go out later and pen her with the two other Rosecomb girls.
Do some banties have heart attacks like some of the large breeds?

 

[Ksane]

When we got back, found my Black Rosecomb roo laying in the pen with his hen sitting beside him. He had died, his comb was blue looking. She has been calling for him since I removed him. I'll go out later and pen her with the two other Rosecomb girls.
Do some banties have heart attacks like some of the large breeds?

Oh, Nana, that's so sad :-((( The poor little hen! You separate during the winter? I can't bear to separate the ones that are together. I've got several mismatched trios & quads of birds around here that don't 'look' like they should go together but they're happy together and I can't bring myself to put them with their 'own kind'.
My 3 Araucana pullets I got at NEOCS from Joe all started laying this week, beautiful bright blue eggs. They're in with the most beautiful buff/gray/black Splash Araucana boy.
I'm only going to end up with like 3 or 4 purebred only pens in the spring but I don't plan on selling eggs or hatching chicks to sell so I don't suppose it matters that most my pens have mismatches
Jeez, I can't wait to get the very last of the fencing and coops done.

 

[Kassaundra]

Nanakat, so sorry about your roo, and his hen.