Okies in the BYC The Original

[CityClucks]

Hi everyOkie!

I know what you mean, Cammie - I'd rather do about ANYTHING outside than do housework of any kind. That's the reason I have a lot of dirt and dust and stuff on my floors indoors - makes me feel closer to the great outdoors....

Good luck everyone who is building/planning to build chicken housing. Stimpy - will you be able to use some of the materials from your deconstruction in your planned construction?

What kind of Marans did you get Q? I hope you get some really dark eggs out of them.

Hey Donna - did anyone ever answer your Silkie question? Your Silkies are laying but not broody? Is that the dilemma - that you want them to brood their eggs? Maybe I should go back and read your post...

 

[BetsyOK]

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Definitely persons after my own heart! My husband and I have a good relationship: he does most of the inside work and I do most of the outside work! We do share some of both.

 

[Stimpy]

Hello City.

Yeah, I'll be able to reuse alot of the cage wire and even some of the lumber and tin. It's just doing that work that I dread. But like I said, I think that the birds will be better for it, and it should make things a tad easier on me.

 

[BetsyOK]

Donna -

Your Silkies should go broody when their bodies tell them it's time, but will wait until there are at least several eggs in the nest. If you want them to hatch their own, you can either collect the eggs, keeping them in a relatively cool place (turning them at least three times daily) until one goes broody (at which time you put the eggs under her), OR if their nests are clean and dry, let them make the decisions themselves. Eggs begin to lose their viability at around 10 days, but will often still hatch. Or you can choose to incubate the eggs.

Silkie are about the broodiest chickens around, and usually make good moms as well. It works best to have only one hen to a pen, though, as staggered hatches can be difficult. I've found that with more than one mom together and staggered hatches, they will often either opt to take care of the first one or two that hatch and neglect the eggs; neglect the chicks in their determination to HATCH; or fight over the chicks.

In the case of staggered hatches, I usually will watch closely for chicks to hatch and then put them in a brooder.

Hope this helps.

 

[Buster52]

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Both start at 5. Let me know what you think of the Alex auction if you go to it. I'm curious about it. We'll be at Blanchard, so I'll see you there if you go to that one.

 

[Buster52]

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See, that's the weird thing. Everyone knows country folk are armed to the teeth, so what are they thinking??

These cats just might be candidates for one of those "dumb crook" shows, provided they live long enough.

 

[Stimpy]

We were coming thru Shawnee this morning and stopped at Starbuck's for a coffee. I ordered my usual sugar free french vanilla latte grande. Yeah, I know, I'm a girly-man for drinking foo-foo coffees.

So we're tooling down I-40 heading home and I'm swiggin this thing down like I'm afraid someone might ask me for a sip. Turns out that they gave me regular instead of sugar free and by the time we got back to Lexington my blood sugar was almost 400 and I was afraid I was gonna slip into a coma. I've been practically main-lining insuliin like it was going out of style.

The moral is: double check! I don't care who it is, double check.

-Stimp-

 

[al6517]

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I was really enjoying the story until the blood sugar thing. you ok now stimp. That is scary stuff Huh, wow scares me just reading it.

AL

 

[Buster52]

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Okay, but you should go some time. Cement is nice, but this is a
whole different atmosphere. I like all the auctions, but they are all different.

Wow, Stimp. Glad you are okay.

 

[Stimpy]

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I was really enjoying the story until the blood sugar thing. you ok now stimp. That is scary stuff Huh, wow scares me just reading it.

AL

Yeah, I'm much better tonight, but I'm gonna stay awake for awhile just in case.

-Stimp-