Okies in the BYC The Original

[poultryand bees]

Rebecca,
I hope you are feeling better today since you apparently didn't feel the need to sleep in this morning.

Question for those who have peacocks - do I need to separate the young ones from their parents at some point?

I noticed that one of the "chicks" that hatched last August (and is now about as large as the peahen) was limping yesterday and I wondered if being in the same pen as the two adult peacocks could cause injury to her legs if she were to be mated before she is mature enough to lay eggs (which I think is actually two years old) I don't know whether that is even happening, but don't want her to be injured if I can prevent it by separating the adults from their progeny.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Are you putting in a seawall, French drains or making it into a mountain that the water can run around like a moat?

 

[faerielady]

It's been a long weekend. J is gonna mow for me later today when the temp comes back down. This hot in April is just heinous. I moved the RIR pullets and the Sicillian Buttercup pullets to a wire dog kennel out in the back yard. Still have the hen from Michael and the pullet that the other birds plucked (plucked her head bald) in quarantine pens in the mudroom. After J mows, I'll use the leaf hog (on it's vacuum setting) to suck up the cut grass and throw some of that in the coop, after I put down pine pellets and clean it out a bit. Right now I'm hiding out inside. If this is any indication of the heat coming this summer, I'll be inside 90% of the time.

 

[bigokie37]

good afternoon all well i finally got time to go fishin alittle while today only thing i caught was alittle sun no burn but the boys did.they both were swimming.lol to cold for me still.bj keeps tryin to get me to let him set out a trot line.all he has is a blow up boat i just know i will have to pick him across the lake if the wind catches him.he tried to get me to go buy a long rope to tie it off.lolhe is crazy he has caught snakes scorpins an tarantulas an lookin for more.we are LOVIN the country.

 

[faerielady]

Coop cleaned out, new pine pellets down, new shavings in the nest boxes, got concrete blocks in there to raise the food and water buckets so they'll quit kicking dirt/pine/whatever into them. Since they ate out all the grass in the coop when I moved it and dug up the roots and such, I've decided that every couple weeks I'll move 'em and let them do it to a different part of the yard, and put the seed in the shavings left behind.

 

[Sooner]

Hi everyone! Looks like everyone is having a wonderful weekend, I am on the road heading for home. Yes I will wave as I go by Monty!

It has been great hanging out with the family but have alot of chores to get done when I get home. I lost one of my old hens while I have been gone. She hadn't been acting like herself for a week or so.

Teach can you post pic's of your new ducks?? I hadn't seen one until dandi had one at the show. They are pretty.

Okie, glad your kiddo's are loving living in the country!

 

[poultryand bees]

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If BJ catches any more tarantulas and y'all are coming to POOPS, I would like a tarantula. I think they are cool looking.

 

[Buster52]

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I was thinking it was hot outside, even broke a decent sweat, then checked weather.gov and it turns out the temp was only 83. Okay, so it must be the humidity. Nope. That was 40%, with a heat index of 84. It sure felt hotter than that. But then, I'm one of those heat haters too.

Of course, come July we will be begging for days like this, but then we will be acclimated to it.

Funny how that works.

 

[Buster52]

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It's been dead all weekend. I'm starting to think it is me.

And here I bathed last night and everything.

So, you got one of the satellite thingies for your your computer that lets you surf while traveling, Sooner?

 

[BetsyOK]

Today was the due date for my first incubator hatch of the season. Had 13 good eggs from my porcelain Silkie pen incubating. Three hatched yesterday, five more today. Somehow, I fear the other five won't hatch, but I'll wait and see. The four, one-and-a-half-month-old porcelain babes (hatched by the moms) are all coloring porcelain. I've had some doubt, as there is a silver white Showgirl in with the Porcelain roo, as well as a porcelain hen and a buff Showgirl. I think the buff SGs eggs are infertile. I'll probably try AI, as she is VERY typey, and I'd love to have Porcelain Showgirls. Some of the chicks are missing a toe or two, so I'll probably bring them to POOPS. It should help someone who wants to try their hand at Porcelain. These are Porcelains without the flecks in their feathing. There's some talk of changing the name; maybe to "Pastel". This is a really pretty "new" color in Silkies.

The Silver white Showgirl started brooding two eggs in the Porcelain pen the same day I set the eggs in the 'bator, but I see no sign of pips yet. Hatching is so exciting! Have put off incubating and have taken the roos out of most of the pens because I don't have adequate space to accommodate many until I get more coops and pens built.

Plugged the GQF brooder in yesterday (I got it last spring), in preparation for these hatchlings, however nothing happened insofar as heating. The light came on that is there to attract the chicks to the heated area, but the other one didn't. I left it set pretty high (couldn't tell how high because I recently took it apart for cleaning and disinfecting). It wasn't on this morning, but when I went in this afternoon, it had started up and heated to 110! Of course I hadn't put the chicks in it. It was warming the entire room! I turned it down until the second light went off, and haven't been out to check it yet. I was just about to notify GQF when it started up. Does this sound like the wafer needs to be replaced? I'd appreciate some adivice on this.