Okies in the BYC The Original

[smfamf]

Hey all.

Just thought I'd pop in before bedtime. One more day of work and then I get a vacation. I've got a Serama setting on 6 eggs and a RIR just hatched out a chick and a duckling. Actually she hatched 2 ducklings, but she pecked the first one to death before we knew it had hatched. The 2 remaining babies are in a brooder in the kitchen and she was tossed back in with the rest of the birds. My Mallard momma still has 11 babies and has graduated to the small coop and run. Well it is past my bedtime, so I'm gonna head that way.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Teach I'll sell you the lease on my new ranch in Okla!$1 an acre is fine. and you can hunt the whole 6 acres! Don't know if there are any deer on it but they could have been hiding behind that one tree by the pond I guess! Did you see my post where we are new Ok landowners again! Will be moving back in 2-5 years,sounds like prison sentence doesn't it!lol

 

[nnbreeder]

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We had a Malay rooster over the NN hens and the hens would go out every day and forage no matter what the weather. The day I took the pic. I could hear the rooster fussing for the hens to come back in where it was nice, warm and without snow. Being the good protector he was he went out with his girls even though he didn't want to. And for good reason too because about mid-morning I had to go rescue him from a snow drift. LOL

 

[Teach97]

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No I didn't see that...that is great! Where ats? Guess we need to get on the ball so we can start populating it with birds! 6 acres of birds...that would be fun!

Sooner...it is actually easier to clean....the hide just slips off the fat...only issue is getting it off all the meat...deer fat doesn't taste the best in my opinion. I will get some pics for you in a couple weeks! Been shooting the guns and bow...we are ready! Have to be...lost a freezer...was only gonna shoot a few but now we need meat!

 

[poultryand bees]

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I hate it when the mama pecks a chick or duckling to death. I always wonder if she thought she was helping it out of the shell or thought it was an alien.

 

[Buckguy20]

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I am glad they each others backs.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

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The bacon grease part of Grandma's lye soap was alright, but the grease left over from beef wasn't anything you would want to "eat". Of course, Grandma's pie crusts made with lard were very good. Maybe if I start cooking some of these ducks I can save the grease and make duck soap.

Yeah and you could call it DUCK BUTTER!

I'm willing to bet DUCK BUTTER soap would float

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

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I was thinking about how cute baby chicks and keets are.

I wasn't thinking about how long they will need to be in a brooder with the colder weather.

I'm in it with you guys I set 10 flats in the bator today, Two and a half flats of Barred Rock eggs and the rest muts Rhode Island Red Roo's over Buff Orpingtons and Sex Link hens, I'm hoping for a much better hatch for round two with the Iron Hen

 

[doubleostud]

I'm personally trying my hardest to not be brooding any chicks this winter, however I said that last winter and I think i hatched around 100 chicks and probably about 40 ducks, one of these days I am going to improve my self control. I just have this habit of taking all the eggs that I dont eat and storing them in the incubator, with the heat on, funny thing, three to four weeks later things start hatching...maybe I should turn that thing off.

 

[Sooner]

Good Morning!!!

Teach, I will watch for the pictures. I think I would rather forgo the fat & stick with the lean ones!

I don't plan to brood any chicks this winter either! I started yesterday getting some of the open cages some covering so they could be warmer. Glad I did because it was very cool all day yesterday & last night I was flat cold.