Okies in the BYC The Original

[artsyrobin]

i'm checking in before bed- thinking my little duccle hen may need to be wormed- they are all molting, if you even look at them they lose feathers! so maybe worms and molting is not a rough time for them?

 

[artsyrobin]

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That looks about like the one I caught in my dog pen a couple weeks ago. Hopefully it's not some spooky Halloween magic that made it do a "Weekend at Bernie's" over to your place.

Fortunately my dogs were inside at the time I spotted it. I have a little silver border collie female that was only a hair bigger than it was. She would have given it a run for its money, but it would have been ugly.

Robin – That’s a giant possum. Do you think he died of old age? I work with a lady who says she’s got a blind possum (old, old, old possum) bumping around her place at night. He doesn’t bother anybody, so they’ve let him be.

he really was the grand daddy possum- we never had any issues with him- other than driving the dogs crazy- now to get him out from under the house! ewwwww

i am sure he enjoyed his later years with all the feed we have around!​

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Robin I am sure that molting is as stress ful as having the worms. But It might not hurt to worm her anyway. Most of mine are finishing up with the molt. It was feathers every where for a while.I don't think I ever saw them drop so many at a time before.Wonder if it means early or ruff winter! Guess we will see.

 

[Buckguy20]

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There is a man on here that goes by BigOkie and he lives in your area ( out by the lake) and I am pretty sure he has blue Ameraucanas plus other colors.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I like to put the chick out with the mama hen at night, when she is settled in and all the other chicks are already beneath her. That way, the new chick learns it is warm under the hen and that it needs to follow mama around to stay warm. If you do it during the day, the chicks are typically scattered a little bit if it is warm and a new chick may not recognize the mama hen's call to come and get warm - which results in mama either deciding that really isn't her chick so she kills it, or mama pecking at it to get under her and stay - which sometimes results in fatal injury.

 

[poultryand bees]

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It is nice to realize that folks who raise chickens also tend to have other self sufficient thoughts that cause us to overlap in other areas of our lives. I sometimes have to pause for a minute to think about whether two people I know are likely to know each other - based upon the group within which I know them. I know folks who raise chickens, those who raise bees, some who raise rabbits, my friends from church, my co-workers and some know each other . I love how it is a small world.

I have a cool "small world" story. Back in the 1970's my Gparents lived in Lordsburg NM, where my gma worked as a waitress. One day there was a young (their age) family coming through from CA on their way to OK. My gparents were very unhappy w/o green in NM and so struck up a convo w/ the other family about the move to OK, that planted a seed and my gparents shortly after moved to OK. They settled in Stigler area, and the other family they later (a few years later) met, they ended up in the Antlers area, they kept in very casual contact (a convo every couple of years or so). I knew the story and the peoples names, but never met any of them. Well fast forward to the 1990's. I'm grown, married and moved to Henryetta, working at the Okmulgee walmart, when this young family w/ 4 young children come in to the shoe dept, all the children are neat and well mannered w/ catches my attention, then they start all calling them by name, and they are all named bible names which causes me to strike a casual conversation w/ them (helping them find shoes anyway). Well it turns out the father of this family is the son of the people my gma met in Lordsburg NM back in the 70's!!!!!

I really enjoy small world stories like that. My husband moved to California in the late 60's and on the first Sunday he was there, he called a local congregation to get worship service times and directions. The person who answered the phone had moved to California from Marlow, OK - just a piece down the road from Minco, OK, - where my husband grew up.

 

[poultryand bees]

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You have certainly found the right place to locate chickens within Oklahoma. Some of us have addictions to hatching eggs, attending poultry auctions and otherwise acquireing poultry - and we are always delighted to "assist" others in acquiring poultry by whatever means suits their preference.

Are you looking for chickens that lay a light blue egg (like a true Ameraucana) or hens that lay a green or blue green egg - sometimes called "Easter Eggers" because they lay eggs that are not white or brown - but are sometimes a shade of blue-green, green, or pink - instead of a true light blue outer shell.

 

[artsyrobin]

guess everyone is sleeping in...


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i wonder if chickens are like dogs in that you can get a clue as to the winter by how the dogs fur comes in?? looks like a pillow fight in their run! so what is the wazine dosage for banties?? might not be a bad idea to get everyone - both flocks= dusted, dipped and a good looking over...

 

[artsyrobin]

Oh and the big girls are kicking into gear- i thought they slowed down in winter??

 

[artsyrobin]

and now.....drum roll!!!

my posts are 2800!!

see byc has corrupted me- what is more important in the morning that a cup of coffee??? why the okies on BYC!! okay- off to do chores...have a good one guys!!