Okies in the BYC The Original

[Greybear23]

Thanks Ronnie, she is daddy's girl and a little spoiled but a princess none the less, I raised Bantams for years but decided to try to stay away from them when I got back into chickens, I truly love the Old English Bantams(had 19 color varieties) and could easily get hooked on them again!!!
Woomy, there are some Frizzle eggs on the 48 hour poultry/egg auction and also some LF black Cochin eggs!!! Sonya if you liked those Langshans you would love the LF Black Cochins and cochins are good setting hens they say.
Tj's nana, where is the CoOp getting their chicks from, do you know????
Hi to evrybody else, I been off eating a fried chicken chef salad, sure was good, Lynn

 

[Sonya]

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Seeing this reminded me....my husband and coworkers thought it was hilarious that we were all at "chicken camp" with birds sitting in cages and we were chowing down on huge amounts of grilled chicken!!

 

[poultryand bees]

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I had thought about going to Cement, but we attended the Jones auction last Thursday night and I got my weekly "auction fix."

We sold all of our boer goats. I learned a lot about raising them during the 3 years we had them, but want more property before we go back into that line of critters.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Seeing this reminded me....my husband and coworkers thought it was hilarious that we were all at "chicken camp" with birds sitting in cages and we were chowing down on huge amounts of grilled chicken!!

One of the best things about raising chickens is that in addition to providing entertainment and eggs, they are edible whenever you want to fix dinner.

 

[Buckguy20]

Lynn, I have a question about game chickens. We used to raise them on dad's ranch. Just free ranging birds. They were pure game but usually several different varieties. Every now and then we would have a Mille Fluer color pop out and they were always pullets. Why is this. Are there a mille fluer colored standard game. about the closest I have seen would be white hackles.
Dad can't raise anything there now for all the varmints. I think he catches a coon or two every night.

 

[nnbreeder]

Hey now we have Malay, Shamo, Naked Neck, Leghorn and RIR all in bantam form. I like watching those cute little eggs hatch! And Marybeth bought some bantams from us at POOPS too. Malay x Naked Neck. Of course even as a bantam dad weighed about four pounds but their moms were small.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

I'll have to jump on the bantam band wagon too. I have EE bantams,Golden laced cochins,and belgian quail D'anvers. Have two D'anvers roos. One is afraid of his on shadow,the other is a toatlly mean little stupid thing! He attacks everytime I open the cage door. D'anvers are little show offs anyway and he really thinks he is the Boss.
Today I picked up two goldennecked d' occules,they are both hens. I proably will have to use a mille fleur roo on them as they are rare and I can't find a gold roo.
Wish you all back home had kept the rain there! We have had 3-5 inches and expecting the same tommorrow. I had to restraw the ground pens today. It will be july before they ever dry out I think!

 

[CityClucks]

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Now's the time! Sounds like a great garden. Do you plant the corn and squash together and the tomatoes and cukes togehter?

I planted peas on the outside of my chicken run this year - I figure the peas can climb the wire walls. Maybe the clucks will eat it but maybe I'll get some.

I have all the veggies you have planned, except corn. Last year I planted 80 corn plants at my neighbor's (no one was living there) and it was doing great, then I got an out-of-town job for a few days (in Quapaw, up by Neecy!), and I came home to find that squirrels had eaten every last bit of my corn. I even saw one of the little buggers running along the fence with an ear in its mouth. So now I'm traumatized and am not planting corn this year.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I really like the Malay crosses I got from you at POOPS. I did not know what they were crossed with, since you just referred to them as Malay Xs. To me, they look like bantam sized Saipan Jungle Fowl.

 

[Sonya]

I've heard of planting the crops together, but never have...I never do real well on the corn and don't plant much of it, just about 6 short rows, but I figure even if we don't get human sized edible corn, the chickens will love them....

I've never grown peas before, so this will be a learning process. I have my garden just inside the backyard which is fenced with welded wire....we don't keep the dogs back there anymore so I just use the fence for everything to climb up.