Okies in the BYC The Original

[GracefulBantams]

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Do you mean that it is too hard to get the perfect Japanese? (Yes, that is definitely true!)
Or did you mean that they would have trouble walking? (I have not particularly heard of that, but I know they are only in a tiny cage while they are being shown so it would not affect them...)

Yes I meant having them in a cage, anytime someone would walk next to them they would fly around like crazy! Guess if the cage is small enough they would sit still.

Okay. Well, you can train any bird... but it surely takes more patience with some breeds!

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Tophats are generally polish, houdan, sultan, or other crested type breeds.

LOL all he could tell me was they were black with fuzzy heads and pretty.

Sounds like Silkies!...

 

[HennyPennies2007]

Beth, how's life? Livin' on Tulsa Time? Are you getting weather? I sewar that danged thunderstorm started up right over us and then hauled butt to get east!

My mom called.... she asked me not to try and visit her today. She has PT mornings and afternoons and and has a gazillion things going on.... How funny.... She is finally getting a life.

So now I am freed up to do more chores. Hens are out grubbing. (ICK) it's pretty sloppy in their run. I am worried about cocci with all this damp... I heard it goes crazy in this weather... is that true?

 

[Sooner]

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LOL all he could tell me was they were black with fuzzy heads and pretty.

Sounds like Silkies!...

I dont think they are silkies, he should know what they look like from the pictures I have shown him.....with any luck I can get some eggs to hatch.

I candled the eggs that were under the BTW last night. He said she had been setting on them for a while and should hatch in a day or two......He was wrong! They are just starting. Guess I will find out how well my home made bator works!

Carla, I will be looking you up for more silkie eggs so if you get to many give me a shout, I will be back up to OKC in a week or three. LOL.

 

[Buckguy20]

Ok Grace and you other hatching type people.
I put eggs in the Sportsman but I didn't have enough to fill it. Only nine dozen. It will hold 15 I think.
How should I put the eggs in. Do I just use two trays and leave one empty or do I spread the eggs out in three trays.
Also if I just use the two trays does it matter where they are in the bator. Top, middle or bottom tray?
Also if I do a staggered hatch latercan I just add them when I have enough to fill the next tray. What is the protocol for a staggered hatch?
I tried to call the guy that loaned me the unit but I couldn't get him.
Thanks Monty

 

[poultryand bees]

Catatebird - your quail and geese are beautiful.

Kerrywoo, what kind of medicine does your vet recommend for coccidia?

Buckguy - nnbreeder seems to be the expert on how to load a sportsman - he was telling us to switch the trays around periodically, to help them incubate better.

Teach - sorry you are having to be quiet and not able to enjoy this mud with the rest of central and Eastern Oklahoma

Henny - If there was ANY WAY to give you some of this rain, I would hand deliver it to you. My ducks are happy. None of the other poultry is "happy" about the rain.

Sooner - flipflops? Ick. My mud is so nasty that I wouldn't ever feel like it came off. I just put double plastic grocery bags over my shoes, tie a knot at the top and secure them with a piece of duct tape around the ankle. Last year we had both of the local pre-K classes out to view the animals and it was muddy. Putting plastic bags over the shoes of 20 4 year olds at a time was fun.

 

[ke_ben]

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Monty I'm no expert but I have been having super hatch rates even on shipped eggs, so I can tell you what I do. I have been staggering hatches like mad (some at only a day or 2 apart) because I get eggs so sporadically and I don't want to wait on eggs that are already days old from shipping/resting. I start out on the top rack on one tray until it is filled, but I try not to split a single hatch on 2 trays. I keep sticking in them in that way and when the top rack is full, I move the oldest to the middle rack, and so forth to the bottom (Usually by the time I am moving some around I am pulling them out to candle anyway). They go right in the hatching tray when time and that frees up another tray to keep things going. I have sectioned off the hatching tray for different breeds/types or due dates. I try to do all my door opening at 1 time per day at the most to add water, flip or change out wicking pads (I'm in the desert-high evaporation rate), change racks, candle, set eggs in hatching tray, or pull out chicks/old eggs. The only problem I seem to have is non-starters/infertile eggs, but never on my own birds.

Gotta love the sportsman, but I can't afford one myself, it's borrowed.

Probably have to make my own design of refrigerbator when I have to give it up, it will have the hatching trays up in the freezer section so I can really stagger hatches.

sorry I didn't see the P&B's referral to nnbreeder before I started the post.

 

[CityClucks]

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Hi HennyP - Tulsa is still getting weather - I've been working in the Blackwell/Ponca City area for the past couple of days - it's raining up here, too. Blech. I am ready for some SUN! I'm glad to hear that your mom is getting a life and doesn't want you to visit...ha - bet that gives you mixed feelings - but good for her!

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Kay County soil is wet...I don't know about sample results...I am just watching them scratch soil up and put new dirt back in. I can tell you that some of these people have never laid sod before...geez! I get to come home this afternoon - YIPPEE!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Good thing you have that sportsman.

Me and that GQF were made for each other

 

[ke_ben]

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Our high school here has an FFA soils judging team that won state and are there in OKC right now to compete for nationals. Can you imagine that, a bunch of desert rats playing in the rain and trying to judge mud?

That might as funny as watching your people lay sod when they haven't gotten their hands dirty before?