Okies in the BYC The Original

[nnbreeder]

I have three bantam hens that are production line broodies.

Step 1 All three set three nests all the same day

Step 2 After the chicks hatch all three lay in a common nest and 1 sets this nest while 2 tend to babies

Step 3 When these chicks hatch 1 hen takes the oldest chicks, 1 hen takes the youngest chicks and they start another common nest.

Step 4 Start back at step 1

These hens will do this all summer long, raise a lot of babies and since they share duties on the nest they all stay in top condition.

 

[okcarla]

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DE is diatamaceous earth. It is ground up into a flour consistency and made from diatomite fossils found in the ocean. It works on a microscopic scale by lacerating the mite or worm that comes in contact with it and cutting it open so it can dehydrate. Many people use it rather than sevin dust.

Our chick and gamebird starter has amprolium added to it (which is considered a medicated feed). Amprolium is added to prevent coccidia in chicks.

I've never tried Collodial silver ... but it sounds like a great idea. Where do you get it and how much do you give the birds?

 

[chiclooker]

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[poultryand bees]

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The wood is still in the ditch, there are 5-6 logs
If the Noble auction isn't much, I may have to go to the Blanchard auction every now and again, as I continue to downsize my hens.

 

[poultryand bees]

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That is the reason I am obsessive about buying new batteries in the large packages from Sam's each year and Christmas gifting my older sons with every kind of battery needed for flashlights, children's toys and smoke detectors. The standing family joke is that when the May 1999 tornado hit, I had plenty of batteries to share and still had enough for our radios and flash lights for the 4 days we were without power.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I read once about someone putting multiple hens in a small pen with a large nest of eggs, so that someone would always be on the nest. I wondered how to make that work. thanks for the easy to understand explanation.

 

[bigokie37]

stimp ive trapped alot of them foxes.in our bobcat sets with a live mallard hen.we caught 9 this past winter an 3 bob cats.the hens will holler an holler.we only lost 1 an it was cause a frozen branch fell an smashed the trap an it got out

 

[nnbreeder]

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I read once about someone putting multiple hens in a small pen with a large nest of eggs, so that someone would always be on the nest. I wondered how to make that work. thanks for the easy to understand explanation.

Pen? Encourage it? Heck no these girls were free range birds, of which you have some of the offspring too.

 

[chickens 4 2]

I live about an hour east of Tulsa...so if anyone in the Tulsa area is interested, I am planning to make a trip to Tulsa in the next day or 2 with a chick/chicken delivery. I live a little far for the Tulsa area people and have some that are wanting chicks and/or chickens. So, if you are around Tulsa and I have something that you might be interested in, please let me know. For sale, we have Mille Fleur d'Uccle (2 hens/4 roosters), silkie and sultan hens and roosters, pharoah quail (2-3 wks), and chicks (Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, White Leghorns, and Ameraucanas (2-3 wks). NPIP certified flock, licensed hatchery, and commercial wildlife breeder. Thanks! Jill&Will

 

[Sooner]

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Teach, it sounds like you have shown goats????? Right now we are just working on getting it to walk....then I have to figure out how to stand it. It is amazing that there hasn't been anyone at the club that really seems to want to give us alot of information....