Okies in the BYC The Original

[Sooner]

Maddie with 3rd place points prize:

Maddie showing the Barred Rock from Wyane:

 

[Buckguy20]

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The first thing I would do is mark the eggs under the broody and check every evening to see if others have laid any eggs with her.

Other posssibilites are snakes, an egg eating hen, (maybe the broody is an eater) a hidden nest somewhere? Or they may have just taken a break.

I have two big blue hens that I have been wanting to despartely get some chicks out of but they won't lay at all. I have them in a separate pen now so I can monitor them and give them treats and lots of TLC but they still won't lay. I am stumped on that too.

I know this may sound crazy but give them a cup of rabbit pellets everyday.

When we gave our hens rabbit pellets, they started laying like crazy.
They ate them as well as any treat we gave them.

Do you mean the before kind or the AFTER kind?

 

[CityClucks]

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The first thing I would do is mark the eggs under the broody and check every evening to see if others have laid any eggs with her.

Other posssibilites are snakes, an egg eating hen, (maybe the broody is an eater) a hidden nest somewhere? Or they may have just taken a break.

I have two big blue hens that I have been wanting to despartely get some chicks out of but they won't lay at all. I have them in a separate pen now so I can monitor them and give them treats and lots of TLC but they still won't lay. I am stumped on that too.

I know this may sound crazy but give them a cup of rabbit pellets everyday.
When we gave our hens rabbit pellets, they started laying like crazy.
They ate them as well as any treat we gave them.

But this is what might happen if you hatch those rabbit pellet eggs...

 

[Sooner]

LOL @ City & Buckguy!!!!


You know anytime that Okie's get together there will be some chickens swapping going on:

And yacking (LOL) too!!!

 

[fletcherpoultryauction]

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I know this may sound crazy but give them a cup of rabbit pellets everyday.

When we gave our hens rabbit pellets, they started laying like crazy.
They ate them as well as any treat we gave them.

Do you mean the before kind or the AFTER kind?

The bag at Atwoods kind.

If you have geese, they will clean up the 'after' kind.

 

[QueenPeaches]

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Do you mean the before kind or the AFTER kind?

The bag at Atwoods kind.

If you have geese, they will clean up the 'after' kind.

If you have Goats, the geese that will free range, they will clean up after them too!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Two words:

Chicken Snake

Found one in my barn the other night, was nearly 6ft long! He got rehomed a few miles down the road (no worries Teach!).

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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The bag at Atwoods kind.

If you have geese, they will clean up the 'after' kind.

If you have Goats, the geese that will free range, they will clean up after them too!

Chickens like cleaning up after cats too!

 

[Yonderoak]

I'm still lurking here cuban, we went to Mo yesterday and bought 14 class A and B serama hens, 3 class B roosters, and a handlful of babies. So excited we're finally getting the serama flock built up some

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

Hi all,

Ive fed and watered the chickens, drinking my coffee and watching my daily dose of Little House on the Prairie.

Moving kinda slow. Been working on a coop/runl for a couple days...I think its catching up with me. Man, it sucks to find out this way, Im no spring chicken anymore

(Or maybe it means Im really really really lazy and my body/hands hurt because I never do anything...hmmmm. Either way, it aint a good thing)

Hope everyone has a good day.