Okies in the BYC The Original

[fletcherpoultryauction]

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Hey Wayne, You need to find a place closer to us so we can see more of ya, like Oklahoma. It was great meeting and talking with you, just wished we could do more of it. Like I said, we found you a place now move back home.

Best wishes for your Mom.

 

[Sooner]

Wayne no worries on the place that she took! She had fun & learned something new! It also depends alot on what judge you have & this one liked the others. He kept her in the points!

Let us know how Brenda's mom is doing. I am hoping & praying that everything is okay. You guys drive safe!!

 

[poultryand bees]

Teach - you forgot to tell me that snakes can make a huge mess with their poo.

I found what I guess is a bull snake in the brooder at noon and took it into the house to show hubby how it had bumps and lumps that presumably are my former chicks acquired at POOPS.

While I was carrying it into the house, it started emptying the contents of its body through the hole near its tail. That stuff smells worse than chicken poo.

Anyway, it is rehomed to a barn where it can hopefully eat a few mice instead of baby chickens.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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How is Ms. Broody Saipan doing?

 

[poultryand bees]

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How is Ms. Broody Saipan doing?

She is still calmly sitting on her nest, under her plywood tent next to the straw inside the barn. I keep meaning to go back in my posts to figure out when she went broody, since I think I posted on here when that happened. Once she hatches her chicks, I will move her to a more secure location so the new cats and that bull snake don't try and get the chicks.

This evening, I am going to catch the Saipan roo and put him in the flight pen with all the malay pullets I got from Les and Teva at POOPS. My Malay rooster went missing a few weeks ago, along with a couple of bantam sized hens, so the Saipan will have to carry on the absentee Malay's job of providing fertile eggs so the hens will go broody.
Don't you have a Saipan settin on eggs as well?

 

[poultryand bees]

Went back in the posts and saw where my Saipan went broody about the 11th or 12th of April. Since she hasn't hatched anything yet, it would appear that I need to check those eggs for hatchability. She should have hatched no later than this past Monday

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Aww...

Guess it's just the wrong time of the year or something for orientals.

I did have another Saipan hen recently go broody, I am going to put some eggs under her. Right now she's on mutt eggs in my egg-laying flock's barn.

 

[Sooner]

I have a partridge cochin setting & have no idea when she started! I also have to figure out how many new PC babies I hatched out yesterday........Oh Doc!!!!!!!!!!! LOL, just kidding unless there is a bunch of them.

 

[TJ's Na-Na]

Am sure stranger things have happened, but....
would love to have had a video of Mom pigeon
explaining THAT one....LOL

Bill had a cochin hen that was trying to go
broody, so took her out of her pen and
put her in the flight pen with the pigeons
and quail. With his hands full, walked by
the pigeon nests just to see if there were
any new hatches and spotted where that
cochin was laying up there. Yup, gonna
double back and take those eggs outta
there........LOL Well, the curtain falls and
time passes...........................

Next time he checked and remembered what
he needed to do...........the pigeon had hatched
all 4 of the cochin babies, one of which had
bailed and crashed.....probably because of
that "yuck" that Mom pigeons try to feed
them.........LOL

Ahhhhhhhhh........life at the farm.............

Have a good one !

 

[FunChick]

Hi all!
I have a health problem--at least I think it's a problem...I have several of my hens that are laying eggs that are blood-streaked. They started doing this once in awhile, and it was pullets just begining to lay so I didn't think anything of it.

Time passed and a few more blood streaked eggs appeared...and nothing else...no sickness, respiratory or even runny poop, and so I wan't alarmed. I thought it could be cocci but I didn't see any other symptoms so I just passed it off as new pullets starting to lay.

Now, a few more eggs are appearing with blood on them. And now it is hens that have been laying for awhile as they are in my steady laying flock. I am stumped! As I said before, no other signs of sickness...Any ideas???

I am so pleased with all of my birds that I got at POOPS...they are all beautiful and I feel blessed to have them all. Hooray for chickens!!