Okies in the BYC The Original

[GracefulBantams]

65 Okie members?!

4roosandahen - Awesome! You'll have to get us pictures when they hatch

Kaacres - welcome

Cammie - that really stinks that Clark has bird allergies!
I'll get those pictures posted in a minute...


Carla - gracious! You must have hundreds of chicks now

 

[GracefulBantams]

Cammie, here (finally!

), are more pictures of my Runner Duckies

Here is a picture from March 16 of one of my Ducklings and my nephew who said "Baby Ducks are like robots... only cooler!" (which was a great compliment, coming from him)

Here is a pictures from March 12

 

[okcarla]

Jimd, I hope you & your sons can make it to Harrah on Saturday. What better way to spend a Saturday night! It's always fun to see what's for sale, and you can visit with some of us other BYC okies that show up.

Countyroad, the majority of the chicks will be white when the colored Easter chick dye wears off. I'm assuming most will be fast growing white chickens? It sure looks like there's a good mix of males & females. One chick has feathered feet, so I assume it's a white cochin. I put it in with a baby call duck that hatched on Monday. I have a bunch of call eggs under silkies to see if more will hatch than in the incubator, and somebody in the silkie pen decided they didn't sound like chicks when they began hatching & started destroying the eggs. Luckily, I saved a little yellow duckling. It was barely alive when I found it, and I put it in the incubator on the hatching tray & gave it vitamin supplemented water. The next day, it miraculously revived! I'd have given it a 5% chance of survival. I think it's special! I need to take pictures of the rest of the chicks to see if everyone thinks they could be. There are about 15 chicks that have a large brown stripe on their backs, and about 15 that are brown, multi colored speckled, 8 that are golden colored (probably buf orp) and about 10 white bantam chicks, 18 naked neck pullet chicks, and 10 black chicks that I hope are barred rock or austrolorp or if I'm really lucky, cuckoo marans. Right now, I'll just take the easter chicks to the auction & see if I want to keep the others ... as if I need to keep more varieties of chickens! I looked at Privett Hatchery's website & pictures of their baby chicks, and I think the brown stripe chicks could be silver and/or golden phoenix, and the brown speckled chicks could be silver and/or golden campines. I wish I knew for sure what these chicks are ... I hate not knowing!

I sure need to sell a lot of baby chicks before May, because Gerald wants to go to South Dakota to visit his siblings & their familes for a week. I just don't know if I can leave all my babies & other critters for a whole week. Maybe Gerald could just call his relatives on the phone instead of a trip, lol. I just want to spend my vacation time at home.

Graceful, yes ... I have over 200 baby chicks in the spare bedroom now, and over 50 chicks & turkeys due to hatch this weekend. Some of my chicks that are over 2 weeks old will get to move to the barn this weekend. I really should put the brooders in my shop building ... but the little baby chicks just might need me! They at least need to be checked on more often than the older chicks. I know, I'm crazy.

OK, so I'm NOT GOING TO BUY ANY MORE CHICKENS this year ... but trading .... hmmmm ..... and hatching eggs .... hmmmmm ... I can't stop looking at ebay & eggbid egg auctions ... and hatching eggs at the Harrah auction

 

[okcarla]

Grace, yeah, I know I've gone bird crazy! I've thought those brown stripe chicks could be EEs, because I do have some ameraucana chicks that I hatched a few weeks ago with a similar brown stripe. But these chicks just don't act the same as the EEs, and I hatched a couple of silver phoenix chicks a few weeks ago from Mergmet, that sure look like them too. Time will tell. I'll probably keep some of them, either way. I also have some araucana chicks that I hatched as eggs from hinkjc, so I definitely want to keep some green egg layers. Either way, I'll be happy to keep them ... of course, they could be something entirely different.

Countyroad, YEA! I hope you have 3 adorable Brabanter chicks soon.

Buckguy, what breed of chickens are you taking to Harrah? Should I be looking for a Jersey Giant hen to bid on? Speaking of Jersey Giants, my 4 month old jerseys got out of their pen the other day ... the dogs killed 4. I was so upset ... especially because Gerald knew the gate latch wasn't working properly ... it should have been wired shut until it can be fixed.

We'll be fixing a gate tomorrow (and it's wired shut now).

.

 

[Buckguy20]

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I plan on taking ten or so Production Red laying hens. They are starting to lay again but just a little. Still, I need to sell some.

You sound like someone that might want a Jersey Giant Hen. I wasn't plan on selling her but I might make a trade for a Maran or Welsummer hen.
Do you have any pix of the chicks you think are Campines? I have raised several Campines and I think they are the prettist chicks.
Monty

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Thanks

Carla, one thing that would help narrow down the options on breeds is the chicks' comb types. Easter Eggers mostly have Rose/Pea combs (it varies because they are technically a fancy cross breed), but Phoenix and Campines both have Straight combs.

 

[countyroad1330]

Grace, thanks for the advice, and for the duckling pictures! They are cute! The checked the duckling and the chicks, they seemed fine.

Still no hatched chicks. Two Brabanters are almost out, the third still working on it, as well as two of my Brahmas and Orps. Not that we don't get enough chick updates these days, but I love to share. *ha* Hope everyone else's hatches are going well!

 

[okiechick57]

Hey another okie

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=41783



Goldrose........it starts at 5pm outside for misc things.about 6 for chickens and such........not sure of addy since I just went with someone and didnt pay attention.........Buckguy can you tell her how to get there?

 

[Buckguy20]

Goldrose, I don't know which direction you are coming from but the auction is in the Lumber yard and it is on main street. If you are coming through the downtown street in in Harrah you will be on Church street. main street is about halfway through town. Turn west on Main and go till it dead ends at the lumber yard (about four blocks).

 

[GoldRose]

Thanks, Buckguy and OkieChick!

I'd be coming on I-40/I240 from Anadarko through OKC, so I guess I'd get off on the Harrah/Newalla Road. I think I can find it. I used to show horses in what was called "The Red Barn".

Hope to get to go and see some of y'all!

KB