Okies in the BYC The Original

[Buckguy20]

Doc, Kronk was supposed to man the fire cave today but he won't leave the depths of his summer cave so I had to be the one watching the pig shoulders in the fire cave. I didn't start til late so I still have to make one more check on it before I go to bed.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I have never tried that but if you put a barred rooster over a red hen or any of the other color combinations you should get sex linked birds. Try a search for auto-sexing chicken breeds.

One thing though I have noticed through the years is that the NN hens will nearly always have multi points on her comb and a rooster not so many. (4 points is Standard) Teva hatched a NN today that had a 4point comb so I will have to see if this holds water.

If anybody has NN hens with 4 points on their comb I would sure be interested in them.

I will add "count points on the combs of the NNs hatched from Carla's stock" to my list of things to do - maybe that will help me figure out their genders.

 

[Sooner]

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Hi Sooner, Are you in texas or back home?

I am now back in the state of OK. I was on the road playing on my sisters Iphone.


I will head back home tomorrow.

 

[Buckguy20]

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Trying to bring HOT PANTS back into style are ya? Are you back home?

 

[Sooner]

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ya you gotta watch out for the pavement here it will get you. every year at the clinic someone brings in a dog they took for a walk in 100 degree heat and burned the pads off their paws. It can't feel good to have the entire pad peel off in 1 piece from every paw.

oh my poor things!!! I didn't even think about it, just sat down & got up real quick! I couldn't believe I was wearing a jacket in the hospital & burning up just getting to the car.

 

[poultryand bees]

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ya you gotta watch out for the pavement here it will get you. every year at the clinic someone brings in a dog they took for a walk in 100 degree heat and burned the pads off their paws. It can't feel good to have the entire pad peel off in 1 piece from every paw.

OUCH! That makes me cringe just to think about it.

I notice that the temperature is down to 82 degrees, so I am going to sign off and go feed and water everything before heading to bed. Good night all.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

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Thanks I have all my rabbity well into the trees and plenty of shade I opened up a lot of underbrush today that let in some breeze and the mist soaked the food in two cages I think if I placed it higher it wouldn't drift under the eve of those cages. I decided that since they had the shade and it is a bit cooler there to move the mister to the south side of my chicken run where I have some cover for shade it was immeadiatly well recieved the chickens all left the coop and played in the cool sand and ate drops off the fence and each other after about a half hour most had stopped panting. A couple of my largest Buffs aren't liking the heat too much, My coop is out in the open an made of tin so it gets pretty warm inside, Great in winter but not so much just now, I took some old carpet and spread it on the roof held in place with a few old tires I go out as offen as I can or need to and wet the carpet down and it has worked great for keeping the inside of the coop a few degrees cooler, My neighbor is giving me his old trampoline and I want to span the top of the run with the fabric from it should help give them more shade during the day when I can't be here to water the coop down, I'm adding pic's I took today excuse the jungle around it this is the first year in the last several I have been able to do anything with the yard so it's a work in progess

This is the back (north) end the weeds I've left on purpose to block sun a bit from the sides

The east side, This coop I actually built several years ago to house pigeons that I never got

Most of the pic's I took of the inside came out blurred If you don't already know I like to recycle anything and everything LOL this is my homemade feeder I built about 14 years ago it used to sit in a 4'X4' wooden box with a sloped lid that sat outside the run and had a window in the top so you could see in and allow enough light for the chickens to see to eat looked a lot like a doghouse but between termites, ants and weather it needed to be replaced just haven't had time or materials yet, it holds around 150 lbs of laying pellets.

A few shots of my first hatch in the incubator with their new Mon she is such a good Mother

I changed the chickies playground a bit the others were reaching in and eating too much and fouling the water it has 3 feeders and 3 waterers and the they prefer to hangout inside the cinder block despite Mom telling them constantly Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! which means "get out of that!"

These chickens look a lot like bunnys so I thought I'd show them off a bit

I can't wait to get the new areas built for them will be a lot better but it so stinking hot have to go slow as fast as I can

 

[Doc Henry]

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Here in Texas? who are they , I thought we were the only ones who drove to oklahoma for birds, that makes me feel a little better.

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

Good Morning Okies I have some 5 month old Indian game cocks For sale if anyone is interested I am thinking 10 obo. dollars a bird. (those are Dark Cornish if anyone Doesn't know them by there real name. There Currently In my kill cage But I would rather sell them then Process them. I Have alot of PM's from some of you about them. so If you want them they have a 2 week date on em let me know.

 

[artsyrobin]

morning okies! like that trashcan feeder, we've got tires up in the recycle pile.... hmmmmmm

too hot already.. gotta go fix up a mini pen for the 2 months olds, and try to figure a way to keep everyone cool, the banties cool, other than moving them inside.... sheesh! they look pathetic panting! i have given them ice, but it sure doesn't last long!

will check in later with you all!

by the way, those naked necks are almost cute!