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[Buckguy20]

I love the location list Beth.
You do good work!
I looked outside and I thought that you must be standing in my yard but then I realized it was just the sun shining.

Yes the sun came out. It is still 400 below zero and there is a 43 mph wind blowing snow everywhere but the sun is shining for now.

 

[poultryand bees]

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You have found a wonderful group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wish they lived in Oklahoma.

Today, I personally wish I lived in South Texas where it never snows

This is the place to find helpful information, like the location and dates of poultry auction, what is available on Craigslist in the way of incubators and how to get a chicken from point "A" in Oklahoma to point "B" in Oklahoma, without making the trip yourself.

What kind of chicks do you have scheduled to arrive in April?

 

[poultryand bees]

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You can always do what I do (although I don't do it often enough) and wait awhile and think about it - until they are gone. Of course, then you will spend the next 2 years (if you think like I do) searching for what you wanted and didn't get and pay twice as much once you finally find it again.

 

[al6517]

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Beth :

this is all I recieved when I hit it, so here's your sign................

Please pray for me today......... I have three women here and we are all locked up here together. Can you say Estrogen overload !!!! ....

AL

 

[CityClucks]

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Beth :

this is all I recieved when I hit it, so here's your sign................

Please pray for me today......... I have three women here and we are all locked up here together. Can you say Estrogen overload !!!! ....

AL

Ha! Thanks Al.

 

[BetsyOK]

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In Silkies, that color (which is the same as self blue), has been arrived at two different ways, if I understand it correctly. I DO know for certain that the strain of lavenders I prefer was begun some 15 or so years ago by a gentleman in Texas, who introduced a Dutch Bantam of some sort into the genetic makeup to bring in the lavender gene. It is officially called self blue, but probably should be called lavender, because in other parts of the world, there is a HUGE difference between lavenders and self blues, but the powers that be in the U.S. insisted on self blue. Donnie worked on them for all those years, and two women from Texas carried on his work and brought them to the stage they are in now. They also worked very hard, recruiting others, to raise and perfect them and to get them accepted into the standard, which occurred at the Shawnee show this year. The other strain appears to have been developed from more and more dilute splashes; this is the one I'm not certain of. I do have one hen from that line that was supposed to be lavender, but is a lovely splash. It is my understanding that breeding the two strains together does NOT produce lavenders until they are bred back to a parent.

Lavender in other types of chicken is undoubtedly arrived at by other means. I've had self blue OEGBs that are the same color as lavender in the U.S., but I don't know how that color was developed.

I recently bought two very definitive books by Norwegian Sigrid Van Dort, "Color Genetics in Chickens" and "Silkies and Silkie Bantams." These were privately printed and are costly, but well worth it, though much of the information is waaaay over my head. If any of you have any interest, I can give you information how to acquire them.

Hope this helps a little.

 

[artsyrobin]

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might want to read these threads first- i wouldn't order from them

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=294773
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=381464

 

[poultryand bees]

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I think they will be fine for one day as long as they are able to maintain their body heat, depending on the age of the chicken and its overall health. Some of mine may be the "test experiment"

I went out and rescued my most recent NN hen acquisitions from a cage that had protection (I thought) from the snow, but which had built up enough snow inside that their feathers were crusted with snow. I put them into the barn and they were moving around and scratching through the straw on the floor and drinking water when I left them. I also got the silkies that roost on the ground and on top of the rabbit cages in the pole barn, and put them into the barn. Lost one silkie that roosted on the ground. Don't know why it didn't occur to me to move them last night into a better area.

All the chickens decided it was a good time to see what the interior of the shed has in the way of places to roost, rather than roost outside, so that is good. I picked up a guinea that was nestled down in the snow and put it into an igloo dog house that interestingly, was totally without snow inside, although it faces due South and is set under some bushes. The snow drift pattern went around it.

The Muskovie ducks seem just fine in the snow. I guess that snow actually acts as insulation when you think about people digging snow caves for survival.

My overalls and jeans are in the dryer - the bottom 4 inches of the legs were just soaked.

As I walked around, the Christmas song, "Good King Winchelas" came to mind - where the servant walked in the footprints of his master through the snow. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out where I left some of my foot prints when I was trying to retrace my steps.

 

[poultryand bees]

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If he talks you into making a dog sled, I hope you will take pictures - a video would quickly go viral on YouTube.

 

[al6517]

I could use a hot Samich some hot soup, a black & White old western movie, that spells snoooze-A-Roo time.

AL