Texas

[AllenK RGV]

Best wishes Allen.

My broody is breaking the eggs as they pip. Have 3 live chicks and 5 fully formed dead ones. Today is 48 hours for the last 5 eggs. We shall see. Pulling the dead as I find them.

So with Solo, the survivor from the first set she sat, if these 3 survive, we will have 4 additions. I try not to count the hatchlings until after the first week. Hatching is very traumatic.

I forgot to mention should you be interested in a broody silkie I have plenty to offer you. Pick up only though. HRL-IAH is only $97 for the 1 hour flight round trip vs a 6 hour drive each way. Heck I'd even pass you some fertile silkie eggs so you can experience the "joy of silkie ownership".

 

[RUNuts]

I forgot to mention should you be interested in a broody silkie I have plenty to offer you. Pick up only though.

Thank you for the offer. I would like to visit the valley, one day. Really, I just want to try those tacos you always rave about.

No the plan for this year, was IF one went broody get eggs. One went, so I got 3. 2 failed and I didn't want to raise a single. (actually was a good plan) So added more eggs. Did not plan to add any more layers this year. Fate's fickle fortunes.

One broody per year is plenty. One constantly broody silkie would be one too many.

 

[AllenK RGV]

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Thank you for the offer. I would like to visit the valley, one day. Really, I just want to try those tacos you always rave about.

No the plan for this year, was IF one went broody get eggs. One went, so I got 3. 2 failed and I didn't want to raise a single. (actually was a good plan) So added more eggs. Did not plan to add any more layers this year. Fate's fickle fortunes.

One broody per year is plenty. One constantly broody silkie would be one too many.

It would only be too big of a temptation for you to drop eggs under it.

 

[RUNuts]

It would only be too big of a temptation for you to drop eggs under it.

True, but I have an outlet for my excess.

There is a method to my madness. Unfortunately, the Barnyard Surprises, at one year old, are laying petite to medium eggs. Cute. Eat 3 small eggs for breakfast and they are good. Not really marketable. The egg business is in the last throes of death. Delicious and the kids keep coming home with empty cartons.

 

[electrycmonk]

Weather update. It seems that Mother Nature like to do things in patterns again. Last summer the heavy storms rolled down i-35 from OKC to DFW every darn weekend and mostly hit us on Sundays last June/July.

This year they are all rolling down US287 from Amarillo..... This screenshot is the 'stalled out rotation since about 7:30 this morning....
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1.24" of rain so far today.
6.96" of rain so far this month.
Seems farmers almanac is on target "mostly" still too.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Pumpkin's progress report:

I ran to my vet for lidocaine thinking that wing has to go, but after I gave her my best idea of a nerve block and giving a good physical exam after a warm epsom salt soak.....Just decided to cut the cold and dead part of that extremity. I must have judged right on the nerve block because she tolerated it well hardly a peep. She got repainted with blu-kote and right now she is moving about the house and eating and drinking well so isn't going to have any warm body parts taken from her. In a nutshell just slightly above the last wing joint to the tip is gone. Plus watching that thing dangle and wobble was grosing me out.

Anyhow I'm thinking DW was right to not euthanize. Time will tell.

 

[Matejka]

Fairly new to byc, and just found home! I am in central Texas-a wide spot in the road called Lyons, on the way to Lake Somerville and about 20 minutes from aTm.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Fairly new to byc, and just found home! I am in central Texas-a wide spot in the road called Lyons, on the way to Lake Somerville and about 20 minutes from aTm.

Welcome to the Texas thread and BYC , you must have great chick selections where you are since y'all are under an hour away from Ideal Poultry in Cameron, TX. Plus living that close to Aggieland I bet vet care or immunizations or dropping off a trainwreck of a stray in need of care is cheap. If only Bluebell gave you a local discount or wanted you as a taste tester or focus group participant that would be an even better part of Texas.

Ok, I would probably do my shopping and take in the Brenham factory "tour" monthly

 

[Dry Creek Chickens]

Fairly new to byc, and just found home! I am in central Texas-a wide spot in the road called Lyons, on the way to Lake Somerville and about 20 minutes from aTm.

Welcome. Glad that you made it.

 

[Longhornlove]

Pumpkin's progress report:

I ran to my vet for lidocaine thinking that wing has to go, but after I gave her my best idea of a nerve block and giving a good physical exam after a warm epsom salt soak.....Just decided to cut the cold and dead part of that extremity. I must have judged right on the nerve block because she tolerated it well hardly a peep. She got repainted with blu-kote and right now she is moving about the house and eating and drinking well so isn't going to have any warm body parts taken from her. In a nutshell just slightly above the last wing joint to the tip is gone. Plus watching that thing dangle and wobble was grosing me out.

Anyhow I'm thinking DW was right to not euthanize. Time will tell.

So glad shes doing well.