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Good morning from Oklahoma City! I haven't been to a poultry auction for many years and miss the fun of visiting with everyone from BYC. (I don't miss the time and expense of feeding all my new acquisitions that I bought because the "price was right " and I was enjoying the bidding) I still...

Surely, no one is suggesting this kind of chicken math is a bad thing? LOL

Probably a hat other than a ball cap would give you more authenticity for a training hike, maybe you need one like Elwood Lightfoot wears. A hundred miles is a lot of walking Just checking in. We actually went to our "fraidy hole" for the first time in many years. Of course, once we...

looks like a peony

Praying for the safe return of this precious young lady, and comfort and strength for her family

We had a llama cria born last week. Didn't even realize the llama mama was pregnant. Llamas are sneaky that way As for raw honey - I am pleased to announce that the governor signed the Oklahoma Honey Sales Act last week, which will allow small beekeepers such as myself to lawfully sell raw...

Nothing like information regarding POOPS to bring some of us old timers out of poultry retirement Yesterday, I found the first guinea eggs of the season. Guess it is time to separate the colors in the flight pen so I can hatch some pure colors. I need to have jcatblum remind me what color I...

What a gorgeous day today! I actually enjoyed getting some chicken wire reattached to the bottom of the chain link pens, using metal rings this time instead of the zip ties that broke when a guinea somehow got between the chicken wire and the chain link. She managed to create a space for...

Sounds like you have a great system going for your chicks. It would be easier to raise chicks if all of them could be placed with a mama hen willing to accept them. It never ceases to amaze me how nature takes care of the little ones by giving the mama hens a desire to accept whatever hatches...

What kind of turkeys do you raise? I don't think I have ever had a Narragansett turkey egg before March and they stop laying in September or October.

Good morning! I am reminding myself that the cold weather this week won't last too long and we hopefully won't have frozen water bowls very long. Many of my pens are a distance from electricity so it isn't practical to run electricity to them. I use the black rubber bowls for water so pour...

Jcatblum - glad to see you are on the mend after your surgery. Hopefully, that third opinion on your lung will be the best one for your good health. I was sorry to miss the Shawnee show this year, but we went to San Antonio to celebrate my Mom's 87th birthday. She is in reasonably good...

This evening I was reminded of the joy of a mama hen with her chicks. A hen managed to hide out and hatch 12 chicks Wed. morning, which I didn't immediately try to capture since it is usually much easier to catch the hen and her chicks at night when she is calmer. Unfortunately, when I went...

McGuyver, Great pictures of your hoop house style chicken tractor on the BYC coop picture of the week. Your instructions make sense, also. Congratulations

Looks like a brisk but sunny weather day today. I guess it is time to get serious about winterizing the birds - consolidate some pens so there are fewer bowls to fill with water and feed this winter. It won't save any feed, but it will save time when it is so cold outside that I really want to...

I am watching a show on KETA (formerly OETA) about wild ducks. Watching those wood ducklings bail out of a tree 70 feet above the ground is astonishing. (and we worry about chicks falling 4 feet out of the nest box )

The birds that I relocated to the laying flock apparently don't feel loved by their new group. They are roosting on the metal roof of the chicken coop. I guess if they are sitting on their feet while they roost, their feet won't stick to the cold metal when it freezes. The coop is elevated...

I was successful in downsizing by about 25 chickens, 2 turkeys and a Muscovey drake this past weekend. I also moved 8 pullets to the laying pen. There are still about 15 bantam teenagers that are free ranging and need to be captured, but since they roost in a tree and on top of an adjoining...