The weather this morning forecasts rain possible flooding and freezing temps starting tomorrow. yuck. I am getting ready just in case. I carried 3 days worth of hay into the barn for the horses, filled chicken feeders inside the coops, and filled buckets of water in case the electricity goes...
Well I have seen the chick stealer. It is a hawk. The darn thing landed on top of the coop and flew into the open door as I waited for my son to bring his gun. Unfortunately it flew away before Cole got back. Down to one chick with the silkie broody :(
After many many losses over these last two years. I have come to one conclusion. Always start off with way more than you think you want. Always set more eggs than you want because very rarely do you get a 100% hatch. Of the chicks that do hatch, statistically speaking 50% will be males. Of...
Does anyone give the vaccine for fowl pox? Since we dug a pond this year I have had several instances of fowl pox. Dry and wet. I am thinking of buying the vaccine just wondering if anyone else gives it
I have an evil hen. She has been broody all summer. At first I just took the eggs and she sat in an empty nestbox. Then I gave her eggs to hatch. None hatched. I got her eggs again and this time she abandoned the nest on hatch day when the first egg pipped. I found the eggs cold and hen nowhere...
I have 2 cream Legbar hens from Rhinda that are sisters and 2 cream Legbar hens from another breeder. I can definatly see a difference in color on the hens. The two from Rhinda are cream but the two others look to be gold. So I think the gold two are laying the blue eggs. Now that I know the...
Got an egg question. Am I thinking correct that hens generally lay the same shaped egg? I have 4 cream Legbars just starting to lay and I have 2 olive not blue colored eggs. They are shaped differently so does that mean I have to weirdo cream Legbars or just one? I got the first green egg...
My wrists have been killing me lately so I decided to give them a good workout I finished this last night just need to weave in the ends. My wrists feel tons better too
Well a stupid snake killed one of my 9 week old crested cream legbar chicks. I moved the chicks outside to a pen in the horse barn and just found the dead chick with a slimy head.
Well today is the first day of my garage sale. I put an add in the paper and while I was talking to the lady at the newspaper I told her I was going to have chickens to sell too. I didn't think she would put it in the add but she did. I sold 12 roosters and cockerels. In the first 2 hours. I...
I found this on Craigslist about the Blanchard auction.
"There will be a poultry and miscellaneous auction Saturday night July 25, starting at 5 pm. It is located at the AG barn at 2500 south country line rd. Blanchard Okla. only the good lord knows what all will be there. YALL COME SEE US."
I had a terrible quail hatch this week. Out of 22 set 14 hatched. 7 of the hatched had curled toes and all 14 died. Four died today. Five yesterday and so on. I had 7 chicken eggs and 5 hatched just fine What happened? My quail are 2 years old. I was planning on replacing them with these eggs