Wed. 6-30-2011

Well it is still hot, but we have got a little rain, so it may get better. Not having the best of luck with the new incubator. Hatching rate has sucked and have wasted several eggs. These eggs have been out of some very nice fowl and if I would of had to buy the eggs I would have several dollars in them. I guess since lots of my breeding stock cost a lot, I did have lots in them. I am not going to go into much details right now. I have contacted the makers of the incubator explaining my troubles to them. After I see how well they stand behind what they sale, I will post more. I have hatched several eggs under broody hens this year. Thank God for broody hens. I bought some baby Madagascar game chicks, they are doing well. In fact all my chicks have done well. Just having heck getting them hatched.

Myself, Molly and a friend from the panhandle went to a chicken auction in Blanchard OK last weekend. I picked up some show quality dark Cornish bantams to add to my Cornish bantam flock I have here already. Did not get them at the auction got them from a man in Chickasha on the way down.

I did however pick up a pair of Rhode Island red bantams at the auction that were better quality than I expected to go thru an auction. The rooster is a little man hater, might be the reason they got sold. I have a soft spot in my head, I mean heart for RIR bantams. I got my first bantams when I was about 14 from a man named Lee Johnson, north of Arapaho OK where I was raised. I bought a trio of RIRs. Good ones are hard to find in this area, so I was pleased to get the ones I got. And heck, how much damage can a 2 pound rooster do. (says the man with scars on his hand from being flogged)

I also picked up 8 more naked necks and 14 Guineas to run the yard and outer area to help bug control.

Ethan and I did some mowing this morning before it got hot, need to get legged propped up, looks like it could pop. I have another doctor appointment in OKC Friday, so may go to another chicken auction Friday night in Harrah OK, Being laid up and not being able to get around well, these dang chickens have sure been a life saver to keep my mind occupied, and gives me a reason to get up and move a little.