***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Ksane]

Just got this message on my phone. Think taptotalk can now be used on your PC to improve your BYC viewing.
Hope it helps someone!
Just a small reminder to check out the Tapatalk Notifier for Chrome at
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plfhcjljnfjpfcbjpgnflfofmahljkjj

Wow, thanks! I use Iron (same as Chrome basically) and have ads and all that blocked with adblock but this'll make it go even faster. Checking it out now.
Edit: It's for the private messages, not for posting. Shoot. Thought I was going to have something to tinker with for a few mintues lol

 

[Poco Pollo]

I've got two more trees in the ground, both Pawnee pecans, about 4 years old, which only leaves ten

I'm just worn out. It's beautiful outside today, but I can't muster the energy to dig any more holes. Here's DH filling a water bucket for me. Without him in the picture, it's just a stick. I loved the dog and chickens photos posted yesterday. Our cats and chickens coexist at a similar level. Here's a Light Sussex Pullet sunning herself near Casper, who's napping under a bush. I never have my camera when they're sitting shoulder to shoulder.

 

[jcatblum]

Just finish cleaning out part of the barn, now I feel as if I need my 2nd shower for the day.

Sorry taptotalk won't let you use all the functions on your pc yet, hopefully soon! Ksane DD will be happy to try & hatch all your turkey eggs for you! We already have the large egg trays for our peafowl. She loves birds- actually she loves all animals. Earlier she was naming off a few additions we needed so we could have a full petting zoo.

Coral awesome that you are able to find the pecan trees! I am still waiting to see if anything I planted last yr survived the heat & grasshoppers. I am certain that We lost most of the cedars in our woods. We defiantly have to get them cut down & removed before fire season starts back in full swing.

Tonight's dinner soup & baked potatoes..... Was suppose to be rib-eyes, but not using the grill in this wind. Need to move the RIR pen, but will wait until tomorrow in hopes of the wind being calmer.

 

[mefordz]

Once a year is all?? Dang. I'm going to save up eggs for Jcat's DD so she can hatch out a bunch of turkey If nothing else they do sell for good money, it help help her chicken habit.
Yea, we all know what those seasoned girls are like. Acting all needy, willing to sell themselves just to have the biggest rooster. They don't fool me. Me & my Cochin girl babies don't play that game.

sounds like typical females to me!

all except the selling part that is. i think you have to pay to get rid of them!

 

[nnbreeder]

Coral I feel your pain! The barn still smells horrid & the skunk sprayed in there last Saturday! Thankfully DH & DD both washed clean & their clothes went through the sanitize cycle in the washer & dryer. Everyone should have a sanitize cycle it is my favorite feature on my washing machine.

NNBreeder, planting in straw bales is too expensive to experiment with this year.

Ksane, my hubby would never let me build a pen, if I try to work on most things he immediately takes over so it can be done his way. I am the one that gets to hold things in place, fetch tools, measure & make cuts when it isn't convenient for him to walk over to the saw & clean up messes. He does allow me to lay tile paint without interupting, but only if he has another project going on.

I bet that for a small area or raised beds materials vs. cost of labor would make it pretty close. And even with things around the house labor kinda needs to be figured because after all your time is worth something. You know if you make 10K in improvements around the house and the value goes up by 30K you just got a 20K payday.

If one would put the word out for straw or Alfalfa that wasn't feed quality it can usually be bought at a very deep discount.


The small squares are getting scarce, just too labor intensive compared to rounds. And buying wire for the baler is getting pretty near painful too. But I'm afraid that the days of the inexpensive small squares are done.

 

[Oakieridge]

We went to Mary's this morning, looks like lots of people buying chicks. Didn't see any birds I had to have (kinda out of room at the moment, lol). Plus need to sell some of the chicks before I go adding to much more. Hopefully I will have chicks coming home from Carl's in a week or two, I think I can hold off that long, lol. We did buy a "guinea catcher" AKA fishing net. DH says it's defective (because we all know it couldn't be the operator that was defective, lol). We also bought a giant wire dog kennel for $25 it folds nice and flat and will make a great cage for auctions or transporting birds. May have to try it out next week when I go buy my additional guineas next week.

Jackson's last basketball game was today so we are finally done with running kids to basketball for a few months. I will be happy to have my weekends back.

Those darn hens must have read my posts because I only got 3 hatching eggs today. But after yesterday I can't complain.

Hope everyone had a great day even with the wind this afternoon.

 

[Kassaundra]

Temps were 33 this morning here, but I'm already in shorts anda t-shirt!


These habitats sound like the ones for wood bees which are excellent pollinators. The house is not for them to store honey, but for the bee to lay eggs. The "house" holds straws that the female lays her egg, places a food and then seals it lays another egg, etc. Each straw can hold up to five eggs. The reason for storage is so that the eggs don't freeze. In windy sections of the state, you can attach the house to a piece of plywood and attach it to a fence. I have used coffee can inside a wooden box with an overhang roof, filled with straws and in late fall, pulled the can and placed it in the crisper of the barn fridge for storage. In the spring, it goes back into the wooden box for hatch.


I keep a notebook when I order seeds where I include a copy of the seed order and make notes on what I ordered a set of seed for and where I wanted to plant them. When notes are made when I order, my Partsheimers is not a problem.


The wild turkeys are strutting their stuff. The hens only lay in the spring and that carried over to the domestic varieties.
I had coffee when I read your comment on the "seasoned" girls!! LOL!

So does that mean you needed to get the windex out after you read the post?

 

[Kassaundra]

I have seen the idea about planting in a bale of straw before, but didn't think it economically feasable w/ the price and size of straw that I have access to, and also didn't think it would survive our dry hot summers, it looked like I would waste a ton of water, but I didn't try it so that might not be the case.

 

[artsyrobin]

guys! what do i do for a chick that is breathing hard? he's lethargic and fluffed!

 

[nocityboy]

hi okies, nice day today if you subtract the wind. Does anyone know of someone near Cushing with SQ Lt. Brahmas