***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Sooner]

Good morning Sooner! How have you been?

Feeling alittle rough this morning & have along weekend ahead of me.

How are you doing? Big plans this weekend?

 

[artsyrobin]

hey joe, all but one is developing nicely.... am headed out to try to sprinkle DE on the runs, maybe that will help? or would garden lime work???

usually i like rain, but these runs are swamps....

 

[Sooner]

PEOPLE OF OKLAHOMA POULTRY SWAP "2012" OFFICIAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

WHEN: Saturday, May 5th 2012, start time 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: CHOCTAW CREEK PARK, CHOCTAW OKLAHOMA. The park is located on Harper Drive in Choctaw. It is six miles North of the KOA, where we have had events in the past and about seven miles North of Interstate 40.It is about one quarter mile south of NE 23rd Street in Choctaw. We will have more detailed directions later.
WHO: All members and participants of the "OKIES IN THE BYC", their families and invited friends. The underlying theme this year is "SIMPLE IS SUPER."

1. FOOD: This year we will be featuring another delectable pot luck dinner. We are going with the idea of a giant picnic.Hamburgers, hot dogs, hot links, some bbq etc. will be provided. Additional foods will be needed. (Chips, potato salad, salads, baked beans etc,)
2. Poultry: The usual fanatical buying/selling/swapping of poultry. There will not be a live auction this year, although depending on what we receive, we might set some items up in a Silent Bid Auction.
3. Raffle: We will be holding the raffle as in the past and it will be sure to entice all members of the family.

4. T-shirts are available to order.

5. There will be lots of fun and fellowship with our great Okie friends sure to entertain. We encourage those that want to set up displays with their interests to please do so. We are setting up different time slots where plan to have discussions with question and answer sessions. If you want to participate on a panel or have ideas for the discussion please let me know. There are people that I have asked or will be asking to be on a panel to address concerns and questions as related to the aspect of owning and keeping poultry.
Several of our members have happily offered to give freely of their time. They will head up the following areas of interest. We also need additional volunteers to help with some of the areas that require more support, Please contact Monty (Buckguy20) or Carah (Sooner) if you would like to offer your services. For those that have already volunteered, I will be in contact with you..

CONTACTS:
Carah (Sooner): Food and Beverages. Contact Sooner with your ideas, dishes, and help. An online list will be started and circulated around our thread. It is very important to the success of this event that everyone participates and brings food.
NanaKat: Raffle. She will post about the raffle donations, please contact her with your items. Ideas for the Raffle: Chickens of all breeds & ages, Chicks, hatching eggs of all kinds, ducks, peafowl, rabbits, turkeys, quail, cages, waterers, feeders, incubators, wire, netting.
Arts & crafts, nic-nacs, and any other related items. Also,any fun type things especially things that appeal to kids.

Beth (cityclucks): Name Tags, online attendance roster, clerical support, and welcoming table.

Carah (Sooner): Tee Shirts- are now in the works. A size and Quantity order list will be posted soon. Get your order in early, NO $$$$ will be needed in advance to order.

****** NEEDED ITEM'S & SUPPORT VOLENTEERS *******

These are a few things that we always seem to be in need of at all of our events, If you have something you would like to let us use/borrow we sure could use them. We will continue to also update this list as we get items and find thing's we are in need of, so check back often.

1. Tables of all sizes, chairs.
2. Volunteers for help in setting up, taking down and clean up.
3. Raffle items.
4. FOOD, FOOD, and MORE FOOD.
5. Ice Chests, Coolers, Large beverage Jug's.
6. Tarps and ropes
7. POWER STRIPS

 

[Oklahoma Lightning]

They have pictures of one not a quarter mile from me. So, we watching livestock closely. I had a Black Panter on the place for years but no one same it or the two wolves in a couple of years.

Thanks for posting that about the cats Buster. It was very interesting. Jarvis,my buddy in Oregon lives up in the moutains and he said up there you always take'protection" when you go outside up there. The big cats were protected for so long that they over populated and now are a hazard to people in the area. I'll never forget my last sighting of one. It was 11:30 Christmas eve about ten years agoat Chewy Okl. WE were headed home after picking up my daughtger for christmas. A huge mama lion crossed in front of us onthe highway,we were so excited watching her that it didn't dawn on us till later that the reason she didn't run off was because she proably had a cub on the otherside of the road. She was goregous. That was quite a Christmas present for all of us!

The rain finally got here. No storms thank goodness.

Love the baby chick pictures. They are so cute when itty bitty.

 

[Cjarvis]

Feeling alittle rough this morning & have along weekend ahead of me.

How are you doing? Big plans this weekend?

Sorry to hear you are a bit down today, all the tree pollen is kicking my tail...
This is my weekend, yesterday and today. Back to work tomorrow for 7 days straight. it's an interesting 7 on 2 off schedule that gives me every third weekend off.
I believe I will get more of my stuff out of the way today, probably pick up pear and apple trees for steph later, need to plant the asparagus Nanakat brought over as well as a few other things that need to be out in the dirt but getting there may be a bit of a chore.
Didn't accomplish too much yesterday, had to give my truck a tune up, it's still not all back together yet but will be today, off to bigger and better things.

 

[Sooner]

I will be okay, I have done it to myself staying up too late. Sorry your sinus are giving you fits, guess it will only get better with this rain & all the things blooming.

My tree's should be here today but there won't be any chance of planting them! You guys have that sandy soil so I guess that is how you are going to manage! Sure hope the sun comes out soon. I have asparagus coming with my tree's that I plan to plant in a raised bed then I will also transplant what is out in the pasture from DH's grandpa.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Morning,

I'm waiting for the plumber to check the basement. All my reading on leaky basements presupposes one already has a sump pump, and that it failed for the first time, which is why there is water in the basement now. A backup sump pump is the answer. Drat. We don't have the first pump yet. This is like jumping out of the plane and then putting on a parachute. It's just too late.

My new (old) commercial brooder with the heating element and thermostat is working well. I've got a batch of NN babies in there, and each morning when I feed the group I find half a dozen dozing, like little sun bathers, in a line under the heating coil. This picture was taken after I'd refilled the waterer. The babies are still a little leery of the big hand that keeps showing up in the brooder. I need to make time to handle them more so that they get used to being picked up.

 

[Oklahoma Lightning]

I am setting a few eggs in my GQF this weekend. It holds four trays and I have turkey eggs for one tray.
Would like to buy some more turkey eggs and some dark brown chicken eggs. Aurora says we need some blue eggs,green eggs and pink ones.
Kai just wants eggs to hitch, don't care what kind.
You can tell we really know a lot about chickens ( NOT) but now turkeys are a different story. Would like Self Blue Slates, Red Bourbon and Chocolate Black Wing Bronze and New Holland Whites.
Would even set some eggs for other for a share.

Also learn that you can get the stuff that like embooming fluid at Sallly Beauty Supplies. It use in giving perms and it a tablet but it called something different. It the same stuff they put on new carpet that starts with a F and has hide in the word. Drawing a blank on what it called right now.
They say to use it outside and it will kill any bad germs in your bator and hatcher. Just remember to raise it out good after using. I just clean mine with that cleaner I got from Gerald. But thought I try it. I also have AC in the room with it so that problem handled which I am sure was my problem last year.

 

[Buster52]

No it is my other rotty, Zues.Zues is a little bit smaller than Bear. But the cat would have been the size of Bear no problem, of course Bear would have probably thought it was a toy come to play.

See, that's what I was thinking.

 

[Cjarvis]

You guys have that sandy soil so I guess that is how you are going to manage! Sure hope the sun comes out soon.

I will admit we are quite fortunate to have such rich and soft soil, it is very easy to turn and will grow virtually anything. Of course it helps having a good high watertable, good soil sitting ontop of a sandrock shelf that wicks water up too so we don't have to water much.
The sun is shinning here and hope it stays, the tiller is out in the garden area but can't get to it easily with all the rain we have had this place is like walking on a sponge and the soil is soaked to the point I sink each foot nearly 1/2 inch just walking in the yard.
I turned in the top 3-4 inches of teh garden area last weekend and that is real soft now, thought it would help kill off some of teh volunteers that were coming up but it rained so much the days after I doubt it will help all now, probably just set the roots deeper but I have a plan anyway.
The weekend forcast looks good as far temps and weather is concerned so everyone will likely be working outside getting plenty done.