***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[nnbreeder]

Joe as you know if the birds were really nice they wouldn't be at auction. LOL Overly agressive is probably why they were sent to auction in the first place. Someone is hopeing that someone that doesn't know birds too well will buy them instead of taking the ax to them.

Now if I grab a bird that doesn't know me I expect to get bit in the least action but once in my hands I expect the bird to calm down quickly too.

When Teva and I were doing NPIP testing at game farms years ago we would handle up to 300 birds every day and never once did I have a game on a string-line go after either one of us. Of course I held the birds while she poked them for the drop of blood so more often then not I was the one that got bit. Of course it was much to her delight!

 

[nocityboy]

Those peaches were delicious - there are few things much more delicious than a sweet, jucy peach. It is so disapointing when peaches never get soft or get any flavor - usually store-bought ones. They seem to need to ripen or nearly ripen on the tree.

There is a small organic farm a mile east of the blanchard auction barn that sells peaches, you have to pick them yourselves.

 

[nnbreeder]

My kitten bam bam is so addicted to whipped cream she knows my coffee cup. Over all the dishes I use I can take any of them including glasses and cups out of any cabinate and she doesn't pay any mind, but if I take my coffee cup out, she starts begging as hard as she can, and when I say beg, I mean like a mobster would beg. Give it to me or else.

Just don't show her where you keep your pistol or there could be real trouble!!

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

Brewster is wonderful. And he's gorgeous, too. Is he your only adult rooster? One of my favorite things about Buff Orpingtons is how their feathers look like heavy silk. It makes me wonder if the other colors of Orps have feathers like that.
You make it look so easy which makes me realize how badly I over-think it all.

He's the only adult BO roo I have, I also have 2 beautiful Barred rock roosters, a Production Red, a Rhode Island Red and a Welsummer rooster but they are all in separate pens and all are real easy going I've never had any of these guys show any fight towards me I also have never trimmed any of their spurs and a couple of the are packing some serious knives I sometimes wonder how the production red roo can even walk LOL Sometimes when I have more than one pen out roaming there are times when the Roo's stumble across each other but they usually draw there lines and then loudly dare each other to cross them from a distance (I think more to impress the ladies LOL)

 

[mamapoppybee]

had lots of tomatos ripe today and more are on the way. Been canning salsa with the hubby. salsa in one of his favs hoping we can get enough put up to last till next growing season. the store charges loads for that and i think we can do it better any way. More control of whats going in it.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Poco I saw you are on line how goes the hatching, hearing lots of noise????

Sorry - I didn't see your post. I may have been logging off when you saw my name on the list. I have heard muffled peeps, but no chirping yet. Hatch day is officially Monday, so the hatcher will be noisy with new babies soon. the temperature and humidity look fine, so keep your happy hatching vibes flowing in this direction.

 

[Buckguy20]

if anyone has penedesenca or empordanesa eggs there I will pay a finders fee

They were catching on here a few years back. I had some but could never sustain a good line. People wanting dark eggs here seem to have hitched their wagon to the Marans and Welsummer star. There was a man that had them but I don't know if he still does. His site was Gar Creek Poultry. Might try to Google it.

 

[Oakieridge]

Well the roos free ranging lasted until about 6pm and then they found my tomatos.........they won't stop eating them. So I caught 11 of them still have about 8 running loose. I told the kids I will pay $1 a roo they catch and put in the day pen my hens have been using. So tomorrow they hope to cash in on that, lol. Hopefully there is something left of my garden by then, grrrr. Also had a 8 week old guinea keet get loose today while moving them from the outside brooder to a 10x20 pen. We can't find it for anything. I just hope it survives the night so the kids can find it tomorrow.

On a better note I did manage to move the coop in the garden area to new grass with hubby's help. We moved the GS youngsters out there so I could take their smaller pen and move chicks out of the brooders. So now the only chicks in brooders is Jackson's buff brahma banty cochins.

I also learned to watch your fingers when feeding the fermented oats, lol. I am going to have to start a bigger bucket of oats fermenting. They can go through almost 5 gallons of it in one day. Right now I am only letting them have them every 3rd day or so. I would like to offer them every night as a treat so hubby is going to put his thinking cap on and figure out how to make it easier to dish out and find me a bigger bucket set up.

Well off to soak in the tub if I can beat the 7 year old to it, lol. Gotta go back to the real world tomorrow and get back to my 10 hour days.

 

[nnbreeder]

Got up early this morning and drove up to Enid to have breakfast with Teva and we usually go to Jimmy's Egg but since she was "waiting to be dispatched" we went to the Corral instead. Just got there and sure enough her phone rang but it gave us enough time to get a bite to eat anyways. The run that she had would have put her back through Kingfisher around 2 so we were going to meet at Braums and have a good lunch consisting of some kind of frozen treat.

Just as I was pulling into town my phone rang. Teva had gotten another call and had to go back to Chickasha, pick up a crew and take them to Enid so no malt for me!!

Like I really needed a malt. LOL

Taking care of birds was all I got done this weekend, the rest of the stuff can wait a little longer.

There is an old fisherman trick that can work for chicken treats too. If you put double-sided carpet tape on the front bumper of your truck or car and then drive through a pasture it will fill up with grasshoppers and then you can pick them off and feed them as treats.

 

[mjgigax]

Was good to see lots of BYCers last night @ the auction. MJ thanks so much for the hen. DD has checked on her numerous times today & she seems to be doing well. Last night she talked most of the way home. Think riding in the a/c excited her. Or maybe it was our stop @ chicken express that got her excited?
Glad we were able to being lots of guineas last night DD was thrilled her birds still brought a reasonable price. We left the auction early, since it had been a long day & we still had chores to do when we got home. Today had a guy come buy the res of the keets she had @ home, so the house is quiet for a few days. I boiled up more guinea eggs & they are soaking in olive juice. The kids eat the pickled eggs but they devour the olive eggs. Also filled the dehydrator with chopped bell peppers. Hope to get some seeds in the garden tonight In case the rain comes.
Mike if Macy gets to picking more fruit I can take it up to the farmers market on Tuesday or Fridays for her.

The Watermelon is sooooo sweet, well worth a nice hen! Now I am eating my first BLT of the summer made with my own tomatoes. Summer food is the best.

Bill and Kisa, I love my Wheaten Ameraucanas already. They are so mellow! They are already used to my dog checking them out. They were a little more surprised by the cat.

Tonight Louie, the dog, was in the big pen with me. I went out into the run to leave and called him to come with me but he stopped at the door. Carl, my top roo, and Molly the head hen were sitting on the transom and he wouldn't go thru, over or around them. I had to shoe them aside for him to come out. A neighbor's free-range bantams were in the yard Friday and Louie ignored them, was much more interested in the squirrel in nearest Blackjack. He has also been helping me heard my semi-free-rangers back into the pen at dusk these days. I still don't totally trust him after he killed a hen on a nest this Spring. Won't ever leave him alone with birds.