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[Cjarvis]

Out for now, need to go work over the birds, worm, dip, cull and re-arrange a few pens. Will check back in later.

 

[Buckguy20]

Where is the sale this weekend?
I have far too many Blue Rosecombs and some extra cockrells and young pairs that really need to find some new homes, need to thin a bit and make more room.

Blanchard tonight.

 

[Cjarvis]

Blanchard tonight.

Ah, was hoping it was Newcastle.. ow has the market been at Blanchard? Willing to take a bath this time of year but not give things away and spend $$ to do it. I do that right here.

 

[BlanchardOK]

So far Blanchard has been fair - games go for the highest but nothing like it was back a few months. Still a crowd there though

 

[Buckguy20]

Ah, was hoping it was Newcastle.. ow has the market been at Blanchard? Willing to take a bath this time of year but not give things away and spend $$ to do it. I do that right here.

I haven't been to Blanchard in a long time. I think prices are generally down across the board. I know it was slow at the swap this morning.
I got my truck going again and I still plan on coming to get the cage sometime soon.

 

[Oakieridge]

Well got some done today, not as much as I wanted but it is to hot to be outside for long. Got two pens of birds moved, all but 4 of the pens got shoveled out and new pine shavings put down. Waterers and pens sprayed down with Oxine. Kurt our 15yr old may loose one of his Partridge banty cochins. She is acting weak. I got her to drink a tiny bit of water and moved the trio to a brooder with a fan to help cool them off in case it is the heat getting to her. They are such sweet birds I hope he doesn't loose one of them.

I didn't get much done in the garden compared to what I wanted to get done but it is just to hot even with the sprinkler going.

I turned out 4 Wheaten Maran roos to run the yard. I kept one back with the pullets but the others are just going to be tick eaters.

Well off to grab a shower and meet up with hubby for dinner.

 

[myby]

Any idea if I can get a good deal on a wood shed in the Tulsa area? I need to built a coop but I want to start with a small shed.

 

[Cjarvis]

I haven't been to Blanchard in a long time. I think prices are generally down across the board. I know it was slow at the swap this morning.
I got my truck going again and I still plan on coming to get the cage sometime soon.

I don't expect top dollar for young bantams right now, these are some nice ones but the cockrells are too young for the fall shows but would spring, I just dont need 50 cockrells for the spring shows. I will hold over a few but in general many need to go due to thier sex not anyother reason.

As for the pen, its in the same place it was and you are more than welcome to come get I move it to mow then put it back so it's ready when you are. Out of the weather and out of the way just waiting for it's owner.

 

[erinszoo]

Morning

Looks like this is going to be a long day. DH is out of town for a retreat, but the neighbor's cows are in-front-pasture for A Treat. Some time after I put the goats away last night the cows decided our grass and what they didn't destroy in my garden the last time were too much to resist. I am going to wait until it's light to move them back to their own space (and then mend the fence). Herding with a flashlight makes me look like a frantic marshaller on a doomed airstrip. I don't want our other neighbor to see the light and think I'm being attacked by coyotes.

This means STOP YOU SILLY COWS! HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!!!!

This means BACK AWAY FROM WHAT'S LEFT OF MY TOMATO PLANTS AND WALK IN AN ORDERLY FASHION BACK TO YOUR OWN PASTURE.

This is the response I will get. It means ANYTHING YOU SAY, SWEETIE. JUST GIVE US A FEW MORE MINUTES TO FINISH THE CARROTS AND WE'LL BE ON OUR WAY.

Too funny!!

Last night after I was ready for bed I discovered that someone had forgotten to unplug the light in the chicken house, so in my pajamas I march out back to take care of it. Well before I got it unplugged I heard a strange noise coming from the chicken yard and the ducks were making a ruckus so I thought, after our encounter with a possum last month, that I'd better check it out. When I got there I found three of our young rabbits, who have a pen in the corner of the chicken yard, having escaped their own pen, are having a grand play date in the chicken yard. I caught them all fairly easily and got them back in their own pen but as I was scratching my head trying to figure out how they had gotten out, I realized I am still missing one rabbit. In all this time I've been out there I had only used the light from the chicken house to help me out so I went back to the house, now sweating in my pajamas, and got a flashlight to scan the yard for the rabbit.

Since our hay bales sit on pallets the rabbits have a couple of times gotten under the pallets, so I crawled on the ground with the flashlight, still in my pajamas looking under the pallets for the rabbit ... but he wasn't there or anywhere else in the chicken yard. This time I called my husband out to help me. Luckily he wasn't in the shower yet. So here we are after midnight at this point with a flashlight out in the yard looking for a rabbit. Our first perusal of the yard didn't turn up the rabbit so we decided to figure out the problem in the pen and fix it. Luckily it was simply a panel that had come loose and we got it fixed pretty fast. Then we went back to searching for the rabbit when we heard a noise in the neighbors yard. Peering over the fence with the flashlight, we see our little rabbit scurrying across their yard.

So, we go back in the house and get the gate key to the alley and go creep into our neighbors back yard, in our pajamas, with our flashlight and chase that bloody rabbit around for 10 minutes before we caught it finally by cornering it. Meanwhile, at least four different neighbors back lights popped on during this ordeal ... but no one called the police. Thank God.

After that, today has been completely uneventful in comparison. Broody hen still sitting on her nest, turkeys basking under the mister, garden wilting in the heat, ... but I think it's about time some of these little rabbits were sent to freezer camp. I am not going on any more night time hunts in my pajamas looking for them.

 

[cathiesue]

Best advice i ever got was
'buy lots of pajamas that you think your neighbors will like seeing you in"