***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Kimbroe1981]

Prayers to all in this weather. The cool down I think helped last night. I think we're pretty much out of the woods on loosing our house. Everything around is burned, so the fire would have to come from a completely different direction. There is still lots smoldering out there.

I think we're gonna buy a newer/larger tractor or a small dozer to start getting this mess cleaned up. We've been looking at a new tractor anyways. Ours is only 28hp we really need one about 43hp for our 22 very wooded - well not so wooded anymore acres. Our little tractor is old. It's our first one ever and we bought an older one just so we could get used to using it. But it will in no way be able to do what we need to do to get this stuff cleaned up.

Luckily I haven't lost any chickens in this miserable heat. They free range and I often find them holed up way under the shed during the heat of the day.

Well I better get up and get my house put back together after all the excitement yesterday! Be safe everyone - Enjoy our "cold" front.

 

[Buster52]

Sounds like it might be a recluse bite. They aren't painful at the time of the bite, and necrose tissue at the bite and coming out from the bite. If it is that it sounds like you got quite a bit of venom, it will need to be watched for infection. Definately an ER trip.

Thanks, Kassandra. I was hoping you would chime in, being our resident ER person. And you take so many pictures of bugs I figured you must know something about them, too. My Internet research before my post pretty much confirmed what you said, so I'm heading in.

What a way to begin a vacation.

Glad so many of our BYC friends dodged the fire bullet. Makes me want to get all of my important papers, docs, and pics together in one place just in case.

Thanks again.

 

[Elbert Garrett]

Elbert-meant to ask-what kind of rooster is that in your avatar? He's beautiful.

Thanks! He was a Silver Duckwing American Game Bantam......He Cocked out at a little over 2 lbs, the hen weighed about 22 oz. The were great little birds! She was one of only a handful of double spurred hens that I have ever owned and she ruled the roost around here for along time.

 

[Kassaundra]

Well last night I earned another stork pin. A blue one. That is two for this year, everyone was well when delivered to the hospital. That was exciting and even though I am tired (long night) and not feeling well, had me in a good mood, but when I got home I had horrible news. Gary wouldn't tell me while I was at work, but appearantly we lost our little scaleless chickie doo

I am almost positive it is a local or feral house cat, we have two live traps out and have had since trapping the other cat but haven't caught anything yet.


The addage should be changed from not counting your chickens before the hatch to not counting them before they are grown.

 

[Ksane]

Oh no :-( I am so sorry, Kass. I just can't believe the horrible luck you've had.

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm not loosing any to heat or anything, just the young sub adults, the ones I really want, too. I have two sub adults that I don't care anything about, they aren't staying, they both are going to be chicken dinner when they get big enough (nothing wrong w/ them actually they are pretty black heavy bodied chicks, just don't have any genetics except size to add to the flock and I have large black NN's for that) no preditor has got them.

I really want to hatch and raise my chicks w/ a broody and keep them all in the same flock from day one and let them have as much access to the yard as possible I guess as long as I am committed to this I need to toughen up my skin. Right now letting my dogs run w/ them is not an option and won't be until Tucker is no longer here, and that is not anything I intend to rush. He is an older dog so that day will come to soon for me, but once that isn't an issue I will be able to mix the dogs and chickens and hopefully reduce the preditor issue.

I will hatch out more later this year after this evil heat subsides, but I'm still very sad over my beautiful little girl.

 

[nocityboy]

Good to see all of the BYC'ers are ok after the fires. just an idea, If anyone has clothes or other items they were thinking of getting rid of, there are plenty of people who have lost everything.

 

[erinszoo]

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x2 Hope you get to feeling better soon Buster. Those bites can be real buggers.

Glad everyone came out of the fires ok last night. Glad for once that I live in the middle of open fields. Still we keep all of our photos stored digitally and in a backpack ready to grab and run, usually it's tornados we're worried about though. We also keep all our birth certs, social cards, etc in an envelope along with it. My parents live on the edge of Stillwater, literally half a block from city limits. So far all the fires have been on the other side of town but where they are is fully wooded just across the road. Hoping they got some of this rain last night.

Not sure if our birds can smell the smoke or what but they've all been jumpy the last couple of days. The turkeys keep getting in the trees and on top of their house. And we only got 4 eggs yesterday instead of the normal 14. It did rain here last night, about 1/3 inch but I guess that's more than nothing and it helped cool things off at least for a little while. Didn't save my Hopi squash though. It's gone.

Anyone ever grown sorghum? We planted some this year just to see how it would do and it has grown great but it's weird. It put up one seed head per stalk like it's supposed to do but just as that head ripened and we were set to harvest, all of the stalks put up a second head. I've researched the net trying to find out something about it but I can't find anything. Anyone know why it might do this?

 

[erinszoo]

I will hatch out more later this year after this evil heat subsides, but I'm still very sad over my beautiful little girl.

So sorry Kass. I know how excited you were over the scaleless gene showing up.

 

[Kassaundra]

erin, this is my first year for sorghum too. Mine didn't do very well, but it was my bad, ..................................... poor placement, appearantly where I planted it the chickens wanted to use as a highway. I'm hoping for enough seed to replant next year in a better location.