***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[artsyrobin]

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that sounds like us!!!

hey guys- if anyone is heading to muskogee anytime soon, Elwood has a gosling for me, if we can get transport...

 

[Poco Pollo]

I'm waiting for the oven timer to buzz, so I thought I'd check in.

City - It was really great to see you. I think some of my regulars were going to ask if we were sisters. They gave both of us a good staring today. (I hope they weren't focusing on my no=makeup, drive-dried look this morning. Next to your neat appearance I must have looked like a refugee.) Keep me posted as to how your new ladies settle in. They are both amiable and should warm up to you quickly. You made a lot of folks envious. I'm happy you were able to stick around with your pullets "on display" so that people can start thinking about next hatching season.

 

[tgperg]

Here's my Domique rooster Kirk, and two of his hens, Ms. Pac and Blinky.

Traci

Edited to add: Just noticed there's a ten week old cockerel in the background. That's Lieutenant Liebovitz.

 

[DuckLover2399]

Wooooo HOOOOOO any okies out thier have runner ducklings.

 

[Greybear23]

Well was outside loading scrap and Jessie came out and asked if we had hit a gas line or something, I ask what she was talking about because we are total electric!!!! Said she smelled a strong gas smell in the house, I walked in and immediately knew what it was!!!! A stink bomb went off in the bator!!!! Yep!!! I had put some eggs from under a hen in there and evidently one was old!!!! LOL We cleaned out the bator, sprayed it with frebreeze and Put eggs back in!!! It took care of most of the smell!!! Later this evening I checked and had another guinea hatched out!!! 12 out of 12 guinea eggs that I got from Poops!!! Whooo hoo, there were a few lavenders in the bunch too!!! My tooth has hurt some today but not like it has. Set out in my chicken pen and watched the REDS today for a while, am trying to integrate a few off colored birds into their flock so was letting them mingle for a while, had to intercede a few time as the Reds were being a little over bearing. Will put them back in for a while tomarrow, when I left out of the pen today, we put all the new ones in a round wire pen out in the middle of the pen so they could see each other but the other could get away when they wanted. Had a pretty good day, think I'll kick back and watch some tv. Have a good night all!!! Lynn

 

[Greybear23]

Welcome home Doc!!!!!

Lynn

 

[poultryand bees]

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Mary's Swap is really a huge flea mkt located on the NW corner of NE 23rd and Midwest Blvd. in Midwest City. Vendors start setting up before daylight and some continue to set up until about 9 am. The poultry is usually all on the North East corner of the flea mkt and most vendors start taking their stuff down about noon and are gone by 1:30.

In my experience with chickens being traumatized by something, I had to physically put them in the coop for a few days until they get over their fright. Once they have had a bad experience at night, they don't want to go back to the "scene of the fright."

 

[artsyrobin]

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love the names!! so you let them freerange all the time?

 

[poultryand bees]

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I have brown runners and blue runners. I have not had much luck in hatching them in the incubator this year, however. I just put runner duck eggs beneath a determined turkey hen, in hopes that she will have better luck than my incubator.

 

[poultryand bees]

I came home from Blanchard before the auction was even getting into full swing. Lots of hatching eggs - with few bidders and certainly none that wanted to pay very much for hatching eggs. There is a lot of junk setting on tables around the barn, some of which they are going to sell tonight and some of which will be for another day. It is left over from an estate sale last week.

It was WONDERFUL to see Doc and Peaches this evening. I thing Doc deserves an award for having traveled the furthest distance to attend the auction

There were some other BYC folks this evening - AL, Carla and Gerald, MJGigix, OkRaceFan, Elwood Lightfoot (thanks for my tarantula

) and some others. I bought some eggs for the new incubator and brought this tired person home.