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Hi everyone, I'm new here from south OKC. We lost 2 chickens in the May 20th tornado and our other 2 last night in the windstorm. Pretty disheartened. Everyone else fare ok?
 
Hi everyone, I'm new here from south OKC. We lost 2 chickens in the May 20th tornado and our other 2 last night in the windstorm. Pretty disheartened. Everyone else fare ok?
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and the Okie thread. Sorry for your losses w/ the weather. I personally haven't lost any chickens to the weather, but several okie byc'ers have lost chickens.
 
I read water meters for 3 days every month, luckily I have found only a few snakes and I read the meters in the rural part of Blanchard. I do kill about 5 Black widows a month though, they love water meter boxes.
Don't you just hate it when the grass grows so fast that you have to hunt for the water meter?



I expected to find a submerged meter, but instead I found a snake.
I used a stick to uncover the numbers to read the meter, and the
little guy attacked the stick as if it were a mongoose.
 
Hi everyone, I'm new here from south OKC. We lost 2 chickens in the May 20th tornado and our other 2 last night in the windstorm. Pretty disheartened. Everyone else fare ok?
welcome to byc, i am sorry you lost them, i am sure folks here will help you get set up again- something that i have seen over and over in oklahoma and here on byc is the compassion to help one another- always makes me proud to be an adopted okie
 
X2! glad you are ok.
At least you didn't see the cones. There is a wash out on Tripple X rd. north of 29th and the Police put up cones but some people are moving the cones, driving across and putting the cones back!!!!!!! Some, even crazier, folks are driving on the bank!

We got 11 1/4" of rain here!
 
Newcastle auction is tonight.

Kass glad you're it out of the car on your own & you are safe.

We lost an entire coop of birds last night. The wind busted it up & found only a few dead birds. They were all young birds. Tarons lavendars she ordered this spring & the birds Lucas bought at the auction. There may still be a few live ones hiding somewhere so I will keep looking. Not sure if I am going to make the Newcastle sale, have an awful headache.

Hope everyone else checks in soon!!!
Sorry about the birds!
Hope your head is better. headaches are pure misery
 
I was supposed to work tonight but no power still in that part of OKC so I went to Newcastle. The auction crowd was thin tonight. You could get very nice chicks at very low prices. Keets sold for a lot more. Three different pens of very nice Barred rock pullets went for around 17.00/bird.
 
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 I was supposed to work tonight but no power still in that part of OKC so I went to Newcastle. The auction crowd was thin tonight. You could get very nice chicks at very low prices. Keets sold for a lot more. Three different pens of very nice Barred rock pullets went for around 17.00/bird.

I should definitely try that!! The Atwoods in Norman are out of chicks. If I could find older starter pullets that would be awesome.
Thank you for the welcome! Our coop was destroyed in the tornado so I bought a temporary one and that one was messed up last night.
Does anyone go to the auction in Blanchard?
 
MJ thanks for the auction report. I saw the wooden cabinet similar to card catolog. Did they sale it? I was so tempted to put in an absentee bid, but think the new house is already overflowing & dont know where it would go! I finally got enough meds that I conquered the headache, 99% are it is just from the stress of house building. I ran about 3 dz keets to Newcastle, but didnt stay since DH needed me to get house supplies. Keets are still hatching, Taron has a waiting list for orders, but she isn't here & I can't interrupt the list--- so to auction they went.

As far as the Blanchard auction, many of us use to go. However the Newcastle sale is the larger auction for poultry. Excited the auction is coming back to Cement, sure hope it turns out to be good!!! Will be 6 on 2 & 4th Saturdays.
 
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