***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[TaraBellaBirds]

Well you know that you can always come here for some rousing conversation if there is anyone on. At times there have been a dozen or so folks on here haveing many seperate conversations all at the same time!

I've been following this thread for a few weeks and I'm still trying to unravel the conversation.....I feel like I am interrupting

 

[shelbydog]

Funny when I saw that I thought you might jump in.

I had the same thought Muesky. $22 is cheap! I am still kicking myself for letting those Faverolles go at what was it $35 or $40 a piece?

Funny story! Local Italian Restaurant had me chuckle and so did this turkey.  Turkeys crack me up. So dual purpose, chatty and fun, but your camera makes a brave attempt at trying to make this turkey attractive but to me they are jus the ugliest creatures in the universe. They really belong in Sci-fi, alien style movies.

I love the story too! We go to get langshans and end up being in love with that Tom. He was such a handsome fellow and very tame.

On the faverolles....there is breeder in okla and I'm on waiting list for pullets and can't beat the price.

 

[NanaKat]

Jack's Ameraucana with the frost bit feet is looking a little better.
If the Vetracyn works I will truely be impressed. Last Summer Jack had a Cockoo Marans cockerel get pecked down to the bone on his head. About 1" square area was degloved. I sprayed  Vetracyn on it, soaked it good with the gel formula just one time, and it healed. He has a funny-looking comp and skin around his eye but is fine.

- I was interrupted in sending this post - A guy knocked on our door and said the ditch in the woods across the road was on fire! By the time we got out there our yard was on fire too and so was Jack's. It got to within 8' of his house and shop and a good bit of the woods burned too.
 -  Fire Dept. put it out. It was started by a neighbor South West of us who was cooking something in his smoker.

That is more excitement than I like.

Roger said "oh man! I'm so glad she and Joe were there." He has know Jack since high school.
Glad everything was okay.

 

[muesky]

EEEKKKK- i was trimming shastas beak she jerked, cut too far and can't get the bleeding stopped, i've tried flour, new skin- what else will work? its the tip of her botom beak, she is a crossbeak

Goldenseal powder is good for clotting blood..

The overhead fluorescent lights in the auction barn are a photographer's nightmare. I took four photos of the frizzle Cochin roo, and this is the only one that wasn't destroyed by the lighting. Sorry it's not clearer. The auction crew were moving around a lot, trying not to freeze.

That hen sure is nice!!!

Roo is okay but kind of small compared to my boys... Next weekend is Newcastle auction.. Taking the bantam cochins to sell and one of my bourbon red toms (he is already sold

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Thank you so much for that insight. So far most of the bantams are gone to the neighbor kid. It was a huge lot of roosters. Ugh! We ended up keeping one of them since it was small and I can't stand to get rid of another (yup you guessed it) Cochin. I LOVE THE FEATHER PANTS!!!! LOL! I can't get enough of it! Especially when they are scratching and their fluffy butts are in the air! HAHA!
Oh, the cochin roo was walking like he was marching because it appears that he has hurt his foot somehow. I don't know how or when or what but I'm keeping an eye on him until he goes to someone else. He is so docile. He is going to make someone a great rooster... just not me. I plan on getting some vitamins and give them all that (wouldn't hurt since the auction birds are kinda thin). Just still not sure about my lav orp roo... I have looked it up more and some say vitamin deficiency others say Mereks...

@hotcurltr : I guess I missed what your talking about... I didn't take any offence to anything you have ever said on here (whether it is to me or not I haven't really thought twice about it). I'm not sure what you are referring to to be apologizing for.

I myself have ALOT of anxiety for these animals myself and I appreciate all advice! I am new to this still so I am learning as I go.

Someone said they were laughing about the rabbit thing. Oh my, I am actually laughing myself! It's crazy when you go to an auction and what you bring back! Only my husband decided on two adorable baby bunnies... that at any other time would have told me "no" if I asked for them. Now that I don't want them because they smell SO bad I would rather not have them but the kids adore them. Heres the kicker is that I think one is male and one female. I DO NOT want baby bunnies!!!

I so love feather pants!!!!
Not sure what is going on with your roo but I doubt it is Mereks.. That is really rare.. Vitamin defiency, wormy or maybe ate something that has made him sick... Would be the first things I would address..
Also if the rabbits smell, give them a bath.. Rabbits should never stink.. If they stink something is wrong with them or they are really filthy which is totally not a way a rabbit likes to be..

Here's a summary of yesterday's Chicken Adventure.

Three young ladies traveled great distances to interact with poultry and poultry lovers in the great state of Oklahoma. They danced with a handsome turkey, rejoiced when they bought lovely Langshan pullets from a warm and generous couple, and expressed awe and admiration when given a tour of the pens constructed by a teen poultry prodigy, who sold the young ladies stunning white wyandotte pullets at a very reasonable price.

Dinner followed at a local Italian restaurant (Pizza Hut), and the ladies enjoyed pasta, salad, and chicken wings (with TWO dipping sauces).

The highlight of the evening was a poultry auction combined with a freezing-temperature endurance test. The young ladies complained loudly about the cold, but they endeavored to persevere and stayed at the auction until they collected the birds they had battled for and won in hand-to-hand competition with other poultry admirers. The hand-to-hand competition requires competitors to raise their hands until their pocketbooks make lifting a narrow piece of cardboard too painful.

Jack's Ameraucana with the frost bit feet is looking a little better.

If the Vetracyn works I will truely be impressed. Last Summer Jack had a Cockoo Marans cockerel get pecked down to the bone on his head. About 1" square area was degloved. I sprayed Vetracyn on it, soaked it good with the gel formula just one time, and it healed. He has a funny-looking comp and skin around his eye but is fine.

- I was interrupted in sending this post - A guy knocked on our door and said the ditch in the woods across the road was on fire! By the time we got out there our yard was on fire too and so was Jack's. It got to within 8' of his house and shop and a good bit of the woods burned too.
- Fire Dept. put it out. It was started by a neighbor South West of us who was cooking something in his smoker.

That is more excitement than I like.

OMG!!! I am glad you all are okay.. The neighbor is liable for any damages... Just saying!!

What was wrong with them? Sorry if that's a dumb question but we raise turkeys and have chickens too and have never had that kind of problem so I'm curious.

We spent yesterday cleaning out pens and the chicken house. Ugh is all I have to say. After all these weeks of snow and cold, the warm weather is very welcome. We got a set of meat birds the end of October thinking we would process them while our son was home over Christmas break, but then my hubby started working a second job and every time we turned around we had more snow and ice ... so the meat birds are now pretty hefty creatures still pooping their way through bales and bales of straw. Sigh.

And all the bitter cold has made us have to coop up the birds indoors ... which leads to a wet floor, wet straw, wet muck on wet muck on wet muck.

But on the positive side, at least my compost pile is cooking well. The steam is rising from it.

The goats ... anyone have any tips on stopping aggression in a male goat? He's not real bad but if he takes a notion to butt someone, there is nothing we can do to deter him. He usually comes to us for treats and will run around the yard without bothering anyone, but as soon as we try to get him to do something or go somewhere we want him to go, he starts in butting and rearing. When he was smaller we would just grab his horns and drop his head to the ground and hold him for a minute or so than let him go and he would leave us alone. But that no longer works. He is too strong for my daughter and I to hold any more. Our girl is wonderful and sweet and passive. She lets me do anything I want with her and touch her all over. She's okay with my daughter too but she won't let my husband feed her. Weird.

I have hear of that with turkey babies but have never had it happen before with my birds...
As for icky coops I am going to clean mine out next weekend..

pretty much sums it up..
For the goat problem I have to agree with Les on that one.. A goat that does that is a danger and there is really no way of breaking them of it, as far as I have heard. I had a goat who would rear up but it was part of our game we played and he never tried to hurt me.. Sure miss him, Pan was a great goat and to have him stolen really sucked...

 

[NanaKat]

I hope someone in the BYC gets it because I sure hate to see it just setting there empty!
We have some really neat hatching memories. Grace was always so precise in making sure everything was running just right and she hatched a lot of birds but that was another lifetime ago.

( I haven't been on here in a long time and forgot that I should have quoted instead of reply) That is why this doesn't make much sense. I was talking about Grace selling her Sportsman incubator. (;0)

It is good to see you and Grace back on....and NNBreeder too.
Someone is speaking to their spouse about the incubator....and they will let
Grace know.
I have three incubators...incubating in the two Hovabators and hatching in the Little Giant. ...so far 11 have hatched and the last three are pipped. The next batch of 25 go to the hatcher tomorrow.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Any suggestions in Tulsa area for somewhere to buy food grade DE? I know I've heard before just can't remember...

 

[TRUE5]

Any suggestions in Tulsa area for somewhere to buy food grade DE? I know I've heard before just can't remember...

The only place I know to get it around NE OK is at Tractor supply. Not sure where there are around Tulsa though. I got mine from Pryor.








EDIT: Please pray for me all... I am in SO much trouble. I finally figured out my ultimate favorite breed (a little late now and feeling a bit obsessive. HA!). If anyone knows anyone that has any standard size Cochins that they want to sell, I might be interested. I would actually like to trade one of the buff girls I just got from the auction if someone has another color I'm looking for... just putting that out there in case you or someone you know is looking for a pretty buff 8 mo old pullet... now to search for an OK breeder... here goes that chicken math again!!!

I still have the cockerel if someone wants him for FREE ... just don't tell my husband I said that.

 

[Kyzmette]

Any suggestions in Tulsa area for somewhere to buy food grade DE?  I know I've heard before just can't remember...

I got mine at Tractor Supply.

 

[Kyzmette]

Coral paints a lovely picture of the auction. It was a glorious day to spend with amazing chicken people. The chicken time was great, but time with Dusti and Coral, eating chicken wings, drinking coffee, and trying to keep our toes from freezing off, was the BEST! If the old adage about cold hands holds true, the smell inside that auction house wasn't chicken poop... it was the freshly roasted hearts of chicken people.

 

[NanaKat]

Quote:
True5, I have Blue, Black and Splash Cochins and am setting up the breeding pens this week because the girls are laying again. The eggs I have hatched so far are half Cochin/half Wyandotte. This mix makes a great layer that doesn't go as broody as the full Cochin and they make great mothers. I have one order for Cochin eggs so far and will be hatching soon.