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[Tuck1948]

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I all I just fine and my chickening are lay eggs again

 

[miohippus]

dose anyone else have a grany smith apple trees im not sure when the fruit is ripe last year i keep weighing for them to get ripe and they all wound up falling off before i got to them i only got like 3 so am hoping this year will be different.

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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I all I just fine and my chickening are lay eggs again

Welcome::: To back yard chicken's an <<Congrad>> on your egg's mine forgot how to lay i think ..

 

[OKchkman]

So the Choctaw County Fair (SE Oklahoma) is going on this weekend. There's were some great looking chickens there. If my girls make it to next summer I think my wife and I are gonna enter a couple birds and probably some eggs.

 

[NanaKat]

I have a Barred Rock Roo already.  So I figure that he wont share his women very well....Im really hoping its a hen and not roo.  

Im def believing that I have bantam ameraucanas.  This is exactly what my blue and black chicks look like!  Now just to determine if I have 2 gals  


 

Great story about Mr. Darcy...some just have great personalities.


POOPS stands for People of Oklahoma Poultry Swap.. It is a get together that happens in the spring....one of several similar during the year.

Thank you!   and that sounds like fun!  Is it local to our area?  I know they just had one up by Tulsa area on Labor Day....

POOPS was in Newcastle this year and Choctaw last year.


Are you not concerned about a LF Barred Rock rooster breeding your bantam pullets? The size difference could cause problems for your little ladies.

 

[kmc43]

I am looking for a couple of Black Silkie hens or pullets

 

[Kassaundra]

I am looking for a couple of Black Silkie hens or pullets

What area of OK do you live in?

 

[kmc43]

Paden Oklahoma

 

[NanaKat]

We have spent four hours last night in the dark looking for a first calf heifer that's was having a lengthy delivery. She kept running back to her chosen spot or into the pond or hid in a brush pile when we tried to move her to the barn lot where we had equipment to pull the calf. She was showing a lot of blood and we knew we had to get her up and try to help her. At 11:30 pm we finally got her to follow the other cows from the back forty thru the gate and then up to the barn...or so we thought. In the dark we lost her in the Johnson grass along the way. We searched both forty acre sections with two vehicles but she was too well hid. At 1 am, we called off the search until daylight.
This morning, we searched the back forty, thinking she had to have returned to her chosen spot. When we didn't find her there, we searched the front forty. We just knew she had either bled out or had a dead calf that she could not deliver and we would have to load her out to the vet. Well, Lo and behold! we found her and her calf nestled down in a huge section of very tall Johnson grass...both just fine and the calf had suckled and was still a little damp. We have checked on them several times today and both are doing great.

Chicks and mommas are doing great also. Have six hens broody but only two are sitting on eggs. The grasshoppers brigade has expended their extermination to the front and side yards as well as the livestock lot in front of the barn and the front forty to the south of the house and the hay lot to the east....we still have huge grasshoppers! Thousands of them!

Worked a bit in the garden today and then mowed around the boxes. Looks a whole lot cleaner. the boys have been moving hay from a pasture they cut in Prague and from pastures a friend has cut. With the drought still on-going, we are buying hay to be ahead for a while. We fed over 600 bale last winter and will need at least that again.

 

[Kassaundra]

Glad that cow and calf are okay.

I am still waiting on my ankle to improve to do any yard/garden work. I have been on cherry juice for 1.5 weeks now and it is finally getting less painful. The swelling went down dramatically after a few doses, but it has taken longer to manage the pain. If it were just the pain I would work through it, but I don't want to do any damage that will take longer to heal.