***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Ksane]

Hey, does anyone know directions to the Blanchard auction? I was thinking "Newcastle" in my head and that's where we've ended up at. So I need diections to the Blanchard one :-D

 

[gigiok]

Hi Erin! Have fun with the goats. They are fabulous animals. We have had pygmys and Nigerian dwarfs for three years now and I've learned so much. We love them dearly.

 

[NanaKat]

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.

Hubby takes Uloric for his gout now. he has been on Indomethicin in the past. The spells used to just cripple him ...he would have to have help walking to his car at work and would have to use a cane. He hasn't had a serious attack in seven years ..... Knock on wood. Certain foods would trigger it ... asparagus, potatoes are a few. Look up purine levels in foods. He can eat a baked potatoe if it has sour cream to balance the purine level.

 

[OKchkman]

I'm so egg-cited....So back in April we started our chickens over with 2 Americaunas, 2 RIR, and 4 NHR. I have been telling my wife that I wanted to expand our 8' x 12' x 6' enclosed pen to have an adjacent 12' x 13' x 6' enclosed pen. I've been gathering palettes to use as fencing. Here's a pic to give an idea.


(I was standing on a ladder) In the bottom right is the roof of the chicken's house and moving up the right side of the pic is the existing pen. Anyway, you can get an idea of what I want to do by seeing where I've got the palettes set up. We are gonna paint the palettes white like picket fence and for the top covering my mother is giving me a whole bunch of chain-link fencing with the poles. I'm getting a couple bails of hay and some grass seed this week. After I get the fencing overhead and the "palette picket" fence up I'll have to buy some chicken wire to line the inside so predators can't reach through. I prefer the vinyl coated wire. By the time I get the whole thing enclosed the chickens will have some lush, green grass to munch on with plenty of bugs.
In addition to this expansion I have had my eye on a cabinet that had been sitting in a vacant house's carport for a while. I thought to myself that it would make a great chicken house. Well I saw a guy cutting the yard there today. I stopped and asked if I could have it and he said sure. I'll post a picture tomorrow because it's still in the back of my truck. It's awesome!!!! My plan is to be able to get about 8 more birds in the spring so I want to have plenty of room for them.

 

[Kassaundra]

Hubby takes Uloric for his gout now. he has been on Indomethicin in the past. The spells used to just cripple him ...he would have to have help walking to his car at work and would have to use a cane. He hasn't had a serious attack in seven years ..... Knock on wood. Certain foods would trigger it ... asparagus, potatoes are a few. Look up purine levels in foods. He can eat a baked potatoe if it has sour cream to balance the purine level.

This is my first flare in years. If I can keep it under contol w/ cherry juice and diet I'd rather do that and so far I have, this attack just came out of nowwhere, I need to be more strict about my diet.

 

[mjgigax]

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.

Wonderful outcome for you heifer and calf!
I have been feeding Jack's sheep while he he is taking a break from getting on his scooter to heal a stubborn compression sore. The ewe that I have helped with delivining lambs, (twice), HATES me. She won't get closer than twenty feet of my bucket. The ram will almost eat out of my hand.

We went on a spur of the moment road trip yesterday. Went out for breakfast with a plan but found out about the Amish School Auction in Clarita. We got there at 1:30, the poultry sold at 8:00 am, but enjoyed the tractors, food, crafts and antiques. We saw Fall apearing aacross acres and acres of round bales. Will definately leave well before daylight net 2nd Saturday in September.

 

[shelbydog]

Someone posted last month or so about the Drumright Swap....here's the status report from this morning's swap....of the chickens there it was mostly gamefowl and bantams and of course roosters. Someone had some pretty Phoenix pairs.

 

[Jeansrie]

Updated pic of one of my tolbunts. Maybe I should take them to an auction, but I have never been and would have no idea what to do or what to expect.

 

[Ksane]

Updated pic of one of my tolbunts. I have had NO interest in them, I'm really surprised - I figured less than $30 a bird was pretty reasonable! Maybe I should take them to an auction, but I have never been and would have no idea what to do or what to expect.

Are they boys? If they're girls I'll take them in a heartbeat. I'm assuming they're boys though and it's hard to place boys this time of year for anything other than Sunday dinner, unfortunately. The price is just fine, the problem is people don't want to pay that much for Sunday dinner they have to grow out :-/
Now, if I'm wrong and they're girls.....you have a buyer lol

 

[NanaKat]

You might go to the Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri threads and let them know you have some. Perhaps someone across the state line would be interested in driving down or meeting you somewhere.

Not a happy camper today. something took the head off one of the keeper cockerels during the night. Had to have gone over the 2x4 inch wired and post fence to get into the pen. Do skunks climb? That's the only critter I can think of that takes the head and neck and leaves the carcass.