***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Kyzmette]

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Doggoneit, due to multiple issues which shall go unmentioned which recently culminated in a spectacular dive off my porch steps (which would have netted me at least a 9.2 in the Olympics), I have almost no PTO left at work, so taking a week day off is just out of the question for me. I'd love to come help, but maybe we can do that June Saturday thing. I would really love that! Oh, and sorry about your terrible, awful, horrible, no good, very bad day. Great big hugs! And sometimes screaming really does help. I actually did it about two weeks ago. I hit that point where I stormed out of my house and out into the trees and yelled curse words for a solid minute. And then I was better and could actually focus a little more. Sometimes the frustration builds up like a fog around our brains, and we have to let it out in order to see things a little more clearly. Mitzi, I’m so sorry you lost your babies! I hate that the fox had to die, but the only option you had was to trap and rehome it into somebody else’s back yard. Dusti, how adorable are those babies?!?! Congrats! Captain Jack, welcome to BYC! Pull up a chair and jump right in! And just to let you know… we have no BS around here that we are aware of. Nor do we have sense of humor. This is actually a fantastic thread with a lot of great people who very rarely ever even look cross-eyed at each other. Unless we go to an auction together and one of the others buys the chicken we want. Then there’s a lot of cross-eyed looks and stuck out tongues. (And swearing, but don't tell the others I said that about them.)

 

[Kassaundra]

it's so perfect is it done by machine

I don't know of any mechanical way to do counted cross stitch by machine it is one painstaking "x" at a time. I've done some w/ over 100 diff colors of thread to get the "perfect" look.

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm new here but I'm glad I missed all the apparent b.s., lol. I am new to chickens, just starting out w 2 RIR hens & a small tractor coop for the moment. I live in Tushka, just North of Durant & south of McAlester.

from Henryetta, and

and the okie thread.





I have to ask ...................... as in Harkness, or Sparrow?

 

[Kassaundra]

Went to the butterfly Papillion in Muskogee today after my workout, it was a little disappointing b/c it was so cool the butterflies weren't active really hard to get any good pics of them. I will go back for sure, probably many times over the summer.

 

[mjgigax]

Yes, a beautiful garden is a pleasure to share with your coffee in the early morning hours....and your loving partner.

Yes, and I agree with Roger, watering is a good way to unwind.
My garden and chicks seem to be the way I am getting thru the end of the school year with out just loosing my mind. I'll come home from a long day and change clothes and head out til dusk. Last Friday, after a very long week, I came home and was outside til I couldn't see and the next morning I went out with coffee, was going to just do one little thing and was still out there at 11:30. Funny thing was, I was still in my P.J.s!

 

[mjgigax]

My bearded ladies t shirt is in the designing stage. Just waiting for the mock ups to be sent to me.

Kass, need tshirts for you that says 'I like em naked'.

Yesterday, I got Blue and Splash NN chicks out of the hatcher. Nine have bare necks and some few bowties. Two more of the NN chicks have feathered necks.
Eleven is not as good a hatch as I would like - 17/18 eggs were fertile but several pipped but didn't make it. That is really still is a lot of chicks since I am only keeping one or two pullets. I will bring some to POOPS.

 

[bardies]

Look at what I found!

Goodness, from far away, I thought that it was an exotic yellow and black python or something. Still have predators on the brain from Ksanes horrible news.

The fires last week evidently displaced a lot of wildlife. Something got one of my Araucana girls right after that then 2 nights ago something killed and ate most of my beautiful 2 yr old Lavender Bantam Ameraucana boy :-( Him and his brother were in a completely closed up and roofed pen. I found where a possum (probably) could've squeezed through but he'd have had to spend some time finding it. Made me sick to lose him, he was one of my favorites. His brother and him had always lived together. Whatever it was also got ahold of his brother and yanked most his feathers and some skin off his side. I have no idea why it didn't manage to get ahold of the 2nd one. So the remaining brother got to go into a yard with the 4 capons and 15 girls, he's loving it. He keeps flirting with the capons but I don't have the heart to tell him they're not girls.
Then last night right at dark when we locked birds up my husband found this fox in one of the chicken yards!! We both felt really bad he had to kill it but we all know he was there for chicken dinner. I've never seen a fox around here in over 20 yrs so it's got to be the fires that drove them this way.
Here's the Bantam Am I lost and his brother, his brother is a Silver Duckwing (just called Silver in Ameraucana). Neither color is easy to find and both are/were the sweetest tamest boys.
(Below that is the picture of the dead fox, so don't scroll down if that offends you).









(Edited for spelling)

The fox was beautiful - what odd coloring. Sad, but it was an ours or them kind of thing. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

 

[subhanalah]

The fires last week evidently displaced a lot of wildlife. Something got one of my Araucana girls right after that then 2 nights ago something killed and ate most of my beautiful 2 yr old Lavender Bantam Ameraucana boy :-( Him and his brother were in a completely closed up and roofed pen. I found where a possum (probably) could've squeezed through but he'd have had to spend some time finding it. Made me sick to lose him, he was one of my favorites. His brother and him had always lived together. Whatever it was also got ahold of his brother and yanked most his feathers and some skin off his side. I have no idea why it didn't manage to get ahold of the 2nd one. So the remaining brother got to go into a yard with the 4 capons and 15 girls, he's loving it. He keeps flirting with the capons but I don't have the heart to tell him they're not girls. Then last night right at dark when we locked birds up my husband found this fox in one of the chicken yards!! We both felt really bad he had to kill it but we all know he was there for chicken dinner. I've never seen a fox around here in over 20 yrs so it's got to be the fires that drove them this way. Here's the Bantam Am I lost and his brother, his brother is a Silver Duckwing (just called Silver in Ameraucana). Neither color is easy to find and both are/were the sweetest tamest boys. (Below that is the picture of the dead fox, so don't scroll down if that offends you). (Edited for spelling)

think it could be a coywolf?

 

[bardies]

Apparently Tuesday is a repeat of Monday for me... $500 to replace the radiator in my van, puppy chewed up a nice crate I left in the chicken yard because of the rain, lost another mottled orpington juvie last night, goat managed to pull down and chew on an extension cord, and I had a shed full of dead and dying chicks because one set of brooder chicks knocked their door loose and another brooder I forgot to set the pin in the door after putting in a larger lightbulb last night to keep them warm. GAH I am so frustrated today. And honey season is here and I'm not prepared, all the frames and boxes I was prepping got drenched in yesterday's rain, and we are closing on our old house in two weeks and I have no idea how or when we are going to finish moving the things we still have up there. And because of the cold I have a metal trough in my laundry room full of stinky 3 week old chicks that I don't dare leave in an outside pen until the cold passes. And I need to do laundry so bad. This is not my week. I would scream it I thought it would help.

Actually, when things pile up like that (ssssooooo very sorry about it all ....I've had most of those things - but luckily spread out - not all at once), anyway....when there is so much and so little that you can actually do except damage control for the fallout..... Go outside, or inside, and scream for as long as you can, as loud as you can. It does add a level of stress release. Not sure of the physical or chemical wherefores or whys but I've used it a time or five, and it helps. I often feel enough 'recalibrated' so that I can clearly prioritize the issues, and understand what I CAN do about each, and then actually start to do them. It helps to get through the overwhelmed feeling.

Good luck! and hugs

and sympathies for your multiple (and in progress) losses

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[bardies]

Hi Captain welcome to the group. I've been here for over a year. Not sure which BS you are referring to. I have not read the older okie threads.

Be sure to check out the Poops event thread!

With our open topic mentality....could be anything!