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[ashtree]

Can anyone give me more info on the Poultry show this weekend. When. Where ect

This Saturday in Norman at the fairgrounds. Starts at 9.

I've had kind of a crappy chicken day. DH sweetly surprised me with bantams from Atwoods, the last of the bin. So you know what that means right??? All boys. I can't be 100% sure yet, but I'm about 80%. It's just such a bummer. I don't know what to do with them. I'm so frustrated.

@lonnyandrinda so sorry about all the loss you've had with the bcms. They are not a cheap breed! I'm sure you know that

 

[artsyrobin]

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there is also a serama show this weekend-

 

[kelielliott]

ISO a sizzle or frizzle bantam. Is anyone breeding them who is fairly close to Okc?

 

[Sagetown]

Anyone have problems with Copperhead snakes bothering their chickens?
Just before dark this evening as i was about to lock up the chicken coops in the barn, there was this beautiful adult Copperhead just waiting for me inside the utility pen. I saw him as I reached for the gate. He never moved as I slowly moved down the corral and climbed over into the pen with him, and a garden rake hanging on the wall. Probably the meanest pit viper in these parts, I cautiously approached him, and he never offered to retreat. I slammed the back of the steel rake on him, pinning him down, as he lashed at me as he could with those little fangs jutting out.

Anyways, I've never seen a poisonous snake in a barn. Usually just rat snakes, and that's only in the springtime. This guy was 15 feet from my 5 week old baby chicks, peeping, and getting ready to go to roost. Man; and here I've been going out there in the dark, w/o a flashlight. Gives me the creeps now that I think about it.

 

[ashtree]

ISO a sizzle or frizzle bantam. Is anyone breeding them who is fairly close to Okc?

I have a little black cockerel frizzle if you're looking for a boy.

@sagetown eeek. Sounds like you handled that like a pro. Way to save those chicks! I've yet to see any snakes here.

 

[JacobH]

Anyone know of an atwoods near Tulsa that has chicks?

 

[erinszoo]

Anyone have problems with Copperhead snakes bothering their chickens? 
Just before dark this evening as i was about to lock up the chicken coops in the barn, there was this beautiful adult Copperhead just waiting for me inside the utility pen.  I saw him as I reached for the gate.  He never moved as I slowly moved down the corral and climbed over into the pen with him, and a garden rake hanging on the wall.   Probably the meanest pit viper in these parts, I cautiously approached him, and he never offered to retreat.  I slammed the back of the steel rake on him, pinning him down, as he lashed at me as he could with those little fangs jutting out.  

Anyways, I've never seen a poisonous snake in a barn.  Usually just rat snakes, and that's only in the springtime. This guy was 15 feet from my 5 week old baby chicks, peeping, and getting ready to go to roost.  Man; and here I've been going out there in the dark, w/o a flashlight.  Gives me the creeps now that I think about it.

its getting cooler. The snakes will be moving anywhere its warm now. Copperheads scare me more than rattlers. At least they rattle. I've never seen one take a chicken, but a baby chick might be fair game as they kind of look the size of mice and I bet you have a heat lamp for them too.

 

[greenbeetle]

Anyone know of an atwoods near Tulsa that has chicks?

Atwoods in Broken Arrow still have chicks, was in there yesterday. It is located on 71st and County Line Road.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Anyone know of an atwoods near Tulsa that has chicks?

Atwoods in Broken Arrow still have chicks, was in there yesterday. It is located on 71st and County Line Road.

So does the one in Coweta. Saw them about a week ago.

 

[BetsyOK]

Atwoods in Sand Springs was advertising chicks in he paper this week--may have some left.