***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Kassaundra]

Granddaughter's team won their soccor game 5 - 0...played a Norman team.
We went by Lowe's and bought more screws and two screen doors....easier to get the $20 doors than to build them....Pictures of the hen house expansion:
The boys are framing in the east wall. It will have a door where they are standing. I love the PVC wall on the south. We put that in several years ago. It lets in the light, but keeps out the summer heat. The water cooler is already installed in the window on the south..can't see it in this picture. The concrete floor in this side will be easier to maintain. The older section has a dirt floor and deep litter.


In this second picture, you can see the framework for the north wall. The tin wall to the back is the east wall of the existing hen house. Most of it will be removed when the new walls are skinned. There will be a screen door on the right side of that wall leading from the old pen into the new pen. There is a shelf unit already installed on that wall for two 30 x 45 x 24 inch cages with pull out trays. That is a brood cage on top. To the left of that shelf unit is the floor open in the next picture.


This is the floor pen. It will have a screen door. The pen is 4 ' by 6.5 feet..It will have 1' square wire like the cage the first two feet and then 1 inch chicken wire to the ceiling.


We got the east and north walls skinned today and will work on the east door...it will be tin skinned also. Then the boys will finish the electrical, finish the gaps, and we will begin taking out the old wall and install the chicken wire divider and the screen door. I want to be able to cool the whole area in the summer months with the water cooler...made such a difference last year when the temps in the barn were holding at 90 when it was 115 in the shade outside.

Will post a few more pcitures to show the progress over the next two days.

How awesome!!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh and how could I leave out the guy trying to stop hwy traffic w/ a chainsaw at 2 in the morning.


Anyone else catch the theme here, almost all my most stupid in action moments have been coutesy of a guy ................................ just saying!

 

[jcatblum]

Well I was not happy with the Elgin auction. We bid on a lot of three Barred Rock "hens". One was obviously a roo but we bid anyway. When we went to pay they couldn't find my paperwork. After going back and forth for awhile we found out the guy backed out. He didn't want to let them go for the price. The auctioneer said there was a misunderstanding. We talked to the guy and finally decided on a price a wasn't thrilled with for the two hens. He clearly had them marked as three hens he didn't correct the auctioneer when he called them three hens. He totally acted like it was a roo during these new negotiations. I bought them because my little boy had his heart set on them after all this. I know I'm new to chicken auctions, but I used to go to furniture auctions all the time and I think he should have put a minimum on his birds or at the very least said so at the time of the bidding that it was too low. Everything this man had in the auction he backed out of either at the time or after the auction. I will go back to this auction. It is closer to my house then most of them.The hens are really pretty though and look healthy.

Glad you were able to get the birds. There was a few people pulling lots of stuff & The auction crew is still learning how to run the auction. I think it will improve. Did you take the roo? Did the guy say they were bantam? Bantams would work best while you are still in town, since bared rocks can get HUGE! They looked small for the roo to already have such developed feathers, only reason i thought they might have been bantams. They were pretty birds. Even the roo. I really liked the single roo that went for $2. He had nice colors & beard but he looked lethargic, and I wasn't bringing home a sick bird even if it was pretty.

 

[jcatblum]

Nana I think you are going to need more birds when you finish building! Looks like it will be a nice setup!

 

[BBAcres]

They sure do grow fast!!! I like taking photos....lol

 

[Buster52]

Well I was not happy with the Elgin auction. We bid on a lot of three Barred Rock "hens". One was obviously a roo but we bid anyway. When we went to pay they couldn't find my paperwork. After going back and forth for awhile we found out the guy backed out. He didn't want to let them go for the price. The auctioneer said there was a misunderstanding. We talked to the guy and finally decided on a price a wasn't thrilled with for the two hens. He clearly had them marked as three hens he didn't correct the auctioneer when he called them three hens. He totally acted like it was a roo during these new negotiations. I bought them because my little boy had his heart set on them after all this. I know I'm new to chicken auctions, but I used to go to furniture auctions all the time and I think he should have put a minimum on his birds or at the very least said so at the time of the bidding that it was too low. Everything this man had in the auction he backed out of either at the time or after the auction. I will go back to this auction. It is closer to my house then most of them.The hens are really pretty though and look healthy.

It's called PO, although I don't know what the initials stand for except maybe "Pull out"... or maybe "P___ Off". Anyway, I heard a least one PO that the auctioneer seemed to ignore, so maybe it wasn't the guy's fault.

And buying a trio (a roo and two hens) is generally considered a good think. You get the hens, and you get to make more of them. When I take a pair (roo and hen) or a trio, I won't let the auctioneer split them. They go all together or not at all. But usually with a PO, the auctioneer talks back and forth between the winning bidder and the seller to try to find a price they can both live with.

The major fault I found with the auction was the sound system. And not just because I'm half deaf. My wife has perfect hearing and she couldn't understand them. The accoustics in the room are bad, so they need a better sound system.

I could tell this guy is an experienced and trained auctioneer, though. You don't pull a cadence like that out of your hat. I think they are the folks who used to run the Alex auction. I think some of the confusion and disorganization tonight came from the newness of this particular auction, people's inability to hear, and the organizers' surprise at the size of the crowd. I expect it to get better. I'm certainly going to support it. I get 2 free ads in the Cotton County Electric Coop newsletter each month. I'm going to place one for these guys.

The other one goes to my meat bird business.

Give them time. It will get better.

BTW, sorry I missed you. I saw Christina, but missed you. I also saw Al and another friend Ronnie, who used to sell eggs at the Lawton Farmers Market, there adding yet more hens to his 1,000+ hen flocks.

 

[jcatblum]

Buster-- I talked to Ronnie for a while. He doesn't want to sell eggs at the farmers market anymore. Since they are forcing everyone to get a sales tax number he said he was out! I should have introduced you & army wife, sorry- it was pretty crowded to sit & visit much. I got blocked in my seat & didn't want to have others get up so I could walk around & chat.

 

[nnbreeder]

Oh and how could I leave out the guy trying to stop hwy traffic w/ a chainsaw at 2 in the morning.


Anyone else catch the theme here, almost all my most stupid in action moments have been coutesy of a guy ................................ just saying!

I really like videos on Youtube, especially drunk Russians. There was one where a dude was climbing a tree and his buddies chopped it down with him in it. They must get better Vodka then we do.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

It's called PO, although I don't know what the initials stand for except maybe "Pull out"... or maybe "P___ Off". Anyway, I heard a least one PO that the auctioneer seemed to ignore, so maybe it wasn't the guy's fault.

And buying a trio (a roo and two hens) is generally considered a good think. You get the hens, and you get to make more of them. When I take a pair (roo and hen) or a trio, I won't let the auctioneer split them. They go all together or not at all. But usually with a PO, the auctioneer talks back and forth between the winning bidder and the seller to try to find a price they can both live with.

The major fault I found with the auction was the sound system. And not just because I'm half deaf. My wife has perfect hearing and she couldn't understand them. The accoustics in the room are bad, so they need a better sound system.

I could tell this guy is an experienced and trained auctioneer, though. You don't pull a cadence like that out of your hat. I think they are the folks who used to run the Alex auction. I think some of the confusion and disorganization tonight came from the newness of this particular auction, people's inability to hear, and the organizers' surprise at the size of the crowd. I expect it to get better. I'm certainly going to support it. I get 2 free ads in the Cotton County Electric Coop newsletter each month. I'm going to place one for these guys.

The other one goes to my meat bird business.

Give them time. It will get better.

BTW, sorry I missed you. I saw Christina, but missed you. I also saw Al and another friend Ronnie, who used to sell eggs at the Lawton Farmers Market, there adding yet more hens to his 1,000+ hen flocks.

I could hear ok, but I did hear a lot of other people saying they couldn't hear. I was standing up maybe that helped. I will go to this auction again as I said. I believe in letting people work out the kinks in anything new, and it is fairly close to me. I was standing right by the man that was selling the birds and did not see him say anything about them not going high enough. I think he could have made himself more clear. I think I was more upset with the man selling the birds then the people running the auction. However, they seemed a bit lost about what happened at first. I think I will just be happy I got some pretty birds, and be glad there is an auction near me every month so I don't have to drive 2 or three hours

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Buster-- I talked to Ronnie for a while. He doesn't want to sell eggs at the farmers market anymore. Since they are forcing everyone to get a sales tax number he said he was out! I should have introduced you & army wife, sorry- it was pretty crowded to sit & visit much. I got blocked in my seat & didn't want to have others get up so I could walk around & chat.

Maybe next time. It was good to see you though!