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[Oceanseve]

Kassaundra, here are some pics of the greenhouse / woodshed, made mostly out of salvaged materials. Please forgive my photos, they can not even come close to the ones I have seen you post, yours are beautiful. Please ignore the medical products, I have not gotten them cleaned and put away yet, spent too much time playing in the dirt this weekend.

okay there is apparently some magic happening here.... how are those wheel barrows attached to the wall??

Good morning everyone. Just got in from checking on my goats. Got one expecting.

While I was watching them all eat I got to looking at the area by their pens. It's covered and has support beams up. And it's just a big unused space. Got two walls (its the back of the barn) and all I would need to do it put up some more tin about half way and the rest chicken wire and throw down straw and some places to roost and some nesting boxes and man. I could buy some chickens....actual chickens! Since you know according to chicken math I don' actually own any chickens since mine don't lay eggs yet. But then we would have three coops!

This is bad. What have I gotten myself into??

lol I think we all ask ourselves that!

I want to get a pea bird one of these days, just to jazz up the place a little. I love that call they do. Is that the peahen or peacock that makes that haunting jungle sound? Or is it both?

Haunting jungle sound? Your mean screaming HELP at the top of their lungs??

Bubba Burger, AKA bubbaliscous, the knucke footed calf at almost 4 weeks.

Lil Red, the new king of the chicken yard.

Awww what a cutie

Now see, I'm the exact opposite. I raise only turkeys and LF, and don't even see the point of Bantams.

Room for all of us in this thread, isn't there? Differences make life interesting. It's what makes the world go round.

I'm with you! I'm loving my turkey poults and thinking I'll be bringing my banties to POOPS, they look like finches and the orps that are more than a week younger than them are larger than them.

Anyone on here think that peacocks could be kept quite"ish" to be kept in town?

HAHAHAHA, I grew up a mile away from peacocks...... ummm... no

Hey I can dream right... I still think I will keep my keets, chicks, ducklings, and gooslings all quite... dont mess that up for me yet! lol...

Already they are getting on the noisy side.. but I love them dearly...



I am "in town" but in town in Blanchard just means well I can see the folks around me - on my block there is only two of us, block behind me there is four, other side of me three... so we are all nothing like in a city.


Moved back home to OK after a few years in Dallas - that was crazy and stupid and I will never ever move there again... makes me love everything about Blanchard - nutty city and all.

Did you know if you don't have a roo a hen can start "crowing"? It's not quite the same as a roo, but still loud. Loud enough it caught the attention of our neighbors when we were in town. That's part of the reason we decided to give up our flock back then.

 

[mefordz]

Chicken !

uh uh, smart!

 

[mefordz]

i have gotta quit playing with chicken colors, i got chicks hatching that god is the only one could possibly tell you what color they are gonna be.

BUT IT SURE IS FUN!!!!!!!

 

[BetsyOK]

Awhile ago I was feeding and didn't get the door closed as well as I thought o the guinea pen; one squeezed out and Shiloh got it. It got away several times, and I was about to go in and get Vashi to help when she came around the poultry complex with it in her mouth. It got away a couple of times more, but she kept trying to keep it away from me. She finally obeyed "Leave It!" and put it down, allowing me to get it. It is one of my few slates; my favorite color.

I don't think it is badly hurt although its back is skinned and bloody. I was going to put it in an isolation cage within the guinea house so the others wouldn't react to the blood and to keep it quiet, but when I got inside, it suddenly jumped from my hands and ran to its mates. Didn't even get a chance to treat it with anything. I was hampered greatly by two things; it is still hard for me to move fast with these two new and painful knees, and I had two newly-hatched Silkie chicks in the "portable brooder" (down my shirt front).

Buddy (our Sheltie rescue) had taught her to leave the guineas alone, and our old flock could mingle with the two dogs with no problem. But when we lost Buddy and then all but two of our flock to raccoons, I replaced them with new birds and knew she was much too interested in them. I've been keeping them in most of the time as they are a combination of three different groups and we keep Shiloh on a long chain when they're out. She's only a year old, so we may still be able to convince her the guineas are not for her. She fortunately doesn't have the killer instinct to break their necks.

 

[Oakieridge]

okay trying that Tap Talk thing on my phone hope it works,lol.

Blanchardok, I will be at Blanchard next week but will miss the next Newcastle one since I am hosting my nieces babyshower.

Nana that is looking like a seriously nice coop your building!!!

Carl thanks for the update on the eggs. I have to share, we built one of those A frame chicken pens. The entire time we were building it Nathanael would say "thats not how Carl's is", lol. (I will post pictures of what we got done today when I get home).

Well kids will be getting out of youthgroup in a few so gotta run. hope to finish reading the thread when I get home.

 

[BlanchardOK]

NoCityboy is the current animal control officer for Blanchard, he can tell you for sure if they are even allowed. From what I hear you do not have to worry about the Council Members, they cannot even agree to have a legal meeting!

Good to know - and saddly that is the least of the councils worries I hear.

 

[BlanchardOK]

Yes I know one of the hens will go "crowing" on me - but also will take care of the flock... at least that is the plan.

oakieridge - Where will you be in Blanchard next week? or should I say what for...

 

[Oakieridge]

Yes I know one of the hens will go "crowing" on me - but also will take care of the flock... at least that is the plan.

oakieridge - Where will you be in Blanchard next week? or should I say what for...

We will be there for the auction on Sat. night. You can't miss my hubby and his shinny bald head and we usually have at least one or two kids with us.

 

[nocityboy]

There is not one right now.. just with my city council dont want to give them a reason to start one either! Man .. would love some peacocks but I really dont think that I want tooo many noisy fellows No roosters here... at least right now. Not that my neighbors would mind but the city is the issue..

The little guys and gals I have right now are doing amazing - feels good to have fowl again... and a veggie garden, and fruit trees... it is really what I moved out this way for!

You don't have to worry about the City Council at this time, they are in to much of a power struggle to do anything. The only concern would be the possible noise which you could be fined for, the complaint would have to come from nieghbors, the city can't do anything if no complaint is made.

 

[nocityboy]

I want some peafowl. I'd love to hatch some eggs out. I discussed that with my daughters last night. I live in the country. Not many neighbors. But unfortantly they sold the field accross from my house. Now we are going to have a housing edition built there. Really sad about that. I thought if I did get some peafowl and the buyers heard them maybe they wouldn't want to live there. ....My birds where here first. Ha-ha. But that's just wishful thinking. I was really enjoying not having to see people out here.

If it is ok for you to have peafowl now, and they rezone because of the edition you would be grandfathered in. They could not nmake you get rid of anything you have before the rezoning.