***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[ladyokie]

if you girls dont stop with all this clandestine activity you are gonna get in trouble!

meeting on lonely country roads or beside the interstate in the middle of the night to make a pickup, ya'll got some serious secret agent stuff goin on!

you puttin "contracts" out on possible predators in your area's yet.

a bunch of black minivans with limo tinted windows, buncha gals in black trenchcoats and mirrored sunglasses listening to each other on earbuds, plotting the demise of the neighbors cat because it "dissed" one of their chicks!

using chicken wire for hairnets is their "tag". each one carrying a small bag of "scratch' around for party favors.

oh man i am in soooo much trouble now, i have pointed out all their secrets!

if none hears from me again, i am probably ground up into a bag of shaveings!

Careful there!! You may know too much. Tell any more agency secrets and we may have to silence you!

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

ty. you make some pretty neat posts on here, i see.

hey back atcha!!!!!!

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Ksane, I'm not sure if you were on the thread when I had the two chickens I had to mercy kill or not, but it was excessively traumatic for me. But I went into the corner and licked my wounds for a while and came up w/ a new plan. Not sure if it will work either, but I tried to address the main issue I had w/ the actual killing, I think once I get past the killing the processing won't be as psychologically hard.

We just had to put down two if the chicks that were sick with the upper respiratory infection. There is a third one that was barely showing symptoms but she seems to be getting worse now. They weren't getting better and weren't growing. The one that got sick last was way bigger then them. Every chick from that batch had it. The bigger chicks that I got the same day and the Buff Orpington that was the same age that I got that day seem perfectly fine. Could they have been born infected?

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

i am working on gardening too. i'm making plans for a new small batch of chicks too... and guinea maybe if we can find her eggs. no trees for me, may be moving, may not be. we got blueberry plants.

I've been spending my time in the yarden and working on building the new recycled coop. Making plans for a new small batch of chicks. Also researching fruit trees to see what I'm going to plant this year in the way of trees.

 

[jcatblum]

Yesterday all was good. Went out earlier & noticed a whole tray of eggplant & ground cherries had been eaten! The leaves were gone most of the stems were still healthy looking. Also a few tomato plants had leaves missing. Upon further investigation I found aphids!!!!
Stupid bugs!
I sprinkled garlic powder & de on everything. The de is suppose to kill them & garlic deter them. Guess we will see how much more they mow down be morning.
Tomorrow I am going to remove all my plants from the hoop house & spray them with the hose several times. Clean the ground of the hoop house & cover everything in DE again. I am guessing the heavy rain made all the aphids seek shelter in my hoop house. So mad at those BUGS!!!
Think we are processing roosters tomorrow too. Depends on how long my bug battle last.

 

[Kassaundra]

i am working on gardening too. i'm making plans for a new small batch of chicks too... and guinea maybe if we can find her eggs. no trees for me, may be moving, may not be. we got blueberry plants.

I want to get some blueberry bushes, but I need to move my raspberries first and didn't get to that yet this spring, so now I'll have to wait for the blueberries.

 

[Buster52]

Buster -- I have a girl that I use to be part of the food coop I had in Lawton. She bought birds from Grady & would like 25 birds. Pm me your info I will pass it along-- and I am thinking you may need to order more birds!

Excellent! Will do.

I think you are right about ordering more. These birds are selling themselves and I haven't even started marketing them yet. There might not be any left over for me!

They arrive Thursday or Friday of this week, BTW.

 

[Ksane]

if you girls dont stop with all this clandestine activity you are gonna get in trouble!

You're just jealous because we're wild women who like to live dangerously

Ksane, I'm not sure if you were on the thread when I had the two chickens I had to mercy kill or not, but it was excessively traumatic for me. But I went into the corner and licked my wounds for a while and came up w/ a new plan. Not sure if it will work either, but I tried to address the main issue I had w/ the actual killing, I think once I get past the killing the processing won't be as psychologically hard.

No, I didn't know about that. I worked for a lot of years for a vet and we put down thousands of animals. It's not the actual killing of them that bothers me. If I had a needle and could inject each bird with SleepAway and it would peacefully die I could do it. But to take my bare hands and slit their throat, ring their neck or cut their heads off? I can't for the life of me imagine that.
My husband has had to use the gun on a couple that were clearly suffering and not going to make it, thank God he's able to do it because I can't. I could process birds all day long and it wouldn't bother me a bit as long as they weren't my birds that I'd raised.

We just had to put down two if the chicks that were sick with the upper respiratory infection. There is a third one that was barely showing symptoms but she seems to be getting worse now. They weren't getting better and weren't growing. The one that sick last was way bigger then them. Every chick from that batch had it. The bigger chicks that I got the same day and the Buff Orpington that was the same age that I got that day seem perfectly fine. Could they have been born infected?

I don't think they could've been born infected. But it's sure easy for babies to get sick. The whole batch could've gotten a big dose of exposure and the ones who didn't get sick were exposed to smaller amounts of the virus or bacteria (probably virus).

 

[Imma Okie]

I have been trying in vain to order some squash seeds called zucchino Ranpicanti, or trombocino, or vining zucchini. I should have already done it, but am behind already. They seem to be out of stock everywhere does anyone on here have any extras of these seeds?

You could try Kerr Center. They may be able to point you in the right direction.

Kerr Center for
Sustainable Agriculture
P.O. Box 588
Poteau, OK 74953
Phone: 918.647.9123

 

[Buster52]

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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.

Okay, I've been informed by an informed source that I am mistaken. These folks at the Porter Hill auction did not run the Alex auction. That was somebody else. I never made it to the Alex auction, actually. I did swing by there too late just as they were packing up one day and met a guy who looked a lot like this auctioneer, but it was apparently not him.

Just wanted to correct my misinformation. Carry on.