***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Kassaundra]

Nope. I haven't left OKC today. Did run to get a coffee at Dunkin Donuts and a Sonic drink for the hubby though. Why?

I saw a woman at the wally world there and was wracking my brain trying to figure out why she looked so familiar when it dawned on me (hours later) that she looked like you, and I was hoping I had not actually seen you and didn't say hi.

 

[NanaKat]

Going back to check out the past 50 posts....
Spent today pickling!
Sweet hubby mowed the garden for me and ran to town for more jars so I could stay after it
10 quarts of Sweet Pickle slices
11 quarts of Sour Sweet Spiced Whole pickles
4 1/2 gallons of Whole Kosher Dills
All from a bushel of small and medium pickle cucumbers Started at 9:30 this morning and finished cleaning the kitchen at 9 pm...and washed three loads of laundry and cooked dinner and did the chicken run for food and water and spraying the pens..
I'm pooped!

 

[mjgigax]

8.20am Monday am, I'm just going down to let out the crew. Wish me luck, I may not survive all the nasties you guys were kind enough to alert me too!!! If I can survive the trip, I will come back and prepare myself for the bushfire, flood or cyclone which is no doubt looming! Oh well, at least I have GREAT neighbours who love the sound of my rooster crowing!

Are tornados very common in Australia, and if so, where? Oklahoma has some really big ones.

 

[BlanchardOK]

Anybody on here know how to get a farm permit? What do you need and what does it cost to get?

 

[jcatblum]

Anybody on here know how to get a farm permit? What do you need and what does it cost to get?

Do you mean farm tax card? For that you go to the county assessors office. They look @ how much land you have & some people say they ask a few questions. They asked us how many acres we had in production & if we were running cattle. Told them 10 acres in hay & she was happy enough to not ask anything else.

 

[BlanchardOK]

Got ya yes that is what I was needing to find out J and J auction told me my little land here in chickens and rabbits should qualify - going to call over there and see.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

When we called last week the lady said anything under 5 acres would be questioned, when we said chickens and bees she said the bees don't count at all, the chickens we had to have more than a certain number, like 25 or something? Don't know. Anyway we only have 2/3 acre and she said we could apply but doubted they would approve us.

 

[Buster52]

And Buster scores again. Got this setup tonight for $900. Not a great price, but it will look good at my place and certainly do the job. Besides, it came from one of the sustainable broiler pioneers of Oklahoma, so it has a strong legacy and will be put to good use.





Pickwick plucker ($8,885 retail) with professional turkey size scalder ($2,295 retail) in the background, along with two turkey frier type scalders in the far back.



Big professional style evisceration table with all the fixins... except her moron sons and grandson ripped off half the fixins to get it through the door, rather than use a wrench. Easy enough to fix, though. Retail $2,495. Very nice.



Awesome kill cabinet that can hold 20 birds at a time and uses shackles rather than kill cones. Cabinet $2,850 retail, shackles $95 each.




I now have two complete processing systems, enough for my home, and enough to build a mobile processing unit to share with friends. Not bad for a day's work.

 

[Buster52]

Anybody on here know how to get a farm permit? What do you need and what does it cost to get?

Easy peasy. County assessor's office will ask you some questions, the tax franchise board sense you your card. I was ready to argue with them, since according to the feds I'm officially a small farm given our on farm income, but there was no need. She raised her eyebrows I had no tractors or cattle, only chickens, but the board approved us no problem.

It is free.

Some moron legislator is trying to change all this, though. Wants the majority of your household income to come from farming. Most farmers now days have to work off farm to make ends meet, though, so that nonsense didn't make it through committee. It would definitely favor the big farmer.

 

[nnbreeder]

Well, the neighbors are at it again. Only now they decided they can complain about our chickens. They said our bantam rooster crows too much ... it only crows when they start messing around in the driveway and against the fence next to the chicken house. We can't even hear our rooster crow in our house (and they never go outside except to do yard work) but it certainly doesn't make as much noise as their constant (every other day) mowing and weed eating. Besides as long as they aren't crowing between midnight and day light, the city won't do anything. We've already talked to our city code enforcement who gave us the thumbs up for our birds so the neighbors can just whine all they want. It's just a big pain in the rear end to deal with the constant harassment from them. They also said their coop smells horrible, which is doesn't. Sure it smells like chickens and in the 108 degree temps, what do they expect exactly? We clean it once a week and put down fresh straw every day. It's better than their gas exhaust from the generator they've been running next to the coop and the smells of acetone and ammonia coming from their yard that are strong enough to make us all sick to our stomachs. I told them the smell was just going to get worse because I was moving my compost pile to the driveway beside their house and they started screaming that I couldn't do that. Funny, but they keep telling me I can't tell them what to do on their side of the driveway so why do they think they can tell me what to do on my side of the driveway ... that they insist isn't a driveway ... and they want to grow grass on ... but that they now have a car parked on so we can't even get into our driveway ...

. I heard once that you can't put sense into a fools brain and now I guess I'm finding out the truth of it.

I would give just about anything to have a farm and move out in the country right now!!!

Ammonia and Acetone? Living next to a crack house are you?