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[jcatblum]

I couldn't agree more. We could form a Lawton cooperative (you and your DH, me, Ronny, Boyd, etc) and help one another process our birds. I couldn't process your birds for you, because of how the regs read, but there is nothing that says you can't have help. In fact, it is encouraged that you have trained help. Don't know if you caught my earlier post about it, but we now have enough equipment to have two full processing setups, so we are looking for a trailer to build a mobile processing unit. Just haul it over to the place where the processing needs to take place and go to it.

We could supply the Lawton area with all the broilers it wants!

I saw where you were able to get the other set of processing equip & hope to "train & assist others". You could be onto something good for the spring. We have 4 commercial brooders, so could potentially get a batch started a few wks earlier than this yr. I will let you know if I hear of any trailers for a good deal. Craigslist is always a great place to start. Do you have a guess on what size trailer you need? Working on my grant stuff for constructing the greenhouse right now. It is going to take a lot of prep work to get everything ready for the application, but it will be worth have 5K in accessories. Trying to include the washing station & produce crates plus anything else I can think of that will be needed to use the houses.

 

[Ksane]

I could really use a ameraucana roo- send me a pm if interested.

Mitzi my tapatalk disnt work with BYC for a month then worked for a wk -- past 2 wks hasn't worked! It works with another forum I use-- never any issue. It is for sure a BYC compatability issue.
My chickens have already retreated to their coop for the day. They said forget free ranging. They want to lounge under the fan. I have maybe 3 or 4 that are laying under the flat bed trailer.
The meat birds are not an awful price, but seriously how do you put chickens in a brooder when it is 110 degrees??? How would they even survive shipping to our parts?

TapaTalk drives me bonkers with BYC. It works fine elsewhere for me also. But now the Wifi magically started working again, it's been out since Saturday. The tech guy was new and I don't think he knew what to do and was just answering phones all weekend. The other tech guys probably saw the problem 1st thing this morning and fixed it.
When I got my Orloff pullets (I love love love them!!!!!!) last week I had to specify "no males for warmth" and buy the $1.75 ins instead. No big deal as far as $1.75 but why on earth would they put males for warmth in to go from Texas to Oklahoma in 107 degree heat last week??? These are the coolest calmest healthy chicks, they're adorable.

 

[jcatblum]

Mitzi I am glad you are enjoying to new chicks. I too would have a hard time understanding them adding packing peanuts this time of yr. We have really enjoyed our broodies raising keets. Chickens make great guinea mommas! The bonus is they are taking the keets out to play, and teaching them where home is without me having to train them.

 

[jcatblum]

Totally forgot!!!!!!

Buster & anyone else~~~ got some insider info that the $1 hen sale is coming soon. I know they seem to do it at least 1 time a yr. The hens are about 18 months old. they are a little over 2 hours away from me, I just cant imagine transporting those birds in this heat. Not sure how many birds I could fit in the back of the truck if I did go, figure we would need to buy at least 100 to cover gas. If anyone decides to go & pull a trailer up there LMK & maybe we can work something out. Taron wants some more egg layers of course, since we don't have enough chickens or spend enough in feed already!
There contact info is
fisher ag enterprises: 918-367-6382

 

[Tony O]

There is an ivy like vine that grows around here that has thorns as bad as a Blackberry. When we were cutting cedar over by Mulhall I made my base cuts in a huge cedar in the bottom of a canyon that was covered with this Ivy. The tree started creaking so I laid down my saw and went to make my exit. As the tree leaned it tightened the vine on the back side, where I had to make my exit, and I ended up having to go through that stuff. Took Teva the better part of an hour to pick the stray thorns out of me and I looked like I had gotten into a fight with a weedeater!

Does it have sort of rounded, two toned, splashed type leaves? If it’s the one I’m thinking it is, it’s very people un-friendly.

Makes a huge impenetrable thicket and does climb trees. Remember the story of the Rabbit and the Briar Patch? (“Please, whatever you do, Don’t throw me in the briar patch!!!”) I’d bet that’s the thorny vine that your talking about.

 

[MacGuyver]

Totally forgot!!!!!!

Buster & anyone else~~~ got some insider info that the $1 hen sale is coming soon. I know they seem to do it at least 1 time a yr. The hens are about 18 months old. they are a little over 2 hours away from me, I just cant imagine transporting those birds in this heat. Not sure how many birds I could fit in the back of the truck if I did go, figure we would need to buy at least 100 to cover gas. If anyone decides to go & pull a trailer up there LMK & maybe we can work something out. Taron wants some more egg layers of course, since we don't have enough chickens or spend enough in feed already!
There contact info is
fisher ag enterprises: 918-367-6382

Wait, what?? Thank you for the number. I want some of these hens.

 

[Kimbroe1981]

It's HOT!!!

 

[erinszoo]

Thanks for sharing the broiler special Greybear. It sounds like a good deal to us although I'm not sure about raising broilers in this heat. I guess it would eliminate the need for a brooder lamp, huh? We could just put the brooder out in the middle of the yard and it would be heated perfectly. Processing in 7 weeks would be interesting though, I think that's fair week and I have to judge. Oh well, maybe next time.

Worked early today in the yard. Got everything watered by noon and got the new turkey pen set up. Their house isn't finished yet but there's only so many hours one can work in these temps. The turkeys spent the afternoon in their new digs with the mister blowing away at them while the chickies got to relax in the a/c of their house. Then came in this afternoon and got all the tomatoes up potted for fall planting. Still waiting on my other fall seeds to get here. I could have driven to the shop and picked them up and driven home faster than they mail them but not cheaper for sure. Hope to get apples worked up today. They've been sitting on my dining room table for so long now the cats have started to play with them.

And tomorrow I work all day. I like my job I just wish I had more of it than one day a week. It would help the income situation immensely since hubby isn't working now. Sigh.

 

[NanaKat]

Taking a break...have 21 quarts of tomato soup starter cooling.
Dinner is about ready, just waiting on the corn...corn on the cob, cantaloupe, tomato salad and pulled roast pork with gravy and whole wheat bread.
Then I have a bushel of okra to pickle.

It is 114.9. Whew.
The cracks in the ground are from heat not the two eartquakes we have had today...one at 2:35 am near Prague and one at 2:35 pm 2 miles east of us. At 3.0 it really shook the house and frightened the dogs. Hope it didn't upset the eggs in the incubator. Just put them in lockdown this morning.

Hope everyone is okay with all these fires around...sounds like some folks lost their homes. Sure wish the state would put out a statewide burn ban when the rain slacks in May and release it in the fall. Of course, we have had some late droughts in the fall too. We have been without rain now for 6 weeks. Guess the insurance companies are going to have to get into action to take the decisions out of the county commissioners hands. the fires in Earlsboro were simply due to no burn ban in Pottawatomie County when the counties around it were officially on ban.

We called and increased our insurance on hay today...upping the number of bales insured from 350 to 750. We have it split up in different locations. If half of it burns and the insurance company puts a check in our hands, we will not be able to find the hay to replace it with the drought conditions. So we would end up taking half our herd to market.

 

[Buster52]

Totally forgot!!!!!!

Buster & anyone else~~~ got some insider info that the $1 hen sale is coming soon. I know they seem to do it at least 1 time a yr. The hens are about 18 months old. they are a little over 2 hours away from me, I just cant imagine transporting those birds in this heat. Not sure how many birds I could fit in the back of the truck if I did go, figure we would need to buy at least 100 to cover gas. If anyone decides to go & pull a trailer up there LMK & maybe we can work something out. Taron wants some more egg layers of course, since we don't have enough chickens or spend enough in feed already!
There contact info is
fisher ag enterprises: 918-367-6382

I'm in.

With some creative packing and the right crates and carriers, I can pack 25+ birds in the back seat of my toyota corolla. No telling what I could get in my Ram conversion van. The trick would be to leave at zero dark thirty and get there as early as they would take us, like 7 or 8, load up and be home and unloaded before it gets unbearable hot.