***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Ksane]

Nana, it's true lol I always want to bring that point up when people have a fit over caponizing without anesthesia. If done right it's over way fast and the birds are no worse for wear. I've watched circumcising and I'm fully convinced that's why teenaged boys are so ornery. They're paying their parents back!

 

[Ksane]

Matt, I didn't answer your post the other day because I don't have a clue where to get Bantam Wyandottes and don't know anyone at all with them. Don't feel bad when someone doesn't answer. This thread goes so fast.

 

[NanaKat]

JUst saw on the geese thread that someon in Oklahoma is getting four juvenile greys from Iain Utah...who is the lucky person?

 

[NanaKat]

Guess not..... never mind then

I don't have any bantams...you might PM DGibson. I think he still has some CW bantams. He hasn't been on the Okie thread in a while but lurks and visits the Buckeye thread a lot.

 

[NanaKat]

Reposting this because I still can't get these pictures to post in a PM and they aren't in my profile album!

Has anyone had trouble submitting photos on private messages?
Keeps telling me the photos didn't load.....
I'll try here:
Color comaprison Buff Columbian OEGB and Buff Columbian with Blue feathering

May be a pullet and a cockerel




The birds with the blue feathers are much younger than the BC pullet but are definitely a different color.

 

[michaeldaugherty]

Nana nice looking bird's not manny of the blue tail ones around i seen some blue tail japs the other day at Eric Southerlands

 

[Ksane]

Jeez, it's so unbelievably nice out I had to go get pictures. I'll just post a few. The 1st 2 are the only 2 I've got left out of my very 1st hatch, my Cochin girls. It's heartbreaking that this is all I have left out of the 8. Then the last 3 are the Brahma girls, Lavender Ameraucana girls and LF Faverolles boy that Carl hatched for me last March. Mike, if you see this picture, this cockerel is out of the Fav hen I got from you and that Faverolles boy I got at Newcastle that I was so thrilled to get last December. The yard the Brahma group are in under this one huge tree is big roots and rocks in 80% of it, I love how it looks actually and they seem to like it, too. The only grass is at the front of the fenceline.
I was using different camera settings to try to get clear shots but the only ones that turned out clear were the Cochin girls.

 

[Oakieridge]

Good Morning all...lots cooler this morning. We got a trace of rain last night....at least it measured in the rain guage.
Already baked a plum cobbler and fed the chickens.
Waiting on a call from a dozer man to come clean up one of the ponds and extend the dam so the pond will run into another pond insuring they will retain more water. With the drought, this is a good time to get these projects completed....before we get more rain

Why is it when one appliance goes on the fritz, another one bombs ou?
Had to buy a new dishwasher this week...delivery on Friday. It was 16 years old. But have an appliance repairman on the way to check my 23 year old double sided fridge...its dripping water out the front of the fridge side...may be a cracked reservoir. At least let's hope so...would rather not have to replace two appliances in one week....of course Sears is running a 20% off sale. The one I liked was on sale for $2100.

prices have really gone up.

Speaking of higher prices...our cattle cubes went up again to $372 a bulk ton from $332which was up from $271 on June 27 ..so that's $99 in 6 weeks. We have started taking hay bales to the outer properties...Prague and Paden...and will begin bringing those herds home. If we are going to have to feed them, we may as well do it here and save on fuel. Then we can begin the sorting process for market. Calving season was later this year because of the drought last year because cows were later coming back in heat and we took herds out with a bull later. So, we will have calves old enough to wean later than last year. If we get rain, we can take dry cows back to the outer pastures again to eat new grass.

I have to buy chicken feed this week too.... don't even want to think what it is going to cost. .

We did that Sat. and it was $300 for 15 bags of pellets, 3 bags of chick feed and 2 bags of oats.

 

[Oakieridge]

What are the red barrels used for..... ?

Right now they are just fence posts but they will be used for fermented grain soon. I just need a few days at home to get them started. We will put 5 gallon buckets (with holes drilled in the bottom of them) down in them filled with oats and then fill around that 5 gallon bucket with water add some ACV and some brown sugar and let it stew lol.

 

[Oakieridge]

Your fence turned out WAY straighter than ours lol i'm almost OCD when it comes to getting fence lines straight and some of mine are driving me nuts every time I look at them.

Well that one went really smoothely compared to some we have done. But it is a temp yard we put it up with the red barrels and those push in fence posts from Lowes. We want to be able to move it as they wear the grass down so we don't burn up one spot to much. They coop is a 12x8 dog pen that was covered in sheet metal. We can move their pen and yard the way it is set up now without to much fuss. We will just roll the wire back up and move the coop/pen to a new grassy area and then put the yard back up. Takes about 1 1/2 hours to get it done but well worth it to keep them on grass.