Okies in the BYC The Original

[Teach97]

PO means the seller passes and doesn't sell them...some places chage you a buck or so on items like that others don't.

Howdy all!

Coops...i understand that Henny's Mike is getting to be a good builder as is Al!

It really is amazing how easy they are to build and rewarding it is to do the work!

I gotta make am auction...if nothing else so I can steal stuff from Carla!

Sounds like I better wait till the bantam hatch though!

Nana - this too will pass!

Poor little feller

 

[okcarla]

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Thanks Teach ... I wasn't sure what PO actually stands for .... thinking maybe ..... pull out, pass out ..... ????

Yep Teach, you need some bantam chicks. I think we may have some hatching soon from the last auction we bought eggs at. Gerald said he bought more bantam cochin eggs and some blue oegb eggs and some bantam cochin chicks. I surely have some bantam something you'd be interested in.

I need more brooders! I wonder if Monty has decided to sell that one he bought at a garage sale yet ????

Does anyone have any rabbit hutches they want to sell? I need more for my bantams! Anybody build them?

 

[Teach97]

Well we are currently getting creamed by baseball size hail!

Carla - yes I do need some...don't have any more hutches but i bet I could be convinced to build some and trade! Got a few aroiund I could copy..will get out pics...if I have anything after this storm passes

My garden is getting trashed!

 

[okcarla]

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Oh I'm so sorry about the hail! I was looking at the radar & was thinking you might could be having a bad thunderstorm right now.

I like to look at this website for the national view of the weather: http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php There's lots of pretty colors on it tonight!

You bet we could do some trading on rabbit hutch type cages for birds! We even have lots of construction material laying around here from when our neighbors built their house & offered all the excess material to Gerald for cleaning it up. Lots of 2 x 4's and siding material .... but I sure ain't handy with a hammer & nail & Gerald isn't gifted in that dept. either.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Teach, do you have your vehicles under cover?
Between driving through hail yesterday morning and then getting hail at home this evening, you have had more than your share of hail the past two days.

All the eggs I got from TJ's nana and Bill are in the incubator - and I didn't have to clean up another hovabator to do it. This morning, when I took the newly hatched poults from the incubator, I forgot to put the hatching eggs back in.

Anyway, I heard one still peeping so put the ones due to hatch tomorrow back and in and tossed the older ones. I guess one benefit of this weather and closing the barn where the incubators are, is that it was warm enough to keep the eggs viable all day long.

I did go ahead and move the eggs that are due to hatch early next week down to the hatching trays. I had turkeys hatch in the turning trays last night. oops! I guess the calendar on the door isn't too helpful if I don't look at it and think about what the dates mean.

 

[okcarla]

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Me too! I was too busy today before work to do anything about the poults & chicks hatching, so I just turned off the turner and left 'em all in there. Poor little things falling from the top rack to the bottom of the incubator

 

[Buster52]

Rookie questions about the PO thing...

So if the seller passes, is that it? Or is the buyer given a chance to meet the price the seller is willing to let them go for? I also sometimes see the birds go straight to the high bidder. Our RIRs were given directly to us prior to purchase. At what point would the seller have had an opportunity to PO them?

I keep thinking about Al's comment that the Bourbon Red poults were PO'd. I assumed at the time it meant they were sent to the auction via the Post Office, thinking "Well, that's conventient."

The high bid was $5 for the poults, which I assume was too low. So what would have been a good price to let them go for?

 

[okcarla]

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http://www.blessyoumovie.com/

 

[okcarla]

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When the seller PO's, usually the auctioneer will ask what the seller has to have for it ... and then the buyer has the option of paying that amount. In the case of the Cement auction and the bourbon red poults, Gerald and I were the sellers and the bid was actually only $4.50 when they "sold". Gerald PO'd them and said we had to have $5 each for them, which the buyer chose not to pay. It was a good thing, because we sell turkey poults out of our house for $8 each, and are currently sold out of the bourbon red poults except for a few now that we are holding for a fellow Okie. Bourbon red turkey poults sell for over $9 each from the hatcheries, the hatcheries require purchase of a minimum of 15, and then charge for shipping ... so $5 each would have been a steal for them. I probably paid more than $5 each on the hatching eggs I bought last year for all my breeding turkeys (taking into account all the eggs that didn't hatch and the shipping costs, etc.)

I've got more turkey poults hatching this weekend ... I'm just not sure what varieties of turkey eggs I put in the incubator a month ago.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I think PO means "pass over" as in just pass over that high bid and give them back to the seller.
Yes, the seller is usually asked what they "need to have" for the article and if the buyer wants to meet that price, the sale is made to the buyer. The seller has to indicate immediately at the close of the bid if they want to PO something. They don't get the chance to think about it and once the item is passed to the buyer - the seller can't decide the price was too low.

Rather than try and sort out a lot of the smaller items after the auction, items that are small enough to hand over are usually given to the buyer after the bid closes. Sometimes, a buyer will be successfully bidding on so many things, a stack or grouping of their stuff will be started off to the side - it depends to some extent on what is being purchased. The more expensive things are usually claimed by the buyer right then, unless is something like a saddle or a gun, which might be taken to the office until it is paid for.

$8-10 would be a more reasonable price on a poult - depending on the breed and whether it is less than a week old or slightly older.