Okies in the BYC The Original

[al6517]

Countryroad ( Cammie ) :
Glad to have ya back amoung the real crazy's, where ya been we missed ya. So what are your new chicken plans??, maybe we will see you at Cement in August.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

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Check for holes again. IT had to get in somehow. The top is covered right? If it is chain link, check and see if something was able to push in from the bottom.
I am guessing this was done by a coon. They love to kill for killing sake.

 

[Buckguy20]

Well I just came in to get a drink and a short break. I killed a snake in one chick pen this morn. It had two three week old lumps in it which turned out to be two three week old Welsummers. Stupid snake. It got in through a hole not much bigger than a quarter but was too fat to get back out. I guess he figured on vacationing there until all the chicks were gone and then he could figure a way out. I ended the vacation idea.
I gotta go get some chicken drugs. I finished sanitizing all the feeders and waterers and now I am gonna move the sick chicks to an isolation area.

Once more into the breech!

 

[al6517]

Monty :
LS-50 is what I was thinking about as Les mentioned, Henny used it earlier this year and I think she did well with it, but like they said it is pricey. I like to use the injections so I know for sure they all get the proper dosages and it was considerably cheaper. I treated 6 birds for 7 days and I still have almost a full bottle left for future use, cost $9.00. start treating soon CRD can spread quickly throuhout your flock.

AL

 

[shidalgo]

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What did the bodies look like? (morbid, I know, but it helps to determine what it was)

If it was a wild animal it would have only took what it needed I bet it was a dog they still have the want to kill but they do not know what for so the just kill anything they see

 

[okcarla]

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Wow, you should have gone ahead and picked them up for me and dropped them off

Mary is a sweet lady, isn't she! We live just 1/4 mile W. of Hwy 4 (Mustang Rd) &, 1 mile North of Hwy 37. I just don't like the mail carrier delivering our eggs. He's afraid of my dogs, so he will drop the box over our fence

The eggs I got today were a suprise to me. I bought some SQ belgian quail d'anvers off eBay a few weeks ago, from New Jersey ... the lady & I made a side deal for the extra eggs she had. After I bid on her eggs, then she changed the amount to 6 less eggs, but for the same price

because she was out of her usual priority mail boxes & couldn't fit them all in the box she had. So ... she mailed them in the shoe box priority box, inside egg cartons and some were broken. I was disappointed, to say the least. But, I didn't get angry. I just let her know some were broken and she offered to replace the broken eggs. I told her thanks, but that it was OK, and if none developed maybe we could arrange some replacements. Anyway, I get a call this morning saying I have eggs at the PO! She sent enough to replace the 3 broken eggs and the 6 that she didn't send earlier!

Oh, and I'm expecting some eggs from a lady in Arizona that I sold some cuckoo marans eggs to. She's sending some gold necked and mottled d'uccle eggs to me because I sent her so many eggs & because I said I'd love to buy some ~ SO COOL!!!!

Hopefully they arrive tomorrow. She's adding a cold pack to the box, because she said it's getting up to 110 degrees there.

Well, I'd love to post more, but have to get some birds fed, then get ready for work. I get to look forward to working 10 hour days til this weekend and then only 8 hour days this weekend. Monty, you are so right ... I need to hire Cammy!

One more thing ... we had a black helicopter circling our property today ... really low flying, stayed for several minutes. Kind of spooky. I told Gerald it's probably some law enforcement agency thinking his old army trucks and his big garden and all the birds make it look like we're building a compound. We must be on somebody's list to be investigated!

 

[poultryand bees]

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MWC is starting a farmer's market on Tuesday evenings from 4:30 to 8:00 in the parking lot East of the community center and west of the MWC library. There were 5 vendors when I went by about 6:30 and they hope to increase the number before the Grand Opening on the 21st. Here is some information that I copied from the NewOkiePioneers site:
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First day of the Mid Del Farmers’ Market is July 7th!!!
The OKC metro area’s newest local foods market will begin July 7th opening at 4:30 pm and run until 8:00 in the Midwest City Community Center parking lot (200 N. Midwest Blvd), just west of the Midwest City Metropolitan Library. Fresh fruits and vegetables will be sold by local Oklahoma growers. We are hoping for a good turnout on this first day. If we blend the right amount of customers and growers, we will see the market grow and expand to be a wonderful community event! Expect squash, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, etc. For more information or to be a vendor, call 326-1556.
Official Grand Opening two weeks following!!
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There was a vendor selling duck eggs last night - I wish I had paid more attention to what she was charging for her eggs instead of getting into a conversation regarding the relative merits of kaki cambell ducks and where I can buy some game bird crumbles for my new poults, keets and pheasant chicks.

 

[quenston]

Well I was off on my count the total is 23 better than 30 but still a big loss! The thing that hurts the most I lost all of my easter eggers and both of my actual ameracaunas, along with 5 red sex links, 4 Black Australops, and my sons rooster that he was suppose to show at the fair this weekend he is just devistated!!! But now I just gotta start over and become more predator proof!!!Starting out with covering the rest of the run and making the fence hot!!!

Cuban- The bodies were not mangeled or anythingbloody yes but it was as if it would kill them and just leave them alone.

Buckguy- Half of the run was covered but hadnt gotten a chance to cover the rest that is on the priority list today after the workday is done!! As far as something pushin in from the bottom, I dont think it could happen because the bottom of the fence is buried 2' and rolled outward away from the pen.

Al- I had 35 left this morning so I am hoping that they are still there when I get home! We do have a couple of different wild big cats on our property along with bears but I am fairly certain that it wasnt a bear.

 

[HennyPennies2007]

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That is the coolest thing...Let THEM freak out for awhile. Dang I wonder if I set my .22 out on the patio if I could get them to circle me..?LOL...

Well got my neighbors land mowed....I am not going to try and do mine today because of the heat. Mike made me promise to wear sunscreen since I have had 2 chunks of cancer taken off my face. I will never do that again. The dust stuck in it... it ran in my eyes and now everything is blurry and my eyes itch. I'm gonna go wash them out and put drops in. They are driving me crazy!!!

Misters are on and hens had watermelon for snack. Spoiled brats. I have missed spending time with them recently. I went in last night and they mobbed me and sat on me.

I hugged hens for an hour.... it was wonderful....Nothing like a little hen therapy!!

Monty... the LS-50 is WAY better for CRD...and if ya have more than a couple birds to treat is way easier. Les' recipe worked wonders for me.

Well off to visit mom, then home to scrape and patch more ceiling...decided to do bathroom as well... What a pain in the a$$, but when it's done, I will be happy....

See y'all. Be careful in the heat! (Al) LOL......

 

[shidalgo]

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Crap, dude, that sucks. Is there any way you can appeal?

I'm looking up what the car is worth right now
I would not be going through this if I would have had gap insurance