Okies in the BYC The Original

[okcarla]

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I agree TOTALLY. So Maribeth, you'll have to go to the first Fletcher auction too, won't you? I hope to see your there!!!

 

[poultryand bees]

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I agree TOTALLY. So Maribeth, you'll have to go to the first Fletcher auction too, won't you? I hope to see your there!!!

I guess I won't be qualified to make a comparison between the facilities at the two auctions until I attend the one at Fletcher. I will have to see what I can do.

 

[al6517]

POOPS AUCTION INFORMATION

We Okies in the BYC are proud to announce the first annual POOPS live auction, to be held on the Saturday the day of Fall POOPS 2009

The auction is open to all attending and will be offered in 2 segments, the first part of the auction is for items that are donated and the proceeds will go toward the POOPS fund to help pay for the many expenditures POOPS have incurred. The second portion of the auction is a for profit live auction just like all normal auctions. We want to try and make this auction a success for all future POOPS events and our members to enjoy and benifit from.

Auction rules as follows ;

1. Check in time for items in both auction segments is as soon as you can, to enable folks to view the items up for auction.

2. Non-live poultry items should maintain a poultry theme, I.E.= art's & crafts etc.

3. All poultry must be caged or in a suitable enclosure, cages will not be sold with the poultry unless specified by auctioneer.

4. PO's will be honored in all fairness during the live for profit segment only.

5. Bid numbers will be issued to all who want them prior to the auction start time.

6. When the auction is finished we encourage all buyers to check out first followed by the sellers, so we can have an orderly checkout and have the proper funds available to pay out.

7. All cages and items will be numbered by the auction staff, and it is encouraged that you lable your own breeds for better identification to avoid any confusion and benifit both buyer & seller.

8. It is asked that all buyers wait till the end of the auction before gathering up their purchases assited by the auction staff. there may be the opportunity to also buy choice of a particular Lot, if this happens the bidder should have an empty cage available and close by.

9. The auction staff will not be running an active post on what is being brought for sale, but we do have a running post as to a wish list as to add fairness to the event.

10. There will NO commissions or Taxes of any kind held back from the buyers and sellers alike.

Items needed for auction :
Chickens of all breeds & ages, Chicks, hatching eggs of all kinds, ducks, peafowl, rabbits, turkeys, quail, cages, waterers,feeders,incubators,wire,netting.
Arts & crafts, vegtables,and any other poultry related items.

Contact AL ; in a PM only!!! for those who want to consign items to both auctions so we can have a good idea of the amount of items we can expect to have, this list will be held in confidence.

This post can & will be edited as needed as futher information comes to bear.

Auction Staff ;
Caller- AL
Sign in/Secratary/pay out- Carla
Ring personel- Gerald Kaiser & Bill Bailey

Ok folks so it's time to bring it and sell it, this is a good opportunity to replace some of your losses from this spring/summer and get some breeds you have allways wanted. and don't forget to try and donate some items to benifit the POOPS fund.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

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Hey Bigokie, What does he want for that diamond in the rough?

 

[bigokie37]

$500 it is alittle dust an has a few mud dobbers hidin on it lol
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Hey Bigokie, What does he want for that diamond in the rough?

 

[Buckguy20]

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Sorry to hear that about Jerry's dad.
Did they have the Delawares, BO's and Phoenix there last night. I had heard they were gonna sell a lot of them.

 

[talbotthemad]

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I sing, I don't know how well, and i am TRYING to teach myself to play the bones... The wife plays the mountain dulcimer, though...

 

[Buckguy20]

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I sing, I don't know how well, and i am TRYING to teach myself to play the bones... The wife plays the mountain dulcimer, though...

Are you guys coming to POOPS ? I love dulcimer music.

 

[Buckguy20]

Hey just a quick reminder. We are still in the need for raffle and auction donations. Grace is handling raffle items.
I want to have a special raffle just for the kids so if folks can let me know if you want to donate items.
The POOPS fund auction is still needing stuff too.
Remember there are two auctions. One to raise money for POOPS and the other for everyone to sell what they bring. CONTACT AL with Auction info.

 

[talbotthemad]

OK, at risk of getting hollered at, i have a couple of questions.
I've noticed that some of ya'll raise quail and pheasants, as well as chickens.
I am going to try to put together an incubator, in the next coupla weeks, and risk buying some Serama and other bantam eggs, either on ebay and/or at the POOPS get together. now, I am figuring that the incubator will probably be built into an ice chest or an old dormroom size fridge i have in my barn, so I think it would be a waste of space, to just incubate a half dozen or a dozen batam eggs. I thought to maybe bulk up the hatch with some quail eggs, or, if I get to feeling froggy and full of beans, some pheasants. (or maybe a jersey giant ,for contrast!

) now, I am aware that the hatch times are different for all the breeds, sizes, species, etc. BUT, is there a problem with incubating them at the same time, in the same bator?
That being said, can the chicks be kept in the same brooder, or will i need a different brooder?
My peeps are going to be in a pen (I am hoping to build one that matches the historic barn, here at the museum) but I am wondering about letting the quail/ pheasants free range on the acreage.
And here is where I might get hollered at: Are there ethical issues to consider, raising the chicks in a brooder, and then letting them go, essentially "releasing them into the wild" as it were?
I have several acres, here, with wild birds of various sorts, and it is, in fact, a no-hunt area, being a state museum, but there are hundreds of acres of woodland surrounding it, and I wouldn't be able to just keep them on mine, if they wanted to venture out.

Thoughts?