Okies in the BYC The Original

[OklaOutlaw]

Did anyone post the results from Shawnee? I tried to do a search and couldn't find it...
Please send me a PM as I can't keep up with the posts on here LOL

I did manage to pick up a few good birds there. A quad of Brown Red Moderns from Wade Walker, a trio of Silver Dkwg OEGB, and a replacer Spangle Cockerell OEGB (can't remember the OEGB guy's name)

Thanks!
Can't wait until the next POOPS!

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

Alrighty guys,

Its been real its been fun now time for me to run and go play apple to apples with the family... Yall have a good night ya hear

Jeannie

Hey OKOUTLAW You got there some beautiful dogs... just checked out your website

We had rescued a PB pup from being put down at 5 months old(her owner another GI didnt want to pay to have her taken out of the pound but was willing to get his lab out )
when we were stationed in Texas, she was the most beautiful and gentle PB we ever had owned, she did not even know what she was, sadly when we got stationed here and was renting the landlords said ... heck no, no vicious dog breeds allowed... our neighbors who owned their home had two PB and was able to help us re home Taz... I miss that girl she was again like I said Beautiful and Gentle.

 

[Poco Pollo]

No tats here. Oldest daughter has one and wishes she hadn't gotten it. Youngest daughter has more than I know about, and she's continually adding more. My name is behind her left ear. Our oldest is artistic. Our youngest is art.

Anyone have ideas about getting stubborn roosters to go in at night? I finally gave up and put a box with shavings in it on the floor of their pen. If I put one in, the other will follow. If I leave them alone, they both sleep on the ground next to the box. My hens have never needed to be shown where to go when it's cold or dark. What's going on with these silly roosters?

 

[CityClucks]

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I PM'd you, Kathy.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Interesting. The guy didn't even mention the Hep B thing... I have had the Hep B vaccination twice, one series administered by the AF, one set administered at Norman Regional when I worked there. The first set didn't "take", the second set they drew a titer afterward and I finally had the antibodies.

As a blood drive coordinator for 24 years, I have seen a lot of changes over the years in the rules about what will defer you as a blood donor. It used to be that a tattoo would automatically defer you for 12 months, unless you had it done out of state at a regulated facility that was on the Blood Donation Center's list. This is because without regulations in Oklahoma, there was an increased risk of contracting hepatitis or AIDS from unsanitary equipment and it takes several weeks for those antibodies to show up in your blood at a level where the tests will identify them, so a tattoo increased the risk of exposing a patient to hepatitis or worse. With the testing becoming more sensitive so that the "window" is now shorter between the time of exposure to hepatitis or AIDS and the time the infection can be detected in the donor's blood, and with the new regulations in Oklahoma that require health inspections of licensed tattoo facilities, the deferral time for a tattoo obtained from a licensed facility is now about 3 months.

The Hepatitis B vaccine that is now given will not defer you from donating blood, but one of the questions you have to answer about what injections/shots you have had in the past 12 weeks lets them know that a positive titer for Hepatitis B may be from the vaccine, rather than the disease. It is possible that the older types of vaccines caused a reaction that creates a "false positive" on the standard tests and after two "false positive" tests, the USDA says the donor has to be deferred indefinately.

We lost a large number of donors when the FDA required that donors be asked about time spent in certain European countries, during the 1980s to about 1995. That is because there is an increased risk of developing "mad cow disease" as a result of eating beef in those countries during that time period. Since many donors at my church have a military background and were stationed in Europe at some point in time, that restriction knocked out whole families from our donor population. Unfortunately, there is no blood test to detect mad cow disease and since symptoms may not manifest themselves for 20+ years after exposure, the FDA has created a massive safety net for the blood supply.

If you have ever actually had malaria, you are permanently deferred as a donor. It is something that never leaves your system. Treatment for prevention of malaria or visiting a high malaria risk area will defer you as a donor for one year. We had some folks take a cruise a few years ago and their visit to the Mayan ruins in the middle of the jungle - deferred them as donors for a year.

It used to be that cancer deferred you as a donor for 10 years. That has now been changed and the re-entry period for some kinds of cancer is now about 3 years.

You can't donate blood until you have been off of any antibiotic for 48 hours and there are a few medications that would cause birth defects if given to a pregnant woman, so those medications will defer you as a donor. Otherwise, if you are reasonably healthy, most people are able to donate blood.

 

[artsyrobin]

hi guys- checking in...first...drum roll please....

here are Als brahmas- spoiled kinda- they are so funny when letting them out of the run- and you should hear them come tromping up the ramp-
here is one with the grand daughter...

spent the day monday making a semi permanant run the the BA girls, meanwhile...the roo drama continues- i really need to rehome him- if you want him for freezer camp- don't tell me, but he needs to go...

he ripped the comb half off one of the gals, and has started shredding a few of the girls backs..and the usual mayhem...

GG is a starling- relative of the mynahs...a real fun little character- has learned to talk like r2d2 from star wars and shoot lasers..

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Maryls, I don't think I have any extra hens right now... but if you look on the first page of this thread, there is a list of BYC Okies and their locations, and I bet you can personally ask someone local

 

[Stimpy]

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I wouldn't bet on it. New regs prohibit Marines from haviing tattoos that show below the sleeve of a short sleeve shirt. When even a Marine's tats are looked down upon, what chance does a housewife have?

-Stimp-

You know whenever someone says they were a Marine I always catch myself looking at their left forearm. Seems to be the most popular place for the U.S.M.C. insignia.

Mine is on my upper right arm, but you're right in that most all of us have them. Once you earn them you want to show them off.

-Stimp-

 

[faerielady]

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I was told at first that it was Mad Cow that prevented me from donating... but when I asked them this time (I had heard from a third party) I was told point blank that it was the possibility of malaria. I've not been to a high malaria area, nor have I ever been treated for malaria. It came as a shock to me to be indefinitely deferred because of the possibility of malaria.

 

[Stray]

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Get to work and stop goofing! I am telling your Dad!!!

So...how are things? I was trying to be a positive role model but relized that everyone on here knows better! So been to any great parties lately? We wouldn't rat you out to your folks! (city- take notes)

Been bored counting down the days, just like you have don't lie to us.

Got the computer taken from me by another student so that's why I never returned.
I've been sitting in the coop for the last hour, I want to add another breed. But dad would kill me.
I'm not really one to go to parties. not lately anyways, My schedules pretty much nothing but Yuletide. The Christmas play we have each year.