Okies in the BYC The Original

[justabitdotty]

Hi, Lynn, thanks for the welcome.

My chickens were a gift from a member of our congregation. Our coop, however, was a gift straight from God, via a small tornado. How great is THAT? Yeah, God answers prayers in strange ways.

Anywhoo, I BELIEVE that my chickens are American Games, a couple of Columbian Rocks, and was told that three are Golden Giants. Quite the eclectic mix, but that actually fits in with the rest of my crazy and mismatched life. Our deacon and my 10-year-old son just went in at night to the deacon's father's barn, after the chickens had gone to roost, and grabbed whatever chickens were within reach, stuffed them into feed sacks, threw them into his pickup and hauled them next door to our place.

There are 18 in all. I grew up with chickens, had them at our old place in Nashoba, but then God called my husband to this church several years ago and I had to leave the old homeplace with the barn and the chicken coop and 40 acres and ponds and...

...better stop before I bawl again. Those are my chickens.

Dot

 

[justabitdotty]

Hi, Bricker,

Sorry, I don't know first names yet. I live on the back road to McA. My husband actually worked in McAlester for several years. He's bivocational, so he has a job in addition to pastoring.

Dot

 

[TJ's Na-Na]

Well, Pa-Pa and the KID got loose again......... They're getting
a pair of Langshans today. This will be his first standards.
Remembering the standard birds we saw at Shawnee, I'm
wondering if he can pick them up and put them on the table......
They're beautiful, but gees, they get big.

I broke down and ordered them an American Standards
book from APA. TJ's about to have a runaway for it to
get here. Wish he was half this interested in his school
books.

Have a good one !

 

[Greybear23]

Great Dot, my dad just rerired as pastor out in a little town called Turpin, out near Teach in the middle of the panhandle, do you have your chickens seperated by breeds or running all together, reason I ask is I am looking for some pure Games especially Blue or Crele colored ones, Lynn

 

[Greybear23]

TJ's Na na, I remember my boys and my Encyclopedia Of Pigeon Breeds, The best $100 I ever traded out, those two boys bout wore the pages off that book, we owned dang near every breed in it at one time or another, did the bantam thing too and now they are into basketball and track, soon to be girls and cars, man where does time Go!!!!! love'em while their little, they grow faster tham baby chicks seems like, Lynn

 

[justabitdotty]

Lynn, my feathered kids all play in the backyard together. Honestly, I'm not sure they're pure anything as the guy who gave them to me had no clue what they were. He only kept them in large numbers out in the barn, never paid them much attention, and had them around for fertilizer purposes. He does horses in a big way. I only labeled them as I did by googling. I can, however, tell you that none qualify as "blue." Sorry.

And Brick, McAlester has some wonderful preachers, and they make awesome friends.

Dot

 

[Greybear23]

thanks Dot, always looking, never seem to fill the addiction!!!

Hi Brick, I guess I have not seen you before on here, I am still young on the list myself, do you have chickens?? What kinds? Lynn

 

[Dandelion007]

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Greybear23,

You coming to POOPS? I can visualize a hen party held just for you with all the red-headed Okie women giving you a good ole fashioned hen pecking...

Yes, I'll be right in there!

 

[Brick243]

Hi Lynn, Yeah I'm going to have to be more chatty. I have some dark RIR's. I also have some of the heritage RIR's that are just starting to lay. I just put some of their eggs in the bator.

I had a bunch of Barred Rocks and Doms, but down to a trio of each right now. Brick.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I don't have a clue what gender my three runners are, but with this "hint" I will look at them more closely. I acquired them last September from Myers Hatchery when a friend and I decided to share an "assorted runner duck" special. One is fawn, one is black and one is probably blue.

I don't know at what age they start laying eggs, but that is how I was planning to differentiate between the male ducks and any female ducks.

I am just highly entertained by these three bowling pins running as a unit, so close to each other that I don't know how they avoid tripping on each other.