Okies in the BYC The Original

[poultryand bees]

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If we had thought about it before today, I could have met you over there when I picked up my chicken.

I agree, $1 per pound for Oklahoma grown and butchered chicken is hard to beat.

 

[GracefulBantams]

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It is "probably" a Buff Cochin. Look up a chick picture of them, and see if it looks like your guy

 

[nnbreeder]

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My pens are strong enough to weather one of those little kittys. LOL

Tracks in the snow a couple of years back told me that there are larger cats then that around here.

 

[nnbreeder]

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Yes there is but I don't remember where I saw it at. Be back later.


Ok I'm back. Just do a search for software for poultry keepers. Here is one that came up.

http://www.zooeasy.com/en/pedigree-software/breeding-poultry/breeders/index.html

 

[poultryand bees]

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I have met folks in parking lots to deliver birds, honey, eggs, and to pick up same from them. Works for me.

On a more serious note, Africanized bees are nothing to mess around with. They have a very agressive personality and you can tell the difference between Africanized bees and Euopean bees almost immediately if they feel threatened or are annoyed by a motor or lawn mower. The Africanized bees will cover every square inch of you and start stinging - European bees might hit you with a few dozen bees at a time. Africanized bees will chase you up to a mile or more. European bees will chase about 100 ft and will stop chasing if you go under shade or into a building. Africanized bees, like European bees, can only sting you one time each - so if you are attacked you need to run inside a building or a vehicle. Don't slow down to try and brush the bees off of you, because more will replace those as they are stinging you. Once you are inside a structure, you can proceed to kill the bees that are on you. You will get stung, but only one time by a finite number of bees. If you remain outside, you will be stung one time each by a seemingly unlimited number of Africanized bees.

A fellow beekeeper went back to my neighbor's yard with me this evening to finish eradicating th bumble bee nest that I began on last week. This time, there were only about 4 bumble bees that came out of their nest, which he quickly dispatched with soapy water. Hopefully, the neighbor won't have any more problems with them. I also learned that bumble bees are attracted to red and black. Guess who was wearing dark black jeans when she got stung

 

[nnbreeder]

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You have found a wonderful group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wish they lived in Oklahoma.
Disclaimer: some of us have addictions to hatching eggs, attending poultry auctions and otherwise acquiring poultry. Since addicts tend to be enablers, we may try to persuade you to try some of our addictions.

So what kind of hens do you have, do you want to acquire more and of what breed? Are you planning to try hatching eggs, either with a broody hen or with an incubator?

I have 9 hens. 8 are either RIR or a red sex link (bought from Atwoods, enid) and the other im not sure of. Its got yellow feathers and feathery legs ( i thought it was a buff orp but all the pics i see dont have hairy legs). Im thinking of adding to the litter next spring so i can have a rotation of eggs coming in since i hear they only lay for about 2 yrs. after 2 yrs, ill cull the heard and add the rookies. I really dont want any more than about 20 at any one time. Ive got a friend that is going to start over next spring w/ all RIR and when he orders his, ill probably ask to add some to the order for me.

As for hatching, i dont have (or want) a rooster so the hatching part is out.

Here in Enid, our lovely city govt considers chicken as livestock and we have a no-livestock ordinance and im not sure im even supposed to have them, but I do and they live at my shop. it sits on close to an acre of ground and has few neighbors and im zoned part commercial and part industrial so Id argue to the end im okay (plus i know the city atty), but i dont want to push my luck w/ a noisy rooster (tho it couldnt be any worse than the bnsf line that runs by at 100').

I got the chicks for the eggs and im hoping theyll start laying more than we can eat so i can sell a few here and there. right now, just about 2 or 3 are laying so im sure one day, it will pick up to that point.

Thanks everyone for the welcome!! We (okies) are a talkative group as we have over 6700 pages and no one else is even close. OKIES ROCK!

I've got birds that are close to ten and still laying, not like they did as youngsters but still laying.

Tues. I will be going up to Southside and hauling scrap all day long if everything goes as planned. My step-son lives just South of there and I swear that early morning the entire NE side of Enid is crowing!!

 

[poultryand bees]

Les,
I need to worm my birds and thought I would start with Wazine. What do you recommend as a followup - if anything? Can I incubate the eggs since we shouldn't eat them for 2 weeks after the Wazine treatment?

 

[nnbreeder]

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I would use the Wazine first and then follow up in 2 weeks with the Ivermectin. I have never seen a difference in the chicks after worming and then incubating.

Piprazine is a very safe wormer according to what I have read, it is also used on humans.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I would use the Wazine first and then follow up in 2 weeks with the Ivermectin. I have never seen a difference in the chicks after worming and then incubating.

Piprazine is a very safe wormer according to what I have read, it is also used on humans.

When you do the Ivermectin, do you use it as an injectible or as a pour-on? What is the dosage?

 

[muesky]

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Ok, so why do you kill bumble bees? I do not know much about bees but I have always protected and treasured the bumbles around my place. I did not even know they could sting. I have played with bumble bees, held them, let them climb on me and never been stung.
Actually I am a bit partial to the bumble bee, weird as that sounds for the very reason is they are a scientific miracle. Do you know that physicalogically speaking bumble bees should not be able to fly, due to the mass to wing size. Can bumble bees be relocated? If so I would be glad to relocate them out at my place. We need more bees for pollenation out here and fat bumbles are really cute.