Okies in the BYC The Original

[Greybear23]

Evening All, still a little windy here, we needed the rain, Al I will be bringing about 10-15 pounds of Beer Bratts to the POOPS !!!!

Don't know how many that will be but around that.Also bringing a cake pan size aluminium pan of Baked beans!!! So Teach won't make his armpit sore tryin to bug Henny!!!!

I have a question? For those of you that sell and ship eggs, how do you package them, should I write on the package that it contains eggs, do they x ray them at the post office? How do I know how much to charge for shipping? OK so it was a few questions!!!!!

thanks, Lynn

 

[HennyPennies2007]

Someone please have a turkey hen for luvs. It makes me sad to think that the hubby is pining for his mate. Jeez...... how sad is THAT? Nasty bobcat... where's Teach when ya need him?

I found a coyote ravaged, half eaten, day old calf in my ditch....

Did it stink! Someone around here needs a dang donkey! What a waste... nice angus.... It was cool in a skeletony, archeological sorta way.... BUt did it stink!

Dang Alaskan volcano. I have been babysitting it on the web for 3 months. It has been orange, orange, orange... then they downgraded it to yellow...So I kinda left it alone a couple of days.... krap...of course that's when it blows dagnabit... I got really consumed with the one that went off under the Pacific Ocean last week. That one is actually making an island... they are the coolest things. My sister spent 18 days in Hawaii and didn't go to Kiluea...That would have been the first place I woulda gone! screw this snorkeling garbage...A friend of mine has an actual scar where he burnt himself on a steam vent... OMG how awesome is that???? Dang I shoulda been a vulcanologist... too bad I had to be hot lookin' instead of smart...

oh well....

Does wheat really smell sweet? sometimes after a rain here... it smells like orange blossoms... I have no idea what it is.... Sometimes I think it's Jesus

See y'all

 

[Slightly Cracked]

For those of you that sell and ship eggs, how do you package them, should I write on the package that it contains eggs, do they x ray them at the post office? How do I know how much to charge for shipping?

My favorite saying I have recieved on a box is: "Fragile - Live Chicken Embryos - Handle with Care."
And I LOVE bubble wrap. I wrap each egg and then make sure there is wadded newspaper for a cushion.
I recieved some eggs the other day that the eggs was bubble wrapped then put in an egg carton the bubble wrapped again. They arrived in perfect condition. DO NOT just put them in the egg carton and ship in a box with newspaper. I have recieved 2 shipments like that with horrible results each time.

Getting dirty, hunting frogs, teaching a kid how to make underarm noises. Yep thats me.

Dang that's hot!

I gotta girl like that, Then she cleans up real nice

You gotta love country girls, go mudding , clean barn, hunt, come in clean up and make a mean meatloaf and mashed taters and look good doing it!!

TJ's Na-Na Shaun is soooo pumped up he is driving me nuts!! Hubby on the other hand is not quite as excited as we are.

 

[Teach97]

Greybear - totally agree on the shipping advice! I must say that the advice we get over here on the okie thread is great! Shipping depends on distance, weight, and now stupid deminsions! So get them in as small a box as possible but with plenty of padding. Having said that I always end up with a huge box! Has run me anywhere between like $10 and $15. Hope that helps my friend! By the way...the guy with eggs has been AWOL! Tried getting the daughter-in-law to get in touch with him...and she even blew me of

I will get her tomorrow at church! If all else fails...I will get a grand kid to steal them

Worst case scenario...I will have some at poops...my buddy hasn't called back on your eggs

silly people!

Forgot to tell about by country wife...that is what one of my buddies calls her!...she is really pretty good...she is letting me put dead critters in the living room! No fish though? She is a great hand at processing...not so keen on gutting and blood...and when she became a Mom she became flat out unfun in regards to mud and going fast and that part! I really can't complain...she let me keep a rattlesnake in the kitchen for a couple months! It was in an aquarium.

 

[andisgarden]

Grace thanks for helping. It will give me something to read up on. I just was wondering tempermant and all. Now do you know of any resource that has a color pic of different comb types? I have seen some black and whites but they don't seem to do it justice for me. I want o know what all of these comb types are. I have yet to see a pic of a v comb.

Thanks

 

[Sonya]

Ok, I've got a lot of catching up to do....been out of pocket for a couple of days. Sunday night, hubby called me from his office saying he needed me there and was in a lot of pain...turns out he has a quite large kidney stone that is going to need to be removed by the urologist in McAlester. The VA is going to pay for it since they can't get him in quick enough to do it themselves.

Because of running him around to the McAlester ER, the VA hospital ER in Muskogee and the urologist at the VA in Muskogee, my eggs were left unturned in the incubator from Monday at noon until we got home today around 7pm!!! And my temp had spiked to 102 degrees....I'm sooo worried now that my whole batch is fried and stuck and a no go....wahhhh! I went ahead and turned them and got the temp down and will continue to do so since it was only day 4 of the incubation....I'll candle them on day 10 and see if anything is developing...although the chicken eggs are welsummers and some of them are very dark, so how hard will it be to candle them? Do I have any hope of a hatch?

On a good note, I talked hubby into making a detour while we were driving through Eufala on the way home and we stopped at the feed store. They had a big ole metal brooder type contraption in there with shelves in it and pullets running around in the dark...I felt so sorry for them! It was such cramped quarters...so I did the only humane thing and saved 6 of them! I bought 4 Rhode Island Red pullets and 2 Buff Orpington pullets...they are already about a week old and getting their pin feathers and are now happily chirping away in the brooder here at home, enjoying the light and the pine shavings to scratch around in.

Let's see ..... what else? Um, I'm really thinking about the POOPS event...my husband swears if I go, that I'll end up coming home with more critters...LOL...he knows me well.

Speaking of my husband, I see there are other law enforcement hubbies and relatives on the list. My husband is a police officer for Eastern Oklahoma State College right now while he is finishing his criminal justice degree this semester and then he's planning on going to work for the city here. It was a big change for me to see him donning his duty belt and service weapon....

Welcome to all the other newbies here...I'm fairly new to the board and this group of people have been overwhelmingly friendly and welcoming to me.

If I think of anything else to contribute, I'll pipe in again....

 

[Buckguy20]

Good Morning! Time to Rise and Shine!

Teach, five to 10- inches of snowfor you. I expect lots of pictures on here.
I don't want snow but I'll take any moisture we can get.
We are only supposed to get an inch or two.
Hiope everyone is well today.
Sonya, I hope your husband is better.

I updated your forecast!

 

[okiemommy]

andisgarden wrote:

Anyone going to have guineas at the swap? Just curious.. I really want a couple of those watch birds but Atwoods sells out so fast I can't seem to score one when they come in.

I am scared to raise them because everyone says they are so hard to raise. Can anyone give me the skinny on raising them? Are they SO hard to raise?

I love my guineas and prefer them to my chickens. After reading "Gardening with Guineas" I decided that the trick is to get about a dozen at a time, preferably day olds, and then keep them penned up until they are about 2 to 4 months old. That way, they are bonded as a group and will watch each other's back in the yard, and will all come back to the same place to roost.

I have given guineas to friends in the past and the folks who were able to keep the young guineas at their house were the ones who kept them penned up at all times for at least 6 weeks. Then, the guineas knew where they were being fed and whose trees to roost in at dusk. The friends who let them roam after only a week or so lost their guineas to neighbors who also had guineas.

I just brought some guineas back to OKC last month, that a friend hatched out last spring. Her neighbor wanted guineas, but wouldn't keep them locked up for the 6 weeks, so the guineas kept migrating back to my friend's house.

Guineas rule! They will take on a rooster, a dog, a turkey - as a group. I love the way they eat bugs all the time and their noise in the evening is music to my ears.

All that said, I do have some that run up and down the fence all day long, trying to find their way back into the yard, because they don't remember that they flew over the fence. About dusk, they remember they have wings and back into the yard and onto the roost they go. roll

Good to know! I thought the same thing basically. That's why I hesitated on guineas. Have you ever seen the huge flock on I-240? I'd say there's at least more than 50 of them. I always figured it was a group that formed from other peoples runaway guinea flocks

Do you keep them in the same pen as the chickens? Or a different pen?

Sorry about your Turkey Hen luvs

 

[Buckguy20]

Okiemommy, I saw the I-240 guinea flock a few weeks ago. When I saw them from a distance I thought they were turkeys. When I got closer I saw about 40 on the side of a hill. No telling how many more were up on top.

 

[Buckguy20]

Has anyone beeen watching the Eagle Cam?
I think it is kinda neat.

www.suttoncenter.org/eaglecam.html