This site has saved the summer for my daughter and I so I thought I would register and go ahead and give in to my inner chicken freak. Moore ordinance is so vague, that was my big ordeal this summer, but I converted a doghouse, and have 2 "pets". My daughter and I incubate and brood and sell to a free range farm up north. So thanks to all who post and thanks for the welcome!
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I'm not officially back. I will be checking in from time to time. Hopefully I won't be gone for another month this time. Life has been really hectic lately. I haven't even been able to lurk.
You have found a great group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wish they lived in Oklahoma
Reading your list of birds, it appears we won't need to do much enabling in order to create another "must acquire chickens" addict - unless of course you have the will power to only have a trio of each variety.
Disclaimer: there are some mighty nice folks on this thread, but some of us are addicted to hatching poultry, attending poultry auctions and otherwise acquiring poultry. Since addicts tend to be enablers, we may try to assist you in acquiring the same addictions we enjoy.
My sympathy is with you. I still have a jacket, jeans, shirt and tennis shoes outside, trying to air them out so they can be washed in the washing machine. . . 10 days after I was 5 foot away from a scared Pepe Le Pew. My clothes and shoes no longer smell bad when you are close to them, but if you pick them up it seems to re-release that odor.
Since you have been reading the thread for awhile, I won't give you the standard "disclaimer" - but will remind you that you were aware we are addicts and enablers before you signed on to post
Do you attend any of the poultry auctions? Will we get to meet you at the Blanchard auction this coming Saturday?
If i wasn't involved in the program i'm in at school, i'd be in the running for those partridge cochins! Alas, my expansion wants must wait until after next year...
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Tell you what, I was wondering what kind of smelly karma I had brought on myself there for a while! First we thought the dogs were barking because they had been left outside. I opened the patio slider door and BAM, eau de skunk nailed me. I ran outside to try and keep the dogs from antagonizing the skunk anymore and ran right up into the cloud of PURPLE FUNK
that the thing had let off. This was in the BACK yard, 1/2 acre or more away from my truck. Then the freakin thing found a way under the house, where it evidently scared the skunk that was in residence because they both sprayed UNDER the house, oh yeah my favorite part, right under the master bedroom closet. Just shoot me now! Then the one skunk hi tails it back outside, right into the middle of the dogs I'm trying to get back inside....here we go again....Dear God In Heaven, I have never in my whole and entire smelled anything so rank. So, bathe the dogs in Dawn dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. Shower and bathe us in the same mixture and try to sleep.
Next morning, we've all got the migraine headaches from Hades
, and I jumped in the truck to go to PETCO to get some deodorizers. I hit the front door at Petco and I swear everyone in the store bailed as fast as they could go. The clerks all came running with skunk deodorizers in hand. My poor husband went to work and stank up the entire crew's quarters so bad they all left...ROFL
Three days later he was still getting calls from the crews out at the air base telling him how bad the trailer smelled.
We got the skunks removed and rehomed. Then had to persuade the racoons and possums to move out from under the house and finally got all the spots we hadn't ever noticed covered up and got hardware cloth buried all around the foundation of the house!
The house took an entire month to quit stinking and to this day I'm find things in the closet that got missed when I did the laundry to de-stinky my clothes. Every now and again I get a whiff of a shirt that didn't go through the wash......Bleeeeeehhhh! That was 1 1/2 YEARS ago that we got so thoroughly skunked. I don't care if I never see another one up close and personal. SHEEESH!
