Okies in the BYC The Original

[Sirclucksalot]

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Glad you took my advice and came for a visit, now we will not let you go LOL. where you from?? and what do you raise??.

AL

Glad to be here, I am from Wister, OK. (eastern side). As far as what kind of chickens I have, I am embarrassed to say I have no idea! I bought 5 pullets from Atwoods and started from there, and I am having a blast. They sure do grow like crazy don't they! Once they get a little bigger I'll post some pics here and maybe someone can help me out on the breeds.

 

[al6517]

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Yeah me and Gerald are both military retirees, we military guys have our own special way of joking around, I laughed all night. Sam was telling us he had 3 Roosters drown during the recent heavy rains, and we dogged him pretty good, he was a good sport about it. Gerald and I offered to give all his roosters swimming lessons LOL, and instead of saddles give them lifejackets.

AL

 

[al6517]

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We had fun with that one all night, we have both been out to Sams place to buy birds which by the way are awesome, but his pens are all along the banks of the river, so when it storms watch out Mr chicken LOL.

AL

 

[al6517]

There are no reported cases of H1N1 Swine flu in Oklahoma, this is how country folks become immune to it.

AL

 

[okcarla]

Finally I've been able to read all the posts since I was on here yesterday, Wow! A lot said!

Gerald and I had a great time at Cement. Al & the gang were great fun, and kept us so entertained I barely bought anything!

We only sold hatching eggs yesterday, and I was very suprised they did quite well. I overheard several people behind us telling others that the eggs from us hatched really well for them ... lots of people were bidding on them. We didn't PO any! One guy said he bought over a hundred of our hatching eggs last month and only 3 didn't hatch! I sort of wonder about that ... we don't have that good of hatch from our eggs, but then again, we usually only throw the eggs in the incubator that are over a week old that haven't been sold yet and we like the breed too much to sell them as eating eggs.

We only bought a few things .... something I really really really wanted, but Al & his money talked me out of! Then I bought a baker's dozen of buff, black tailed Japanese bantam chicks for a whole dollar each & they look like they're a couple of weeks old! We bought a really nice looking turquoise & white big cage for the house chickens, and I guess the best purchase of all was the old rusty crate full of tin cans for only $2!!! Gosh, there must be at least 30 tin cans in there!!!!!

Let me know if anyone wants any of these tin cans ... I may even be generous enough to donate some of them to the next POOPS auction

Tina, do you want any?

OK, so our dear friend Sam, the wonderful man that we see at most of the auctions we attend, saved seats for us and I was blessed to sit next to him at the auction! Tina was able to see first hand his sexing of birds with his car keys. Oh, and Sam bought some hatching eggs that I brought home with me to put in my incubator. They are Black Warhorse. I guess they are gamebirds? Anybody know?

And there were peacock eggs. I bid on the first 3 but realized Jerry, Misty's husband was bidding on them and I stopped. He bought them for $7.50 each. Then I bid on 5 & won the bid but the seller PO'd them. Anyway, Jerry came over and at first asked if I wanted them for the price he paid, and I thought about it & when he said the same guy PO'd those eggs at the Maud auction, I begain thinking they might be too old or shook up by now. Anyway, I said I'd better not. So, Jerry being such a super nice man asked if I wanted to put them in my incubator, and if they hatched for me to give him only one back! Hey that's a deal! You bet!

Well, I'm sure I could just keep rambling on, but I'll stop for a bit here and post this.

We did have a blast last night, thanks to our dear BYC Okies buddies, Tina, Lynn, Al, Misti & Jerry and my favorite non BYC Okie, Sam!

 

[luvs2garden2000]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWW I promise I will not be immune to it by them means.

I bet you did have fun with that Sam. He proved to me that I was a girl and my hubby is a dude. That key trick is awesome. He told me to take the string from the feed bad and tie a nail on it works the same.

 

[Sonya]

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Glad you took my advice and came for a visit, now we will not let you go LOL. where you from?? and what do you raise??.

AL

Glad to be here, I am from Wister, OK. (eastern side). As far as what kind of chickens I have, I am embarrassed to say I have no idea! I bought 5 pullets from Atwoods and started from there, and I am having a blast. They sure do grow like crazy don't they! Once they get a little bigger I'll post some pics here and maybe someone can help me out on the breeds.

Welcome to Okies in the BYC! I'm in Wilburton, just down the road from you!

 

[luvs2garden2000]

You know Carla, I thought about it this morning when I was looking at my mater plants, I could have used some of them cans. To keep them upright during our winds that want to blow us away. But hey I was not gonna mention it till you did.

Glad ya'll made it home safe and sound. I got a doz cochin eggs and then on the way home thought hmmmmmmmm wonder if they are even fertile. Oh well only 2.50 for them. Lynn and I had a good laugh all the way home over last night. Now he wants to build breeding pens. See there IS a method to my madness.

 

[Sonya]

Mornin ya'll. Got the crew fed their sausage gravy and biscuits, had my coffee and finally sat down to catch up on the thread since last night. Can you believe one of my girls does *not* like sausage gravy and biscuits...I swear she is an alien lifeform.

The older boys just took off to go fishing at Robbers Cave. They probably won't be gone long...they aren't very patient when it comes to fishing, they said.

I think I may be able to plant that garden today....since it's not raining so far.

 

[luvs2garden2000]

Thats right I knew there was somewhere I was suppose to be for breakfast. Shucks missed out. Trying to decide what I am going to make for dinner, have chicken legs and some kind of beef steak or roast set out. Cant decide, Chicken and dumplins or beef stew. I will get Lynn to get the lid off the pressure cooker and cook up the meat and then stew it the rest of the day. I do know gotta make bread. But I dont have to start that till about 3 or 4.

You know all you with kiddo's still at home. You know what I miss the most about having kids at home, I have to do the dishes. Dang it.