Okies in the BYC The Original

[b52fizzle]

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mike said that it would be going on believe he talked to Jason from the cement auction.

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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You can have my sympathies... I've had to keep the mudroom available for J's dog and my daughter's terror puppy/terrier mix puppy, and that danged terrier mix has shredded old feed bags that I hadn't thrown away yet and drug them out all over my back yard, where they are all waterlogged and disgusting. I look like I live in a white trash house/property because of that dang dog... and it's too cold/wet/muddy to get all that stuff picked up!

I know what you mean! Our GP Jackson has been doing alot of that lately with finding things from our neighbors and dragging the stuff all over... on top of trying to clean up from the previous home owners has been a battle for the past year and just as we are making head way, here comes the rain, snow ice and sleet

I know I work better when the sun isnt out all day long beating on me(fair skin and sun sensitivity to boot) but at this point I would not mind a few days this week to be sunny and warm enough to dry up all the rain cause this itsy bitsy spider wants to continue cleaning up again... lol minus all the muck and mud as I already nearly lost my red rubber mucking boot in the swamp that has been made under the loafing shed... its so gross and normally I dont get sissyfied by things like that

 

[TJ's Na-Na]

LOL......I'll take the mud/muck if you'll trade places
with me from 2 - 4:30 this afternoon.....................
14 11-year olds loose at a skating rink...........
and just Na-Na and Pa-Pa to hold the fort
together................... Am hoping the two
rolls of quarters in Pa-Pa's pocket for the
video games will encourage them to "at
least" check in once in a while...........LOL

If we survive.........see y'all later.

Have a good one !

 

[okcarla]

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mike said that it would be going on believe he talked to Jason from the cement auction.

Yea!

I want to go to an auction today.

Are you going?

 

[faerielady]

No auction for me tonight... I'm babysitting my niece/nephews, have J's son, and will have my daughter back around 6pm this evening (she goes to services with my dad). There will be 5 kids in my small house... can I just beg to be shot now?

 

[b52fizzle]

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mike said that it would be going on believe he talked to Jason from the cement auction.

Yea!

I want to go to an auction today.

Are you going?

yeah im goin to cement, anybody else goin?

 

[okcarla]

Well, I'd better make a run to our feed store & get some of the buzzards fed before making a trip to Cement.

I sure hope to see lots of Okies at the auction tonight. It sure seems to be a cold, cloudy, dreary day and I'd like to brighten it up with a good hot auction on a Saturday night

 

[Poco Pollo]

I went to the informal chicken sale/swap at the Collinsvile livestock auction barn (south end of parking lot) this morning. I wasn't going to be able to go, and then at the last minute plans changed, so I put a few birds in the car and drove north. Sooner, and anyone else who wants to go, I plan to go again, but I'd like to go on a day that doesn't have snow or rain. I nearly lost a shoe in the sticky muck, and I was being careful.

Note To Self: Leave your car closed, look at what everybody has to sell, and then start talking to people. I think I must have broken some sort of unspoken rule by selling to the first people who approached me. A guy who was parked a bit further down the row of vehicles offered to buy any birds I bring next time. He seemed surprised that I had set a price and sold without consulting him first. I'm a newbie at selling. Did I err in some unforgivable way?

I got to the Collinsville swap site at 7:30 a.m. It was drizzling, and the parking lot was muddy enough to get stuck in. I parked with the other six cars/trucks and was immediately approached by a family looking for chickens. They agreed to pay what I wanted, so I was finished selling in less than five minutes. I pocketed my cash and then went shopping. One fellow had a trailer with cages and lots of birds. I didn't have any adult bird purchases planned, so I kept walking. The next guy had hatching eggs. I bought a dozen EE hatching eggs and a dozen mixed maran hatching eggs. Since my incubators are already running, I set the hatch when I got home. Leaving them to rest over night didn't make a lot of sense to me, since they had traveled by car rather than Pony Express, I mean U.S.P.S.

For those of you accustomed to trades, swaps, and sales, is there some invisible line people are waiting in? Is there some buyer/seller protocol that should be followed?

 

[sjarvis00]

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You didnt do anything wrong.. You probably came across a chicken trader that thought he should have the birds he wanted at the price he wanted to pay. If you found someone to buy your birds at the price you were asking then you did good.

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

Yea I agree with Jarvis! He might not like the competition and saw that you were doing well, who knows sounds a lil rude to me just basing my observations on what you typed the guy could have been really cool

unless the guy thought you were selling low? thus he stated you should have consulted him first, although I have to say I hate the word SHOULD HAVE it always seems more negative than maybe saying Could have? I dont know... but hey you were new so at least you had made a lil bit of money