Okies in the BYC The Original

[poultryand bees]

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Two weeks is what I recall reading a hen could remain fertile after the rooster is removed.

Speaking of fertility - I wonder if the red laced blue wyandotte eggs that the guy sold at Blanchard, that were from the hen he purchased from Stephanie and Carl [and then the rooster died the next day from an overdose of Ivermectin] hatched out? That guy seemed to think that the hen would be fertile for a lot longer than a week after her rooster died.

On the plucker you saw on craigslist - if it works it would propably be cheaper than you could buy parts to build one. Was it BigOkie or GrayBear who was building a plucker last year?

 

[QueenPeaches]

To all of those who attended POOPS 2010,

I am trying to put together a full length video of our get together at POOPS. If you have any photos you would like to include in this video, please email those to me at [email protected].

I want your best shots! I have already saved all the ones that folks have posted to the Forum. So keep them coming!

When I get the video put together, I will make it available to anyone who wishes to have one.

Peaches

 

[Teach97]

Buster - it can take several weeks for all of one roo's "essecnce" to leave a hen...most folks wait like two weeks but others will wait 3 or more....

Diaper rash...I mean diaper changer...I mean make sure you don't open that lid! - we live way out and well...who needs cities? We have our smallish grocery store and it has all the essentials. I don't have a clue where Dustin is but driving out in our area changes your attitude about things...distance is measured inminutes...cuz you go a mile a minute...sometimes faster...depending on the wind direction!

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

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Yep, sure does stink when you open the lid!

Dustin is a little southish of Henryetta, close to Wetumka and Weleetka. There isnt a grocery store there though.

I like that the speed limits there dont change at night like here.

I thought TX was supposed to be wide open spaces. OK puts TX to shame in that aspect! And I saw more cows and horses there.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I had to mapquest Dustin and it is indeed in the middle of nowhere. I suspect folks go to Henryetta to buy major purchases or over to McAlester. I suspect that most folks who live and work in the middle of the countryside have farming operations and lots of acreage to run cows, have an internet based business or are retired. Teach will tell you that when you live in the middle of nowhere you don't think twice about a two hour + drive to go get something. (he is in the Panhandle)

Oklahoma has some of the pretty fall foliage that Indiana has - in Eastern Oklahoma. They don't have as many maple trees as Indiana, but the foliage can be beautiful when the summer was wet enough to put the sugar in the leaves that causes the color change after a frost.

Where did you grow up in Indiana? My grandparents had farmland in Boone County and I still have relatives in the Indianapolis and West Lafayette area.

 

[Stimpy]

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you have found a wonderful group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wished they lived in Oklahoma

If you had stopped at the KOA in Choctaw on May 1 as you were driving in Oklahoma, you would have had the opportunity to meet over 100 of us as we swapped and sold poultry and visited and had a huge potluck meal together.

I am a Hoosier by birth, was a Texan for about 5 years and am now a 30+ year Oklahoman by choice

I do enjoy visiting Indiana and seeing all that wonderful rich black dirt and those rows and rows of crops planted on flat fields.

What's a "flat Field"?

Does that mean that the rocks are all level?

-Stimp-

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

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I had to mapquest Dustin and it is indeed in the middle of nowhere. I suspect folks go to Henryetta to buy major purchases or over to McAlester. I suspect that most folks who live and work in the middle of the countryside have farming operations and lots of acreage to run cows, have an internet based business or are retired. Teach will tell you that when you live in the middle of nowhere you don't think twice about a two hour + drive to go get something. (he is in the Panhandle)

Oklahoma has some of the pretty fall foliage that Indiana has - in Eastern Oklahoma. They don't have as many maple trees as Indiana, but the foliage can be beautiful when the summer was wet enough to put the sugar in the leaves that causes the color change after a frost.

Where did you grow up in Indiana? My grandparents had farmland in Boone County and I still have relatives in the Indianapolis and West Lafayette area.

I grew up in Fountaintown (most even in IN have never heard of). It was a small town 30 minutes se of Indpls.

I have google mapped OK and it looked to me that, with the exception of living near OKC or Tulsa, everywhere wasnt close to anywhere.
We arent super close to anything really large here, and its 50 miles to the closest larger town, but we do have a few things in our town.
The thing that excited me most, is that OK isnt so big that it takes forever to get out of it. In was 2 hrs N, S, E, W and you are out of the state!
I havent left TX since we moved here 8 yrs ago.

 

[poultryand bees]

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you have found a wonderful group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wished they lived in Oklahoma

If you had stopped at the KOA in Choctaw on May 1 as you were driving in Oklahoma, you would have had the opportunity to meet over 100 of us as we swapped and sold poultry and visited and had a huge potluck meal together.

I am a Hoosier by birth, was a Texan for about 5 years and am now a 30+ year Oklahoman by choice

I do enjoy visiting Indiana and seeing all that wonderful rich black dirt and those rows and rows of crops planted on flat fields.

What's a "flat Field"?

Does that mean that the rocks are all level?

-Stimp-

An ancient glacier pushed South through the top two thirds or so of Indiana and left rich black soil that actually doesn't have - to my recollection - very many large rocks. Great farm country with deep topsoil so any rocks are several feet beneath the surface. Novel concept compared to Oklahoma's topography

There is a State Park that has hiking trails through rock formations - Turkey Run - but a lot of Indiana is as flat as the Oklahoma Panhandle - but with trees and fertile soil.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Texas is like a small country. When I went to college, it took 7.5 hours to go home at holidays and I never left the State of Texas and I wasn't even going border to border. It takes about that long to go from OKC to San Antonio, but at least I get to cross a state border.

 

[Sooner]

Working on sending pic's to you Peaches.

Clothdiaper welcome to the best set of folks anywhere.

I know back in the day my grandparents went shopping once a month. I think I would of liked that considering I hate shopping!