Okies in the BYC The Original

[Buckguy20]

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Next time try and hit the Bricktown area.

 

[bigokie37]

hello everyone hows everyone taking this heat.i just been hiding in my cave till dark an then its still hard to deal with.my GQF inc has 14 eggs in it.i just been taking it easy.i got a few dz a week coming starting friday so i will get back going within a few weeks.

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

I got a small situtation that hs me bothered and since I am "new to having a chicken farm" (not at all new to chickens or animals) It really has me baffled. But I hear and read so many topics about mean agressive roosters. (OMG HENRY GET THE GUN HES A MEAN ONE) Like rehoming them sending them to freezer camp. ect. I have 50+ roosters on my yard Free range I do not let them fight ever! Even as babys establishing the pecking order. Once its established there are no chicks picking or pecking anyone on my farm. I use strict reinforcment. Loud tones Firm Fingers, Soft Pokes to there beaks and chest when they act up. For some of the Bigger birds Its a thin branch but needless to say I hardly ever have to break up anyone on my yard.
I just got a new "agressive RiR Roo that took one day to tame he is 2 years old and the man had all these violent storys to tell me about him. This Roo has like the rest of my birds Grown on our family. He loves all of us and minus mine and his first go round.. (was quickly the last one He knows I am alpha period) is it really that bad on some farms have I just been lucky to avoid all these psyco Roo's that are untrainable? Or are most people not willing to take out the time to train/retrain them? Is that just the chicken farmers method? Oh hes a meany get rid of him? and isn't Rehoming a agressive Roo only passing your Problems onto others? I am stumped about all this reading I have done and all this talk of mean and agressive Roo's.
Half the time it seems as if its more the owners fualt for not establishing a one on one relationship with every bird he/she intends to keep? This has me so lost really and almost sick to my stomach I haven't found an animal I couldn't break of a bad habit yet. I will admit in some situations I let anger get the better of me and dealt with some predators on a pretty unfair, (and almost contradictory) way. MR Jolly Red Giant infamously Feared OKC Rooster.

NOT!!!!!
the Oh so Violent MS. Putty tat Precious

NOT!!!! anyone have any feed back or is it just all in my little happy world. (and head?)

Edited to say! I never really thought about the fact maybe Some people have real lives and can't spend every last minute with there birds. Thus being the case How could you put up with an agressive Roo? I see where it leads to being a problem. Perhaphs I am in for a real suprise when I am finally faced off with a real agressive roo. Sorry for being selfish with my thought in the OP.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I am ready for some of the cold weather we complained about last winter and some of the rain we complained about this spring. My pens are finally dry - and cracking. I am going to worm my laying flock this weekend,. I am only getting about 6-8 eggs a day from 20 hens, so there won't be many eggs to refrain from feeding to humans.

I don't do heat and humidity well, so am doing my best to get things done after dark or really early in the morning.

What kind of eggs do you have coming for your incubator?

 

[Brick243]

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That's right Teach, and don't you forget it.

Naw, anymore this Brick is more like the pillsbury dough boy.

 

[Teach97]

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That's right Teach, and don't you forget it.

Naw, anymore this Brick is more like the pillsbury dough boy.

now that is funny

how are things going in your little world

 

[Kwartel]

@MMPoultryFarm

We've never had much problem with all of our roosters. Out of the Buckeye chicks we got this spring, we ended up with 9 hens and 19 roos. There have been a few tiffs, but nothing serious, just a little squawking. I've only seen real aggression in our game chickens. One day our game chicken mix decided that he wasn't going to play nice with the Australorp roos that he had been raised with and got into a truly spectacular fight with blood drawn. We tried to reconcile them to each other but nothing worked. As soon as they saw each other, they would go crazy. None of them were ever mean toward us, even though they're not crazy about being picked up, they put up with it. We did end up selling our game mix, since our neighbor's guineas wouldn't tolerate him as a freerange bird. It is always tough to give up a bird when you really care about them, but there are many people who don't have that emotional attachment and end up taking the easy out. I'm glad you were able to give a misunderstood bird a second chance.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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still here, playing catch up & lurking. School keeps me pretty tied up at the moment.

Miss being a regular.

Love that photo of Doc & Hot Dog

 

[Teach97]

not real exciting...we did things that I have done beofre but cost too much in equipment for me to justify in my classroom...we used pipette deals that were about $750 per set...and DNA deals that run like $200 per...

Anyways...real slow...and yeah...but I am done tomorrow

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

MM that cat looks like a bobcat! Is it a cross or really a wild cat?


Sooner have you talked to NaNa lately? Sent her a pm and didn't get a reply.Wonder if she got the boys to take her to the lake!

Well looks lik we are on the road this weekend,delivering a Taco dog to daughter in Kansas ,Ok. Was hoping to make Marys on sat morning but wife said that wasn't on her agenda!phtff!