Okies in the BYC The Original

[sjarvis00]

We were hoping not to hatch this winter but it looks like i will be keeping some on lights in the garage just so I have some. So today we were moving what few babies we have to a bigger pen for the winter so I can add more to it, and hanging heat lamps... Only thing left to do in there is get some hay for wind block and plug in the lights.

 

[Sooner]

You are way ahead then compared to me! I thought I was going to be ahead but my dogs took down some of what I had started, I also have some pens to move for the electric co. to bring in my underground. I feel like I am just keeping my head above water!

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Yeah, that's a hard weekend, but I'm going to try

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Thank you!
I didn't want to miss the Cement (now at Anadarko) show, but that is going to be a hard weekend to fit anything else in to

Maybe I can clone myself

 

[Sooner]

Grace I know you will do good at your show & have a great holiday! You will be doing something that you love! Enjoy all the fun while you can, life gets in the way the older you get.

See ya Steph!

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

Howdy everyone,

been a rough few days haven't been on much, Hope everyone is doing alright,


I'm needing to find some Buff Orpington hatching eggs for my incubator and a friends also, So would be interested in several dozen if so just pm me please

I have 120 developing chickies in my incubator, candled last night for the last time so it's coming along well about half of them mutts the other half Barred Rock. goes on lockdown on the 21st and should see something started by Sunday. I need to get brooders ready LOL
See you all later

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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i wish we were close enough to help!! you are in macalester, right? surely someone near you could help- or maybe an eastern oklahoma mini-poops to do a coop and penraising???

Nope, further south. Not close to anyone for something like that. Things will work out.

 

[Buckguy20]

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sounds serious if Matt is putting girls before hunting. I always told the girls who were dating my sons in high school that they needed to learn when the various Oklahoma hunting seasons were scheduled, because the seasons are in the same order each year and on the same weekends each year and the girl needed to be comfortable with the concept of not seeing my son during hunting season each year.

That still holds true for at least one son - even after all these years.

When I was 17 I skipped deer hunting the evening of opening day to go on a date.
My dad, who only hunted sporadically, was feeding our cattle and saw the big buck I had been seeing and was after. He shot and killed it.
When I got home and heard the news, I was a little upset with him.
He said "Its your own fault, you were looking for the wrong kind of "dear" today."
I have killed many, many deer but none as big as the one he got that day.

 

[Buckguy20]

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Sorry Steph both made it just fine, I am just so tired that I can't seem to type what I am thinking.

K.... I just wanted to make sure neither died on the way to you.... I would have felt bad.

Not nearly as bad as me!

 

[Kwartel]

I had drill this weekend and of course that would be when something decides to get into my quail pen. I opened the gate at about 5am Sunday morning, still half-asleep, just to have something jump from the window ledge past my face. I found three dead quail and the netting that lines the fence torn down. I spent the next hour with a flashlight and a net and found over a dozen escaped birds, including one little white hen that flew up on top of the house. I fixed the netting and put some wire over where I thought whatever it was had gotten in, then set a trap with one of my dead birds inside.

Then last night I was up late finishing some homework and took the dogs out before I was going to go to bed. On a whim I decided to walk over to the quail pen and heard what sounded like a Sasquatch thrashing around in it. I ran inside to grab a light and a gun and came back out to find a huge nasty feral cat trying to escape. I took a shot at it and missed and I could kick myself for not grabbing the shotgun. Apparently it had climbed the tree next to the pen, pulled back the netting that covers the top of it and was having a fine time killing my birds. It wasn't even eating them, just killing them for sport. I rounded up the survivors and put them into my small pen in the garden. Several had injuries, but nothing that shouldn't heal in a few days.

I think a can of tuna, a shotgun and a lawn chair will take care of the immediate problem, but I ordered some heavier netting online to put over what I already have. I bought a big enough piece that I should be able to bring the edge down over the top of the fence and secure it about a foot or so down. I just feel sick that it was able to get in and do so much damage. These were young quail, all different colors, just starting to lay. I ended up losing two little golden males, a white and a Tibetan, plus however many escaped that I wasn't able to recapture.