Okies in the BYC The Original

[al6517]

heading to the Cement auction in a couple of hours, will any of you okies in BYC be there ? and if so what are you bringing to sell ?
I know OKcarla is planning an appearence, really looking forward to meeting her she has been a big help, great lady!!!!. should I plan to bring some cages if i decide to buy ?.
glad to see these okies hurricane winds did not let us down today, hold onto your hats.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

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The Harrah auction starts at 5 p.m. They will sell cages, and other outside stuff first then goats and then when they move inside they will sell a lot of misc. stuff then eggs then poultry and rabbits.

From I-40 take the Harrah road exit and go about nine miles you will be in the middle of Harrah on Church street. Turn left on Main street and go till the street dead ends.
The auction is in the lumber yard. ( If you get lost stop and ask where the lumber yard is located.)
If you are selling you have to be there by 4 p.m. to get your stuff checked in.
If you are going to buy you have to get a bidder's number from the office.
It is free.
The Cement auction is south of Chickasha, Harrah is probably a little closer from southeast OKC.
Harrah is ever other Saturday but Cement is only once a month. I have heard reaaly good things about the Cement auction.

 

[Buckguy20]

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Thanks Grace and everyone else for the info. I figured if it had been a reaaly big deal I would have heard more about it. I appreciate maww going the extra mile to keep everyone and their birds safe.

Buck

 

[Buckguy20]

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Grace, I won't be on here next week. I leave Monday for Falls Creek. I am going to be a sponsor/ cook at Falls Creek.
Buck

 

[Buckguy20]

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Hornbeck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will put you on the list.
Glad to have you here. Please jump in and tell us about yourself and your birds.

 

[luvzmybabz]

I will be at Cement tonight I am selling one of my cochin pairs (the rooster is too aggressive for my 4 year old) and some Brahma chickies. OKCarla is you see this before you leave I was hoping to see if you had a 3 to 4 week old chick I could buy off you I have a 3 1/2 week lone chick I want to buy a friend for. Also does anyone know how things go at Cement for selling like cages etc? If anyone shows up there I will be the one with too many kids to be trying to do this today but I need to thin out a little bit.

 

[hooligan]

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Yes, I will be able to show Baby Lou and Prudence (my two house chickens) by then. Baby Lou has yet to completely feather out (its slow going with her!) and of course Bob will be in the costume contest!

 

[Mawchickkidie]

ok okies the Chickenstock rescheduling plans are up and running we need everybodys in put on what dates that they would think they could attended the 4th of oct. or the 11th of oct. head on over an put in your 2 cents. maw.

 

[Buckguy20]

Hey Carla and anyone else that went to Cement. How was it?

I went to the Harrah auction. Some things sold cheap others went for good prices. My White Marans brought $15 apiece and two other hens I took sold for $11 each, so I was happy with that.
I took a Penedesenca rooster and he only brought $4 so I po'd him and brought him home.
Hatching eggs went very very cheap. I sold nine Welsummer and three gold campine eggs and they only brought $3 for the dozen.
I know Lisa bought some Gold Salman Marans eggs for $3 a dozen.
A lot of people left before it ever got to selling chickens. It was after eight before they got to the birds.
They had a lot of outside stuff and some brooders and cages went for what I thought was pretty low. But a wooden homemade nest box sold for over $30 so go figure.
They had a lot of misc. stuff inside as well and that took a long time to get through.
I enjoyed visiting with folks and had a good time and even made a little cash for a change.
Monty

 

[okcarla]

Yes, we went to Cement on Saturday, and Luvzmybabz was there too!

The Cement auction wasn't so wonderful this month to sell at. We took some eggs, chicks, juvenile birds, and even some of my breeder spitzhauben and brabanter chickens, along with all my call ducks. The hatching eggs I had sold for as low as $2 a dozen, my juvenile birds went as low as $2 each, and my spitzhauben roosters sold for $1.50 each. My call ducks and spitzhauben hens sold for $7 each. There just wasn't a big crowd of buyers this time, and it was mostly other sellers buying things ... for a steal! I decided not to PO anything, even though I should have. The only things we bought were a couple of cages and some araucana chicks for .65 cents each, which some chicks died ... even though we brought them right home and gave them water with Blue Ribbon poultry supplement powder with electrolytes and other nutrients in it. I guess the heat & stress was too much for them.

They tried improving the Cement auction by fencing off the area where the birds are, so that none of the birds & cages are removed without a receipt, but by the end of the auction, people were everywhere, and of course, some things disappeared. When we were waiting to collect our empty cages, we found out that a buyer that bought & paid for a pair of my birds found the cage empty, with their buyer number clearly on the tag. They were quite unhappy. Luckily they didn't pay much for the pair, but still ... it shouldn't have happened.

Oh, and rabbits were selling as low as $2 each there too ... some dutch, some white, and some mixed looking bunnies ... none that were breeder age, that I could see.

It sounds like we should have gone to the Harrah auction instead, but we still enjoyed the experience, and got to visit with Luvzmybabz and other chicken addicted people!