*** OKIES in the BYC ***

[chickensandmore]

Hey Lynn, glad you are happy with the chicks. Let me know if you ever want anymore. I have a friend that is hatching some NN eggs for me, just another 2 weeks. I am getting all of the ones without bow ties and of course the black ones.


Don

 

[GotGame]

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You can count me and my wife in, so two more...

 

[smfamf]

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Well we went to pick up my new birds. Thanks to Matt and Grace for getting them to me. We stopped of in McLoud and visited with Andrew's grandpa. They had a good visit as I laid on the sofa resting. We stopped and did a bit of shopping in Yukon in the way home. I was able to get Jordan's birthday presents. When we got home we put the birds in their pen and headed back out to go get the kids. They stayed with my grandparents last night and all day today. We had a nice chat with them. I really enjoy visiting with them. They are the only family that I really have and I make sure to contact them at least once or twice a week. Grandma has been doing really well after her chemo treatments last year. The Lord has blessed is again, as her cancer is once again in remission. Every time I see or speak to them, I wonder if it will be the last time. Grandpa's health has been declining in the past year. I worry about them, but they are so independent that they won't ask for help. I always offer it anyway. I love them to pieces. Well we are about home now and I got a lot of things to unpack and put away. I'll catch up with y'all later.

 

[mjgigax]

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The 2 young madagascar pullets only sold for $7 each. I was shocked! I wasn't actively bidding on any birds, because I already spent over my limit at the Guy Rose Auction on Betsy's awesome silkies, but had I realized they were going to sell so low, I would have bid on them

We had fun at the Guy Rose Auction in Perkins on Saturday morning and enjoyed visiting with Chris aka doubleostud, Betsy aka BetsyOK and meeting Richard aka Splitsocket. Richard, I loved how you described how you can use a silkie chicken for a feather duster

I can't remember how you said it, but that lady believed you!

I bought a couple of goats from Chris before the auction and Gerald bought junk at the junk portion of the Guy Rose Auction, and I bought some of Betsy's silkies! At noon, they had the hay sale and we bought a load of small bales of alfalfa for $3.10 a bale!!!! Our F350 was piled way too high to drive home, but by the grace of God, somehow we managed to make it. We got home in just enough time to grab hatching eggs to take to the Blanchard auction.

At the Blanchard auction, we saw a blue game rooster sell for ... I think $165 ???

I can't remember for sure but we were stunned.

We saw lots of great BYC Okies at Blanchard. Many regular faces, and some that we hadn't seen in a long time were Suzi and Vern, aka FunChick, Keith and Lou, aka Stimpy, KC and Donice, aka Chicklooker and OldMotherHen, and Misti and ..... well now I'm forgetting. Prices on most of the birds at the Blanchard auction went too low, since the place was flooded with birds. Ours sold OK, but probably half what they'd sell for at the Fletcher auction. We didn't leave until around 1:30 am .... actually it was 2:30 am because of Spring Forward, and they still hadn't sold all the birds yet and lots of the miscellaneous stuff hadn't sold yet. We would have left sooner, but were waiting to bid on some 16 foot livestock panels ... but that didn't work out.

I now have a horrible migraine headache that began last night at Blanchard & hasn't gone away yet. Too much auction excitement for my brain to handle in one day, I guess.

So sorry about the mix up with the panels Carla!!! We are still worn out after that long wait. Guess next time we want to bring some big stuff to Blanchard we will have to check with Jerry much sooner in advance. We ended up pulling the edger and fertilizer so we could just go home but still dodn't get home till 2:45!

 

[CityClucks]

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Thank you for this update Maribeth.

And thank you FunChick Suzi!!

 

[CityClucks]

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Good to see you Sherri!

 

[CityClucks]

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Al! Are you okay?

 

[al6517]

Knock knock anybody out there ??????????????/.

AL

 

[CityClucks]

Can you tell I'm just now catching up? I just returned from No Man's Land - the Panhandle of Oklahoma. I went with my folks to the two church services my dad preaches - imagine my delight when I walked into the second service and was greeted by Teach and his family! AWESOME! Got some good hugs from him and his wonderful boys. His wife Jean sings beautifully.

And by the way, my dad preached against racoons. True.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Just me and my chickens