*** OKIES in the BYC ***

[chickensandmore]

Carla, where I get my laying pellets,I can beat the 9.75 by a dollar and it's 20 %.
This ole boy has a country store and sell all kinds of stuff, he has his own truck and picks the feed up at the mill. Course that may be a good price for there.


Don

 

[GracefulBantams]

Just a few hens & a Roo o :

south of Tulsa in the tri city surburb area of jenks,glenpool and sapulpa. We have only an acre of land,but love the chickens. Inatially got them because we thught our grandchildren might enjoy it,but we r hooked. We havea small cheap bator and hatched 6 eggs last fall, ended up with 3 hens and 2 roos, one of which was a cuckoo maran. Just now getting our feet wet in the byc thing.I enjoy all the info and posts.

 

[coop101]

A man was driving along a rural road when he realized he had to make a phone call. He was miles from a pay phone so he decided to stop in at the next farmhouse he found. As he was approaching a house he noticed a three-legged chicken racing along the road. He followed the chicken and clocked it at 45 miles per hour.

When the man got to the farmhouse he asked the farmer about the chicken. The farmer replied, "W'all, when I was at the uneeversitee, I studied geenetics. 'Round these parts we love chicken and we're all partial to the drumstick, so I thought I'd see if I could make a three-legged chicken. So, here 'tis."

The man was quite impressed. He asked, "How does it taste?"

The farmer replied, "Don't know. Ain't none of us been able to ketch one yet."

 

[poultryand bees]

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Those look like really good prices - particularly with feed going up everywhere else.

I wonder how well chickens would do on a feed that has very little corn - since corn seems to be what is increasing in price the fastest. The feed that Carl was talking about in Hollis sounds interesting. If we could find a good deal on quality feed it might be worth the money to buy several pallets - that could be plastic wrapped and loaded directly onto the flat bed trailer and brought back to the OKC area. We bought 2 tons of chicken feed in Bristow at the end of December and figured out that the difference in price more than paid for the fuel to get it. We had Fisher's Mill put the sacked feed onto a pallet and wrap it in plastic. They used their forklift to place it directly onto the flat bed, we strapped it down and when we got home, we unloaded it into the front loader of the tractor to move it into the barn since we don't have pallet hooks for the tractor (something I am currently looking for by the way)

 

[poultryand bees]

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I would love to find 20% laying pellets for less than $9 per bag within 20 miles of OKC.

 

[Just a few hens & a Roo o]

I think I'm gonna put the three olive eggs in the bator to see what hatches, that and I just want to hatch something We would love to cometo one of the auctions, bur=t are notsure where or when they are. Don't know what we would do with what we would buy either.

 

[poultryand bees]

I am going to go pull on the Carhardtt overalls and get to work outside. Hope it warms up this afternoon.

 

[okcarla]

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I would love to find 20% laying pellets for less than $9 per bag within 20 miles of OKC.

Me too! I don't know where Gerald is hiding the feed store receipts ... I just looked a few places and can't find them ... but I think we're paying over $13 a bag for 20% pellets.

 

[poultryand bees]

Just a few hens & a Roo o :

I think I'm gonna put the three olive eggs in the bator to see what hatches, that and I just want to hatch something We would love to cometo one of the auctions, bur=t are notsure where or when they are. Don't know what we would do with what we would buy either.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=363390 is a link to the Oklahoma auctions we know about.

You build more pens for the things you buy - what else?

 

[okcarla]

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I think it got a bit colder than the weather folks thought it would. I thought I could run out to the pickup truck this morning without a coat and barely opened the door before I changed my mind.