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[Greybear23]

Best chicken guardin dog I ever had was my old Red Bone gyp, she was fourteen when we put her to rest under and elm tree near the Game rooster barrel run!!! Loved that dog, best dog I ever had I think except maybe my Brindle Debo Pitbull!!! Lynn

 

[Sooner]

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I understand how you feel Joe, I am sure that there will always be some that don't care for it but I think it is also a learning process considering they have never ran on in this fasion as I believe I was told that one of the main guys is from the chupps acution. I would think that it will continue to get better as it goes forward. I just know that if I were going to sale I would get my birds there early & I would mark the breed ect on the cage.

the auctioner is stanly chupps i talked to him for a good long time at the last sell but he just auctions them off and has nothing to do with setting things up the lady doing the bookes and mouney is also from chupps and i tak to her all the time she said that they what her to come back but uless they get here some good help she won't

I guess they got it worked out since they are doing it again. I hate to down anything that is so helpful to us & I hope they get the kinks worked out so it is an every month event. I don't think the sale was so bad that it isn't worth going. It isn't all the responsibily of the auctioneers to know every breed of bird, it is the buyers too. I will continue to go & support the auction, if I can get it together I will also be selling a few things.

Just my 2 cents for what it's worth.

 

[GotGame]

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I went to yale and then stillwater...I would be very interested to see your friends black mouth curs, I have a couple friends from glencoe, cody shenold, he lives off lone chimney road...I dont think there are any plotts around, I would have heard about them if there were, unless they are straight hog dogs, and even then, I would have run into a plott at one time or another...I have my hound tied with my chickens, we have very few varmint problems...

 

[sixshooter60]

I live about 4 miles from where i grew up..lol... i have lived all over the country but somehow i manage to end up back home , i guess its true that theres no place like home.. there is not a creek or patch of woods for 10 miles around that i have not hunted in at one time or another...of course i lile all types of hunting .. i guess it helps growing up on squirrels and rabbits and deer meat..lol

 

[NanaKat]

My tough got cold holding open the gates waiting for the tractor to come thru the gate with bales of hay for the cows...finally had to get soft and sit in the warm truck while I waited.

Heard the panhandle had 79 mile per hour winds...makes our 35 mph seem tame.

Worked a little in the flowerbeds today and picked two pints of asparagus. Moved the newest chicks (two week olds) to the 6 x 2 water trough with a red heat lamp. They were intimidated by the extra space.....or it may have been the calls of the conures and lovebirds.

Roger's surgery is at 6am tomorrow..we leave home at 3:30am to get there for pre-op. I'm headed to bed soon. Have to finish the mornings chores before I settle in. Roger is already on oxygen and beginning to snooze.

GotGame, did you ever hunt with Leopard Catahoula? Great dogs.

SJarvis97...I'm making up recipe cards for you...will mail them soon. Glad the jelly came out good.

 

[GotGame]

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Well, Leopard Curs and Catahoulas are two separate breeds...common opinion is that they once were the same breed, and I can definitely see how it could be so, and at some point some folks selected some that had the trailing/treeing traits and bred for them, possibly crossing hounds in them, and they took the others that had the desire to bay and work stock and bred for that mentality, hence there are two different breeds...leopard curs or leopard hounds as they are now registered, are nice open trailers, medium hunters with more brains than your average hound. Your Catahoulas are very similiar in build and look, but a totally different type of dog, more of a silent trailer with very few of them having the desire to tree....

 

[CayuseRanch]

HI Everyone. I have finally decided to jump into the BYC. Decided to start here since I have been "Creeping" on your forum and I live in OK. I found the site several weeks ago when I was looking up breed information on Chickens. About a year ago, my husband said, "we are going to get some chickens" and I thought you are nuts, then about two months ago he built a coop and I thought again, you are nuts! Then I bought a book on Chickens from my local TSC and been hooked ever since. My hubby calls me the Chicken Guru (Secretly thanks to the BYC and fellow okies

) So two weeks ago we got our first 5 hens. They are all 7 months to a year all supposed to have been laying. An RIR, two Ameracauna's or EE's not sure which but the eggs are blue/green not olive, a white rock and a barnyard mutt that I have yet to identify. Anyway, the first week we averaged 3 eggs a day and I was stoked! So guess what? Yep your right, the next Sunday I went and bought some more chickens! A polish because I think they are funny looking, two barred rocks and another bantam mutt that was just friendly and cute. Oh and the guy convinced me to take an americauna rooster that I thought was pretty. That was about 10 days ago.

So anyway here is my delima...Over the last week...we have been getting 1 maybe 2 eggs. We expanded the coop and there is plenty of room. It is predator proof and I haven't found anyproof of them eating the eggs, but honestly I haven't even seen one sitting in their nesting boxes, the eggs just magically appears.

Help....I seem to have eggstapated chickens

 

[Sooner]

Nanakat our prayers will be with you & hubby tomorrow. I hope all goes well!

 

[NanaKat]

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Well, Leopard Curs and Catahoulas are two separate breeds...common opinion is that they once were the same breed, and I can definitely see how it could be so, and at some point some folks selected some that had the trailing/treeing traits and bred for them, possibly crossing hounds in them, and they took the others that had the desire to bay and work stock and bred for that mentality, hence there are two different breeds...leopard curs or leopard hounds as they are now registered, are nice open trailers, medium hunters with more brains than your average hound. Your Catahoulas are very similiar in build and look, but a totally different type of dog, more of a silent trailer with very few of them having the desire to tree....

My Red came from a silent trailer....he actually points with a foot lifted. I got to watch a tree baying dog work once...beauty in action and song!

 

[GotGame]

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All these extreme weather changes can sure put a damper on a hen laying...are you feeding a high protein layer pellet?