*** OKIES in the BYC ***

[Poco Pollo]

Coop - Is the silkie roo okay? What a traumatic experience for him.

The wind pulled a roof section off the barn last night. I know what I'm doing when I get home.

I checked all my pens after the worst of the storm passed. All the ducks were dry and inside their houses. Lots of teen chicks were wet and standing just outside their sheltered areas. One little Speckled Sussex was sleeping by herself inside the big baby house. I towel dried the teens and shooed them into their house. You'd think they were raised in a barn, or something. Sheesh.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Rain Rain! Guess I'll go out and make some sale cages in the garage. Gretybear I saw those colored pigeons! I think they died them as adults,using food coloring.May have to try it and see. I'm getting pretty good at coloring the wifes hair,should be able to color a pigeon! (oops!

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[coop101]

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he's okay, more like..."I meant to do that." think his ego was hurt but that was it. in ten minutes he was clucking up a storm for his imaginary hens. they are blind so the two carry on like they have a flock of hens. We have them isolated cause the nearness of other roos cause them to peck at the air nervously.

 

[Sooner]

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22mph is a breeze campared to what it has been or even what I am getting hit with this morning.

Sooner, how is the bird search going and how is Maddy taking it all, heres hoping all turns out well.

AL

We found one more alive & way away from the pen. She is doing pretty good considering. I had hoped we would find more but at least she still has enough that she can breed from next season & several of them once conditioned can be shown. They came from a man that he only breeds moderns & most of his birds are good.

 

[GotGame]

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22mph is a breeze campared to what it has been or even what I am getting hit with this morning.

Sooner, how is the bird search going and how is Maddy taking it all, heres hoping all turns out well.

AL

We found one more alive & way away from the pen. She is doing pretty good considering. I had hoped we would find more but at least she still has enough that she can breed from next season & several of them once conditioned can be shown. They came from a man that he only breeds moderns & most of his birds are good.

Where did you get your moderns?

 

[Grace'sDad]

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Glad you found another one. Hopefully they all will turn up. We had a roo that got beat up pretty bad by the alpha roo. I thought he would not make it but I couldn't just kill him. I took him out in the country and let him go. Over a month later I saw him walking around in town about three blocks from our house. I came back to the house and picked up Grace and we drove back to where he was. When she got out and called him he ran over to the car. We brought him home and he was a great roo until we sold him.
You just never know.

 

[poultryand bees]

Grace'sDad :

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Glad you found another one. Hopefully they all will turn up. We had a roo that got beat up pretty bad by the alpha roo. I thought he would not make it but I couldn't just kill him. I took him out in the country and let him go. Over a month later I saw him walking around in town about three blocks from our house. I came back to the house and picked up Grace and we drove back to where he was. When she got out and called him he ran over to the car. We brought him home and he was a great roo until we sold him.
You just never know.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/30285_farm_5.gif

That is a heartwarming story. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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im pretty sure I have read the same thing, not supposed to color chicks...

Only in OKC and Sallisaw, apparently.

http://www.animallaw.info/statutes/stusokodoklahomacity_sallisaw.htm

 

[poultryand bees]

Oklahoma City has an ordinance which prohibits tatooing of fish and dyeing of birds (the term "bird" does not appear to be defined, although "fowl" are considered "animals". Since the prohibition against dyeing specifically applies to "mammals" and "birds" I am not sure that chickens fall in that category - even though the title of the ordinance refers to "animals)


§ 8-117. - Artificial coloring prohibited; transporting artificially colored animals prohibited.

(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person to dye or artificially color or cause to be dyed or artificially colored any mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian, including wild and domesticated species or to bring or transport any dyed or artificially colored mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian, including wild and domesticated species into the City.

(b)
It shall be unlawful for any person to tattoo any fish or to cause any fish to be tattooed or to bring or transport any tattooed fish into the City.

(c)
It shall be unlawful for any person to artificially color any fish or cause any fish to be artificially colored or to bring or transport any artificially colored fish into the City when the artificial coloring is a result of the injection of dyes into the fish through the use of needles or other invasive techniques.

(Ord. No. 23145, § 2, 10-3-06; Ord. No. 23464, § 1, 10-9-07)

§ 8-118. - Possession, sale, barter or gift of artificially colored animals prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, offer for sale, sell, barter or give away any dyed or artificially colored animal.

(Ord. No. 23145, § 2, 10-3-06)

I was unable to find a state statute that prohibits dyeing of animals (unless someone is able to successfully argue that it constitutes "cruelty").

When OKC's ordinance was challenged by a fish store owner in 2007, it was argued that changing the color of fish by a dye bath would not violate the ordinance, since it appeared focused on dyeing fish by injection. OKC apparently decided that there wasn't any way to tell if the fish had been injected with dye or dipped in dye and declined to clarify that dye baths would be acceptable.

edited because I didn't see Cuban's post and wanted to clarify that the ordinance I found is an OKC ordinance.

 

[KarenN]

Planning to go to Kellyville swap tomorrow - if I haven't blown away first