TULSA area Cluckers

[bluerosebirds]

Hi All,

We have barred cochin, silky and frizzle young for sale.
1-4 months old. Also one lonely speckled sussex roo that just learned to crow.
Are there any 4 H's around that might be interested. I don't know much about 4 H but would love to give kids a special deal for 4H projects.

 

[bluerosebirds]

I'm new to all this...apologiza for my ignorance.....What and where is NEOCS ?
Also the Coweta sale?

THNX

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I'm new to all this...apologiza for my ignorance.....What and where is NEOCS ?
Also the Coweta sale?

THNX

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/363390/the-new-oklahoma-auction-swap-list

Here is a list for the most recent info on local auctions, I believe Coweta is 2nd Friday of each month, it is usually advertised on Craigslist a few days before hand. NEOCS is Northeast Oklahoma Chicken Stock, basically a show-off, sell, auction event in Muskogee. It was in June this year, I think next year they want it earlier maybe in May some time.

If you want to find "Okies in the BYC" thread it moves faster than this one which is sometimes good sometimes bad, a lot of people travel halfway across the state to attend all the shows and auctions and you can find them there.

We will have chicks for sale in about 2 weeks, dealing with a disease outbreak so our flock is closed right now. Ameraucana, lakenvelder, BBR OEGB (Black breasted red Old English Game Bantams) for sale then, and hopefully Cream Legbar, Isbar, and French Black Copper Maran chicks in the spring.

 

[cathiesue]

I'm new to all this...apologiza for my ignorance.....What and where is NEOCS ?
Also the Coweta sale?

THNX

Hi and Welcome. We were all new once. Some of are still noobs!! Like me. Rinda gave you a good link to the big picture. Depending on where you live and how much time you've got there are tons of place. NEOCS was just started this year in Muskogee in June or July? Can't remember. And POOPS is in Chocktaw earlier in the spring.
Auctions in Coweta happen every third Fridy. That's the closest to Tulsa besides the flea market.
Look on Faebook for NEOCS 2012 (Northeast Oklahoma Chicken Stock) it has postings on it for others selling or buying birds.
Also on FB Central Oklahoma Farm and Livestock Swap Meet
and Pets and Livestock barter, buy and sell
Cathie Sue

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Thanks for the other links, Cathiesue, I hadn't found them yet!

Oh gosh this morning was hard- our grower pen has been fighting a respiratory illness and as we want to be reputable breeders we are choosing to destroy all affected birds. I euthanized 11 myself this morning. Still reeling a little bit- most of them were our sweet little cream legbars...

MORAL OF THE STORY- DO NOT BUY NEW BIRDS UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAVE A 30-DAY QUARANTINE PLAN IN PLACE. The birds that affected us came from the Coweta auction in August- not the auction's fault, it is the fault of people bringing sick birds. Lonny has now learned his lesson I hope. He kept asking if I wanted him to do it- I told him no. If you are going to raise animals you have to deal with the realistic possibility that at some point you will have to put one down. But it was very hard- I hope I never have to do that many at once again.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

HA one thing to brighten my day is yesterday was hatch day, stretching into today! Anyway a little surprise just hatched- it was sold to me as a lakenvelder but only 2/12 hatched, I knew right away it was the wrong color for lakenvelder but now that it is drying off I can see it has cute, very well-feathered legs! SURPRISE! Either NOT a lakenvelder or else mixed with cochin or something!

 

[bluerosebirds]

Thanks for the info. Really sorry about your disaster. The heat took quite a toll on ours. We even had misters, coop & yard are in the shade and fed all night when it was cooler.
What breeds of this year's pullets do you all have ?

I;m looking for legbars, golden comet, blue/blue laced wyandotte, all colors of orps, and just about anything blue, orlofs, ;akenvelder, speckled susex, black or blue copper maran, isloff.. I'm limited to pullets since I live in Tulsa. One beatiful black copper Maran crowed last week and was rehomed to a faimly east of town.

To be sold or rehomed: frizzles, silkies, 2 barred cochin roos, 1 splash polish roo. All either year ago sping hatch or this year's hatch.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Right now we only have straight run day-old chicks from yesterday/today's hatch and some french black copper maran cockerels. We have very few since we had to destroy the last of our juveniles. For certain we have a lakenvelder, a feather-legged lakenvelder mix, a BBR OEGB (that's a bantam in case you didn't know), and 2 black true Ameraucanas, you can see the Ameraucana parents in my photos I think. We will certainly have more Ameraucanas, they will be either black or blue, some set to hatch 9/18 and another I just started today set to hatch 10/2.

In the spring we will definitely have Ameraucanas, french black copper marans, and isbars, HOPEFULLY cream legbars as well although if we lose all our juvies to this respiratory illness I don't know if we will have layers yet by then, we have to get, set, and hatch ASAP for that to happen. The two that hatched today are both female and we only have one male left in the quarantine pen with 9 days left to quarantine- not good odds.

I will post when we are no longer on closed flock status, but if you want hens from us you will have to wait until spring, we are hatching ALL the Ameraucana eggs we get so I'm fairly certain we should have Ameraucana pullets for sale by then. The others we will save and grow out whatever we don't sell.

There was a man in Catoosa (which is close to us) selling POL (point of lay) RIR hens on Craigslist, I don't know if he still has any but we got 3 a couple of weeks ago, they are not laying yet but are nice looking girls. Besides what I see on craigslist and the monthly Coweta auction I do not know of anyone selling hens in the Tulsa area at this time (QUARANTINE IF YOU BUY AUCTION BIRDS!). Some of the craigslist folks are selling at crazy prices though- like $45 for a POL Ameraucana!!! Better have golden stock at that price!

 

[bluerosebirds]

have you had one of your dead chickens pm'd (post mortem).? You can keep feeling guilty or maybe (just maybe ) find that your chicks had enchephilitis or West Nile or dznz of other diseases that can be none of your own chicken husbandries' fault. It just happens.

I'll keep checking on all of you through the winter. If you have any pullets to sell please let me know. I just GAVE away 6 (5 pullets /my copper maran roo) to some close friends of mine that really need the eggs for food. Their 4 year old grand-daughter has even learned to cook a chicken egg with a little garlic in a baggy !

I'm SOO glad to find chicken people around Tulsa !

 

[lonnyandrinda]

No. But I am fairly certain of the disease and the source. I'm sure now it is respiratory, and given it's prevelance probably MG. We have only had chickens since June. Hubby decided to visit an auction solo and it didn't end until late, I think it was 2 AM before he got home. My words were, "get one or two good layers if you can." He came home with 38 or so birds of varying ages- NONE of them in lay LOL!!! Anyway it was middle of the night and he came home and just dumped all these birds in wherever they would fit. Even left one separated in the run- he knew well enough to keep those roos apart. In the morning I was NOT a happy camper. With all my reading I KNEW it was a good idea to quarantine, and I KNEW the auction chickens looked unwell, but I thought (hoped?) the two or three that looked like they had eye problems were eye peck injuries from being closely confined. That group was also filthy matted. I cleaned them all up but we still didn't have a separate place so I had to put them all in together and hope for the best. Kept seeing another here and there that I THOUGHT I had just missed with "pecked eyes" swollen shut. Each time I took them into a box in the house to "doctor" and keep an eye on. We sold a bunch of the healthy batch right off. Managed to get ahold of a large container to use in the garage as a brooder and put MY babies in there so they were re-separated at that point. Then our dog ripped into the grower pen and killed the remaining auction chicks. Not a bad thing now that I look back, it's that many more I didn't have to put down. But it was too late, our CL and Ameraucana babies were already exposed. They started showing symptoms on Sunday and we finally decided Monday to start euthanizing as we saw symptoms. I am down to one CL boy and 3 CL girls, plus the 2 CL girls from the hatch. Crossing my fingers my boy makes it...

ETA: ...and yes hubby and I are still on speaking terms.

I did tell him today that I hoped he had noticed I have refrained from telling him "I told you so" LOL! As long as he learned something from the experience we will take away what we can! This was a hard lesson for me, that's for sure.