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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 21, 2022 17:34:00 GMT -6
That's so cool to read. I don't know why, but chicks are always fun!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 24, 2022 23:31:57 GMT -6
Bon, Your napping chick reminds me of my wife's baby cockatiel. It was just born in February and is just beginning to learn to fly. That little bird follows her everywhere she goes. Anytime she leaves the room, he starts crying until she comes back to put him on her shoulder. Sometimes, you gotta wonder who's training who.
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Post by hmoosek on Apr 29, 2022 19:24:34 GMT -6
Does anyone raise quail? I have in the past, but wife put her foot down when I turned the bath tub in the spare bedroom into a brooding cage. I didn’t actually put the quail into the tub, I just set the Rubbermaid container into the tub. Woman no like me bringing quail indoors. I can’t even mention the word quail anymore. Sigh...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 30, 2022 16:16:45 GMT -6
We've had plenty of animals, wild, and otherwise in our bathtub here. One time, I found a heifer having a first-time calf in a heavy snowstorm ... Rather than licking the calf off when it was born; she just walked away from it and left it lying in the snow while she ate the hay that I had on the back of the tractor. I was driving an old '53 Ford jubilee tractor that had a burlap potato sack as a seat cushion that day, so I grabbed the burlap sack and ran over to the wet calf to try and towel the afterbirth off with it.
It proved to be way too cold for that to work, so I thought I'd try to take the newborn calf up to the house where it was warmer. The old tractor didn't exactly have power steering, so I was not able to hang on to the calf and drive at the same time.
After the initial attempt at driving the tractor back, I took off on foot and carried the calf about a quarter of a mile back to Dad's house. (I was just a teenager then, still living with my parents). By the time I got the calf to the house, its wet fur was beginning to freeze, so I ran inside and put the calf into the bathtub, dirt, blood, bits of wet hay, gravel, and all and began running warm water over it.
What a mess!
When my step-mom came home, she was not happy about the redecorating I had done in the bathroom, but I think I probably saved the calf's life. (Mamma no like baby calf in bathtub either!)
After I moved here, back in 2004, we had no quail to listen to on hot summer days. I missed that, so in 2018, I finally built a 50' foot by 14' foot hoop house and covered it with cattle panels and chicken wire, in hopes of getting a covey of quail started. (I don't eat them, I just miss hearing their calls in Summer). Then, when the time came to get the Game Warden to inspect my facility, he retired and his replacement never showed up to do the inspection. After that, I got four baby Cotton Patch goslings in the mail from Georgia and raised them inside the hoop house. By then, it was 2019. When they grew up, my wife found a baby deer that needed a safe place to live, and I still had no baby quails. That was the year 2020. Now, two years later, the deer has grown up and wandered off, the Cotton Patch Geese have their own open-top enclosure, but I still don't have any quail. (It sounds like what I need to do is to buy a Rubbermaid container and put a bathtub out there).
Does anybody know where or how to get Bob White Quail in Oklahoma?
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Post by hmoosek on May 1, 2022 2:48:37 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra There is a listing on Craigslist for bobwhite in Hillsboro, Texas. I saw it just the other day. I’m not sure, but I think we have to have a permit here in Texas to raise them. I “think” I softened wifypoo up with videos on baby quail. I really would like to have what’s known as Pansy Fee. Oh my, but they are beautymoose! They remind me of a dominicker hen!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 1, 2022 18:28:06 GMT -6
Hmoosek, that was a good video. Thanks, for posting that. Wouldn't that color be something strange to see out in the pasture? I wonder if anyone would ever figure out they were quail?
Bon, thank you, for the link you posted. I followed that link and changed the location to Tahlequah. Anyone interested in birds ought to visit here: tulsa.craigslist.org/search/tahlequah-ok/sss?lat=35.962&lon=-94.953&query=bobwhite%20quail&search_distance=15 They have quail, pheasants, ducks, geese, peacocks, chickens, all kinds of birds listed there.
Again, thank you, Bon, for posting that link. That's one of the things I love about the Green Country Seed Savers website; you post a random question about anything farm related and within hours usually someone has posted some very helpful information. (Like that time I posted a photo of a tree that I found growing on an old city lot and didn't know what it was.) Within hours, someone had replied that it was a Jujube tree. It turned out to be the best fruit I've ever tasted. We go back to that place every October and gather fruit. Without that reply, I still wouldn't know what kind of tree it was.
We have to have a wildlife permit here in Oklahoma too. It only costs about $10.00 per year to keep it current, but the hard part is actually getting the Game warden to drive all the way out here to do the initial inspection.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 2, 2022 15:20:36 GMT -6
Glen, from Panama, sent me a really good 3rd World Chicken Farming video. There were lots of good ideas there.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2022 11:04:04 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 31, 2022 17:37:04 GMT -6
Nice chicken tractor!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2022 17:47:12 GMT -6
The storm coming in is gonna give a whirl. lolz
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Post by rdback on Jun 11, 2022 7:25:47 GMT -6
I came across this bulletin today. Thought it worth sharing.
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Post by macmex on Jun 11, 2022 12:05:23 GMT -6
I'm just a little suspicious of this. Don't doubt that some people have gotten ill with salmonella, but it seems kind of like "cobbling together an outbreak" to me. I'm pretty sure one could find this organism in any number of manure piles and that, from various species of animals. One needs to wash their hands and maintain good hygiene, just as they taught me back in 1st grade, in the 60s. If you become ill with a fever and it drags on or becomes a high fever, then antibiotics are in order.
I feel like there's a war on poultry right now. That someone wants there to be a shortage both of birds and of breeding stock.
I wonder how they pin these cases on backyard chickens? We dealt a lot with salmonella when living in Mexico. The most common way it was spread was impure water (contaminated with sewage) and poor sanitation/hygiene in establishments which served food.
I had salmonella and typhoid (typhoid is just one of over 300 strains of salmonella) more times than I can count, but not once since coming back to the USA.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 11, 2022 15:25:57 GMT -6
All good points, George. I wash my hands more than a raccoon does; a habit that I picked up back in the mid'90s, during my two-year stint as a plumber in one of our state's largest penitentiaries. Life doesn't get much worse than being a plumber in a prison. Believe me, I saw some nasty, nasty, stuff while working there. No matter how many times I washed my hands or doused my boots with bleach, it didn't seem like I could get ever clean, but I never got sick the whole time I worked there.
Those habits are good ones to have, though I might wash a little in excess now, because of some of the places I've had to work in the past, the habit of washing up after handling pets, livestock, their food, their bedding, or anything they've touched cannot be overstated; especially, if you also handle produce. That includes the produce from your own garden, not just produce from the local grocery.
I don't think most people realize just how many things they cross-contaminate on a daily bases by not washing up after caring for pets or not washing up before handling any kind of potential food products. A person might not think twice before buttering toast after cracking eggs into a frying pan, or frying the family's breakfast sausage, but they should. Always wash your hands after cracking eggs or cooking meat.
The same goes for all of the things that you use to process your food; such as knives, platters, and cutting boards. I have at least 4 different cutting boards. I never use a cutting board that has touched meat as a cutting board to slice tomatoes or to chop lettuce. I don't use the same knives to cut watermelon as I use to cut chicken. Those are just things that should be common sense, but I cannot begin to tell you how many times I've cringed at the sight of some housewife somewhere, preparing a salad for her family on the same counter or cutting board that she uses for every other thing she cuts.
I've seen this going on in the places where I used to sell fresh produce too. I'd walk into someone's commercial kitchen and see the workers throw fresh tomatoes right on the same chopping block where they cut meat. I've seen workers sweeping the kitchen floors and setting the dustpan on the same counter where they prepare sandwiches. I've seen that happen in grocery stores where I sold produce too. (I won't mention any names) but I never buy anything there unless it comes from a can or it's in a sealed cardboard box.
Cross-contamination of produce is probably more prevalent than not properly washing hands, but people do it every day without much thought. That's not the fault of the chickens, that's just a lack of common sense.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 11, 2022 18:09:21 GMT -6
I used to get infected tick bites often. About once every summer as a kid, I'd end up having to take a round of antibiotics for some tick-borne pathogen. Somewhere along the way I started putting rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle and spraying any and all tick bites with alcohol before pulling them, then I'd spray the bite after pulling the tick. Viola, no more infected from tick bites.
I sure don't know why rubbing alcohol is not marketed in spray bottles. I keep a spray bottle of 91% rubbing alcohol hanging in my truck at all times. If I get horned by a catfish, or scraped up in the garden, I always have that bottle handy. Since it's 91% it also melts ice, so in winter I use it to defrost my windshield on all but the iciest of days.
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Post by rdback on Jun 12, 2022 9:34:58 GMT -6
The only reason I posted the link was to increase awareness. Sounds like it did that, lol.
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