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Sorry to be such a worry wart, you are both regualar posters and I panicked. I may not post often, but I read, usually playing catch up. Happy Fourth of July!!!

Is everyone ok??????

Coach! goodness . . . . dehydration is serious. Glad you are ok!!!!

Glad your neighbors dog is well enough to go home! I seem to have eggs everywhere, again. I ate eggs for two meals today. Made a cake for the kids afterschool snack, used up 3 eggs, a few more that the recipe calls for! ANd I cook and feed a few to the breeder birds to boost their protein...

THe summer has me worried too. I watered my lawn in March. Never done that before. I saw one of my boys poking around in the guarden area yesterday. Would love to think he was getting the garden ready--naught! DH woke me this morning to help milk the ewe. She finally lambed-1 big lamb all on...

Sorry Deb on the horrendous loss of the EE hen. Velociraptors all. I hate the sound of weaned lambs, so I rarely wean before market time. Easter is next week, do you have customers for the Easter market? I have one ewe left to lamb. Soon. She has turned very pink. Twins I think. I'm still...

Maybe thin down to your favorites! I ordered a few SS pullets at the feed store as Dh mentioned he likes them so much, I like them too, but figured he won't grump so much if I pick a breed he likes. I always find one off up in the woods by herself scratching up food. One of my BA has gone...

Deb, I bet your load feels lighter today!! I'm inpressed that you were out loading all your stock by yourself. Love it! My suggestion is to look at what was selling well at your auction. Preferred animals/breeds are regional. Perhaps you can see a trend at the auction of preferred breeds of...

I'd rather clean a barn than the kitchen anyday! ANd ironing? Only when DH has an important meeting or it's a wedding! Deb, Buckeyes are a breed I"m interested in. How is the breast meat compared to others like a RIR or other hatchery layer?

Thanks Deb, will have a look.

I have looked at his feet and don't see any thing unusual. What does bumble foot look like? He has been caged for about 3 weeks now, if it was bumble foot would the symptoms have abated by now??

Sorry you will have to miss the auction or the swap. I have a few birds I need to dump. Will sort and band. Probably put them on CL first, the least work. Attended a BLue Seal seminar at a local lumber company. This lumber yard started selling grain when we lost 2 feed stores. THey have...

Oh, how cute!

x2 too funny !

I also think grains are formulated to the minimum, not the optimum. I Need to find a good supplement. Still waiting for the last 4 ewes to lamb. All the mothers with lambs have been moved to another area, out of the lambing barn. I filled my LG for the first time since last fall. ANd the...

Deb--I will look into the mineral supplement. I feed grain, so I would have thought it was formulated for our low Se area. I do feed extra Vit E and Se to the horses. DO chickens need extra Se? Copper is a problem for the sheep an I Would have thought goats too, Not so?? Coach--A challenge to...

I feed the girls grain all year round, so they get the micronutrients provided in the commercial mix. I've never had a problem with Se deficiency or the other one, magnesium, I think. Very odd. Lamb was too weak to lift it's head so I had included an energy-vit/min supplement for babies. Just...

Deb, You do so much, I can't fathom trying to keep up with you! No wonder your back protests. Will you keep up with milking Bunny, using the milk yourself? Lambed died at about 20 hours old. Never stood up. This is the second lamb this year. What am I missing? I'm wondering if the grain...

DH comes calling that I need to come help the black ewe lambed, and its getting cold. WHAT??? She didn't visit with the ram!! Not possible. As I pull on vest and lined shirt my mind races back 5 months. No answers there, Still waiting for 4 ewes.

Good score on the bubble wrap!! I have one package to send out today. Have been trailing the EE around, they are hiding their eggs somewhere . . . .found a nest of three eggs under a thicket of wild roses. I did manange to push aside a fe branches and brave the poky scratchy thorns. Got three...