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post #39162 of 50938
4/9/12 at 7:05am
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I got 9 chicks and 10 more have pipped!! wee.gif



So excited for you!ya.gifwoot.gif

 

I hope everyone's Easter was great.  I enjoyed mine, but got tired of the tummy/baby rubs.  The baby seems to know when it's not his daddy or brother patting my belly.  After they stop he kicks me a few times. 

Time to get outside and clean the camper, bleach the brooder one more time and enjoy the day alone.  I am happy our son is back to school today, I am running out of books for him to read over break.  Maybe today I'll have enough energy to work on my bow.   Enjoy your day and hold some chicks for me.  I'm missing mine. sad.png

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post #39163 of 50938
4/9/12 at 7:30am

So Taprock's (awesome, she's my hero) Easter picture made me think of something.

 

What do you all DO with the things you shoot/trap/kill around you?  Bury them?  That seems like a lot of work and in some areas seems like it would turn into a mass grave.

post #39164 of 50938
4/9/12 at 7:38am
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So Taprock's (awesome, she's my hero) Easter picture made me think of something.

 

What do you all DO with the things you shoot/trap/kill around you?  Bury them?  That seems like a lot of work and in some areas seems like it would turn into a mass grave.


Toss 'em out on the "back forty".  A warning/offering to the other carnivores in the area. wink.png

 

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.   - E.B. White

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.   - E.B. White

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something while you're here. - Seth Godin

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4/9/12 at 8:00am
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What do you all DO with the things you shoot/trap/kill around you?  Bury them?  That seems like a lot of work and in some areas seems like it would turn into a mass grave.

My brother is a trapper so if the fur is good he get's them.  If not my hubby works for the road commission and they have a pit for road kill and they get tossed there.

 

Today is our last day of spring break and I hope I can enjoy it!  My son is spending the day at my sisters so I have a free day!
 

 

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."

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Trying to count my 60+ chickens.  Polish, Ameraucana, Welsummer, Cornish, Production Red, Cochin, Cuckcoo Maran, Black Austrolorp, Sizzle, Showgirl, Silkie, OEG, Partridge Rock, Russian Orloff, Dorking, Basque.  Tough...

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."

— Oscar Wilde

Trying to count my 60+ chickens.  Polish, Ameraucana, Welsummer, Cornish, Production Red, Cochin, Cuckcoo Maran, Black Austrolorp, Sizzle, Showgirl, Silkie, OEG, Partridge Rock, Russian Orloff, Dorking, Basque.  Tough...

post #39166 of 50938
4/9/12 at 8:13am
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Originally Posted by EeyoreD View Post

So Taprock's (awesome, she's my hero) Easter picture made me think of something.

 

What do you all DO with the things you shoot/trap/kill around you?  Bury them?  That seems like a lot of work and in some areas seems like it would turn into a mass grave.



A few deer have ended up as roadkill along our property. I do as the others do, put 'em in a tractor bucket and dump them out in the way back. Within a week or two, the scavengers make very short work of the carcasses. I'd rather have them decomposing out there then in the ditch by the driveway.

My backyard flock: 9 Araucana girls, 2 Araucana boys, 1 Olive Egger!

 

Mini Yooper Goats - My Nigerian Dwarf goat herd! Updated May 6th, 2013!

 

My backyard flock: 9 Araucana girls, 2 Araucana boys, 1 Olive Egger!

 

Mini Yooper Goats - My Nigerian Dwarf goat herd! Updated May 6th, 2013!

 

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4/9/12 at 8:37am

Ah thanks all.  That was my other thought (I've seen a few carcasses out walking and the smaller ones, maybe muskrats or possum, seldom last more than 3 days).  I just wasn't sure if that would actually bring more predators into the area since they're essentially getting free meals.

post #39168 of 50938
4/9/12 at 8:49am


Hiya Jake I'm over here in Barton City, you know, that little village no one has heard of unless they drive down 72 a lot and see the sign? frow.gif I'm hoping to go to Chickenstock, haven't been to one yet. You winter in WA a lot? I stick it out here, not much choice otherwise. 

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Hiya all,

 

I havent been on here in quite awhile, but here now, spent thde winter in Wa  State,

 

back now in the Harrisville area now, north on Huron shore area.

 

I am wondering how many here are going to Chickenstock in June?


Thanks for the link and the info. My pups do get one of those topicals from the vet, can't think of the name right now. I'll ask about the flu vaccine. Thanks again.

 

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Influenza is one vaccine that we require before boarding or grooming at work. It does not prevent it, much like our human flu vaccine, but it keeps it from becoming severe if they do contract it. I recommend it. 

 

Some lyme protection is better than no protection. Id recommend that you also use something to kill the ticks like Frontline Plus or Trifectis. Just remember that nothing prevents a tick from biting, thats where the Lyme vaccine comes in- that way if they do get bit by a tick, at least they have some protection against SOME of the strains of Lyme. 



 

2 dogs, lots of guineas and too many chickens. No uggos! 

2 dogs, lots of guineas and too many chickens. No uggos! 

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4/9/12 at 9:00am
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Toss 'em out on the "back forty".  A warning/offering to the other carnivores in the area. wink.png


Heehee...this is what I do with my culls from my rabbits. They are tossed out back as a sacrifice to the cyotes tongue.png
 

 

~1 mutt(Boris), 1 st bernard(Oscar), a ditch-diver cat (Brandy) English lop and Belgian Hare rabbits and Speckled Sussex and Silkie and Showgirl Chickens.  Nubian Goats :)

~1 mutt(Boris), 1 st bernard(Oscar), a ditch-diver cat (Brandy) English lop and Belgian Hare rabbits and Speckled Sussex and Silkie and Showgirl Chickens.  Nubian Goats :)

post #39170 of 50938
4/9/12 at 9:17am
Any thing that I trap and any poultry that I cull, I bury them in the garden as fertilizer. The plants like them. wink.png

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