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So this morning first thing I go out to open coops & here is this FACE and I took several pictures & got closer & closer and the face whispered to me !

wanna know what she was whispering ?

(Note how she balances perfectly on her floppy ducky feets on the roost !)

I could barely hear her through the closed window but..........

Finally I heard her whisper:

When ya gonna clean the duck snot off this window ????????????   

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Originally Posted by Stumpfarmer 

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Originally Posted by pettec63 

Well, I'm back, for a little bit anyway, got some stuff caught up, finally! First off, I see a new sign under my name and I just want to say a big
THANK YOU!!   to everyone that participated in that!!     I had know idea how these things are acquired till someone clued me in!!  LOL
I appreciate the thought! I have made some good friends here!   
Also,    to all the newbies, there is lots to learn, and there are quite a few people on here, that have EONS of chicken experience, so if you see peeps with lots of posts under their name, chances are they are our resident experts and I have learned a lot from them! I learn something everyday, not only about my chickens, but, from all the animals and people that are in my life!

Weather has been crappy, and cold, almost 30 something last night!!     had to set heat lamps up again, just to make sure everyone stayed warm.  Hopefully going to make a road trip to get said turkeys and poults, and a few more Buckeyes!!
Ok, speaking of Buckeyes, these guys crack me up!!  so, I was out trying to move my march 5th hatch chicks, which include 4 buckeye, and I had my tennis shoes on,  all the buckeyes were trying to grab my shoelaces and started untying my shoes!!   LOL!!
Everytime I took a step they would run up and grab a lace, then I would retie it and try to walk and they would run up and pull them loose again!!  I finally had to pick them up and carry them outside so I could walk!! 
On the goatie side of things, I had my friend who raises Boers come over and she said, ALL of my does are prego, and the ones that should kid mid May weren't bagging up yet, but, she said, sometimes they don't until the last min, so, we will see soon!

And last and certainly not least, here is a huge PET PEEVE of mine!!  This same friend said that Saturday am at 530, some woman drove by her house and with a little kid screaming in the car yelling "no mama, no mama"  dropped a dog off and drove off!!  There are words I can not use on this forum to describe people like that!!  

If you can't afford animals,....meaning (proper care, spaying neutering ect)  then don't get them!!!!! Why do people have to make their problem someone elses???  It is very obvious this person, either had a female that they didn't alter and it had pups, or she got this pup from someone and couldn't take care of it!! And obviously they had had it long enough for the kid to get attached to it!! 
There are plenty of places you can take them, not just the Humane society, especially over here!! 

So my friend says, can you come over and tell me how old it is?  She already has 6 dogs, that keep her place secure! And guess who ends up taking him?????   ok do I have "sucker" written all over??  LOL!!!
Meet, Juan Pablo Gonzales Martinez Rojas!!!!!  but, we call him Taco!!!    LOL!!   He is only,....maybe, 8 or 9 weeks! And so far, he is my shadow, and we are learning to be kind to chickens, ducks, and goats, ( he is as big as my friends goat kids) he was playing with them when I went to look at him!!!  I think he is probably some kind of Chihuahua cross, possibly dachshund or maybe even Min Pin, who knows?? I knew my husband was gonna have my tail, so, I wrote on our white board, " I have three words to say" " Don't freak out!  LOL
He has taken to kennel training and potty training nicely and as young as he is I am going to work hard at getting him chicken and goat friendly, he is curious, a little timid, and insecure, but, If you were thrown out of a car, you probably would be too!!   Anyway, gotta call my vet and find out what the latest prices on vaccine's and deworming are!!! 

What make me most angry about this is that your story means the woman dumped that pet to punish her child, too, so there's two lots of trauma and mistreatment going on, and another generation being taught that we don't have responsibility to be kind to the things we chose to be bring into our lives.

Thing is, pets, farm animals, and children treated with knindness and consistency are so very much easier to live with!

That is very true!!  It's just sad, and he is a very nice pup!!  Their loss!! 

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Originally Posted by Stumpfarmer 

Thought I'd provide something besides grumping and whining.

Patty and Luna:

Cute!!! 

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Originally Posted by Chickielady 

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Originally Posted by pettec63 

 

 

I do wear glasses silly!!  LOL!! 

 

He is a nice boy!!  I think he's gonna like here on the dry side, well, sometimes dry side! LOL!! 

He will probably love the dry side !

You have to learn peeper-talk though.

next time someone asks you if you speak Spainish (Mexican) say no, but I do speak fluent Turkey in the Peeper dialect, and perfectly fluent in goatie & chicken as well as kitty cat meow- meows.

So really, we DO speak more than just English now don't we ?

I bet StumpFarmer can speak fluent bovine !!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!      that's funny and VERY  true!  Actually, I could mimick my last poults sounds and they would answer!!  Now that's scary!!  LOL!

So found that my lil BlueBelle (Frizzle) has 5 toes,feathered shoes... while the other Frizzles have 4....the others look Cochin... so now I'm wondering what she "exactly" is.... hmmmmm

Today I spent 2 hours trying to catch chickens and 1 turkey.   I got up to hear hubby's dog (haven't found him a home yet so he's chained up) whining and barking and making all sorts of noise.  I walked out to see what the dog was hollering about and looked and about half of the flock of birds was outside of the pen.  All I could think of was OhGod NO!!!!  because my dog (our rescue dog that is a red heeler) Dolly was out.  Guess what?  She was showing her natural herding instincts and had managed to keep all the birds between the garage and their pen!  I was so happy that my dog didn't kill any of the birds and that she was doing what she's bred to do.  She's about 9-10 months old.  When we got her, we found her in a ditch with a rope tied around her neck.  2 broken ribs and scared beyond belief.  We took her home and doctored her and fed her.  She healed up nicely but still will piddle when she's nervous.  Ok back to the birds:  I opened the door and took a pan of food into the coop.  All of my birds but 1 followed me into the pen and were happy.  That took 5 minutes.  The rest of the 2 hours was spent trying to get my friend's silly birds back into the pen.  My female turkey was enjoying a dust bath so when she finished I shooed her back into the pen.  It was my friend's birds that were a pain in the butt. 

I was just so happy to know that my dog is a good girl and doesn't kill chickens!!!

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Originally Posted by cflaming 

 

 

Ugh!  That must feel like a disaster.  You could try lining the base with a finer mesh wire, like hardware cloth that the dog couldn't get it's nose through.  That is if you are willing to try one more time for hubby's dog.  We have a Springer Spaniel and have been very lucky that his interest in chickens has been very mild. 

apparently when we opened the second pen to the coop for the birds, the wire was loose in one area.  and One of the female turkeys picked and pushed until the wire broke...  There was a hole for the birds to get out...  But the dog had found a loose area elsewhere and the chick had poked her head through the hole so dog grabbed...  Right now I am trying to find the dog a good home without chickens because he is wonderful with the kiddos.  He just isn't good around chickens...  He is a bird dog but the few times hubby took him out hunting the dog wasn't good at the job.  The dog is 3 years old and fixed but a lover too.  Just not with chickens  lol

I am going to look into smaller wire for around the bottom.  right now it's the 2 inch.  We did get 1 inch to go around the bottom. 

Tell me what you guys think of this 'head' that was given to me.heavy concrete hanging pot, and had a round bottom so DH cut the

botton off and drilled drain holes in the sides & epoxied it to the top of our mail box monument............used to be just flat with nothing on top & needed something..........I planted creeping charlie & lobelia in the 'head' so she will have nice long hair soon........kinda looks creepy though, huh ?  

Looks like there is a dead body in the bricks with her head sticking out, huh ?

Well any kids come along & try to baseball bat this are gonna get a surprise !

It is hand cast by an artist friend of DH's youngest daughter.she has give me 2 such "heads"...this is the bigger one.

The other is just a statue, a head rising from the soil in my garden.

Occasionally I find a chicken perched on the 'head's' face as it looks up at the sky.....kinda creepy, huh ?  

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Originally Posted by Bikerbirds 

ANY IDEAS? I Have about 20 young pullets with a large coop/run 150sq feet and they get to free range my 1/2 acre during the day but for some reason they are plucking the feathers out of my RIR to the point where their was blood so I separated her brought her back inside to the old brooder. They are not eating the feathers should I put some blue cote on her and put her back with the rest or let her feathers grow back first >any and all input would be greatly appreciated !

IF you have another place for her to live, put her there.

IF you do not, then blue coat her & put her back in with the others.

IF they pick on her again you will have your answer.