I am hoping to be able to send everything out the first of the month I am so sorry for your long waits and I thank you for your patience. If I had known how bad things were going to turn for us I never would have swapped. The lady I baby sit for stiffed me on pay and then wanted to drop my...
Sorry I haven't been around much lately have jumped on from time to time for second or two but other than that just haven't had the time.
Coop is finally all done YAY Hubby and oldest ds did a GREAT job on it and all the kids, a couple of neighbor kids and one of the cats all worked on painting...
Most of you don't know me very well, some of you know me a little and some don't know me at all.
Here is some background: We have had a tough two years here........two years ago my husband and I nearly divorced- had papers filed and everything at that time my ex husband decided it was the...
Our dear friends lost their home today to a fire! Thankfully no one was home at the time the fire started (I don't have word on their pets yet though) but understandably they are devistated! If you are curious here is a link to local news, if you look at the pictures their 13 year old daughter...
We are getting some ducks next week and I have been checking double checking and making myself lists but it just dawned on me I do have one qustion I haven't found an answer to yet- When they go into the brooder, should I put papertowel down at first like I do for chicks or can they go right on...
I got up this morning and looked out the downstairs window and saw something in the road- my heart skipped a beat and I thought oh please no. I went out to feed the kittys and went to see what was in the road it was Destiny- the new kitten that was given to the boys by the rescue lady It...
We just got back from our good deed for the day well actually the good deed started yesterday. We have new neighbors and my son was playing with them, they all went down to the end of the road just in time to see two girls throwing something around, turns out it was newborn bunnies they were...
Our first baby hatched at 1:35am after 9 long hours from the first pip! AND it was Lucky (The one I dropped) I am amazed! The next one is going to hatch any minute! JJ and I are the only ones still up but we just couldn't go to bed until Lucky was hatched and now JJ wants to wait for "Pip"...
I can't remember if I posted that we got two outdoor kittys or not (Yes they will be spayed before anyone jumps on me about that although we have decided that we want the one to have one litter first before she is spayed then the kittens from that litter will be fixed) anyway last night we got a...
Oh I am sooo excited we have our first pip! And it is "lucky" no less, that is the one I dropped last week and cracked the shell then put wax on We are going out to the pool for a bit will update again when there is more news!
It has been a long week, well almost week I guess here. Mom had surgery last Wed, supposed to be simple gallbladder out and internal liver biopsy. Surgery went well over all took her home the same day. Well the "friend" who is staying with her is useless, wouldn't even make jello until the...
Well hubby still hasn't had time to finish the coop and now on Sunday morning he leaves for a week. The babies are getting crowded in the brooder, For the run I still need to get predator covering up but once I have that up I was thinking at least for the daytime could I put them in the run...
We just candled eggs from bator #1 which is batch #1 (from wildwoodchickens) 11 eggs to start with had 9 developing then one stopped developing Then yesterday I dropped one right after hand turning I was sooooo upset nearly cried, well I right away put candle wax on the crack and then tonight...
I was hand turning eggs and dropped one I can't believe it this batch went in on June 26 11 eggs 2 haven't developed and one may have stopped but I still had 8 great ones and what do I do I drop one. I put wax on it and will I just can't believe it! That is what I get for turning them today
Well it looks like our little farm will be growing more than we thought next month (at least hopefully) Hubby has decided he would like at least a pair of rouens so we have added those to the list, after much discussion we are adding two mini nubian goats hopefully next month provided I get...
Yesterday Kyle (12) went with me to run some errands, one of our errands was pricing goat feed and picking up another small bag of chicken feed (I like to have one 10# bag on hand just in case I run low on feed. So we go to the one feed store and Kyle starts talking to the one guy, and turns...
We are on 1ac. and are considering a goat I am just in the beginning of research etc, we are looking at a dairy goat, but need help from those with experience. What should we consider? I know we need sturdy fencing for certain what else? should we get a pair? should it be male and female...
Ok we have bator 1 going with 11 mixed eggs (thank you wildwood) Those went in on June 26 9 have without a doubt good veins and seem to be developing 2 I am having a tough time seeing into but I think they are doing good, temp is perfect humidity is perfect YAY. We have Bator 2 with 6 EE eggs...