Posting for someone else: Hen is lethargic, breathing rapidly, her red comb has turned plum colored and her eyes have white boogers in them. She's around five years old. Any suggestions?
We will be moving, and must sell most of our sheep. We will be happy to help put together breeding groups of ewes and unrelated rams. As of right now, none of this year's lambs are really old enough to wean, so we are selling lambs with their mothers. (We don't like to wean before 3 months of...
So we've never seen THIS before. Our yearling, first-time ewe had one white ram lamb two days ago and everything seemed fine. He was nursing, she was standing, licking, making "mommy noises," everything.
Today we went to move them out of the maternity ward pen and into the pasture to rejoin the...
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's back to Washington we go...
My family and I have been living in NW Missouri for about seven years now, and we've decided to hightail it back to our original home of western Washington State. It'll take some doing, considering that in the time we've lived here we've...
We will be moving out of state next year, so we have decided to sell our family milk cows. They are both fantastic, gentle cows that would be a great asset to any family farm.
First is Rosie. She is 3/4 Jersey, 1/4 Angus. She is 5 years old, and as of today, we do not believe she is bred. She...
We're looking to build a chicken tractor (or two ) and while we don't want to spend a fortune, cost comes after functionality. What would you all recommend for building materials? PVC pipe? Plain ol' lumber? Chicken wire vs. mesh? Hoop house style with hog panels? Wheel size?
If anybody could...
In a couple of weeks, my JROTC group + some other kids are going on a camping trip. One of my best friends and I are planning on pranking everybody... somehow. Unfortunately we won't have showers, or we would put drink powder in the shower heads.
We don't want to do anything mean that will hurt...
Somebody very dear to me just received a call from the Make-A-Wish foundation, granting the wish they made to go to the pro-bowl in Hawaii. I knew it was an amazing organization, but I never knew how amazing until somebody I know was selected to have a wish granted. This is just a huge public...
*ahem*
In this season of love and friendship, I feel it is only appropriate to sing a song.
Chipmunks roasting in a forest fire,
Jack Frost ripping off your toes.
Yuletide carolers being mugged by a choir!
And folks dressed up like Navajos.
Everybody knows
the turkey ate the...
... A bunch of dwarfs in a fir tree! Who all is going to the theaters to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? Personally I want to go to an IMAX theater for the sneak preview of the new Star Trek movie!
Yesterday evening I came home after being in Washington State for two weeks visiting my dad, and apparently Lumpy missed me, because she wouldn't stop hugging me. We're talking nonstop hugging here, folks. Every five minutes.
It would have been adorable, but when I am tired, I cannot STAND...
I've had an idea rolling around in my head for a while, (amazing, I know ) so I thought that I'd post here and see if there are any plans for it already or if anybody else likes this idea.
I would LOVE for there to be an option to save PM drafts. So often I start to reply to a PM, and then...
Cookie baking should not be this much of a multi-step process.
"Can I help make cookies?"
"No, I want it to get done quickly this time. Maybe next time."
Next sibling comes into the kitchen. "Can I help make cookies?
"Not this time, I need this to be done quickly and it will take too...
Miss Lumpy is beginning to show her dark side!
My friends and I had a party at my house last night, and ended up playing the game Murder. (You draw cards, and whoever gets the King is the gravedigger, Ace is Detective, and Joker is Murderer. All other cards are Civilians, and you have to try...
Seven AM, I got out of bed and went to start my laundry. Had to spend 20 minutes wrestling with a coffee stain on my work slacks. (I have a semi-part time job with a local catering company.) It only mostly came out. I hope my apron will cover it.
10:30 AM, Benjamin came in the house and said...
Two days ago, it was sunny, 67 degrees, and beautiful. Yesterday, it was pouring rain and windy, but still about 60 degrees.
I woke up at 3:30 AM today and when I looked out the window it was SNOWING. Huge, cartoon-like snowflakes! Falling from the sky! Landing on my car!
Okay, the landing is...
Every so often I'll use the term "awkward". Apparently it has caught on, because we were all watching a movie when somebody mentioned what would happen if the two male leads accidentally kissed each other instead of the girls.
Bunji said, "Well, that would be awkward. I don't know what awkward...