A Journey Through a Different Way - Funny Story Pg. 69

[ShaggysGirl]

Hi Ruth,
First I love your thread

Congratulations on your 1st grandchild.

 

[ruth]

Thanks everyone- the new little family is doing well and should all go home tomorrow. I'll get to go and spend a few days taking care of my new Granddaughter - sure beats taking care of chickens all day. DH was wondering how long it would be before we could have her helping around the farm. I figure two years.

 

[Reinbeau]

Oh, I love that little suit, she's got a Love Bug on her

 

[vnploveschickens]

Khloe is absolutely beautiful! Many congratulations to the whole family!

Val

 

[cracking up]

I just found your journy a couple of days ago while waiting for babies to hatch. Your granddaughter is beautiful and your own kids look like they reflect the love you showed them growing up. Congratulations and enjoy-enjoy!

 

[ruth]

Today seems to be a day of firsts:

First olive egg:

First peahen egg:

The olive egg is from a young pullet, a pretty Blue Copper, whose parents are one of Ruth's daughters, a blue EE hen who lays a large blue/green egg and lives with the flock of Black Copper Marans and a Black Copper Marans roo.

The peahen egg I just found while closing everyone up this evening. Only the top part remains since I found it on the ground under the tree where all the peafowl roosts. They made one year old on July 4th - my how they have grown.

There's also a sad update and I didn't even get to post the happy part.

Sunday before last we bought two young "brush goats" - two "Billies", brothers who were only three months old. We named them Rocky and Ringo. They were as large as my grown Nigerians but still only babies - but wild. They man I got them from was just letting his herd run wild on his property and eating brush - the adult males weighed 180 pounds.

We put them in the barn in a secure stall (so we thought). I spent all week sitting in there with them trying to get them from being so scared, trying to get them to eat, laying, sitting, talking, singing to them. At the end of the week I had Rocky eating out of my hand but his brother was still so scared and would hide under Rocky. Ringo had just started eating brush I would take him on Friday. I was so thrilled.

Saturday morning they were GONE. No sign of them. Only way out was to scale the one wall that divided stalls - all other three walls were floor to ceiling. We've looked and looked and taken the dogs and told them to "find"; we've walked the woods; we've called and called - nothing. I know they don't stand a chance in the woods with all the wild animals we have and I feel so bad about losing them. I've never lost an animal in my life - and I mean lose as in suddenly just disappeared and can't be found.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Girl so sorry to hear this are you sure they left and someone didn't help them self to them for meat. It happens, I will pray they find their way home before something happens to them.

Congrats on the olive egg and the peafowl egg.


How is that Granddaughter doing.

 

[ruth]

Thanks Jean - the new mama and baby are doing great. Khloe was jaundice the first couple of days but it has cleared up. I felt so blessed to be able to be there and spend her first days home with her. My daughter says she hates it when I post her pic on the internet but then has MySpace and FaceBook so go figure.

Home from the hospital and mama and baby had a bath:

And, sadly, the only pics I got of Rocky and Ringo. Makes me sad to look at these now:

 

[Chotii]

I'm sorry to hear that about the goats. I had a sheep disappear from my barn once, leaving her suckling lamb behind. I never, ever figured out what happened to her, but wound up buying a doe goat to feed the lamb, as I wasn't up to bottle-feeding it.

None of my neighbors ever saw that sheep. Nobody EVER saw that sheep again. It baffles me to this day (and it happened at least 25 years ago).

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Wow beautiful girls but then you are a beautiful woman as well. Enjoy them.

I laugh so hard my daughter has a face book and we were in town and she was so upset because she had forgot to milk her cows. I am like what, what cows.

Oh I have a farm on face book LOL. too funny she even has 3 chickens