Hi!
Wow, that's so true! I had an ear infection and was completely out of commission for two days last week - I actually slept for most of two days! I can't even sleep jet-lagged, so I must have really been sick! - anyway now I have so much schoolwork to catch up on. I'm beginning to think I'm really as crazy as some people say - who in their right mind does two full-load courses? Of course, I wasn't told that they were both full-loads until long after I'd enrolled...
On top of that, I've had three birds die over the past two weeks. One was a six-week-old female quail, due to pecking order, and two were Welsummer chicks, one about three weeks male and one about two weeks female, both due to what I'm terming 'pre-existing medical conditions'. That means that in the case of the male, I'd already noticed some trouble with his joints. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd had Mar Phan's disease (flexible ligaments - I have a friend with it and no idea if chickens can have it) as he kept bending his wings into strange positions and could turn his legs the wrong way around. The body was not a pretty sight when I found it. The other one, I have no idea what the matter was but she was just dead one morning, looked like she was sleeping but stone cold, not moving and stiff. The place I got them from has given me some poor-quality birds in the past, telling me the wrong ages, the wrong breeds, not laying well, lice and health issues, so to be honest I wasn't that surprised and I'm definately not buying from him again. The one remaining Welsummer is feathering out as she should but is very small for her age, so I'm worried about that. I've got to wonder if I'm being a bad chicken-mother though.
Anyway... I'll catch up I suppose. In fact, I should log off and do some schoolwork now. I've got so many assessment tasks due. Languages require 5 assessment tasks (text production or writing, text analysis or reading, oral interaction or conversational skills, investigative task, and reflection on the investigative task. Of course, all of the language teachers seem to have decided that leaving the two biggest assessment tasks, the investigation and the reflection, until early Term 2 would be a good idea. I'm doing three languages other than English and I've got two due next week and one due the week after. Argh! At least for one of them I managed to choose a topic I already know a lot about, but it's still a lot to do! Fierlin, I know you're doing the same as me for German... please tell me I'm not the only one feeling so overwhelmed about it?!
I seem to be talking (procrastinating) a lot. One more thing, more chicken-y, before I shut up. I'm going to the Lobethal Poultry Sale on Sunday. I've been told it can get a little overpriced but I want to go and look what's there all the same, maybe purchase some more birds. I've also got two OEG Bantam roosters I need to sell/giveaway. I'd prefer to sell them though. My mother keeps threatening to turn them into stew - I have two many roosters and one of them keeps escaping and coming up to crow on the back verandah.
from Rachel.
Wow, that's so true! I had an ear infection and was completely out of commission for two days last week - I actually slept for most of two days! I can't even sleep jet-lagged, so I must have really been sick! - anyway now I have so much schoolwork to catch up on. I'm beginning to think I'm really as crazy as some people say - who in their right mind does two full-load courses? Of course, I wasn't told that they were both full-loads until long after I'd enrolled...
On top of that, I've had three birds die over the past two weeks. One was a six-week-old female quail, due to pecking order, and two were Welsummer chicks, one about three weeks male and one about two weeks female, both due to what I'm terming 'pre-existing medical conditions'. That means that in the case of the male, I'd already noticed some trouble with his joints. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd had Mar Phan's disease (flexible ligaments - I have a friend with it and no idea if chickens can have it) as he kept bending his wings into strange positions and could turn his legs the wrong way around. The body was not a pretty sight when I found it. The other one, I have no idea what the matter was but she was just dead one morning, looked like she was sleeping but stone cold, not moving and stiff. The place I got them from has given me some poor-quality birds in the past, telling me the wrong ages, the wrong breeds, not laying well, lice and health issues, so to be honest I wasn't that surprised and I'm definately not buying from him again. The one remaining Welsummer is feathering out as she should but is very small for her age, so I'm worried about that. I've got to wonder if I'm being a bad chicken-mother though.
Anyway... I'll catch up I suppose. In fact, I should log off and do some schoolwork now. I've got so many assessment tasks due. Languages require 5 assessment tasks (text production or writing, text analysis or reading, oral interaction or conversational skills, investigative task, and reflection on the investigative task. Of course, all of the language teachers seem to have decided that leaving the two biggest assessment tasks, the investigation and the reflection, until early Term 2 would be a good idea. I'm doing three languages other than English and I've got two due next week and one due the week after. Argh! At least for one of them I managed to choose a topic I already know a lot about, but it's still a lot to do! Fierlin, I know you're doing the same as me for German... please tell me I'm not the only one feeling so overwhelmed about it?!
I seem to be talking (procrastinating) a lot. One more thing, more chicken-y, before I shut up. I'm going to the Lobethal Poultry Sale on Sunday. I've been told it can get a little overpriced but I want to go and look what's there all the same, maybe purchase some more birds. I've also got two OEG Bantam roosters I need to sell/giveaway. I'd prefer to sell them though. My mother keeps threatening to turn them into stew - I have two many roosters and one of them keeps escaping and coming up to crow on the back verandah.
from Rachel.
