Bantam Duck Page

[Funky Feathers]

"Say what??"

 

[Scovy Momma]

*confused look*

"Why for no Backyard Ducks,Momma?"

 

[happyhensny]

1) yes
2) no. I was going to throw out 3 eggs that were past their due date, and today they hatched! Glad I mad the right choice.

Thank you! I will leave the and give them some more time!

BTW - Wow! Call ducklings are cute!

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Hello everyone!!

What have all of you been up too?? How is the Spring call season treating everyone so far?? I have really missed you and blogging with you!

The doctor's told us in Oct. daddy would need 24 hour care and recommended a elderly home, and I just showed my pure SATIN side of me refusing. We (sister and I) promised daddy he would always be looked after, cared for and never go to a home, and he would not die alone, and we kept those promises. It has really been hard, I and Nancy both attended different colleges my classes were Tues. and Thurs at campus, then Wed. and Fri. online, hers were opposite of mine, but as daddy worsen we both had to withdraw this midterm. We did except the help from Serenity Hospice they really were great. We took daddy in to their wonderful and beautiful 12 room center to get a bag a fluids he just stopped eating and weaked, we thought that would pick-perk him up as it always has, but we were wrong it did not work this time. We were there with him 4 weeks and he passed March 20th at 5 a.m. with me laying beside him, holding him, giving him comfort and peaceful words, and he died in my arms with a gentle soft last breath. I have just really fell into a slumbber with this grieving process. He was my daddy and even at 70 yrs old he was my best friend, my heart and my world. I sure miss him.

My hubby Roy has tried his best to take care of all my critters through this, but you guys, oh sweet heavens am I so behind

he didn't plant none of my lettuce, greens and veggie snack, or my grains and grasses to move my water fowl around on. He left them on winter grains and didn't start them on high protien breeder conditioner, and I know you all, I am lucky that he was here for me just to take care of the 471 babies I have, but gosh now I am late in the game for sure

. I have Wild Eastern turkeys he collected the few, so very few eggs off my 3 hens, and now two hens have went broody and setting on one darn chicken egg a piece

. My Toulose he was suppose to collect the eggs to fill 3 orders, and he let them go broody and set their dang eggs

. I have not got but one or two call eggs of my 144 darn calls, but I am praying that even getting late start that things shape up and things pick up, but if not oh well.

Things were just out of my hands and in a greater powers hands than mine for sure.

Well I wish you all a truley wonderful spring hatch and have many beautiful babies to join in our gang of fun. I sure would like to see photo's of anyones new spring babies and what kind they are to lift my lonely spirits up.

Many, many warm blessings to you all and thank you all for all the kind words through your emails. I have got up off the sofa now after laying in tears of loss, dusted my cobb webs off, and I am going to sink all my thoughts into my babies and hope to have a great hatching spring along with you guys.

BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Linda, so sorry about loosing your father. I am very glad you were able to be there with him constantly though. We feared you would run yourself ragged with the animals, school and his care.

We sold off all of the call ducks this year and are fully focused on the geese and the teen has his chicken flock.

Hope you can get outside, get your hands dirty and enjoy the birds some. They are good healing for the soul.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Oh Shelly thank you, I don't know about getting my hands dirty with gloves on and a extra pair in my pocket, but girl friend my feet is another story,

I wore some jelly-crocks yesterday all day out and about, and when I finally stopped to kick out them at the front door and looked at my straight black, dirty, just nasty

feet I embarassed my own self. I should have washed them several times though out the day, LAUGHING.

Shelly, oh I honestly did not know I was as strong of a women as I am. Don't get me wrong, I know I am a strong women, but daddy's care, animals, school, granddaughter, hubbby, and life was one more sure enough time management task scheduler.

There was truley some days I honestly didn't know if I had laid down, set down, pottied, ate, going or if I was coming. My hubby really got concerned and worried, daddy would have a good day, you wouldn't be able hardly to keep up with him, but the following day he would be in a semicoma sleeping state his body doing this so his organs and tissue could catch up with his lungs gone and not getting the oxygen required. So, if I came home and he woke up at 3 a.m. I was right back trying to spend every, and I mean

single awaking and alot of his sleeping precious last moments. Shelly, my heart feels like there is a giant hole. I honestly feel like when he left a part somewhere inside me left to, I tried to explain it to hubby, I just feel like......oh Shelly I miss him, I would do it all over again the same way by his side. I went to his graveside Easter, I made him a big wicker wreath decorated and hung, put him a solar light so he want ever be in the dark, put him a little stand with inspiration christian message flag, and a big bendable smiling sunflower. I set and talked to him about 2 hours. Lord, Shelly it is hard girlfriend.

The only regret I have is not listening to my sister the middle of last year about that sorry exwife that had came and shacked up with him, her 19 year old high school drop out, no drivers license, flat sit on his butt in his room eat, sleep and downloading $5,000 in online gaming software, the sorry no working son, then her 25 yr son and girlfriend came from Iowa to visit and piled in on him. First his Hydrocodone 10's were going missing, because he was not taking them, he was on Morphine 80 mg twice a day and it was managing he said his pain, well we were having to pay for his prescriptions and couldn't figure out if he was telling hospice the morphine was all he took where was 240 Hydrocodone going a month, so we confronted her and oh that through her in a frenzy and she would take us taking steps and asking questions out on daddy when we would leave. We told hospice what was going on they sat daddy up on the pill planner system and started counting and monorting and no more went missing, but it had went on for 6 months. Oh, Shelly they cleaned out his bank savings account one of $16, 034 the other $9,012, they got a hold to his Bank of America credit card $16, 817 his Discover $7,045 charged he knew nothing about until we took over his retirment and social security check, he drew $2, 014 a month, everything paid for and the light meter man pulled up and was turning off the lights, when we got to investigating trying to find out where his money was going, oh it was too late. We were suppose to sit down on Monday, me, sister, exwife and daddy at his table at 8 a.m. for her to explain to us where was daddy's money, we get there she had got in his car and left him about 7 a.m. that morning and we ain't seen or heard from her since until Friday, I had been driving daddy's truck way before he got bad, you know my car got totalled out in March. Well I get up and the truck is gone this past Friday morning, I to do another stolen vehicle report, I already had one on the car since she left Jan. and the police couldn't locate her. So I call the probate WILL attorney we hired, that is when they told me she had called and heard daddy had passed and wanted a copy of his WILL, and just suspiously the truck is stolen the same day.

Shelly, again, I honestly didn't know just how strong of a women I was, but I was on my hands and knees yesterday dropping out my swing, praising the lord, he has carried me is all I can say, he gave me strength when I didn't have a ounce left in my body, he kept me guided in my faith in his foot steps, but Shelly when I ever do come face to face with that .........women......they are going to either tote her out on a stretcher or in a body bag and I do mean just what I say and that is just what I told this investigator officers, the lawyer, and my pastor!!!

Shelly we didn't even have enough to burry daddy, we have not put his monumental markers down on his grave, our family funeral director of our family funeral home allowed us 90 days after daddy's service to have the difference of $3, 000 paid, we didn't even have money for a spree for his casket, it has took ever dime me and my sister had us being out of work to care for him and Shelly I honestly don't know what we are going to do, they can't come repossess him in his casket though, or I don't recand they will, (LAUGHING)

again my only regret is when sister told me something was going on daddy had borrowed money for gas from her, I wish I had listened and we investigated it then Shelly.

Lord, Shelly I have sit here and poured it all out to you on national internet blogging website, laughing, thank you again Shelly, its been hard keeping all this bottled inside me with no one to talk to. Many, many blessings to you my dear sweet friend and your family. Getting up and going to hit the coffee pot for a refill and hit the yard to see if maybe these stingy, waco, and selfish LOL, critters have maybe laid me some eggs to sell, keep your fingers crossed for me.

Shelly it just only got worse with investigors in and out, us going through all daddy's financial records to try and track it down.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Hi Linda, so sorry about your dad. I just posted some pics of my new Butters babies if that helps cheer you up any. Take a look.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Would anyone happen to know someone that may live in Norman Park, Ga.??? This is Colquitt Co., but because of the geographical division is to my understanding outside city limits so is actually Moultrie, Ga. If anyone may have a friend or family memember in this location could you let me know, it is a 4 hour drive for me, and I need to verify a person & residence is on the up and up before I attempt to make this longggggg distance.

thanks everyone.

 

[Funky Feathers]

OH, NOOOOO!!!

I am so devastated! A predator tore a hole in my big duck pen last night and killed 5 of my 8 breeder Butters. My very best Trio (that I got from you) are gone. I had them entered in the MD show in Nov. Now I am down to one trio.

I moved them to a safer pen. Apparently our livestock guardian cat didn't do his job.

We haven't had a predator attack in 4 years (until now). So now I am desperate to replace them.

I need a top quality SQ Trio of Butters. Does anyone have anything available? I'm hoping to sell enough copies of my new book to afford an awesome SQ trio. Anyone???

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Oh no Funky

I as sorry to hear about the sadness. I hope that preditor gets eat by a bigger preditor!! Sending you a hug though with my prayers.