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[jtaylormade]

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Welcome ! Love the kitty she is so cute. When I brought home chicks for the first time I swear my cat thought I brought him 6 furry toys! you can see him in my avatar he still likes to pretend to stalk the big girls now through the back door....too bad for him he isn't allowed outside!

 

[jtaylormade]

If anyone is in the North Bay this weekend, the Harvest Fair is happening at the Fairgrounds (same place as the Heirloom Expo) Its something we never miss, great wine great food and lots of fun...this year will be my first as a vendor with our honey we have a spot with the Sonoma County BeeKeepers Association

Here is a link to the event is anyone is interested http://www.harvestfair.org/

If you come out be sure to stop by Topaz Honey Farms Table and say hi!

 

[cherylcohen]

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That sounds like great fun!! Thanks Haven't had the honey yet you left, but I'm making ice cream this weekend so I'm sure it will get a try!

 

[wolftracks]

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I'm hunting down my detergent containers and I'm going to take pics as I go. I was just so tired of refilling daily, really haven't been able to go out and buy more PVC than I have and none that would work. I had some smaller diameters of it and was trying to come up with something that held a lot and saw the bottles sitting there and thought they'd hold enough for a couple of days. The waterer didn't work to well for me, but I think the feeder will go another coupleof days and I put it out there monday or tuesday. Wish I had thought of it before. Now if I can just get the tape in the waterer, I may be OK. Think I'll test it in the growout pen first on the bigger babies and see how it does. That way at least it's just sand and dirt that gets wet and not my babies.

The box I have doesn't have anything on it other than numbers, so now sure what it was for, but this place sells things like beds, couches, dressers, tables. Do care what it was for, it's working. The last one was about as much room as a refrigerator box. Well not a huge fridge, but pretty big and wasn't as high as it would have been if a frdge box. Still big though.

Today I'm going to be transfering quail into cage I got from Sowngrow and move babies out to the smaller cages to see if they do alright in those. Trying to make some space and I need things more under conrol before the weather changes. Modesto gets really hot but also gets pretty darn cold in the winter, so although I've had everyone put somewhere I'm going to be adding more plywood and closing in some of the open air coops.


OH I got a cool brooder also from sowngrow and I haven't had a chance to get it set up, maybe because I've been going through my house the past couple of weeks and after getting things done in here, I don't have the energy to get a whole lot done. I'll be moving the rabbits out furthur in the backyard, at least I think. I have little Lionheads, and the spot they've been in I want to build a kind of pergola and set the brooder box up in it. We'll see if that's a good idea.

Oh and the feathers are flying around here. My SPPRs don't look too bad. They have some feathers sticking out here and there, but I think they had a pillow fight in their coop. They're even stuck to the wood on nesting boxes and the walls. And yesterday enough had hit the waterer, so I had to scoop feathers out of the base. The Favs are moulting too.

I have 4 FBCMs that are fighting to be all broody and I don't have eggs to stick under them. They're plastered to the nest boxes. Same with most of the Game hens and my EE and Olive Egger. Really, they want to wait till a moult when eggs are slim and then go broody?? I don't get it.

 

[Wynette]

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DITTO! It's been an uber-broody year for me, as well, in the Midwest! If I gave eggs to each & every one, I'd have chicks coming out my ears!

 

[cherylcohen]

pillow fight! It's really amazing what a war zone it looks like at the pens now!

I just put a broody buff-laced brahma girl on some of sir giles coro sussex eggs, hatching next week.

This puppy is driving me crazy, I feel like a 50's housewife that never gets out, chasing the puppy around even though we've puppy proofed, he still manages to find the one thing, the one cord, the one book that I left out to chew on and poo on (peeing he's doing really well, but the other...holy moly)

Got my first egg out of my sppr flock! cracked it open and fertile....woohoo What is the recommended time to wait before incubating, or is there one?

HA HA also moved all the MF leghorn roos to the ranch and one of the "hens" started exhibiting crowing activity... maybe transexual?

 

[wolftracks]

Well if the brown, pink and blue eggs would hatch, they could sit all year, but these Marans x Games are the one's that always hatch. They'll be my layers, so I have I think, about 10 and the way they lay I should be good.

Cheryl! If it fertile hatch it! Maybe that's just me, but ok.

So I'm sitting here with a little cockerel on my lap. He keeps peaking at the cable line to my laptop. He's had yogurt, crumbles and I'm giving him oatmeal in a while. He was so thirsty! My little silkie was just so covered, I think he was just soaked and stuck for too long, not to mention being the smallest.

I remember last year and all the feathers in the yard. My birds started moulting in groups. I would rake the entire yard one day and the next it looked like I didn't touch it. The first groups started in July! That was early. My husband was still alive and he walked out back one morning and asked me why I had been out there so long and hadn't raked. I ran to the back door and looked out and they whole yard was a feather blanket. We raked it all up again and the next morning he came in and said "ummm Those feathers will compost or something won't they???" We both just cracked up. Neither of us wanted to keep raking that big yard every day.

Cheryl if you need some training tips just ask. That's the one thing I excel in and have since I was a little girl. I started training for others when I was 12. Bill was amazed with the first 2 pups I trained and bragged all the time. If someone had a problem he'd volunteer his wife. LOL Anyway your pup is at a great age to start training and housebreaking I get done usually in 2 days or less. It's work and tiring to boot, but it works and it sticks.

 

[PetRock]

The molting has just begun around here. And it started with my broody Australorp. She has been broody for 4-5 weeks now and we just haven't been able to break her of it. We throw her out of the nest box everytime we go out there and make sure she eats and drinks. But she is looking really bad with a tiny pink comb and black feathers falling out everywhere. She is still top chicken, though. She has quite the attitude and lets the others know that she is Queen!

 

[cherylcohen]

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So when did you say you are coming over?

 

[cherylcohen]

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Larry somehow doesn't get the concept, I just tell him it's like the girls having their period or menopause then he gets it!