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[HenHouse4Life]

After a day of baling we would go down to the river and skinny dip. That was the most fun of baling. Of course there was always the time I couldn't stop the tractor and hay wagon as we were going down hill. I was so small that even standing on the brake I couldn't get the blasted thing to stop.

I have to ask.... how did you stop, and was the tractor still in working condition afterwards

 

[sourland]

I have to ask.... how did you stop, and was the tractor still in working condition afterwards

Got to the bottom of the hill and part way up the next grade when I got it stopped. From then on my skinny butt was relegated to tossing hay bales.

 

[HenHouse4Life]

Got to the bottom of the hill and part way up the next grade when I got it stopped. From then on my skinny butt was relegated to tossing hay bales.

 

[room onthebroom]

Oh Dobie! I'm so sorry!!! I agree you should call the hatchery. It wont bring the lost ones back, but they should at least know whats going on.

 

[DobieLover]

Sorry for the loss of your little one. It is never easy. Maybe giving them vitamins in their water and mashed boiled egg to eat would help.

Yes. I've done all that. I also added more PND to the egg mixture. They have electrolytes in the water and I've been giving PND directly to the weak one. I hope she pulls through. They are just so tiny I think the shipping combined with the lack of heat pack was too much for some of them to recover from.

 

[DobieLover]

Oh Dobie! I'm so sorry!!! I agree you should call the hatchery. It wont bring the lost ones back, but they should at least know whats going on.

They know. I've gotten their canned sympathy responses which only serves to make things worse. It's their fault for not including the heat pack.

 

[DobieLover]

Thanks everyone for the sympathy for the loss of the little ones. I'm doing everything I can think of to help the last weak one survive.

 

[ronott1]

I remember going out to bale hay as a teenager, hottest days of the year of course, and back then I rather enjoyed it. Hubby and I considered doing hay in our back field but he's working a lot and this year it just doesn't seem feasible for us. However, the garden IS going in this year. I am determined to do it!

I hope to get more work done in the back yard this weekend. Hopefully get to some garden plants

 

[ronott1]

I still have chicks in the brooder and I'm already looking forward to my next set in July, lol.

The big babies are about ready to go into the outdoor coop though I think, they are getting crowded in the brooder. The low outside has been around 60F and and it is getting into the eighties during the day. The oldest are almost six weeks and all are pretty much feathered out.

I still need to go around and reinforce the fence though since they are smaller than the silkies and may be able to slip out still.

It will be nice to get them outside!

 

[danceswithronin]

It will be nice to get them outside!

Do you think it would be better to shut them into the coop for a week before letting them loose in the run?

I was thinking it would help get them used to the coop as well as give me a chance to do a thorough fence check on the run. The coop I have does have a little enclosed run with it that they could use for exercise, but I usually leave the door open so the girls can come and go as they please. I could just leave it shut for a week instead. I sold my adult chickens so the chicks will be the only ones in the coop now.