calling any one from missouri

[OhZark Biddies]

I just got fleas on the brain..
All 3 dogs and the cat have them. I have been on flea annihilation all week long.

That’s not fun!!!

I’m so bug bitten... after being turkey momma the last couple weeks I’ve been dealing with ticks, chiggers, sweat bees, deer flies, and fungus gnats nonstop...

Wait! ... are we talking about bugs again

 

[shawluvsbirds]

That’s not fun!!!

I’m so bug bitten... after being turkey momma the last couple weeks I’ve been dealing with ticks, chiggers, sweat bees, deer flies, and fungus gnats nonstop...

Wait! ... are we talking about bugs again

It does always seem to come full circle back to bugs don't it.
We have had some kind of teeny tiny gnats and they bite! it feels like tiny little pinprick. What are those horrible things?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

They are really so tiny they just look like a freckle on your skin you would not even know they were there if you didn't feel the bite.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That’s not fun!!!

I’m so bug bitten... after being turkey momma the last couple weeks I’ve been dealing with ticks, chiggers, sweat bees, deer flies, and fungus gnats nonstop...

Wait! ... are we talking about bugs again

I think I promised to tell this group a story about how TRUE LOVE in my hen house saved the life of one of my cockerels and why I now have a mated pair I'm calling Wesley and Buttercup.

So this spring I ordered a bunch of BA pullets and also some BA cockerels bc I wanted to put some in the freezer. They turned out to be real nice and I didn't have to separate the cockerels for hormonal reasons till they were about 14 weeks old. I had 10 pullets and 6 cockerels. I put the boys in a bachelor pen, ready to send to my processor, three at a time later in the week. The next day there were 7 in the bachelor pen. One of the pullets had flown over the fence. At bedtime i separated her out, but the next day she was in again. I removed her again and clipped wings. The third day she flew over a shorter fence and was next to the bachelors, side by side with one of the cockerels. I watched that day, and saw that the two of them spent most of the day together, she on one side of the fence, he on the other. The same thing happened the next day. I told DH, "This is TRUE LOVE! I can't send him to freezer camp! That would be INCONCEIVABLE!" So I decided if I could tell him apart from the others, I would spare him. Here they are, side by side. I an happy to say this story has a happy ending, because of TRUE LOVE. (I am sorry to say there are no giants, six-fingered men or Rodents of Unusual Size in this tale, but I hope you find it satisfactory nevertheless.)

 

[jthornton]

That reminds me of Side Kick the Rhode Island Red hen who started eating her eggs and making a mess in the nest box every day. I gave her to my neighbor and she started courting a rooster named Britches through her cage. When she let her out of the cage Side Kick hooked up with Britches at once. The big question was where would she roost that night... she was right beside Britches up on the Big Girl roost.

JT

 

[jthornton]

Finally got to start milling those logs at my buddies house.

JT

 

[bambi]

Finally got to start milling those logs at my buddies house.

JT

Loved it!!! what beautiful wood. Curious if the wood is cedar?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

They are really so tiny they just look like a freckle on your skin you would not even know they were there if you didn't feel the bite.

We call those ‘no see ums’.... they are biting midge flys of some sort...

I’ve run into those here lately too...

the turkey likes to hunt the tall grass and weeds and eat bugs that are hiding on the bottom side of the leaves... so on our walks, the more I’m swatting at things the happier he/she is

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I think I promised to tell this group a story about how TRUE LOVE in my hen house saved the life of one of my cockerels and why I now have a mated pair I'm calling Wesley and Buttercup.

So this spring I ordered a bunch of BA pullets and also some BA cockerels bc I wanted to put some in the freezer. They turned out to be real nice and I didn't have to separate the cockerels for hormonal reasons till they were about 14 weeks old. I had 10 pullets and 6 cockerels. I put the boys in a bachelor pen, ready to send to my processor, three at a time later in the week. The next day there were 7 in the bachelor pen. One of the pullets had flown over the fence. At bedtime i separated her out, but the next day she was in again. I removed her again and clipped wings. The third day she flew over a shorter fence and was next to the bachelors, side by side with one of the cockerels. I watched that day, and saw that the two of them spent most of the day together, she on one side of the fence, he on the other. The same thing happened the next day. I told DH, "This is TRUE LOVE! I can't send him to freezer camp! That would be INCONCEIVABLE!" So I decided if I could tell him apart from the others, I would spare him. Here they are, side by side. I an happy to say this story has a happy ending, because of TRUE LOVE. (I am sorry to say there are no giants, six-fingered men or Rodents of Unusual Size in this tale, but I hope you find it satisfactory nevertheless.)

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Ha... well despite the lack of ROUS’s it’s still a nice tale

 

[OhZark Biddies]

That reminds me of Side Kick the Rhode Island Red hen who started eating her eggs and making a mess in the nest box every day. I gave her to my neighbor and she started courting a rooster named Britches through her cage. When she let her out of the cage Side Kick hooked up with Britches at once. The big question was where would she roost that night... she was right beside Britches up on the Big Girl roost.

JT

‘Side Kick and Britches’ sounds like a name of bluegrass band or something , lol