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I've been looking in off and on. Just have had a very bad few days and my mind is wondering, so just been adding a comment or two.
At least my bators are holding steady for now.
I'm trying to figure out whats going on with my Sportsman and why I can't get it to do it's thing. Right now I'm looking at it and thinking maybe a paint job would help. LOL Maybe it feels ugly.
I didn't get to do anything I was supposed to do this weekend. Put all my money in my car and now the computer needs charged, which is way more than I can afford, so I've spent the weekend trying to figure out a way to get my son to school from now on and haven't come up with anything. Didn't get to pick up Bill's tree and decorations from the cemetery, so they'll trash those on the 20th. I spent more on that little tree than I did on the one I had at home. Man those things are expensive.
OK back to birds.
My big girls are starting to redden up again. I sure hope this means I'll start getting eggs again soon.
Had a fun day today trying to introduce my youngsters hatched in April to my Games and my Davis hens. The older hens had been out in the yard, so I opened the youngsters' pen and let them mingle. They've visited between wire, but never been out together. While I broke up 4 fights and whacked some tail feathers a bit in between each altercation. They younger ones tried to just mingle and the hens weren't having it, so just as things started mellowing out (at least it looked like it) all the youngsters headed back for their own pen and then the coop. They huddled against the nest boxes and just seemed to be trying to figure out why they were as welcome now as usual. They all get a time to free range. The Games are out all day every day. Need to set up a new pen for them, so for now......No one was hurt, but boy were there a lot of stretched necks and puffy feathers. I couldn't believe my baby boys when they quickly wattled back to their spot. They did it with some dignity, not at a run like a couple of the pullets, but they moved pretty wuick and like they just didn't feel like hanging for the day. So far now it's hens 1 - youngsters 0.
At least my bators are holding steady for now.
I'm trying to figure out whats going on with my Sportsman and why I can't get it to do it's thing. Right now I'm looking at it and thinking maybe a paint job would help. LOL Maybe it feels ugly.
I didn't get to do anything I was supposed to do this weekend. Put all my money in my car and now the computer needs charged, which is way more than I can afford, so I've spent the weekend trying to figure out a way to get my son to school from now on and haven't come up with anything. Didn't get to pick up Bill's tree and decorations from the cemetery, so they'll trash those on the 20th. I spent more on that little tree than I did on the one I had at home. Man those things are expensive.
OK back to birds.
My big girls are starting to redden up again. I sure hope this means I'll start getting eggs again soon.
Had a fun day today trying to introduce my youngsters hatched in April to my Games and my Davis hens. The older hens had been out in the yard, so I opened the youngsters' pen and let them mingle. They've visited between wire, but never been out together. While I broke up 4 fights and whacked some tail feathers a bit in between each altercation. They younger ones tried to just mingle and the hens weren't having it, so just as things started mellowing out (at least it looked like it) all the youngsters headed back for their own pen and then the coop. They huddled against the nest boxes and just seemed to be trying to figure out why they were as welcome now as usual. They all get a time to free range. The Games are out all day every day. Need to set up a new pen for them, so for now......No one was hurt, but boy were there a lot of stretched necks and puffy feathers. I couldn't believe my baby boys when they quickly wattled back to their spot. They did it with some dignity, not at a run like a couple of the pullets, but they moved pretty wuick and like they just didn't feel like hanging for the day. So far now it's hens 1 - youngsters 0.
