Cleansquared I think the best thing that works for me is scolding. But that might not work here. I can ask my daughter what she recommends but I'm afraid she'll say there is no hope. (She trains dogs for a living.) Is there any chance your EE got out through the wires? I'm afraid a part wolf might be a lost cause. I had a neighbor once that had a half wolf and it even swallowed a box turtle once when I was watching it. Not to be a downer.
Maidenwolf I think you must have another Swedish then. Their colors do change as they feather in too. It'd be great if you ended up with a trio to breed with.
Trish you built that hoop coop in a real time warp. Amazing. If I get the rest of this metal moved out I am going to try to start building my new turkey pen. It won't be a hoop coop this time because I want to use maximum space available for them. I'm not sure I can get wood posts in the ground where I want to put it so I'm not sure what I am going to do. I also have to build them a house of some kind.
I really hate to disrupt them. They are so good for me. Last night I went out and called "Turkeys" one time and they all came running and raced me to their pen. I really love those guys. I hate to have to pen them up for a while when I get their new pen built. I usually have one hen that has to be brought in by herself but she even came this time.
We got another storm last night. Okay, so now I am starting to grumble about it. I tend to grumble more about the humidity than the rain but this is getting a little excessive. I figured out all the rain is driving the mice inside. I caught 3 in here yesterday and during the night one of my cats caught one. Of course kitty decided she wanted to share so she jumped on the bed and promptly dropped the mouse in the middle of the bed. No it wasn't dead!
I jumped up and turned on the light and immediately got a growl from DH. I told him she had just dropped a mouse in bed. He looked confused and said "Dead?" I replied,"No,it's alive and there it is!" just as it came out from under the quilt. Needless to say he woke up rather quickly then.
To make a long story short he grabbed it in the covers and held it until I could grab a rag to carry it out with. I just imagine that mouse was not set free. Of course the cat spent the rest of the night checking every bump in the covers trying to find her lost treasure.
I had a lady bring me a wet chick yesterday with a bloody navel and a pile of filthy eggs. It was from the group of faverolles I sold her. One of the hens hatched two babies and then deserted the other eggs. The first baby died in the mud. The second was the one she brought me. She wanted me to hatch the other eggs but I don't know if they will. The hen and the eggs were both down in the mud. I taped the naval on the baby so the bleeding would stop and set it in an incubator. It was just fine this morning. I put the other eggs in the incubator to finish hatching. I need to candle them later to see if they are viable or not.
She left her basket and quilt here I discovered this morning and it got drenched. I don't know if I can recover it or not. I intend to return it with whatever chicks that hatch cause I sure don't intend to raise them.
I am finally getting eggs from the two araucanas hens that I am crossing with the legbar roo. If and when I have offspring, I think I am going to call them Araubars. I may have to cross the offspring again to get 100% barring although I am sure it doesn't matter since I just want blue eggs. These girls are lavender so I think the possibility of a light creamy crele color could result in at least part of the chicks. I am just doing this for fun because they are here. I gave a couple of legbar eggs to my sister in a batch of eggs a while back from the cream legbars. She said she hated to eat them. So for my family I think it would be nice to throw in some nice colors. We all have grandkids that would love to eat blue eggs.
Cherwill I envy your gardening skills by the way. I meant to ask you in your community garden are those raised plots or are they just natural earth that is divided into plots? I found a recipe for dill pickles that uses the old fermentation way. I think I may try to make some. What else do I have to do with all my time?
We've also got an established tree line (50 year old cedar trees) and pasture land that desperately needs water. We've also got horses that depend on that pasture land. We also planted several fruit trees this year and last. Last year, we were able to water the trees a lot more regularly, and they are doing well. This year, with me being pregnant, it has been a lot more of a struggle to get out early in the morning to water trees. We've lost one tree and two bushes. Thankfully, they are from Gurneys, so we get free replacements, but it is still frustrating to have to wait an extra year to get fruit from them. Plus, we'll have a newborn/infant by the time spring comes, and I was really hoping not to have to deal with keeping up with watering first-year trees. Oh well, I guess that's just how it's going to have to be.
