I agree with Danz, get them on an antibiotic right away. That eye stuff is bad & it has been going around. I don't know if migratory birds bring the stuff in or what, but it's hard to get rid of once it gets started.
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I am totally exhausted. I turned into a bit of a bear this morning. I was supposed to meet this lady in Lawrence about 11:00 am to get this pirit hose today. I wrote the gal who hadn't answered my last email and asked her where I was supposed to meet her mom. Well here I am getting ready to drive to Lawrence and I find out at the last minute she isn't coming to Lawrence that I have to go to Baldwin city. I have never been there. So I look on google and it shows it north of Lawrence a few miles.
So I get the answer late and rush to drive an hour over to Lawrence. They put in a new road that just got finished and my GPS isn't updated. It kept telling me to go to the highlighted route 'cause it thought I was driving where there wasn't a road. So I get to Lawrence and call this lady and she doesn't answer. So then I call again and she finally answers and tells me I have to go back 7 miles then go on this road and that and turn this way and that. I told her I would probably have to call her back. So I have to get gas and go to the gas station and the stupid gas pump keeps telling me to push enter after I put my card in and there is no button that says enter. So I try over and over and push this button and that, and it locks me out. Then I had to go stand in line inside before I could talk to this spaced out meth head clerk. She basically said she didn't know...she just does it.
So I go back out and try again and this time hit the right button. The writing was worn off so it was just a guessing game.
So I go back down the Highway and turn off on the first road this gal said to turn on, and finally my GPS tells me where to go. It takes me to a cul de sac where there are about 6 mail boxes. I choose the house closest to the right number and end up at the wrong house. I call the gal again and she is out in space some place. Then I finally see a little cow path and her house is hidden behind the trees off this cow path. Nice house just a lousy way to get there.
I get there, call her again and she says she will put her shoes on and come out. 10 minutes later she comes out. She has no idea where the hose is. I guess her daughter just brought all their stuff and off loaded it in her front yard.
Well the hose is in a big plastic bin under a bunch of other hoses and it is sitting in about 4 inches of water. Keep in mind this is an electric hose.
So I say I am worried about it working cause it has been so wet. She says we can plug it in. I asked if it was thermostatically controlled and she kind of gave me a blank look. Plugs it in and nothing happens. So I explain the the thermostat part would have to be down to freezing. She goes on and on about what a good idea that is she has never heard of something like that. So she sticks the thermostat end in a freezer in her garage. We wait and wait and nothing happens. She says she is going in to see if her daughter is on line to ask her about it. Meanwhile I walk in the garage and move the thermostat back away from the door to where it would actually be cold. Another 15 minutes goes by and the lady is still in the house on the internet. I check the hose and it is getting warm. So I go knock on the door.
No response. Finally another 7-8 minutes later she comes out and says her daughter isn't on line. I have no idea why she didn't just call her. I tell her the hose is working so all is good. Then she asks about chickens and she has to take me around back to show me a chicken tractor that her daughter says she could use. I try to be nice but it's getting late. I encourage her to get some chickens and walk toward my car trying to get out of there.
I give her the money and start loading the hose. I was about to scream. I had already wasted almost 3 hours trying to get this darned hose and I still had to drive home.
The hose had one side that was sun bleached from laying outside. She said, "Oh, this must be the part that heats up cause it's a different color. I almost laughed out loud. What a ditz. I don't think she had ever gotten her hands dirty or been outside to do anything in her life. She told me she was going to school and I was thinking college.
After talking to her for awhile I think it might have been grade school.
So I left home at 10:00 AM and got back home at 2:00 PM just to get this stinking hose. It was a good price or I wouldn't have driven that far for it but really????
Sometimes I wish I was just a girly girl that stayed inside and cleaned and worked on my hobbies. Until I meet someone who does that. I would so much rather know something other than how to run a vacuum.
It took the rest of the afternoon to get all the birds fed and watered. They needed much attention after being ignored yesterday.
I have some chicks in the incubator I need to get out and start brooding. I just want to crash.
Queen bee, I do the same thing. As long as it hasn't gotten wet or nasty I just throw the stuff back in the FF barrel. It hasn't killed any birds yet.
My newly acquired turkeys aren't interested in the fermented feed yet. They look at it like it is a foreign object. They liked my special grains though.
Yesterday I got an adorable picture from 22Qzoo's daughter, Katy. It's a picture of her doing homework with two of her chickens.
Had to attach it. So cute!
So I get the answer late and rush to drive an hour over to Lawrence. They put in a new road that just got finished and my GPS isn't updated. It kept telling me to go to the highlighted route 'cause it thought I was driving where there wasn't a road. So I get to Lawrence and call this lady and she doesn't answer. So then I call again and she finally answers and tells me I have to go back 7 miles then go on this road and that and turn this way and that. I told her I would probably have to call her back. So I have to get gas and go to the gas station and the stupid gas pump keeps telling me to push enter after I put my card in and there is no button that says enter. So I try over and over and push this button and that, and it locks me out. Then I had to go stand in line inside before I could talk to this spaced out meth head clerk. She basically said she didn't know...she just does it.
So I go back out and try again and this time hit the right button. The writing was worn off so it was just a guessing game.
So I go back down the Highway and turn off on the first road this gal said to turn on, and finally my GPS tells me where to go. It takes me to a cul de sac where there are about 6 mail boxes. I choose the house closest to the right number and end up at the wrong house. I call the gal again and she is out in space some place. Then I finally see a little cow path and her house is hidden behind the trees off this cow path. Nice house just a lousy way to get there.
I get there, call her again and she says she will put her shoes on and come out. 10 minutes later she comes out. She has no idea where the hose is. I guess her daughter just brought all their stuff and off loaded it in her front yard.
Well the hose is in a big plastic bin under a bunch of other hoses and it is sitting in about 4 inches of water. Keep in mind this is an electric hose.
So I say I am worried about it working cause it has been so wet. She says we can plug it in. I asked if it was thermostatically controlled and she kind of gave me a blank look. Plugs it in and nothing happens. So I explain the the thermostat part would have to be down to freezing. She goes on and on about what a good idea that is she has never heard of something like that. So she sticks the thermostat end in a freezer in her garage. We wait and wait and nothing happens. She says she is going in to see if her daughter is on line to ask her about it. Meanwhile I walk in the garage and move the thermostat back away from the door to where it would actually be cold. Another 15 minutes goes by and the lady is still in the house on the internet. I check the hose and it is getting warm. So I go knock on the door.
No response. Finally another 7-8 minutes later she comes out and says her daughter isn't on line. I have no idea why she didn't just call her. I tell her the hose is working so all is good. Then she asks about chickens and she has to take me around back to show me a chicken tractor that her daughter says she could use. I try to be nice but it's getting late. I encourage her to get some chickens and walk toward my car trying to get out of there.
I give her the money and start loading the hose. I was about to scream. I had already wasted almost 3 hours trying to get this darned hose and I still had to drive home.
The hose had one side that was sun bleached from laying outside. She said, "Oh, this must be the part that heats up cause it's a different color. I almost laughed out loud. What a ditz. I don't think she had ever gotten her hands dirty or been outside to do anything in her life. She told me she was going to school and I was thinking college.
After talking to her for awhile I think it might have been grade school.
So I left home at 10:00 AM and got back home at 2:00 PM just to get this stinking hose. It was a good price or I wouldn't have driven that far for it but really????
Sometimes I wish I was just a girly girl that stayed inside and cleaned and worked on my hobbies. Until I meet someone who does that. I would so much rather know something other than how to run a vacuum.
It took the rest of the afternoon to get all the birds fed and watered. They needed much attention after being ignored yesterday.
I have some chicks in the incubator I need to get out and start brooding. I just want to crash.
Queen bee, I do the same thing. As long as it hasn't gotten wet or nasty I just throw the stuff back in the FF barrel. It hasn't killed any birds yet.
My newly acquired turkeys aren't interested in the fermented feed yet. They look at it like it is a foreign object. They liked my special grains though.
Yesterday I got an adorable picture from 22Qzoo's daughter, Katy. It's a picture of her doing homework with two of her chickens.
Had to attach it. So cute!
Danz, I'm sorry you had such a bad day, I'm glad you finally got your hose though that you drove all over for. Give the turkeys some time, the two I got from HEChicken weren't sure about it at first, but now they attack me for it practically. I can hardly get it out of the bucket to feed them because they're trying to get at it first. I barely get it in the trough before they're gobbling it up.
I worked on my new pen today & got the side panel built & then put it up where it's supposed to go. I have one end hooked on so far & then had to quit & start feeding, so if it rains tomorrow I will be finishing it up on Sunday. I messed up on the placement of one of the t-posts I put in, so I have to dig it out now & move it, it's really aggravating when I don't have the time right now to be doing things over. I'm just pooped out after building that panel & dragging it over to the place it goes, it is 6 ft tall by 12 ft long, so it's pretty big. I pounded in two t-posts too & that about does me in.
HEChicken that little NH cockerel is the cutest thing, I have him in the growout pen right now with some other birds of similar size. I have never had that breed before, so this will be a new experience for me with him.
I worked on my new pen today & got the side panel built & then put it up where it's supposed to go. I have one end hooked on so far & then had to quit & start feeding, so if it rains tomorrow I will be finishing it up on Sunday. I messed up on the placement of one of the t-posts I put in, so I have to dig it out now & move it, it's really aggravating when I don't have the time right now to be doing things over. I'm just pooped out after building that panel & dragging it over to the place it goes, it is 6 ft tall by 12 ft long, so it's pretty big. I pounded in two t-posts too & that about does me in.
HEChicken that little NH cockerel is the cutest thing, I have him in the growout pen right now with some other birds of similar size. I have never had that breed before, so this will be a new experience for me with him.
Is this the brother to the ones I recieved? I am pretty sure that 1 of the new ones is a girl, that one looks alot different than the other 2!
My newer chicks are trying to escape when we open up the run door :/ I am worried about the neighbor dog, she is huge and I worry she might try to get over the fence (St. Bernard) she is not out all the time so that helps. I am trying to get my husband to make a small pen (which would be 8ft across, in a circle) so me to put them into and be safe, but he does not see any reason to do so! They are all getting along great now, just took about a week of picking on the new ones!
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Danz, you must not have read that part of my post where I said to have a drama free day! Your "hose" story sounds a lot like some "free bees" stories I could tell.
Ashncarson you could put a board across the opening, something high enough to keep the chicks from running out but easy enough for you to step over. Might slow them down a little bit. Are the black chicks Marans?
Trish you need to get you a t post puller. I bought one at the FFA auction and it works great, easy-peasy pulling up the posts.
We had a full day at Yoder, disappointing, but we brought some new birds home.
Now just waiting on the rain.
Ashncarson you could put a board across the opening, something high enough to keep the chicks from running out but easy enough for you to step over. Might slow them down a little bit. Are the black chicks Marans?
Trish you need to get you a t post puller. I bought one at the FFA auction and it works great, easy-peasy pulling up the posts.
We had a full day at Yoder, disappointing, but we brought some new birds home.
Now just waiting on the rain.
Yeah, I need something like that. I haven't put in so many t-posts as I have in the last few months in my life. I had to build a goat pen & used them for attaching the livestock panels to & then recently added onto it again so more posts. It's the pounding them in that is the killer for me, I have to pound them in manually because I don't have one of those nifty powered ones.
So what kind of birds did you come home with? I've never made it out to the Yoder auction, it's a drive for me & I've heard some stories about it too. Just make sure to quarantine the birds you got.
The owner of the dad thought he was a cochin? Here is a photo of him, hard to know the mom, as it was a "mixed" litter of different eggs
Trish maybe this rain will make pounding the posts in easier. My DH uses his loader attachment to push the post in, makes it really super easy. Didn't have that back when I was building my hog pens. Yoder is quite the collection of stuff. Most of the birds appeared healthy, although there were some that had obvious eye problems. So, yes, quarantine. I bid on a nice looking cage of EE's but a little Vietnamese guy out bid me, twice. I think my duck, goose, goose went to good homes, I pretty much gave them away, so it makes me even sadder that they are gone. Anyway the person that bought the geese didn't bring a cage so he had to buy one. While waiting for him to find one they auctioned off some older peacock pairs and so..... We bought a nice peacock pair. There was someone there selling a pair of FBCM's that had the "rare" Wheaton gene. So you never know what you are going to get. The guy we got the peacocks from didn't know what they are. He had a couple of pheasant pairs also that went for $35.00 each.
Ashncarson, he is a pretty boy, but probably not a Maran.
Well, we are off to look at an incubator today. Maybe we can get some more honey pulled this afternoon. We only got about a half inch of rain.
Ashncarson, he is a pretty boy, but probably not a Maran.
Well, we are off to look at an incubator today. Maybe we can get some more honey pulled this afternoon. We only got about a half inch of rain.
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