Ok, ivy just called me and wanted me to post that yesterday morning, they had a pretty good storm move over their place, and knocked out the server too their house....
so she won't know, does not know for sure when they will get the internet back. She said, she wanted to contact the person who wants the wyandottes, but the number is in her pm's on byc and cannot get to it.
....so if you need to contact her about the chickens you will have to call her if you have her number, or wait, and hopefully she will get Friday!!
Now she wants me too post this, it is a story that I told her this morning on the phone.
I was late going on to take care of my birds, that happens alot, but I have lights in the barn so no big deal. I waited till after the storm passed, and quit raining to go out. I fed the dogs, and checked and fed the birds, don't have to worry about water as every pen has a automatic waterer in the pen.
Had everything finished, and then I remembered to gather eggs out of the hen nests.
I keep three nest eggs in the boxes, and grabbed one put it back, reached in the next box, no eggs,just a nest egg,
hmmm, reached into the next box, well I have a wet chicken in there
. Pushed with my hand to get her out, and thought that hen really is wet and does not want to come out, and I don't want her roosting in the nest bot all night, YUCK! So I reached back into shove her out and realized those were not wet feathers I was feeling, but wet FUR!! So I bent over a little more and looked in the box. WELL
WET POSSEM! Holy Crap wonder that thing did not bite me or something!!
So, I called my husband, who was sitting in the house,( seems like I have been there before), you must realize that the house is less that 60 yards away, he said his dog catcher pole thingy was in the outside garage, so I went and found it, came back in wondering in my visitor was still in the box.
Well, it was, so then, I am trying to get the noose part of the pole around this varmits neck, that is in the back of the next box,up against the wall, trying to go down the wall , threw the metal nest box, and it keeps ducking it head down so it was impossible to do.
This noose now is very flexable, with a light weight kind of cable with plasitic that covers the cable and just kinda flops around on the end of a 6 foot pole.
Finally the darn thing gets down to the bottem level and sticks its head out from behind, and I was able to get the noose around its neck and pull it out!
So now I have a possum with a noose around its neck grabbing everything it can to keep from going out of the hen coop.
As I am trying to get outside with this live varmint, my 6 month old leapard catauhula pup takes offense to the possum. He starts barking (well it really is not a bark), growling lunging at the possem, grabbing it, shaking it. Im trying to get out the door, dogs upset, possems upset, and Im trying to get the hole mess outside into the night.
Well after a time all is done, varmit is dead, dog is settled down, and I get back in the house, and my husband looks up and said"What took you so long"
Oh Hawkeye, I have been there, only my "door pecker" was a big royal palm tom! And yes, I understand the "ICK"!
