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[tweetysvoice]

Karen, I'm so sorry to hear about that. As they say - you can't pick your family. I'm lucky that my parents do consider the step-child as their own, but I've seen it all too often when they don't. My DH's sisters are like that with me and my daughter. It's inexcusable, but we had to finally make the decision to cut them out of our lives as well. Sometimes you just have to do that for the sanity and fairness to the children. You know in your heart when it's the right time to do that.

 

[Trish44]

KarenS, You have to do what is best for you and your family. Sometimes it's a painful decision, but for the best in the long run. I had to make the decision several years ago to walk away from my sister & her kids. I won't go into it all here, but I had to rid my life of judgmental, unforgiving people who were toxic to me & my son. I have not looked back & nobody seems to care, so why should I. I don't think they even know I have a granddaughter, their loss. It's not something you can forget, but it does get easier to live with. I can empathize with you.

I hope everyone had fun at the swap today, I hope somebody took their camera.

It's hot here today. We made the rounds of the cemetaries & we came back to my DH's brother's house to get their 90 year old mother out of the sun. Some of the family went on to visit yet more graves. It was too hot for me too, I'm glad to be back in the air conditioning.

I brought the new tablet computer & it's working out well.

I sure hope my birds and animals are OK at home. I just want to get in the car & go, but there would be a big argument over it. I hope e eryone is having a good weekend.

 

[Silkie Chick]

The swap at Premier today went well for us. We only ended up with only four cockerels... Do any of you know someone who might want a bantam roo or two?

 

[Deerfield Acres]

<<hugs>> For what its worth, I do think its better to cut people out of your life who only cause pain and misery. I guess one way to look at it is that if people you have no bio connection to can be your family, having a bio connection doesn't necessarily mean they ARE family. That thought was better in my head - somehow trying to phrase it here its not coming out right but hopefully you know what I mean.

Karen, I'm so sorry to hear about that. As they say - you can't pick your family. I'm lucky that my parents do consider the step-child as their own, but I've seen it all too often when they don't. My DH's sisters are like that with me and my daughter. It's inexcusable, but we had to finally make the decision to cut them out of our lives as well. Sometimes you just have to do that for the sanity and fairness to the children. You know in your heart when it's the right time to do that.

Thanks, Tweety. It's crazy that people can't just accept each other and enjoy uniqueness. It really is hard to set that limit.

I'm sure glad your chickie is doing well! I bet you're DH was right and she's just fine. That's great news!

KarenS, You have to do what is best for you and your family. Sometimes it's a painful decision, but for the best in the long run. I had to make the decision several years ago to walk away from my sister & her kids. I won't go into it all here, but I had to rid my life of judgmental, unforgiving people who were toxic to me & my son. I have not looked back & nobody seems to care, so why should I. I don't think they even know I have a granddaughter, their loss. It's not something you can forget, but it does get easier to live with. I can empathize with you.

Thank you Teresa. It's amazing how many of us have had to deal with this sort of thing. What is wrong with people that they have to be so mean? I just don't get it.

The swap at Premier today went well for us. We only ended up with only four cockerels... Do any of you know someone who might want a bantam roo or two?

Silkie Chick, glad things went well today. I thought about you guys at the swap today. I don't need anymore bantam roos, but good luck!

 

[chicken danz]

Sorry silkiechick I didn't know who you were. I guess I should have looked for you. Are you the person who sold Medawinks the little partridge or buff silkie?
I ended up selling all but 4 ducks and 3 polish roosters (since Ivy decided to take some and BamaProud had spoken for some) of all the stuff I had with me. It was kind of slow; not many people because of the holiday and another swap in Overbrook, but at least the people that did show up were buying for the most part. I did give 4 little mixed cockerels away to a guy I'd met before, so he could use them to raise for meat. I figured I wouldn't make much off of feeding them out and I didn't want to take them home.
Nope Trish, I don't think anyone took any pictures. We were actually just busy enough if you tried to visit you'd get a customer. I did take a little time to admire Ivy's dogs though. Just Stinkin' cute. I totally have no idea what kind of money I made but I am figuring around a couple hundred dollars. Then my buyer from Missouri showed up here later this afternoon and I made $230 from him. AWESOME! If I could do that every day I could pay for my feed. But seriously, there is so much work involved that I feel like I've been beaten up.
Karen, You know I am totally in awe of your strength with what you have gone through. You are an amazing person! Love ya, girl!
Well the little turkey that had his guts come out his naval died this afternoon and the one that was topsy turvry refuses to swallow food or water and I think he is about gone. I have 5 of them still alive right now so I guess we'll see how it comes out. I had such good luck with the poults I hatched before I can't believe how awful this has gone. Of course I had a bad hatch on the eggs cause they were shipped and held in the mail, but the ones that hatched didn't have these problems. Hopefully when the day comes I am hatching my own birds I will have better luck. I 'm with Ivy and several others, that nutrition plays a huge roll in good hatches. Still breaks my heart. I love those babies.
I was so tempted to buy a couple of Ivy's RP poults today but I thought how I am supposed to be down sizing, not adding another breed. I resisted but darn it was hard.
Actually I made quite a dent today so maybe I'll see a little reduction in feed. I sold 13 of my young hens and it was kind of hard to give some of them up.That is so dumb to get attached to birds. There was one in particular that DH always loved and I felt really guilty selling her. She is an awesome layer.

 

[Ivywoods]

Oh my! Karen you and I must be living parallel lives in some ways. My mom and dad just never had anything to do with ANY of my kids, and I wasn't really important to them either.

I'm SO PROUD of all the kids... adopted or step. Gee... I think of them "as if they were my own." Imagine that! My mom, who more or less disowned me for reasons no one in our family knows finally started coming around to some degree, but I feel like my kids never really got to know her before she died. My dad never gave a rip about them. He would say things that I felt were so hurtful I decided to limit my kid's exposure to that (and him.) It's pretty sad, and it's a hard decision. I always wished it was different and spent many hours wondering, analyzing and shedding tears over the situation. I finally just had to accept things for the way they were.

So in many ways I understand exactly what you are saying and you are justified in your actions. There is so much I could say about this but I don't think I could express it all even if I wrote a book, so maybe the best thing is just a

I typed up a big, long response earlier today after I got home from the swap, but my stupid computer locked up and I lost it all. For some reason it does that sometimes when I try to use the smileys. Does anyone else have problems with that sometimes?

The swap went fairly well for me. I was able to sell ALL of my larger birds, and a few chicks, but I really had quite a few chicks left to sell. Mine were priced higher than most of the others, so it's no wonder I have some left. Overall I was very happy how things went. The best part was getting to see and meet some other BYC'ers! Seriously! I really enjoyed that.

Prairie-Be sure to let me know how yours do.

Josie-Keep me posted on the poults. Still so far so good on this end. No flip overs and none have kicked the bucket. I hope yours do well, too.

Danz-The WCBP are doing well, and I am looking them over closely for my "pick." I'll be eager to get a pullet from you. They were a little scared and flighty when I got home, but I put them in 2 cages that are small enough that I can interact with them some. You know, "gainesburgers" work pretty good to get their attention and get them to come to you in the pen. That's what a lot of people use to cage train their show birds if they don't have access to mealworms, which are also more expensive. They go nuts over both. These roosters learned pretty quick that they liked those.

Tony-Hope the blue slates made the trip home okay and that your friend is happy with them. I will have only royal palms after this. If I had more pens I might have kept the blue slates, buy you know how that goes. Not enough room on the farm for everyone.

I probably missed someone somewhere along the line. Sorry if I did, but I truly did enjoy seeing everyone!

 

[chicken danz]

Karen and I have discussed this before. Our Dad's were our downfall and our Mom's became our rock. I won't go into all of that now. I am just thankful that I got to spend the last couple years trying to repay my Mom for all she did for me. I just wish I'd had more time.
Oh Ivy I so know that there just isn't enough room for everyone. My yard looks so trashy with all my pens and buildings and I never have enough. At least the bantam polish house and pen looks darned empty tonight. And the Serama house is missing about 50 birds but still have way too many! I just couldn't give any others up. I do have a couple of those spoken for though. I might actually do some of the color breeding I wanted to on them.
I feel like it's time to go put my feet up and do nothing for the rest of the night.

 

[prairie]

Hi all,
Sorry I didn't stay and meet everyone that came to the swap but needed to get my new babies home to some water.

I know now why I wanted chickens, guineas and ducks again after a hiatus of about 20 some years!! Exercise!! Whew! I have been out to the chicken house to check on the new little babies about 15 times this afternoon and changed their litter and set up 3 different times. No way to sit in the house on my fanny when it is so much fun to be out talking to my ladies and to the new babies.

Danz, granddaughters just love the new baby ducks.

Ivy, the guineas are doing fine now. What was it you were telling me about the yogurt?? I make my own homemade yogurt -- is that good for the babies? I am going to make them the scrambled eggs and mash in the morning.

Sharol, nice to meet you.

Wish I could have met everyone but I will probably be at the next swap meet at the end of June. I bought another little carrier just in case we need it in the future. My flock is growing too too fast!

 

[sharol]

It was nice to meet you and Ivy, too. Sometimes just putting a face to a name helps. We talked to Danz, but didn't introduce ourselves.

It's a good thing I didn't take a carrier. Some of those girls were very tempting.

Sharol

Hi all,
Sorry I didn't stay and meet everyone that came to the swap but needed to get my new babies home to some water.

I know now why I wanted chickens, guineas and ducks again after a hiatus of about 20 some years!! Exercise!! Whew! I have been out to the chicken house to check on the new little babies about 15 times this afternoon and changed their litter and set up 3 different times. No way to sit in the house on my fanny when it is so much fun to be out talking to my ladies and to the new babies.

Danz, granddaughters just love the new baby ducks.

Ivy, the guineas are doing fine now. What was it you were telling me about the yogurt?? I make my own homemade yogurt -- is that good for the babies? I am going to make them the scrambled eggs and mash in the morning.

Sharol, nice to meet you.

Wish I could have met everyone but I will probably be at the next swap meet at the end of June. I bought another little carrier just in case we need it in the future. My flock is growing too too fast!

 

[Ivywoods]

Hi all,
Sorry I didn't stay and meet everyone that came to the swap but needed to get my new babies home to some water.

I know now why I wanted chickens, guineas and ducks again after a hiatus of about 20 some years!! Exercise!! Whew! I have been out to the chicken house to check on the new little babies about 15 times this afternoon and changed their litter and set up 3 different times. No way to sit in the house on my fanny when it is so much fun to be out talking to my ladies and to the new babies.

Danz, granddaughters just love the new baby ducks.

Ivy, the guineas are doing fine now. What was it you were telling me about the yogurt?? I make my own homemade yogurt -- is that good for the babies? I am going to make them the scrambled eggs and mash in the morning.

Sharol, nice to meet you.

Wish I could have met everyone but I will probably be at the next swap meet at the end of June. I bought another little carrier just in case we need it in the future. My flock is growing too too fast!

I don't think yours needs any yogurt. It was just a suggestion "if" your keet gets really sick or something. It works pretty good if you have a bird that goes off feed for a while, has been sick, diarrhea, on antibiotics, etc. Just like with people, it acts as a probiotic and helps get the digestive flora going again.