Oh, what a fun costume! I hope my kiddos want to be cool things for halloween! I would have a field day with a peacock costume. I think my favorite costume as a kid was the year I was a monarch butterfly and I work a black jumpsuit and my mom made me antennae and full cardboard wings with black and orange felt glued on in the wing patterns. It was an awesome costume.
I made on of my sons a butterfly costume. He was like 3 and he was obsessed with butterflies. I actually made him a pair of leggings and a shirt that had fingers out of stretchy black material. I made him a head cover and attached a couple of antennas I redesigned from some space antennas. I found some heavy stiff black mesh material at Hancock Fabrics. It was heavy enough it stood up on it's own. I'm sure it was backing for something but not sure what. Then I sewed on rows of sequins around the outside. I used fabric paint and painted the spots on the wings. He looked absolutely awesome. That was back when digital cameras weren't an option. I was moving and put the undeveloped roll of film in a trash bag with other household items and something leaked and ruined it. It broke my heart!!
Lady, you are crazy, where are you keeping the pig? I really wanted to raise a pig this year but we didn't get organized. Fresh pork and bacon is soooo much better than store bought. No worries, I am getting my rest. I fell asleep on the bed this afternoon while folding socks. DH was kind enough to come up and take a picture of me sleeping with 6 cats on the bed!
Too cute!
Right now I have the pig in the kennel where I had the midget whites before I moved them. That isn't a permanent place but it worked for now. I do need those panels to make a catch pen for some roosters though.
I raised hogs in the 70's and we just used an electric wire. In fact we shut it off after having it on a day or two and they never bothered it. I have a spare charger but can't afford to buy another set of ground rods. I need one of those old positive/negative chargers. I liked them better cause they didn't take all that extra stuff. I also had a pet pig I just let roam the yard. She slept on the front steps and walked with me while I did chores. She would run ahead and lay down in the path in front of me to get her tummy scratched. I know this little guy was probably freaked out yesterday but he sure seemed wild. I hope he calms a little or I might butcher him a bit too early!!! I doubt he will stay in the pen very long so I am going to have to get the hog rings out and fix his nose soon. I luckily have hog rings because I use them for doing some upholstery work. I'm not sure where he will go long term. I never plan these things. I had no idea there would be a pig at an exotic sale that wasn't a pygmy or a heritage breed.
Trish- Hope you feel better. I hate being sick and it is so hard to care for the birds when you feel awful and its rainy and cold out!
Well, Miss Lucie is hanging in there. I can't say that I enjoy getting up at 3 AM for her pain meds but other than that she is being a pretty good patient. She must be starting to get itchy because she won't stop licking at the road rash she has and I can't keep an ecollar on her because she keeps getting it off when she is in the crate. So she is wearing a men's thermal shirt and a harness plus her hind end support harness to help her maintain her balance. Phew!
Aw she looks so miserable. I like the idea of the underwear! I will have to remember that.
Glad you got the tractor done. If it were me I would let her free range. I would put her out near the tractor so she can be near the other birds. I see it this way. Either the other birds continue to pick on her until they kill her or a hawk could get her. I think her chances are better with the hawk. If she is near the other birds she won't feel that lonely and they might get used to her not being accessible to their picking and start leaving her alone.
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OH that is just so gross. Need to keep the nose open for smells from the incubator. I've never had one break in mine but I've sure had some that got rank. I very carefully remove them and throw them as far as I can outside.We had a storm last night, we're thankful for the rain, we've been in drought for two years. I tried to put the turkeys in the barn before sun set, I gave up, goofy turkeys! They looked tattered after the storm, we got 2.50 inches of hard rain and some hail. One of my young turkeys was no where to be found this morning.
Blessed rain. We didn't get any where near that much but we got quite a bit.
WARNIING: Don't read the rest of this post if you have a weak stomach...it's a gross....
I didn't get to do what I had planned today because my DH decided today was a good day to boil the stuff out of an elk skull, he got it started and then had some projects he needed to go do, I agreed to help with this elk skull boil, that ended up being a gross job, putrid stench doesn't even begin to describe it, when the water heated up and the maggots started crawling out and floating to the top I realized this was going to be grosser and take longer than I had expected. Rubber gloves, a knife scrapping slime tissue.....disgusting! After several hours the wind got up, I decided it was not be safe, I shut off the propane burner put the elk rack up where the coyotes couldn't drag it off and I showered, I also decided that was my last skull boiling, I will say NO next time.
I don't know which was worse, the smell of an egg in my incubator that exploded on me or that elk skull......At least the elk skull is outside, the egg was in my house.
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Karen I am so glad you had a good time with relatives. I would love to have a space like your craft room. Of course mine would be full of chickens or something! But better than having them in the house. Speaking of that I have a whole new group I need to get moved to the brooder.
I am feeling overwhelmed right now. I have to get around for church. Then when I get home I have a guy coming over for poop and some chickens. Then someone later for chickens. I have to get a new cage made for the chipmonks. Get another area ready in the brooder for chicks, replace the bedding in the chicken houses he shovels out, figure out where to house the pig. Then take some of those panels, and set them up to corner some wild roosters. I haven't touched my house in days and the chick dust is an inch thick every where. The floors are filthy and things are piled.
I have two pens and houses I have to get divided to make room for separating breeds and colors. I need to take a rooster on a road trip to his new home.
I do fine just being busy but then once in a while I just feel totally overwhelmed. I am at that spot right now. On top of that I still have all my normal feeding and watering which takes a minimum of a couple hours by itself.
