Today has been really busy for me & I'm going to collapse when I really stop & relax. We started out the day taking our 10 year old cat to the Vet because she's been running a fever & not feeling well. She has had a skin problem for awhile we didn't know exactly what to do about & it comes & goes. Then she started running a fever & throwing up & she has been just sitting in the utility room by herself. Anyway, we took her to the Vet today & she thinks she has a flea allergy. This cat never gets out of the house at all, ever, never has. I do use frontline on her if we see fleas but we only use it during the summer. She thinks we should treat her year round because she says her skin problem is an allergy. She gave her an antibiotic due to the secondary infection, so hopefully she will feel better soon. We haven't even seen any fleas on this cat for awhile, so it's all really strange. My little Maltese mix had to go along too for a booster so we can board her while we're on vacation. They gave it intranasally, I hate it when they do that, she has a tiny nose like a little button & she hates having things sprayed up her nose & I don't blame her. After we got them back home & settled my DH went out to work on the coop, he is putting the outer siding on the building now. I need to get updated pics done when I get a chance. I went out & unloaded the load of cattails I had gotten before it rained & the bottom layer was still wet, so they were kind of heavy. I put an old tarp down in the middle of some trees & put all the cattails on that to dry out. I think they should be protected enough from the wind there they won't blow away either. Then after I got that done I went & mucked out the grow-out pen, it still was soaking wet in there & smelled horrible, so I used the pitchfork & got a big layer of stuff out of there so hopefully the pen will dry out some before I put more bedding in. While I was doing all of that I had let the oldest guineas out & the silly things went right up into the trees first thing & sat up there & yelled at the top of their lungs. I had put Jasmine's shock collar on & she was walking around back by the pen close to where the birds were, but didn't bother them. Of course we both were out there too. I also let the turkeys out for awhile too & that tom is just hilarious, he was puffing up & stomping around the girls, I just laughed & laughed at him. The dogs know that these birds are normally in a pen so Lily was following the turkeys around I think to make sure they didn't take off or get lost, but never bothered them. I did notice one thing while they were out that was different & it was that the tom was putting himself between me & his hens. He had not done that before, but he was really being protective of them today.
After my DH left for work I took the old truck into town & loaded up on feed. I got some extra this time to make sure I didn't run short again. The guy at the CO-OP was talking about feeding chickens cat food for extra protein & I have let them have some before when I was feeding the cats, but it's not that cheap any more either, plus I don't think it's that great for them just to eat by itself. I got the feed back home, but not unloaded out of the truck, I'm going to make my DH help me get all of that out of there tomorrow. I really about did my back in the last time I unloaded it all by myself. I just left the truck here then & took the car back into town again & ran an errand then headed out to Arkansas City. I went down there to get some bricks that were free, I can always use them around here for something, so I took them & the gal said she will have more because she is digging them up out of her yard & I can get some more when she gets them dug out. I probably will save them & sit my other hoop coop on top of them when I build it in the spring. I think I will build another one so I can put the turkeys in there for more room. They were eying the hoop coop where the peafowl & guineas are today when they walked by there like they would like to go in, but I didn't let them. I didn't want to see how the peafowl would react to that tom turkey, not the way he was acting. Anyway, I picked up the bricks & then went to another place down there where I picked up 3 gallons of paint for $15 for the inside of my new coop. It's Sherwin Williams paint, so I thought it was a good deal & I didn't care if it was yellow, it's a light yellow & it's for the inside of a chicken coop, so nobody but me & the chickens pretty much will see it anyway. The outside of the coop is going to match the color of our house. After picking up those things I stopped one more time in town again & picked up a stack of free egg cartons I was offered, so all in all I felt like it was a productive afternoon. I just got home in time to feed & shut up the chickens, feed cats, & dogs & get the car & truck put in the garage for the night so my feed wouldn't get damp at all. Whew, now I'm tired!
Danz, I'm sorry about your silly wild pig, but it sounds like he will be OK. I sure hope he settles down now. I would worry if he gets bigger & is still acting that nasty & mean. People have really been hurt by hogs that were acting up like that. I would rather sacrifice the pig than take a chance on getting hurt myself.
