Eastern Tennessee Thread

[TNBarnQueen]

I have a friend who's been looking. I'll pass along the information.

I posted pics of my chicks. Do you know of anyone who has polish?? I am looking for a few for my project. Hope your friend likes these...I have more in different age stages.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

@Snozzle...I am so very sorry. I know this is a very upsetting situation. It is sad but this happens so much in families when the older ones begin to struggle with day to day life. My parents and I gave up 5 years taking care of my grandfather. He lived 4 hours away..they lived with him and I drove every other weekend letting them come home for a few days to attend dr. app..etc. There was other family who lived within minutes to an hour from him but no one ever offered to help..when we asked..they always had something very important to do...but it did not stop them from coming every week to "borrow" money from him.

I know it is a difficult thing to do but does the family consider a nursing home? No one wants a loved one in them but sometimes life doesn't give you a choice. Also...there is a program here and I am sure there is there. Here it is called ALPS. My husbands grandmother has alzhiemers and she gets to go Mon-Wed-Fri for the day. They do activities, feed them and in a way it is like a day care. You have to go through Medicare or other programs to get the fee paid. Check with your Dept. of Human Services about it as well as having a nurse come out a couple times a week to bathe him, check him and other things that may need to be done. But I would start with DHS. Also...it can be set up for you to be paid as a caregiver. My sons best friend is having to do that with him mom. She has to have someone 24/7 and he cannot work because of that. I hope maybe you could get some of these services and be able to bare things until you find somewhere to move. My prayers are with you and your boyfriend.

 

[bairo]

Just doing a final check.... \
@everyone:
we are still good for April 1st at 1 pm at Panther Creek ?

Stang you are coming with bunny and going to grab the stuff from Nella....? Nella said her and I would get together on paypal or something if you were grabbing the stuff.... (just confirming so I can plan out the next couple weeks, too much going on)

 

[Snozzle]

@Snozzle...I am so very sorry. I know this is a very upsetting situation. It is sad but this happens so much in families when the older ones begin to struggle with day to day life. My parents and I gave up 5 years taking care of my grandfather. He lived 4 hours away..they lived with him and I drove every other weekend letting them come home for a few days to attend dr. app..etc. There was other family who lived within minutes to an hour from him but no one ever offered to help..when we asked..they always had something very important to do...but it did not stop them from coming every week to "borrow" money from him.

I know it is a difficult thing to do but does the family consider a nursing home? No one wants a loved one in them but sometimes life doesn't give you a choice. Also...there is a program here and I am sure there is there. Here it is called ALPS. My husbands grandmother has alzhiemers and she gets to go Mon-Wed-Fri for the day. They do activities, feed them and in a way it is like a day care. You have to go through Medicare or other programs to get the fee paid. Check with your Dept. of Human Services about it as well as having a nurse come out a couple times a week to bathe him, check him and other things that may need to be done. But I would start with DHS. Also...it can be set up for you to be paid as a caregiver. My sons best friend is having to do that with him mom. She has to have someone 24/7 and he cannot work because of that. I hope maybe you could get some of these services and be able to bare things until you find somewhere to move. My prayers are with you and your boyfriend.

I am sure they will push him off into a home as soon as we move, I don't think they realize how bad he has gotten since they cared for him last and he really needs 24 hour care and with both of us working full time there is no way we can do it. We have been asking family for help watching him while we are at work, but even though one of grandpas daughters live right next door and the 2 others live less then a mile away, it took the mail lady to call because he had locked himself out of the house.
Really the issue that we have been having is mostly with the property. My boyfriend push mowed 5 acres last year every weekend, because no one would let us borrow a riding mower and the one here won't turn. We plowed the field by hand and many other things that usually take power equipment or at least a mule. We are expected to use the equipment here, but none of it works, it hasn't worked when we got here. I finally got a used mower last year.
The other very sad thing is that this is probably the death sentence for my 18 year old dog. This area is so animal unfriendly when it comes to renting property, yes she is a big chow-pit mix, but do they really think that my fragile, wobbly, old girl would really run around, chew things up, bark and bite people? There should be exceptions made and not restrict size or breed, small dogs are usually more of a biter and barker. She is having a lot of problems walking lately, but I wanted to put it off to see if the warmer weather will help her, but now I am thinking she may be better off not going through another move.
I know I won't be able to keep all my chickens, but I hope I can at least maybe keep 2 of my little hens, maybe I an get a huge cage and pass them off as exotic parrots.
I will post everything on here I have to give away(animals) and also what I'm selling(coop, riding mower, mini greenhouse etc.) as soon as I figure out when and where we are going.

 

[Barbedwirecat]

@ Snozzle:
I am SO sorry this is happening to you I wish I had an extra pen so I could watch your chickens for you, but I do have some spare room on "The farm". Get yourself situated and let me know, maybe we can figure something out together.

I don't know where about you are located, but there are quite a few places in Jonesborough, Limestone (hi!), and Greeneville that accept pets, farm animals, has acreage, etc. Look outside your "cities" and into the country just a little bit and you should find something! Look for a farm with acreage. Most people with that---don't care what you have on it. We looked into renting, and found out it would be the same to OWN a house with a mortgage in the country. The market is still good for home buyers. I do hope you find a place, I'm sure it will work out for you. I have had the "I have to get rid of EVERYTHING" reflex before, I know how you feel.

 

[Snozzle]

I don't know what I would do without my friends. I may get to keep everyone after all. I talked to my boss and she found some solutions, we may end up buying after all, we found several places for sale with land that the payments are in my range and below. My friends dad is a realtor and he knows me well, he will help us as much as he can and my mom got our backs too. So this may turn out to be a good thing for us.

 

[bairo]

I don't know what I would do without my friends. I may get to keep everyone after all. I talked to my boss and she found some solutions, we may end up buying after all, we found several places for sale with land that the payments are in my range and below. My friends dad is a realtor and he knows me well, he will help us as much as he can and my mom got our backs too. So this may turn out to be a good thing for us.

 

[stanglover2001]

Ok, so check the ETN thread... and it's at the bottom of the list on the first page!!

I put us back to the top! Anyway, anyone want to buy a scarf? My grandmother and I are knitting them up and going to sale them. I'll post pics if anyone is truely interested. On another note, sold my BLRWs, waiting on Nella to get my incubator so can start some Cochin eggs in case my friends attempt doesn't work. Didn't have enough money this week so decided not to go to the Conyers show, am sending my rabbits though, and now will be able to go to the KY show!!

Now, need to find me a new breed of chicken to work on besides cochins! Something easier than BLRWs!!

 

[laughingdog]

well decided to downsize almost all of my budgies/parakeets, besides my original rescue and her miracle baby. $10 a piece, but prefer they go in pairs, as theyre happier that way, and can be quite tame aside from what some say about having to isolate them. i just have to downsize, and they are great clean and quiet in groups of four, but sixteen with the babies is just to much. also adopting out the finches and their setups with little nest beds $30, just havent given them nesting material so they wont lay eggs, unlike the budgies that just keep laying through winter season and just toss the eggs or replace with dummy eggs. four two three 258-3312 or would trade good on coops/good sized rabbit cages or something good to keep my pigeons seperated by sex, age (young and adult), breed, lines, in maybe help building something decent seeming and functional..

 

[bairo]

63000 Views on our little thread....... Who would have known, LOL

On a different note; I am such an enabler. My current customer had a family member give them a little tractor and has been wanting to try chickens for a while now. So I obliged him. Bringing him 2-3 of those hatch-lings from the end of Jan. Give him a few months, they will have a dozen or so