Flock/Life Journey's 2019

[Ribh]

I will make sure I rug up honey. We have a sleeping bag that is rated for -5° so hopefully we sleep comfortably. They wanna go hiking but. Which im not to keen on since I haven't been so stable on my feet lately.

Anywhere up in the hinterland I always find cold @ night. Not sure where you're hiking. A lot of the terrain is rough but so many places these days have really good access tracks ~ you know, wheelchair friendly & that. I freak my mother out; I hike in thongs.

 

[drumstick diva]

which kind of thongs, for feet or unmentionable?

 

[Ribh]

I like that place. We will have to go there sometime. This might be one of our last camping trips for a little while until the baby is a little older.

There are lots & lots of short walking tracks from here ~ 1/2 an hour done slowly. Good surfaces, & the Lost World has a tree top walk ~ which I've only ever done in a persistent mizzle but many of the walks can be done with a pram or stroller or a baby sling as they're not strenuous. Just mentioning if you're keen campers.

 

[KLIL]

All of the ducklings. For those of you who haven’t seen them on the Duckling Thread yet.
Names are- Fluffy, Fuzzy, Frodo, Frittata, and Frosty.
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They are sooo gorgeous love. And growing up so fast!

 

[MysticUniKitty]

So Question... i posted about integrating the ones I'm getting with my ones i have and I'm getting a nothing but negative feedback. The ones I'm getting are 9 months old, they've been in a flock together and the two roosters are the lowest on the pecking order there. Here i have 15 babies and then my 4 one month pullets. Am i in for doom like I've heard so far? Or do you think they could get along?

 

[KLIL]

Anywhere up in the hinterland I always find cold @ night. Not sure where you're hiking. A lot of the terrain is rough but so many places these days have really good access tracks ~ you know, wheelchair friendly & that. I freak my mother out; I hike in thongs.

I was wearing thongs one day when we were walking off a track omg so I tripped over and split underneath my little toe so it was bleeding everywhere. I washed it in the water so Jordan asked to see it so I showed him and his like ok Krystal do not open it again. It was almost sethered. So I then had to walk an hour to get out with a toe that kept opening when I was walking plus I was panicking and hurting so couldn't really breathe too. So we get out and have a first aid kit so my friend said I need to clean it with a wipe and we glued it together with super glue lol. I was wiping the dirt out and I said to Jordan is that more dirt that I was wiping so hard couldn't get it out. It was a vain lol. Jordan wanted to vomit.
Then I went to the doctors afew days later and the doctor said the glue job was shit lol and they reopened it and patched it up lol. No more off roading in pluggers for me lol.

 

[KLIL]

So Question... i posted about integrating the ones I'm getting with my ones i have and I'm getting a nothing but negative feedback. The ones I'm getting are 9 months old, they've been in a flock together and the two roosters are the lowest on the pecking order there. Here i have 15 babies and then my 4 one month pullets. Am i in for doom like I've heard so far? Or do you think they could get along?

I would put them in quarantine for 30 days honey. So you can monitor if they are sick before putting then straight in with your flock. You don't want your babies sick if they are sick. Then id do a see no touch for a week then put them together at night. But honey if you feel that you want to put them straight in then thats upto you noone else. You know what to look out for and monitor.

 

[KLIL]

which kind of thongs, for feet or unmentionable?

We call shoes for your feet thongs and the unmentionables are G-strings. Lol

 

[drumstick diva]

hope it will heal soon. I've never tried super glue - if I did my hand would probably be stuck to the bottle.

 

[Ribh]

So Question... i posted about integrating the ones I'm getting with my ones i have and I'm getting a nothing but negative feedback. The ones I'm getting are 9 months old, they've been in a flock together and the two roosters are the lowest on the pecking order there. Here i have 15 babies and then my 4 one month pullets. Am i in for doom like I've heard so far? Or do you think they could get along?

I'm integrating POLs with layers just now. Honestly I think a lot depends on your individual birds. My layers are 2 of the more assertive breeds: BAs & BRs. I did what I could to make it go smoothly but I have limited space so segregation wasn't a real option. The coop was new to both lots of birds & I let the newbies in first to feed & water & suss things out then put the others in just before roosting time. Not smooth, no, but not as nasty as it could have been. I just have to monitor food & water & make sure everyone has access but otherwise they are working it out. They do have plenty of room both in the coop & the run.