Fuzzy's Farm

[fuzzybutt love]

No, the deed is done. DH called and let me know. He let them go to roost in the tree, buried them beneath it. They never felt a thing.

I understand that you can't have the roosters, everyone is already up to their eyeballs in roosters. Had to be done, just not an easy decision and one i put off for far too long. Watching the littlest die a few days ago really drove home what was going to happen if i didn't man up and make the call. He had gotten chilled because he ran around in the rain and didn't go in, but i imagine that going without water during the dead of winter would kill them just as surely too.

 

[Gigiintheforest]

No Robin these were the millie boys. I still have the porcelain birds, if they have to go you will be the first to know, i would not willingly put down a bird if there were any other alternatives, i remember you want the porcelain. If maurice were ever to go, his sister and his "mom" would go with him, they are a group and do everything together. He is a little scared of henry since he hit puberty, but they get along ok. It was just the millies, they fought with henry through the fence every time they made eye contact.

These were my babies i got from TSC this last spring and raised in my armoire. I loved those little boys. They were not mean. I had no choice, couldn't let them dehydrate to death, couldn't find homes. Their only sin was being born a rooster. Makes me sick, i loved those boys to pieces.

I'm so sorry, Fuzzy. You are so loving - I know you do what is best for them.

Perhaps one of these days you can go back and get a degree - you would make the best vet! You know, a lot of students live off their student loans. Yeah, you have to pay them back but it's reasonable and a "good debt". Just my thoughts...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Nova, I had mac and cheese today with DH at Chili's. They ruined it by putting publano peppers in it - yuck. Not the place to put peppers.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I have always loved birds best. I don't know why, but my mom can tell you that soon after i started to walk, she would find me staring for hours at our parakeet. I have kept birds my whole life, got roped into chickens for the eggs then fell in love. I never knew that they were so smart, that they could be affectionate.

This is the terrible part about raising the friendly ones, because it's that much harder in the end if you have to do this. If i can give them away as chicks, i can deal with it; but if i raise them.............no one really wants a rooster, so by the time you can tell what they are than no one wants them. I always kept boy parakeets, because they are friendlier; so of course i fall in love with the boys. I can't help but smile when they swagger, and roos are so tender with their hens when there is a love match.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

? That makes no sense at a restaurant. Not everyone wants a pepper in their food! DH loves them, me not-so-much. They should be served on the side!

 

[RBahmer]

Nova - Trip was good. Nice place to visit but wouldn't live there lol. I did get to spend time with my friend though and that's what it was all about.

Fuzzy - I'm so sorry. I should have taken them for you. My Internet isn't working right now so it is hard for me to get on there and read and reply. I am on my phone right now. If I had seen it earlier I would have taken them for you. I can usually find homes for Roos. So sorry.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I had your perfect hugging, loving chick hatch out while I was in New York. It is sooo cute. Russian Orloff X Silkie. It is marked like an Orloff with fuzzy black legs and feet.

I wanna know, do they talk a lot even as new peeps?

Nova, that sucks about your hen. Wish i could be helpful, but i got nothing. It's like your batch of hens just didn't process their calcium right. I don't get it at all, but you aren't having those specific issues except with the wyendottes that you got from the same source, so....... still what are the odds? Sucks.

 

[RBahmer]

I wanna know, do they talk a lot even as new peeps?

Nova, that sucks about your hen. Wish  i could be helpful, but i got nothing.  It's like your batch of hens just didn't process their calcium right. I don't get it at all, but you aren't having those specific issues except with the wyendottes that you got from the same source, so.......  still what are the odds?  Sucks.

It does when you pick it up away from its mother lol.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

It's ok robin, it's really hard to place birds right now. Everyone has already been slimming down for the winter, and with feed prices being what they are things are tighter than usual this year. Chances of placing them properly were slim to none, especially with all these winter hatchings and spring hatchings going on. Sad fact of life that most of the babies are roosters, and roosters don't get along with too many other roosters. The majority of folks wanting roosters want a meal on top of that, and these were nuggets at best. Not show quality either, so..... they were just boys being boys.

Just a sucky situation, hurts but part of owning animals is doing what's right for them and not yourself sometimes. Our olive friend used to say something along that line, this year it has been driven home to me.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

which you totally did?? lol. Do they have the silkie hairdo's ? One of these days i want to hold an orloff. They just look so round and adorable!