Fuzzy's Farm

[Savannah Soliz]

Ohhh!! Love the baby chicks!! How cute! I want to try some chicks, but afraid I can't do it?

 

[Mom 2em All]

Savannah-

you wont know if you dont try.

 

[NovaAman]

Well Savannah, the stress of a move, it being winter, it may be a few weeks. Don't worry, they will.

Mom2! The uginator! Lol, You'll be back! Ashli is gonna be jealous! Lol x my fingers she's a she.

bad day for me. Had to end it for my little sick girl... She was not getting better, not wanting to eat and getting the poop beat out of her by Pat the Rat. I broke her neck, and held her till her heart stopped, then till she quit breathing. Took several minutes... I know they say after cervical dislocation its over, maybe I didn't do it right... But I couldn't just take her head off or give her a whack. She was born her... One of my babies...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Well Savannah, the stress of a move, it being winter, it may be a few weeks. Don't worry, they will.

Mom2! The uginator! Lol, You'll be back! Ashli is gonna be jealous! Lol x my fingers she's a she.

bad day for me. Had to end it for my little sick girl... She was not getting better, not wanting to eat and getting the poop beat out of her by Pat the Rat. I broke her neck, and held her till her heart stopped, then till she quit breathing. Took several minutes... I know they say after cervical dislocation its over, maybe I didn't do it right... But I couldn't just take her head off or give her a whack. She was born her... One of my babies...

Oh, I'm so sorry, Nova. That's gotta be the hardest part of raising animals. But you did the best you could and stayed with her. I wish there were easy ways to let things go...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Fuzzy's talked about zinc lozenges before. Where do you find them? Pharmacy or health store?

Either but I even find them at the grocery store. "Cold Eeeez" is the brand here.

Gigi, did you tell everyone here about your five alarm food cake? Funny stuff... Lol

Hmmmm - homemade Angel Food... I was going to try one the other night but had killed my bundt pan (don't ask). So I had the brilliant idea of putting the batter into a loaf pan. I placed said concoction in the over and went out to the barn to check on the hens. Well, wind being what it is in Oklahoma, the next thing I know the neighbor to the north of us had called the fire department because the smell of burning angelfood batter was so strong she thought our house was on fire. (We are on 10 acres and they are on 10 acres so you get the idea of distance). I was surprised by a huge yellow fire engine careening down our little winding path of a driveway. When they found the cause of the smoke (which was by that time all over the house) the firemen laughed so hard I though they were going wet THEIR knickers. They left me to scrape black goop out of my oven and toss burned loaf pans. Even the chickens turned up their beaks at it. hmmmm....gotta buy me a bundt pan...

Lol!!! Yes I've actualy tried to see if there was any others from Ms but no luck! And my new cb kens are doing great. No eggs yet.. I have 2 buff orpingtons, 3 silver laced wyandottes 1 white leghorn, and 3 black stars, and a big rooster that I'm not quite sure of! I have a pair of spotted Spangler bantams. And a white set of bantams. Just got them last weekend, so no eggs yet. They haven't settled in yet. What should I feed them to make sure they start laying ? I'm feeding them lay fellets and scratch. The bantams lay crumbles and scratch. We are working on coops expanding and fixing up too, so thought maybe that is disturbing the. Egg process too? Anyway thanks for making me feel better everyone! Sorry I was whining...

Cool on your chickens. You aren't whining. It takes some time to feel like you are part of a group. It gets much easier as time passes. We aren't very scary really.

 

[Gigiintheforest]

I went fishig in Sardus Miss when I was stationed at the Memphis Naval Air Base, going to AM school. Caught nothing then and there, a pattern that has repeated maany times since.

The Naval Air Station near Oklahoma City Gave me opportunity to Spend a weekend in Prior Ok. on a ranch That raised Purebred Herford Cattle. Domino Ranch, i think was the name. My sister had met a son of the owner when she was at the Airforce School in Stillwater, Ok. They had some kind of a relationship. Not sure what. However, one of the Calves produced at the ranch during that time was named Domino Dot. I think Dorothy, my sis had some influence there.

Interestingly, it was January when I visited, I'm 17 wears old, green as the soil is red thereabouts, and ignorant as can be. Their idea of a good time was Church meetings and hymn singing. I went along.

Not a bad time. But some seemed diasappointed that i didn't declare I was saved. Oh well ! The night passed and early the following morning, cold as a well diggers toes in the Yukon, "Dad" declared a cow was missing. A problem since these were pedigreed critters and she was overdue to calf. We searched the pasture she was in and sure enough, she was down. Calf was half out and breeched. Back half frozen solid. My sheltered and innocent life had not prepared me fo this at all. "Dad", nonplussed, commented something about "that ol snatch sure does stretch." He tied a rope to the calf, hooked the other end to the tractor and, out popped the dead calf. Talk about shocked. I was That, to say the least. That was sixty wears ago and I remember it vividaly. The cow lived, i understand. And my perceptions of several things changed that day. Never thought of Oklahoma as being that cold, and learned that cold does not necessarily produce snow.


Mac And Cheese Seems to be a favorite of chickens, universally.

What a story. My grandfather had a huge ranch in SE Kansas and the winters were much like that - horrible cold and wind in the winter and dust and heat in the summer. I used to ride my horse literally miles across the prairie finding cattle in all kinds of situations. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when we moved to OK as there were actual TREES!!! Now DH and I live in the middle of the state by a lake so it is very pretty. It does get really cold here, especially out on open land. We live in horse country and most people have blankets on their animals. This winter has been scarily warm - in the 70's so don't know what the environment is gearing up to do. I just hope the drought ends soon.

Yes, we are a very bible-pounding state. DH and I, being "those liberal professors who are ruining the morals of the young" try to avoid situations involving said pounding. I'm still trying to figure out how we (educators and education) got to be the bad guys...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

I'm just talking up a storm tonight - LOL! But I just had to ask you if you've noticed this in you guys coops...I went out to gather eggs and there was this little bitty mouse in the pine shavings inside the coop. He'd stick his little head up out of the shavings, look around and then literally sink back in like he had melted. It was the funniest thing. I just sat and watched him. He'd move, poke his head up, melt and poke up somewhere else. I don't know how he did that. I know mice are probably not a good thing to have in the coop but darn, he was so cute!!!

 

[NovaAman]

Well, Gigi, he was smart enough to poke his head and look, and not just run willy nilly on the top. Them there mice are delicacies in some chicken coops. LOL

Its still funny reading it a second time around too. LOL

Got a new video to upload. HEHE. My cute little chick...

 

[Savannah Soliz]

Had to tell everyone!!! Yea got my first egg from my little spotted Spangler hen today!, she's been the first to lay of all my chickens! Was so exciting to get the first one... Haven't ever had chickens of my own...

 

[NovaAman]

It is always exciting, I don't care WHO you are! to get that first egg. ALWAYS!