Fuzzy's Farm

[fuzzybutt love]

Pssst, i found an appropriate quote for myself ............. in my siggy now

 

[NovaAman]

That's a great quote Fuzzy.

About the boys, no, I am not giving any hens with them. I should just take them down to process them. BUT I am too lazy, too buzy, too what ever. Anyway, there is a non lazy lady coming today to pick them up. I know they are going into her freezer, but I just don't feel like dealing with it. I think she mostly just wants them cuz Roger Jr is silkie, and David Bowie is part silkie, and she is Chinese.... See where I am going there? I don't mind. The same thing would happen at the auction. She'll use them to cover the girls she has for a few weeks, then butcher them, and hatch out the chicks and start over. That's fine with me too. They'll get to be roosterly for a bit.

Another lady also contacted me about Pat the Rat. She wants him for a house chicken. Not kidding. I put him up for a 4h bird, but she was the first to answer, telling me that she loves birds, she's allergic to the typical pet, cat and dog, and would really like a house chicken. What ever floats her boat. I did put in the ad that he's not big enough for a meal in case some ejet thought he could get a rooster for dinner and then come and realise, Oh... that's a rooster? Where's the rest of it? LOL

About the auction. I don't, sorry. I don't like the idea of them. I realise there is a necessary evil with them, but... I have seen some of the birds the neighbor has brought home, fixed up and resold for higher and I just know I'd see one or more and then... Well, you see where that is going. That is why I don't go to animal shelters either. I'd end up coming home with a new pet...

 

[NovaAman]

Well, Mari just came and picked up the boys. I asked her what it was like to eat a silkie, and she looked at me like I was CRAZY! LOL, she said she doesn't eat them, her brother and mother will, they are from China and used to it. They still have Mark, Roger's brother, though he is gone blind in one eye and isn't doing the best at keeping everything together, so she said she's happy to get Roger Jr. for the silkie girls. Both Billy Idol and David Bowie are going to be sticking around as long as they don't get mean to take care of the LF hens and are replacing a mean rooster that has killed a hen recently and keeps attacking her Mother. She got 3 silkies from me a year and half ago, and I was surprised that she still even had one! LOL. Well anyway, I am just glad that they are going to have "TIME" to be roosters and do what roosters are supposed to do. SO, do I believe her? Yes, she showed me pics on her phone of Mark, some of his ladies, and some of her other hens. They free range their birds also, and have a but load more than I do. Not that I have alot... And she also liked my run roof and wanted to know how much and how hard was it to do. It wasn't cheap, but cheaper than a solid roof and it was a pain in the butt to put up alone, but easy as heck once I had help. Anyway... It's quiet...

Poor Billy Idol got the crap kicked out of him this morning... I am thinking it was good timing to get them gone or to the freezer. Fritz the Jerk was a little less for wear this morning too. The little stink butt trouble maker. Just know he started it.

 

[Savannah Soliz]

Well you are both right now I feel like a mean chicken mom I did everything wrong with putting cinnamon in with Ole Sam and Miss Prissy! Poor Cinnamon! Anyway I am going to try this all over, called my friend and she's taking Ole Sam home with her today, he is mean and I don't like mean roosters! So now gotta fix this for poor Cinnamon, I just put her in there yesterday afternoon, didn't do it right and put her in after dark! I feel so bad for her! Now I've got to catch Ole Sam and get him in cage, and I'm scared of him! Any suggestions? Help!!!

 

[NovaAman]

Yes... get him off the roost at night. Safer for you, safer for him.

 

[NovaAman]

barring that, a fish net... Not kidding. Neighbor used to have to catch his Barred Rock Big Bad Bob with a fish net.

 

[Savannah Soliz]

That sounds good a fish net! Thanks girls..

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I have a hard time at the auction too. Never done CL though, don't know how. Are the people who answer those ads fairly good ones? I just hate sending any of my birds off with anyone i didn't have a chance to know, however brief. Some good hearts at the place, but the bad does outweigh the good most times. Last time i had to leave quite suddenly because a rooster broke his beak in half on the cage I'm sure it got pinched in the bottom piece since i literally had just walked away and when i looked back, there he was bleeding all over. Poor guy, don't know how you would even fix that. I only go there for the necessity of meeting other chicken people. Had mine not had the CRD, i'd just wait for chickenstock, but since they do.........well you know how that would go over if i showed up with them.

 

[NovaAman]

JEEZU!!

Well, Garage broodies have internal pipping going on. They are still sharing... Keeping fingers crossed. I have seen stories and pics of hens sharing, so, this is what I am hoping. I am prepared to separate if necessary.

Sheh-Sheh has 2 external pips and 2 internal pips. She's been sectioned off in the coop. The other nest boxes have been removed to the summer conversion area, where they chose to stay roosting instead of going in the coops.

Criptoes eggs I expect to pip in the next 2 days. Sheh-sheh did the brunt of the incubating, but since I had treated for mites, I couldn't very well give her any of those eggs... SO, I took the eggs that Coco Chanel started then quit because she got mad at me for moving her to a safe location, had to transfer under Sheh-Sheh, then took from her and gave to Criptoe. Going to be the easiest brood of her life. If she wasn't such a dedicated mama, I would have made her wait. Talk about timing though yeah? 10-11 chicks between sometime tonight and the next 2 days. WOOT. LOL. OH OH AND one is from the Welly Goldie. I wonder what it will look like, since it's daddy could be ANY of the roosters...

LOL.

AS for CL... you can just get a vibe ya know. I fully expected that I would get someone who would just want them for dinner. SO, I was happy when Mari was the first to respond. There was another lady who responded also for those three. As for Pat the Rat, the lady who asked about making him a house chicken, she hasn't gotten back with her response. I did ask her if she was serious, and would this be her only chicken then? If she was serious, she was more than welcome.

Speaking of Pat the Rat, Today I clean his little face off cuz I notice like... bubbles in his beak. NOT ON, but IN. SO, cleaning him off, smelled his breath, Nothing. It looked like he got feathers stuck to his beak from being his ratty little self, and made for a pain in his tuckus for breathing. HE did seem rather relieved when I cleaned that off, and cleared the inside of his beak.

The wyandotte hen is ill again. Looks like something with her vent... she was pooping today, and I noticed her butt feathers dirty, and litterally looked like she has a peice of her out, but then it went back in on its own. Man... Hemroid cream and probably another round of antibiotics. No, she's not laying... Thank God for that. OR she may have started laying again, and this is a problem... again... Man, I don't know, but she quit laying after the last bout, a few soft eggs from her, then ill, now, no eggs since then, and she's looking the same... I. Do. Not. Know. What. To. Do. other than the same treatment again.

 

[gigiok]

Sorry about your hen having trouble Nova. Have you tried Nustock? It's a wonder crème if ever there was one. I had two hens with vent gleet and I clipped their bottom feathers and slavered Nutstock on and never had to treat them again. They are all fluffy and doing great. It's used for all kinds of things, kind of like vetericyn, another wonder drug. Those are my two go-to remedies for chicks and goats and I've even used them on us a couple of times - lol!

Well, Georgie the vunder goat, has figured out that she can jump into the oat can as soon as I open the door to the feed room. Little fart takes one tiny jump and sproings about 3 feet in the air and lands right in amongst the oats. Then I have to haul her out before I can mix the feed but in the meantime she's grabbed 2-3 mouthfuls of yummy oats. geeeesh.

Baby chicks are doing great but I forget how nervous they are at first. I'm so used to the girls wanting to be held and petted that it's very strange when these babies start squawking and zooming away and cheeping like they are about to be used as someone's breakfast as soon as I lift the lid to the brooder. poor babies. They need to warm up but after all, they are only a week old so I guess it will happen.