Granny's gone and done it again

[h2oratt]

I got permission! My newest great granddaughter.
Here's Aurora as newborn, and today. One month old already! My daughter wanted a generation picture too. That's my daughter right the right if me, my first born. Then her son behind her and his sweet wife. View attachment 4314937

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Very nice!

 

[h2oratt]

I actually got work done today! Not much it was something. Still have one thing left to do.
Hope everyone is having a good day.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’m so tired lol but I also had a migraine all day and threw up. Slightly better now. I might hit the hay LOL

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Dont forget to keep your doors locked Shrek and I hope you feel better.

Cynthia, Awww... and she looks like shes eating good!

H2o, Im glad you had a better day.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Have any of you ever heard of a rooster protecting a human or had it happen to you?

No but that's a great story! Thanks for sharing it!

Apparently soaking in Epsom salts helps supply needed minerals. I do that.

Soaking your feet in Epsom salts can actually help loosen constipation, as your body absorbs the magnesium. It's very mild.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Guess what, guys, guess what! Guess, guess, you'll never guess! All five of my tester eggs are showing veins tonight! Whee-heee!
Tonight is Day Six.
I's so excited!
I will deliver two dozen eggs to my client tomorrow. Her eggs have been in cartons, pointy end down, and have been rocked two to three times daily for the last week. She's getting twelve brown and twelve blue.

 

[CapricornFarm]

9 months already! Time sure is flying. In Detroit they would fix them (cats too) at 6 weeks. IDK how they could do that when they were so tiny

Not a good practice, imo.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Love it! I have a big old boy that is half Fayoumi, half who knows what who is all attitude. Great with the girls but has never been human friendly and even managed to spur me once when I made the mistake of turning my back on him. One day I had caught him to trim those spurs and while holding him by his ankles he reached over and locked down on the skin on my thigh. I was wearing shorts at the time and desperately trying to get him to let loose. He wouldn't. Just bit down harder breaking the skin and twisting his head. DH heard me yelling and came to my rescue giving him a hard punch that must have got the message across because he let go. From that moment on it was open warfare. I had an empty milk jug I had used to fill a water holder one day and he took a run at me. I threw the empty milk jug as hard as I could and bounced it off his head. Got the milk jug and proceeded to chase him around the run and coop bouncing that milk jug off of whatever part of his body I could aim at and hit. He finally got the message. Every time I enter the coop to this day he lets out a squawk and heads for the farthest corner away from me. Guess you could say that as long as there are empty milk jugs around, we have an uneasy truce at the moment.

80 degrees here guys. I'm lovin it!

I have held a feed bucket between myself and a saucy rooster. Finally, this one rooster spurred my leg and it bled like crazy. That was the last time he did that!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Not a good practice, imo.

Not ideal, no. But it guarantees the job gets done and so is necessary in big cities where overpopulation is such a plague. Too often when people adopt puppies and kittens from shelters with a promise to spay/neuter, it just does not get done. Thus many big cities have adopted this practice.

 

[microchick]

That's interesting! One day I squeezed a plastic water jug, and our roo ran his girls in the the coop, and made a terrible noise! I couldn't help, but laugh! They don't seem fazed by it now when I do it. Our roo is a good roo though, and is not aggressive with us or his hens! He only gets territorial with other roos trying to take over.

Rascal and Strutter are the only two roosters with attitude that I've ever kept around. When I was breeding birds, any rooster who attacked another rooster or hen or one of us made it to the crock pot. Didn't want to pass those genes on. Since I'm not breeding I tend to be a bit more tollerent. Besides, I enjoy telling Rascal that I helped him out of the egg and I can stuff him back in one too if he bites me one more time and Strutter is just I hate to say it, a beautiful rooster. DH likes to photograph him. I'll have to get a picture of him after molt this year.

I don't promote tough love with roosters. They can be dangerous animals if they set their teeny weeny little minds to it. If I can get them to the point where they get out of my way when I'm around them, I certainly won't seek out contact with them...as long as they are good to the hens.

Anybody who calls abuse when you are trying to keep a rooster from sinking a spur in your leg or it's beak in your arm has obviously never had a spur in their leg or a beak clamped down on their arm, LOL. That's why so many roosters wind up on the Sunday dinner table.

Had a nice day today. It got to 88 degrees here. REALLY hot for March but nice break from all the cold. I got some rocks moved from around a flower bed that I want to downsize and re-potted a big planter of cannas. Then finished spading another flower bed that I enlarged. Can hardly wait to start sticking plants and bulbs in the ground.