grannys gone and done it

[Granny Hatchet]

The guineas herd them into the old yard and won't let them leave. So they don't go back to the coop.

LOL Its hard to lock guineas up if they dont want to go.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Hope our Ca. friends are all ok this am. Just watched the news. flooding not good. Some fool on tv saw a boat float by his house upside down and the news lady askes, what do you think about el nino now ? He says, I love it. we need the rain

 

[Granny Hatchet]

well Camping, enjoyed having coffee w/ you this morning.

I am going out today and try to find something to get into.

 

[campingshaws]

well Camping, enjoyed having coffee w/ you this morning.   I am going out today and try to find something to get into. 

Get your hands in the dirt!

 

[prostar]

Was just rain here. Which, again, needed but. Just rain.

Sigh. Should get up and give the girls their chicken crack morning all.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Wishing, am I bad because I couldn't bury him until this evening? I couldn't seem to find the proper place...I let him sit in a box till I could come to some resolution. I should have buried him before now. I feel bad because he didn't have a name yet. I let my animals name themselves when it comes to me, but he died without a name.

So many hugs to you. It is not bad - you weren't ready and when you were you found the right place and laid him to rest.

I am a believer that the body is just a vessel. What you did was respectful of the kitty's remains and showed a great depth of caring. That's the important thing, and I think it makes a difference. Your actions are like a prayer. You can't give the kitty back it's life, so you gave it the next best thing, an act of love. I do not think an act of love is ever wasted. Sharing the kitty's story is better than a name, because more people now know about it's short life and how you loved it and we can share in honoring it's life.

Agreed with Wishing the Wise --- so very well stated.

Harley has missed cerfew before. He's only 9 months and is clem's idol. I didn't see him this morning and haven't seen him tonight. I just don't know. He's semi feral, so it's not like I run his life. Thank you so much Wishing! You just don't understand what it means to me.

Going to try and get some sleep. night all. And sorry to be a downer tonight.

I hope that Harley is home now - I know how hard it is when they miss curfew. I've had a couple of times when the naughty indoor/outdoor kitties will disappear for a day or two and send me into despair only to turn up as though nothing had happened, and they always do it at the worst times.

I'm trying to figure out how to keep the hordes of starlings out of my chicken house. They have pooped all over the place and I think have brought mites to my chickens, I've never had either problem before!

How are they getting in? Are they coming in through an open run door/pop door while the birds are out free-ranging or are they coming in while the run is closed up? If it's while the run is closed up points of entry are often the openings at the eaves, or through the pop door after gaining entry to the run. I have yet to see a non-chicken bird actually make use of my pop door (because they are drawn to go up and out/in, not down to get in/out), but have seen surprisingly large birds go right through the holes of poultry netting (covering my run) and easily swoop down and up to make entry through surprisingly small gaps at eaves, etc. After having an issue with wild birds wanting to over-winter in my coop (who can blame them, warm place, lots of food, etc) I identified their points of entry (in our case the ventilation at the eaves front and back and the large section at the top of the wall separating chickens from horses (our coop is one side of the barn, stall on the other, the separating wall of plywood only goes about 2/3 of the way up so when we put the chickens in we closed it off with a single layer of poultry netting to keep them from going over the wall). I didn't want to invest in the hardware cloth it would take to close the big section so I put a second layer of poultry netting that was offset to the first, making the openings half as large, and that has worked. I did do hardware cloth on the eave openings. Results of this is no wild birds in the coop anymore, even when I leave the run open - which confirmed for me that the pop door was not the issue in our case.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Was just rain here. Which, again, needed but. Just rain.

Sigh. Should get up and give the girls their chicken crack

morning all.

Good morning!!!

 

[campingshaws]

Morning mare.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Morning mare.

Morning, Camping! How are the chicks doing?

 

[campingshaws]

Morning mare.

Morning, Camping!  How are the chicks doing?

They're good! Cute and lively. I need to get them into a big brooder, but maybe I'll keep a few for chick tv.