Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

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[NotAFarm]

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[The Sheriff]

Kathy, sorry about you girl losing a baby chick. Lukka had a little one once that was a wanderer and it wandered off and we never found it. That goose looks scary!

Kelly certainly did have goat for dinner. Yuck! Laverne and Shirley were shocked!

I finished my project kelly. Moved the goat pen down next to the emus and moved the donkeys to the chicken side. Should cut down and the stomping and killing. In case I forgot to report, we moved the emus over with the donkeys and everything was going fine when suddenly Jack spooked and stomped Louis. It was so scary. Lou was able to get away but not before suffering some pretty back wounds to his head and neck. So I tried them with the goats this morning and Jack immediately put his head down and went after one of the goats. So I locked the goats and emus in the front yard and the donkeys in the bottom pasture and moved the goat pen over with the emus.



These are the same pens they were in, just moved to a different pasture. Now the emus have access to the pond. I covered both pens with tarps and put up reed fencing on the side that gets the sun. The goats and emus were happy campers today and they went in for the night without a hitch.

Removing the pens from the end of the barn left this shelter which Jack and Diane can use. I will order some sand tomorrow and remove all the junk that I took out. They already love it, I could hardly get them out of it today.



So at least until Michael gets home on Sunday, the goats and emus are in one pasture and Jack and the chickens in the other. Jack loves chickens. I can finally breathe again.

 

[kathyinmo]

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[The Sheriff]

I feed them at night and they go in for food. Works like a charm. I give them a small amount of food in the morning in a big pan and they all share. It is one scoop goat chow and one scoop emu food. Then I don't feed them again until they go in for the night.

I am quite relieved. I emailed the pictures of what I did to Michael and he is on board! He is even talking about moving the goats and emus permanently into the donkey shelter and getting rid of the pens. Then he suggested putting a front on half the new donkey shelter for winter and moving the round pen to the new donkey side in the back where the ground is level. Whew. He couldn't believe I picked up two guys in the Home Depot parking lot and had them come home and help me! I was dragging the pen with the Polaris and hit a rock, bending a corner pole and messing it all up. I needed help carrying it over to the other pasture and putting it back together. The guys I picked up put it back together, carried it over, put the gate on, carried a 12 foot gate over to plug a hole I cut in the fence, and carried all the heavy things like feed bins and the goat's dogloo. They were awesome!

 

[kathyinmo]

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[mlm Mike]

I feed them at night and they go in for food. Works like a charm. I give them a small amount of food in the morning in a big pan and they all share. It is one scoop goat chow and one scoop emu food. Then I don't feed them again until they go in for the night.

I am quite relieved. I emailed the pictures of what I did to Michael and he is on board! He is even talking about moving the goats and emus permanently into the donkey shelter and getting rid of the pens. Then he suggested putting a front on half the new donkey shelter for winter and moving the round pen to the new donkey side in the back where the ground is level. Whew. He couldn't believe I picked up two guys in the Home Depot parking lot and had them come home and help me! I was dragging the pen with the Polaris and hit a rock, bending a corner pole and messing it all up. I needed help carrying it over to the other pasture and putting it back together. The guys I picked up put it back together, carried it over, put the gate on, carried a 12 foot gate over to plug a hole I cut in the fence, and carried all the heavy things like feed bins and the goat's dogloo. They were awesome!

Are you relatively pain free since your procedure ?

We had a good afternoon, some of the Icelandics and the goat kids born Mother's Day played together.







Included the last picture because I have such a hard time getting a picture when a goat kid is actually airborne, it happens quick, I'm slow.


ETA to correct spelling

 

[kathyinmo]

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[NotAFarm]

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[mlm Mike]

YAY, Elska! (?)