Kentucky people

[ametauss]

CTtrash: Sure I'll ship.... You pay postage and $4 a loaf and I'll send you as many as you want....

Chuck: John sells them at the stock yards, I also have a few that you can borrow... both metal and cat carriers and a few dog kennels.... If it's just for the move you may not want to buy them....

Cindy: I hope Amy gets better.... We had to put one of our cats down due to kidney failure... it breaks your heart....

Spidertoys: I'll look forward to meeting you when you return to the stock yard... just let me know the Wednesday before so I can make sure that I make some bread up... I also have lots of JAMs and apple butter and peach butter.... yum yum...

Mrs. Turbo: Still would like your girls if we can come up with a good price that won't break my hobby bank...

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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I guess the girls are going to a new home today...sorry ametauss.......there go my eating eggs once again Mr. Turbo!!!!

We have a ton of chickens and I buy my eggs from the store...go figure.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, another wet morning - humid, not raining, there is fog so bad out there (is clearing up a little now) that I could hardly see the barn when I looked out this morning.

I adore fog - I am just tired of being drenched in sweat and dampness all day!! is this humidity ever going to drop???? At least it isn't messing with the incubators this time. Humidty is pretty steady inside those - outside incubator humidity (taken in the kicthen) is 77% ! I am keeping the door to the hatcher room shut, so hopefully keeping some of it out of there.

Supposedly this weather is gonna break this next week.

The poor ducks have their routine turned upside down, and they are not sure they like it

The chickens are still in lockdown, so the ducks go out every morning, then I do cows and donkeys - then usually after this I open coops to let everyone out, but now I just go and feed and leave them in.

The ducks followed me all over the yard today after the cows were fed, wandering down to the coops with me, waiting for me to open the doors, etc... I don't think that it is so much that they like the chickens, it is just odd and different and they want the routine back.

My yard looks very lonely without chickens running all over it.

I'd like to go to Sano and try to get rid of most of the extra birds today - not sure if I'll get to go or not. We still haven't banded calves, and Tony said something about doing that today. I really want to sell off all the extra birds, though, because I counted the keepers, and I only have about 50 that I'll be keeping over winter (yay!!). It would definately cut back my feed bill if I could finally get them down to normal size flocks.

I told Tony to tell Debbie not to feel badly if she changed her mind on that hen, cause I'll be more than happy to keep them all, but he said he'd ask her one more time if she wanted one.

I need to run in to Day & Day today, too. Need to get some more stuff for the cows. (never ending bills, there, so far, they'd better pay me back when they get big enough!!) But Tony said that 350-ish lb steers were going for up to 1.17 per pound last weekend!!! Hope that holds out til mine are that big.

I have some tetanus medicine to take back, too, so that'll help with the feedstore bill. I got the wrong stuff

but they said they'd take it back as long as it is still sealed. I have an ice pack to put in the bag with it, so it'll be fine.

The calves all keep passing the pink eye around. Tony said it is probably the cows behind us on Doc's land (they are not Doc's cows, he is leasing the land to someone else). The flies spread it, the wind spreads it, etc... and it is just bad this year. The UPS guy was telling me his calves all have it, too. He had one so bad it lost it's sight in the eye, Hope mine don't get that bad!!

Tony said last week they brought in a load of calves (on Doc's land) and every one of them had it so badly he wondered if they could even see. They unload them over by Tony's property down the road a titch. (the main unloading pasture, however, runs right behind my house, butts up to my land).

With the flies so bad right now, everyone has pink eye, however, so it isn't just us, I guess.

had to give Camille a shot for it last night - that was interesting.
She most definately did not want to get that shot - and she far outweighs the calves - she runs about 375-400 pounds right now. With the calves, we just make them go and do what we want - with Camille, we had to trap her behind a gate and took three of us to hold her still and give the shot.

well, I'm gonna catch up on BYC a little, then run into town, I guess.

meri

 

[cthrash1]

Thanks everyone for your well wishes for Amy... I talked to the vet this morning and she is still the same and still alert. He calls her one of his front of the cage dogs instead of those rear of the cage dogs, because she is sitting there in front waiting for anyone that walks by to give her a pet and talk to her. She is such a sweeheart. He is so amazed at her alertness even though her kidneys are pretty much on the verge of being shut down. He thinks her body just hasn't caught up and realized she is sick, and that this is going to give her leverage and hopefully help to get her kidney functioning again. In her IV he is running the highest dose of fluids he can possibly give her and antibiotics. Said he is going to mash some special food that is made to help with kidney function and see if she'll eat a little but he said he won't worry if she doesn't want to since she has all those fluids helping her anyway.
Cortni is still going to ask coach if she can skip practice tomorrow because she wants to come home and see Amy and be here just in case. So I'll probably be picking her up today to bring her home.

 

[tazzy]

cthrash, I hope Amy feels better tomorrow when you go to pick her up. Sounds like she's trying hard to get well.

hope everyone is doing okay in the weather. we've had non-stop rain for days now. our sump pump came on in our basement tonight. no flooding indoors, but the water was pouring down in buckets outside here in shelby county.


as a side note, if anyone has a white pekin duck for sale - female - please let me know. we are very upset. a coyote snuck onto our property and killed our sweet female duck yesterday afternoon. we had been so careful to lock everyone up at night since the other duck was killed two weeks ago at night, most likely (we were out of town on vacation.) my husband was adding roosts to the chicken coop until about 5:30 p.m., then he went to visit a neighbor and talk about cow stuff until about 7:30 p.m, when he came home to put the chickens and ducks and cats up. Our female duck wasn't with her new partner, the drake that we bought from Shelley at chickenstock. after a search, we found her body in a back corner of the yard. the coyotes had gotten to her. in the late afternoon, in daylight. they're getting very bold.

we are really sad. we raised her from a three-day-old duckling. and now her new partner is all alone and he needs a mate.

I kept everyone locked up today. No roaming in our yard until the coyote is gone. And by gone, I mean dead.

 

[HeelerDawg]

Mojo Chick'n :

I adore fog - I am just tired of being drenched in sweat and dampness all day!! is this humidity ever going to drop????

meri

That's Kentucky for ya! My pigeons hate it too. On humid days, they come in after a short fly with their tongues dragging.

 

[cthrash1]

Tazzy I'm so sorry you lost your girl...

And Amy didn't get to come home today... Her blood test showed only a small amount of improvement. Cortni got to go in and sit with her for a while today and the vet said we had 3 options... 1. Put her out of her misery, which he said isn't really bad as far as she is acting on the outside, 2. take her home and hope for the best, which he said isn't going to happen if we took her home, and 3. let him treat her a little longer since there was some if not much improvement, she could still turn around. Cortni said for him to treat her and if it breaks into our Sweden trip funds to treat her then she is okay with that(cause I told her it will be costly). She just wants to be sure we try everything possible first.

 

[tazzy]

ctrash, sorry that Amy couldn't come home today. I hope the additional treatment gives her body a chance to heal so that she can recover completely. I, too, would spend vacation money to treat my dog. Dogs are so special.

thanks for the kind thoughts about our lost girl. my husband is making plans to buy a shotgun in the next few days. or today. as soon as we get a chance.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I sure hope you can get that critter. Poor Toot, I bet he is lonely

He had so many duck buddies here, now to be all alone.

 

[tazzy]

shelley, well, he has plenty of chicken buddies, that's for sure! he's in our big ol' coop with them right now, so that he doesn't have to be alone. he rules the roost, so to speak, when he's in there. he is a sweetie. very friendly once he's not in that pond!

he has a baby pool to swim in. not the same as the pond, by any means, but he enjoys it. I've been giving him lettuce treats. He loves those.

we will definitely get him a friend before winter. I have an RSS feed on craigslist in case any are listed, and I am checking ads locally and online on other sources.

the coyote is going to be history. he just doesn't know it yet!