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
