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[spydertoys]

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poor Spydertoyz!!

She can be sad because she has like 100+ of the cute little buggars running around

If I didn't have the call ducks, I'd take a good dozen of them off her hands.

they are so cute - but so many of them.... wow

eta - when you walk into her barn you have to watch your step or you'll trample baby ducks - they are everywhere.

meri

Wow that's a lot of baby ducks! I want to just come visit and cuddle a few. I remember when I had six baby ducks and the poop was horrible in the brooder...I didn't realize ducks made their own mud!! Now I just have two pekins and the poop isn't too bad, lol.

Yeah..come visit. I'll have my neighbor distract you with the cuteness of my Silkies or something while I stash a dozen or so in your vehicle..I'll bill you later

 

[ametauss]

Scovies are more like "...." "....."

Love the no voice quack.... I need to get rid of two pekins... One has a tuff (male) the other is female.... they're bullying the Scovies and I lost another baby scovie duckling this week because the Scovies wouldn't come into the barn area...

Bring those Scovies to the Stock Yard and I'm sure they will sell... about $3 a piece...

I usually find the duck stash and then sell or eat the eggs... They are GREAT in baking...

 

[FrChuckW]

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You mean you don't have to hatch every egg they lay? Glad I gave Flowerpot back her incubator!

Sorry I don't have room for ducks at the moment. Got enough to deal with already. Maybe when I move I'll get some ducks and geese and turkeys and more chickens.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Nope, if it were me, I'd sell the eggs

Baby ducks are cute, but boy do they stink!

I have only one baby duck right now, and I think it's a boy. It's not peeping very loudly

So at least that won't be another one that 'has' to stay

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, my cat is dying.

I'm not sure whether I should speed the process up or let nature take its course.

My gut tells me to end it and let her be at peace. She is definately not a happy kitty right now. She has not eaten in three days - if we put her in front of the food, she walks away. (her teeth are fine, checked them - she has had bad teeth before, so I always check that first.)

she walks very stiffly, her hips are so arthritic she sways her behind everywhere she goes (not a kitty cat sway, a "ow! dang!" sway). She is half blind, half deaf, and can't hit the litter box if she is standing in it (the hip thing, I suspect). Today she has been wandering around yowling a lot to go out. I did let her out once, she went under the deck, and being afraid she was looking for a place to die, I had Sam drag her back out and bring her inside (I don't want a dead cat under my house

)

This cat has not gone outside in months - she never was much for going otuside, anyway, but lately she has been house-bound by her own choosing. Probably best, since she can't see very well. She wants out that door VERY badly.

I remember my old neighbor's cat Odie - beautiful HUGE old tom (neutered) who laid on his back porch all day every day (this cat thought he was a dog

very cool cat) - one day Odie walked off into the woods behind our houses and was never seen again - he was 17 years old at the time. Cats do that, I know... so I definately am leary about letting Squeakers outside since it is so odd for her to go out.

I guess if she is alive in the morning I'll go dig her a grave and put her to Peace. It sucks - but she hasn't any quality of life at this point, and I know she won't be getting better. If she were still eating, I might have some hope - but I know better.

Squeakers was born the same day Sammy was - I've had her almost as long as I've had my youngest son. She was 2 months old when we got her. Squeakers turned 18 years old this last April, so she has lived a long full life. Had a few Vet visits - to be fixed, to have her ear pierced (

she had ear mites and whacked it on the radiator, it swelled with blood like a ping pong ball, poor girl, had to have it lanced and drained.) Otherwise she's been a very healthy cat her entire life.

She hated living in the big city - too noisy, too scary and too dangerous. When we moved here you could see her relax physically as soon as she got used to the idea that it was peaceful and quiet and she could go out the door and not be pestered by kids or neighbor dogs.

Sam is in denial - she has been a part of his life ever since he can remember. He keeps trying to talk me into letting her stay in his house and he'll clean up after her. I tried to tell him it's not the mess or her yowling, it's that she is not "right" and won't be "right" again. Just the fact that she is trying to go out and find a place to hide tells me she knows the end is near.

I wish that Sam understood that I would not kill her because I was tired of her or didn't love her, but because she needs to go.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

More power to you if you can do it yourself, I would have to take her to the vet. But that's what I would think too, especially since she keeps wanting to go out. I wouldn't look for her to be alive in the morning, but she may surprise you. We had a few cats when I was younger that were up there in years that just wandered into the woods. They do like to hide

Sorry she is dying, but she had a good life I'm sure.

 

[HeelerDawg]

Mojo Chick'n :

Uncle T's Bantam's :

Hello Everyone I have missed a few day's on here.That guy that has been on the news was going down to sheperdsville until about a month ago when they stoped him because he was selling sick poultry.I had a total of 7 out of 13 chick's hatch getting ready to set again tomorrow.( oooooohh on foodnetwork they are cooking quil) I'm setting 5 dozen egg's.I hope I have a good hatch rate this time too

ya know... the last time I went to Sano the vets were going around swabbing chicken's mouths - I guess they've had some problems there with folks selling bad chickens (or they finally got enough complaints on it) and they decided to swab them.

They used to just do the bigger animals like the cows and goats and such - that was the first time I ever saw them do chickens.

all I had were really young chickens, so he didn't bother to swab mine (not sure why - must have been the ages?)

sort of makes me happy they're finally (maybe) doing something about some of the chickens that go through Sano. You'd be surprised how bad some of those chickens look.

meri​

Those state vets only check for Avian Influenza. All of the resporitory diseases are ignored for some strange reason.​

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

This is a pic of Squeakers, chillin' with her Home-dawgs.

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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Wow that's a lot of baby ducks! I want to just come visit and cuddle a few. I remember when I had six baby ducks and the poop was horrible in the brooder...I didn't realize ducks made their own mud!! Now I just have two pekins and the poop isn't too bad, lol.

Yeah..come visit. I'll have my neighbor distract you with the cuteness of my Silkies or something while I stash a dozen or so in your vehicle..I'll bill you later

you can sell your duck eggs for $4 a dozen in Shepherdsville.......anytime we take a dozen or two they go like hotcakes.

 

[ametauss]

MoJo -- Sorry about Kitty.... We have one that we rescued from Hurricane Andrew that is still hanging in there... He's the King and it is good to be the King.... The King in waiting has been lurking around and occasionally will thump the King but to no avail....

Andrew (The King), recently got a nasty bump develop right in front of his ear and we took him to the Vet... thank goodness that it wasn't anything life threatening... I don't know what DH would do w/o his beloved cat...

I sell my duck eggs for $3.50 a dozen and they always ask me for more... Of course I love to cook with them... Geese eggs are even better to bake with but FlowerPot got my geese since they were a bit mean for my DD....