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[Mojo Chick'n]

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I love them too, usually

The bottle babies are so adorable - unless they are relentlessly head butting you wanting milk. They are much easier to be around once they are weaned. (as of today only two more to be weaned - but the other two don't realize yet that they are cut off.)

Mookie is the biggest of the older calves, but he is the most gentle and sweet of them all. I can go out and just rub all over him and he just closes his eyes and leans on me. If I need him to go into one pasture or the other, he just goes, no fighting me (like some of them do).

Camille is taming down a bit - still isn't a lovey dovey, but I can get her to go anywhere, also. (especially if food is involved

) She is a beautiful cow, too. I love how her colors are changing a bit so she is almost calico - brown, red and white. That hump on her back isn't hardly noticable at all, either - that guy made a mistake getting rid of her so cheap. She grew out of (or maybe into) the little bump and you wouldn't even notice if you didn't know it was there.

Hubby loves Curly and Cletus the best, they are pretty and sweet, too. Most everyone who sees the calves likes Opie (red with a white face) cause he is so stocky and unusual.

The others I'm not as attatched to as I am to the MookMan, but they are all pretty good calves.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oh my gosh, we have got to do something about these danged rats!! They ATE one of my quail in the building last night, and I guess they killed one of dad's pigeons too. I don't know if Cris's pigeons are still out there. I hope so. Dad's can fly, Cris's can't. They are all in the same building

We've got poison and dogs placed in 'key' areas to try and keep the buggars out, but it's not working

 

[cthrash1]

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Yeah you need to start looking for alternative things to rid yourselves of them that won't hurt the chickens. They could start coming into the house as close as the barn is, if you don't.

 

[ametauss]

Here kitty kitty... come get some nice fat rats.... No tender morsels for the kitty's until they rid you of the rats....

Now there's an incentive for getting barn cats....

I saw a mini-highland cow and fell soooo in love until I heard the price $1K.... you got to be kidding me....

I so love that long hair and teddy bear, oh so cuddly face.....

 

[Andora]

When I was a kid my uncle would put food/bait out in the barn and the milking area and then sit and wait with his gun.

Disturbing, but effective rat removal...

We have something living in our garage right now. It ate an entire 5 lb. bag of black oil sunflower seeds and ripped open a bag of scratch and ate some of that. Whatever it is leaves the shells behind. My coonhound keeps going in the garage and howling, but I can never find anything in there and my cat hasn't caught anything either!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Yeah you need to start looking for alternative things to rid yourselves of them that won't hurt the chickens. They could start coming into the house as close as the barn is, if you don't.

They are already coming in the house, the bathroom has the constant smell of urine from them being under the tub

Dad brought Princess in earlier cause he could hear some gnawing in his huge pile of crap in the livingroom. I guess he saw 2, but she was only able to get one.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I mentioned that to dad, about tying his dog up so we could get some barn cats. But he is dead-set against cats

 

[cthrash1]

Hey Shelley guess what is hanging around our yard now that Daisy is in heat? A male beagle hound, and no we aren't going to let him breed her. He is short and fat like your dads not lanky and slim like Daisy.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I petted my Cow today!!!!!

Camille is always pretty stand-offish and not really friendly. She isn't afraid of us, just would rather we not touch her. Tonight while she was eating I had time to kill waiting on her, so I started petting her face (which she didn't care for at first) then once she let me do that I moved down and started scratching her neck, she moved twice before letting me do that, by the time she was done eating I was petting down her sides.

I'm sure we'll have to do the same dance tomorrow and the next day, but I'll have her loving being petted and scratched before long

I'm a happy camper - she is such a beautiful cow, I really want to be friends.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Dad's is all body, he's so long he could be part bassett hound! That's good that you won't breed her, she's way too young. There are plenty of mixed breed dogs around that no one wants, we don't need anymore

Midget wouldn't have gotten bred if I'd have gotten my money earlier. I was going to make a kennel to put her and Cutie Pie in, but that didn't happen. Dad is such a butthead, he's now got his dog tied because another of his females is in heat. He doesn't want her bred by this dog, so he tied him up. I didn't want Midget bred period, she's way too young!! We got her in September or October last year, and she was just 2 months old, maybe 10 weeks at the most. So she's just barely 1