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[Mojo Chick'n]

Well, today I get to give 12 calves their second triangle 4 shots (actually only 8 get their second shot - for four of them it's their first shot ever "woohoo"), I have to band one of them, give a tetanus and blackleg shot to him, worm them all, and try to wrangle a couple who have tiny ringworm spots on their faces to put medicine on them.

this is not gonna be a fun or easy day

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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the peasants are revolting... umm... yeah. anyway, they say if I won't do it it won't get done

meri

 

[cthrash1]

Good luck Meri! Hope you don't get too beat up...

I would help but DARN, I live too far away.

Was gonna bring you your cage Friday, that has been at Leightons over a month but I have to go pick Cortni up after school so she could come home for the weekend. I will be getting off your exit to head to Lebanon for a swim meet next Saturday 14th, but it will be early, but on Sunday afternoon 15th I'll be there again to meet my dad so he can grab mom(shes going with me Saturday). You have to go to town for anything that day? I can bring your cage then. I accidentally left it at Leightons when I dropped him off that night, but he said he has had it put up, so it should be okay still. If not I'll pay you for it, he's the one that had my big cage you got that the top was pushed in on. I thought I brought it home with my carrier that night and was looking in the sheds, garage, storage behind coop, so I could bring it to you, and then when I called Leighton said "yeah I put it up, figured you'd get it eventually". Duh... I'm so scatterbrained these days, must be that Mental-pause.

 

[HBuehler]

Someone needs this Wellsummer I only have one and it looks like a pullet but I don't do Wellsummers

I have some of Wynette's BCM's but they are too small to know what they are other than cute! When I figure that out any extra roos will be needing a new address.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

well, the calves didn't get done tonight - probably for the best, it'd be easier if we wait until friday to do it.

oh, by the way... Lucy flew this morning!!

The geese always take the running, catch a foot of air flights across the yard, but this morning they did that down the driveway and Lucy did it coming back and got a good 7 foot in the air for a good 75 yards length. It's a good thing she'd never leave Ethel, otherwise I'd have to clip her wings. But since every time Ethel is out of her sight she throws a hissy fit, I don't think I need to worry.

Not sure if it means anything, but I was looking at them this morning, and Lucy and Ethel have more raised nasal cavities, and Fred's are more flattish (I mean where the bill meets the feathers at the top of the bill) - I am hoping this is a mild difference between girls and boys, as I still don't know which Lucy is.

well, gonna go gel out and watch some TV.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Lucy and Ethel are different breeds, I wouldn't go by that to tell. Dad keeps telling me that mine are one of each (b&g), but they are an american and an embden, so it's impossible to tell by how they look. He says because the american has lobes on its belly and the embden doesn't, this means the american is a girl. Sorry dad, but even if it's a boy, it would still have those, they are supposed to

I *think* that the males and females (americans) have different sized lobes, but I'm not sure. Like one sex has equal-sized lobes, and the other has one side bigger than the other. But I'll have to check on that, could have been a different breed

I finally got a drill and some screws, so who's gonna come help me with my building?

I think my first job will be making some tractors out of those hog panels, so I can get the 'chicks' out of these little tractors. They need so much more room than what they have right now! Then I'll probably dig out all the boards I need for the other walls and the roof of the building, cut them to size, then worry about putting the pieces together. I think that would be easier.

Dad 'says' he'll help me, if he ever gets done with his room. But that's still not done. If he'd actually do it, he might get it done. It's almost there, but not quite.

 

[FrChuckW]

Mojo Chick'n :

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the peasants are revolting... umm... yeah. anyway, they say if I won't do it it won't get done

meri

Darn peasants, don't know when they have it good! But I agree with you, peasants are revolting even smothered in ketchup!

 

[shelleyd2008]

What an idiot. I kept smelling something 'hot' in the spare bedroom where the brooders are. I just assumed it was the new air purifier I had gotten, since the filter is pretty full already. Nope, it's the bottom of one of the totes, the one that has about 20 quail chicks in it. It wasn't too hot for the chicks, but it sure was for that plastic box! I just hope it didn't melt onto the carpet too badly

 

[ametauss]

What are you doing up at 1am?? Don't you sleep??

But I am glad to hear that the chickies were not hurt by the overheating.... poor tub though....

I'm trying to convince DH that the rabbit cage needs to go as a brooder and we need to use one of the huge plastic tubs that is just sitting around as a brooder....

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I love the plastic tubs - I can move them around to clean (tee hee, yeah, clean - that's my story) and hose them out when I'm done - much easier than a cage. Although I'll probably have to bring the cages in soon, that first batch I hatched is getting bigger (I have them split into two totes right now.) The other two I hatched on Halloween will be able to stay in their brooder for a long time.


speaking of hatching, BabyMama is ticked off at me this morning. I didn't think anything of it - She lays her one egg per day every morning.
After she eats and gets a drink and poos, she runs back to the coop to lay her egg. She had a couple of them in there, cause I didn't gather eggs yesterday evening, and there were two extra eggs (from other hens) this morning when I went in, so I grabbed all four and went to get hay for the calves.

Well, she had obviously been saving those eggs, because she came back to lay her egg and was running around the coop squawking like the sky was falling, and having a major hissy fit. She's still down there ticked off (

I guess now I know why Jr. hides hers in the barn, so I can't take them to the fridge.)

I have a buff orp trying to be broody - she is slightly confused, switched nests twice yesterday, but she wasn't sitting on anything so I figured to leave her be - today she has two eggs under her, so I hope she has it figured out. I was gonna take them away, but figured since they're cooped up anyway, it might be ok.

If BabyMama insists on going broody I'll have to swap her eggs for some pure eggs - I don't need anymore mutts right now, got plenty.

I found a cool program online last night to create business cards, so I made up a bunch of really nice ones. I figure to drop them off at Day & Day before saturday when they have their grand opening. Not that I have much to sell right now, but I figure to get them into people's hands before spring, and Day & Day will be busy that day, maybe someone will take one or two.

meri