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[shelleyd2008]

I felt pity on that poor duck

I had moved the 'chicks' out of the porch brooder yesterday, and put them in one of the covered 3'x8' tractors with a heat light. The duck is about 3 or 4 weeks old, and pretty big. I was not looking forward to having a duck in a wire bottomed cage.

Anyway, so I put the duck in with the older chicks in the new hoop house I had built. I've been letting them (the hoop house chicks) out during the day for the past couple of days. I guess, becuase the guineas and other chickens are bullies, and because they also have a light, when it starts getting dark they all come out to play

I tried to round them up before dark, and gave up. I figured either they'd go back in on their own, or I'd catch them once they decided to sleep somewhere else.

So it was full-dark when I went back out there, and that poor duck had made his way out of the hoop house. He was laying right nexxt to the cage that the chicks he was with are in

So now I have a 3 or 4 week old duck in a wire bottomed cage that has 3' sides

Should be interesting to see how well I can keep their feed and water in there

 

[cthrash1]

Meri: Sorry about your baby... You have had pretty good percentages though being that you've been getting bottle babies.

Jen4: Congrats on your new puppy, he is beautiful. My dad had one in his younger years. He said they are hard headed so you need a firm disposition with them and they are puppies for about 2-3 yrs.

 

[ametauss]

Shelley -- don't worry about the duck.... I have a Hen that raised 1 duck and 1 chick and the duck still hangs out with the Hen....

I also had a duck raise 2 ducklings and a chicken and the chicken hangs out at the water's edge until Mama and her sibs come in from swimming... I thought for sure that the silly chick would try to swim and kill herself....

 

[ametauss]

So what's everyone having for Thanksgiving??

There's only 4 of us here and a Turdurken just is way too much and my DS wouldn't let me have a Scovie so I guess Tom-Tom is dinner....

DD picked him out a couple of weeks ago at the stockyard since she was heartbroken that I'd sold all of the turkeys over the summer and was convinced we would not be able to have Thanksgiving w/o a Turkey and she has can't seem to understand that we could go to the store to buy a Fresh Turkey at Whole Foods.....

DH has decided to make homemade Pizza tonight for dinner. Can't wait...

 

[shelleyd2008]

Well, ours will be a turkey for sure, just isn't Thanksgiving without it

I am getting a lot of things from the Angel Food ministries, though their 'bird' is a chicken for Thanksgiving, so that will be going into the freezer. But it also has a small ham that comes with it, and all the fixins

We'll have a veritable feast....thank goodness my dad is a HOG, or we'd have enough leftovers to last till Christmas!!

We don't have any other family around here, and it seems as if everyone that dad knows (since I don't know all that many people) have plans, so it will be just us, me, dad, and Cristian

 

[ametauss]

Shelley -- We do Angel Food too.... For the price, it's pretty good to supplement the old food cupboard....

I have come to the conclusion that my pygmy does are just fat.... not prego at all.... They're just happy getting a bit extra food each day and decided that if they keep pretending to be prego that I'll keep giving them more food.... Well, today is a new day and they're going to be getting more hay and they'll just have to live with it....

 

[cthrash1]

We are having turkey(store bought

) and the fixings.... Come to think of it, maybe I should call the local meat man and see if he processed some turkeys this year... hmmm.

Hey Shelley, did those Javas ever develop? Saw another thread that made me think of it. If not then save me two Brown leghorns if you can. I can Paypal you for them when you want or wait til I get them and pay cash. Will Paypal you some money next week for feed reimbursement for keeping them for me though...

Meri: May have a buyer for some chickens if he hasn't bought any yet... A friends son wants chickens for eggs and possible processing. I told her you have some good size Dels... So she'll let her son know in case he hasn't commited to anything yet.

 

[cthrash1]

Quote:
I LOVE Angel Food... But I've only done it once cause I keep forgetting to sign up. Gonna have to go check out next months.

 

[cthrash1]

CHUCK you'd appreciate this one...

... Wish I had my camera ready! Our 4 yr old Jack Dempsey and our 4 yr old 12" Pleco(the only two in the tank) are very close... Pleco is real protective of the Dempsey it is disabled since we got him(cannot swim upright so lays in the bottom till it decides to eat or play), he swims upside down most of the time when he does swim.
I was sitting here at the PC and looked up just in time to see the Dempsey grab ahold of the tip of Plecos tail. The Pleco took him on a wild ride all over the aquarium til he let go. Those two are always up to something. If the Dempsey hadn't moved in a while, the Pleco will kep bumping it til it makes him mad and he retaliates. Yesterday I cleaned the tank and emptied it to within a few inches of water and the Pleco laid on top of the Dempsey protecting him til I started adding water back to the tank.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Hey Cindy, I had 2 of the javas hatch, hopefully they'll both be girls!!

One is bigger than the other, the smaller one acts weird. I don't know if that one will make it or not, we'll see.

None of the barnevelders even developed, which is aggravating. I've got 1 BC Marans and 2 welsummers, all dark egg layers. The barnevelders are as well, though not quite as dark. Of course the marans is a roo, and 1 of the wellies is. The other one is too small to tell yet, but probably a roo too with my luck