Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Morning everyone! Thanks for the well wishes on the shoulder, it’s really appreciated. It’s about a five or six year old injury, and has been a minor inconvenience for a long time. It’s now moved to a major issue (it woke me up last night it was so painful), so if it’s not doing better by Monday I may consider taking a morning trip to town to go to a clinic on Tuesday.

Yesterday I actually shorted everyone on food, because I couldn’t get the bag out of the deep freeze that serves as mouse proof storage in our barn. So, this morning everyone got a full refill thanks to their new favorite human... Andrew (I got the stink eye). Then we tagged three calves and castrated two. I called the cows, scritched the cows, and loaded the tagging tool and elastrator. Clearly the most important of the jobs (at least the scritchinng)!

Now on to sausage making for tomorrow and hoping the chickens listened to today’s motivational speech about putting the eggs into the roll away nest boxes and not eating them while I am away! I will be mostly supervising, pricing, and maybe napping if I take a third round of muscle relaxants and pain killers... I’m debating skipping a dose of what I was taking, not drinking anything tonight, and pulling out the heavy painkillers (hydro-morphone from when I severely threw my back out about 4 years ago)

It sounds very worrisome as well as incredibly painful Kris. I'm glad you are going to get it seen to.

It would be wonderful if the doctor could say "Oh yes, it's X injury. We can fix it by doing Y"

Either way, I hope it all comes good for you soon

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris

Haven't seen you for a while...

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I hope the shoulder is improving for you Kris!

 

[Ribh]

Just popping in to leave you a hug.

 

[Kris5902]

Thanks everyone, I’m hanging in here waiting on Andrew and the Truck to get back from work so I can hopefully go see a dr about this shoulder. In the meantime everything is taking 4x as long and I’m taking breaks to ice it in between chores. That usually leads to napping. Keeps the cats happy, but the chickens a little less so.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris, I really hope that shoulder get's better quickly.

 

[Kris5902]

So this is my morning feeding of the littles, with “help” from Sammy and his ladies. Hoppy actually snuck in and was trying to pretend she was a little. And they aren’t so little anymore, she is actually smaller than a few of the younger ones! Please forgive the shaky camera work, I was still working left handed.

And I moved the 21 new chicks up to the barn tonight, and delivered the 10 to the other person.

And here are my Free Range “Forest Chickens” @BY Bob this one’s for you! Can’t hardly see his CCL daddy in him at all. Sammy decided it was all about him (he’s a little vain!)

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

So this is my morning feeding of the littles, with “help” from Sammy and his ladies. Hoppy actually snuck in and was trying to pretend she was a little. And they aren’t so little anymore, she is actually smaller than a few of the younger ones! Please forgive the shaky camera work, I was still working left handed.

And I moved the 21 new chicks up to the barn tonight, and delivered the 10 to the other person.

And here are my Free Range “Forest Chickens” @BYBob this one’s for you! Can’t hardly see his CCL daddy in him at all. Sammy decided it was all about him (he’s a little vain!)

Loved when you raised the gate in the first vid and they all ran out!
"And they're off" in a racing commentator's voice

Look at Sammy showing off for the camera. He knows he's beautiful

 

[rjohns39]

Morning Kris

I think you know already but I'm going to be away for a week or so. Loved the videos. How's the shoulder?

 

[aart]

Loved when you raised the gate in the first vid and they all ran out!

What's really funny there is it looks like they could easily hop over that 'gate'.