"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[catdaddyfro]

Oh yes the willies for sure!! It was about a foot and a half long. One of the biggest I've seen out here!! I had to laugh at my husband this morning. I was coming home from work and he was about to leave and said "oh yea I filled all the waterers up and got 3 more eggs.. Didn't check the middle coop though, forgot the flashlight and ya'll have me completly creeped out with the snake!"

Wait you think it's a Copperhead?? I was comparing the pics here http://www.preservevenomous.com/Ven.../Southern_Copperhead/Southern_copperhead.html and thought it didn't look like one. Hubs said it was a Moccasin. I thought it looked more like it!! http://www.preservevenomous.com/Ven...n/Western_Cottonmouth/Western_cottonmouth.htm

Hey Missy yeah I'm pretty sure its a Copperhead of course the most telling part of a snake (like yours is there) is usually destroyed right out the gate and that's the head LOL. A little story on that: My Grandad was a snake extrordinaire, so to say, he knew his snakes, He was a preacher too and the ladies at the church were always telling their stories or even bringing him a(dead) (keyword here) snake to identify for them. Well around here colloquially we have what "everybody" calls a "ground rattler?" note I put it in QUOTES right. Well, in all the snake information in the world there is nowhere any evidence of such a critter being on Gods green earth named that. He was always so puzzled at the women who were telling of such or would bring him a specimen for IDing and it would always be beheaded, and he would tell them well you destroyed the tell all most important part. I would guess to the day he died he never got to ID what in the HEdouble toothpicksticks a ground rattler is/was, LOL. I myself say they are probably juvienile something anothers from brown grass snakes to the bad-@$$ cottonmouth water moccasins, who knows? The reason I say your's is the copperhead it does have the hour glass shaped markings on the body, most Louisiana cottonmouths are black/dark brown with yellow bellies. Some of the info you get (just as on this site too) on the internet is absolutely wrong. If you see even on the cottonmouth page you posted it even has pic of a timber ratter on there cottonmouths don't have rattles and some of the pics on there are pics of copperheads too. The copperhead page looks to be pretty accurate though (unusual for a web page)LOL remember the adage "believe nothing you hear and only half of what you read/see".

Jeff

Hornbeck Hornets Louisiana Class B Boys Baseball State Champions as of Saturday night, HOO-RAAH

 

[catdaddyfro]

Happy Mother's day to everyone! Just sharing a few pics.

This is the rooster that I got from Chris. He is quite the gentleman, and a really pretty boy.

And this is my 2 week old lamb. Is it just me, or is she HUGE for 2 weeks! She's my little butterball!

They are pretty huh? I was just admiring my GNH girls and boy as they were strolling out of their pen yesterday evening for afternoon grazing time, it's surely a sight to behold. I can't wait till my Barred Rocks and Rhodies are all "growed-up" and contributing their gracefulness to the scenery every afternoon too

Jeff.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Thank you!

Let me know if you ever want some during their laying season and I"ll save some up for you.

Still no pea eggs? Your girls are sisters to the ones that I bought from you right? I wonder why no eggs your way. You don't think they will lay this year? Why not? Could there be any specific reason why they wouldn't lay?

Terri, do you think that pea males are fertile their first year in order for the eggs to be fertile. Someone said that peacocks should be at least 2 years before getting a good clutch of fertile eggs. Any truth to that? When do pea hens stop laying eggs? I can't wait to try out some pea eggs in the incubator. By next weekend, I should have at least 6 - or at least I'm hoping.

Congrats on your stash from the fruit stand! Sounds delicious. I'm looking forward to my 10 day Juice Cleanse starting Monday. I need to detox. I have to admit that I did sneak and I ate some jelly beans and a couple chocolate bars AND I splurged on the granola bars that I made. So my body really needs a cleansing and I can't wait.
MY RIRs have started laying the fart eggs. They little eggs are so cute. The RIRs will be 5 months old as of this weekend. Thank goodness they will be laying more soon because I have egg orders out of my ears that I can't keep up with.

Boy that's good I wished I was closer to you or had your problem I got multiple five(5) gal. buckets of eggs just sitting in wait to either get fed to the dogs or boiled and fed back to the chickens and biddies. Have no more room in the egg fridge, its overloaded too. I try to keep rotating the newer eggs in and the older ones out to the animals. You know, funny thing is I have the eggs for sale $0.50/doz. cheaper than the grocery stores  sell those stale, months old, (pukified) eggs for and still don't have a customer base worth a hoot here, it a pure D'shame ya know.

Terri I have checked with the guy about the motor parts (Machine shop) of course its all a shambles and mass confusion I reckon. I shall see if I can get a chance to come get them and not worry so much about those guys and their problems. I know you need them moved soon give me a day or so to get plans made up.
  Since we got all this rain I might be able to harvest you a big surprise so get your canner and jars ready just in case, LOL

Jeff

Sorry to hear about your overload of eggs. That's not good at all. Have you tried advertising?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Am I doing something wrong? One of our chickens is 6-7 months old, two are 5-6 months old, the 4th is 2-3 months old. Not worried about the little one, but why would the older ones not be laying yet? I know they had a rough start here with all of them having mites, getting a respiratory problem, the little one almost dying on me, and our 5th one being stolen by a predator in the middle of the night, but there have been no problems the last month, the ducks were introduced about two weeks ago now, and they still aren't laying eggs. They have a nice roomy coop, nest boxes, still on starter, but have crushed oyster shell available. Free range during the day, no mites in their hay flooring in the coop. Sevin lightly put in there and mixed every few weeks to a month. Scratch given to them daily along with leftovers from us to share with the dog. So what gives?

Be patient! I've had some that didn't lay until they were 9 - 11 months old. They'll lay when they're good and ready.

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[kuntrygirl]

Be on the look out!!  It almost got my little Yorkie!!

WOW!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Those are so cute!! Mine still have 3 weeks to go!! BTW you can take your craddle bars out when they go on lock down. And it's funny you talk about them hatching early, everything I've read about guineas say they will start hatching early. I've heard some say they were hatching still in the turner!!

Thanks for the tip about the cradle bars I was wondering about that after I put them on lock down.. I was nervous. I also noticed that the tray is VERY slippery. I see the babies slipping and sliding on the trade, so I will have to put a paper towel and line the tray, I guess. :/

 

[kuntrygirl]

Happy Mother's day to everyone!  Just sharing a few pics.

This is the rooster that I got from Chris.  He is quite the gentleman, and a really pretty boy.

And this is my 2 week old lamb.  Is it just me, or is she HUGE for 2 weeks!  She's my little butterball!

Cute cute cute!!!! Your baby lamb is looking good!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Grrr, was in the backyard today, and caught to neighborhood BRATS teasing my dog and sticking sticks through the fence at my 3 week old duckies! They were maybe 13-14 year old boys. I caught them, asked their names, their parents names and where they lived so I could talk to their parents. Needless to say, they cursed me out and ran. Joke is on you. I caught up with one, made him stay put, and called the cops. The cop went to their houses to have a little chat with their parents. If they would have listened to me and answered questions, they probably would have gotten grounded, but having a cop show up at their door on mothers day probably was bad, cause now mom is upset on her day, that they got their behinds swatted on top of grounding, or at least I hope. I swear, I catch them over here again, I will drag them home by their ears. One of them little suckers had a 6in knife even! At 13? What kind of parents do they have?

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Sorry to hear about your ordeal. Hopefully, they won't come back.

 

[kuntrygirl]

What?! A Louisiana group? How did I not find y'all earlier?! Yay!

Hey there !!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the group. Glad to see you here.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good morning everyone. I hope that everyone had a good weekend. My guinea hatching is done. The final count was..............

9 hatched
2 zipped but didn't hatch. They died trying to come out of the shell.
5 did not fully form in the egg.
5 were not fertile.

I guess half is ok being as though I"m still a newbie when it comes to using the incubator.

They sure are fiesty. They take out running in the brooder when I go in to see them. :/

Terri, in response to your question about when the peas lay eggs, well I noticed this weekend that they lay in the evening (6pm or so). I watched all day and no eggs and then about 6pm, I went out to their pen and eggs were there. I will be setting the pea eggs in the incubator in the next few days. And I'm crossing my fingers that the 8 pea eggs under the broody hens will hatch. I am DEFINITELY on pins and needles. Anything from your girls yet?