Michigan

[RBahmer]

Nice job on the coop Silly. I like it.

 

[babigyrl22]

Good morning Michigan, cool and hazy here with much-needed rain predicted for today.

So my sister in Naperville lost one of her two pet hens last week. Since I am heading down there this weekend, I offered to bring her a replacement. Her daughter called and asked if I would bring a chicken that lays blue eggs, and I said Sure. The only blue-egg layers I have right now are my two older hens, retirees, that lay an egg about every 4-5 days. So I am taking her a little 4 week old polish egger hatched out of Taprocks eggs, she is blue and very sweet with a little topknot. But you know you just can't have one chick, so I am also taking a bantam Cochin pullet. Not going to tell her about that though - Surprise!

She's a bantam....she doesn't count as a whole chicken. HAHAHa...this just cracks me up!

Mom, I sent you a PM.

A nice couple, and their 4 rugrats, stopped by last night to pick out a breeding pair (FGs) and when I said which ones they replied "all of them". I never have a problem selling my rabbits but usually one, or two, at a time.

OH NICE!! I had a lady come by this weekend to pick up a rabbit and left with two. I only have one meat rabbit left and I just finished completing my breeding pairs for my French and English Angoras last night. I picked up a little french doe who is simply adorable. My husband insisted on naming her Thumper. It's not original but I'll let it stick. I had my two girls running around the house yesterday. They are soooo cute!

Not sure if I will actually end up breeding them but they sure are alot of fun to cuddle.

Here is Thumper. She's 7 weeks...I have to get to her nails tonight, they are like razors. Sheesh!

 

[ladyfeather]

Good morning all!

The weather is a bit dreary but I am holding hope for the sun to come out today.

Opa: Sorry to hear about the lonely drive and having family so scattered. I once mentioned moving to the international nursing college but my mother had such a fit; I guess she was afraid of our not coming back. She really only has us and a couple extended family left of us. Glad that you made it home safely.

Juise: Your May Day looked a lot more fun than ours! Your kids are adorable and I am going to steal those May Day basket ideas for next year.

Silly: Awesome coop!

Olive: Your puppy is hilarious and sounds exhausting. A friend of my in laws has an aussie collie and that thing never stops running the whole weekend. Last Summer no one was allowed to throw his frisbee no matter how much he cried or dropped it in our laps due to a leg injury from a bad jump. Poor thing was dying and I told them a herd dog would kill me with the energy level.

EMAW: Depending on where you end up my husband works at a brewery/bottling company and brings home some great beer. I've never had true German beer unfortunately.

We wouldn't mind bringing low fills we accumulate of both mixers and beer to let people take home a few.

Farmerboy: I am so jealous of your land and love staring at the amazing pictures Please keep them coming.

Nite/Leslie: I will ask around.

Have a good day all! My husband got a huge raise at work yesterday and it doesn't require more than he's doing now so I'm ecstatic. It means we may be able to afford a better house and one in the area we were hoping for. I won't know more until later today or tomorrow. For now I am off to get starting building the coop and since it has been 15 years since wood shop I'll only be marking the wood. I've seen too much stuff in the ER as a volunteer to want to attempt that home solo.

 

[Olive Hill]

Scott - Thanks for the heads up about your friend in KS. I'll definitely keep that in mind. I think you're right about high energy not really being an accurate description. It goes above and beyond. LOL!

Olive Border Collie's are awesome dogs but a have to tell you I have a Australian Cattle Dog so I know all about them having to be brave. That's how I was with my dogs if I couldn't watch them they had to go in the crate, they didn't mind it though. I always had toys and things for them. Sounds like a blast!

Neat! Do you work him?

ACD's rule, BC's drool, lol! We have a friends that breeds BC's so there's a rivalry between us. She has a bumper sticker that says "My Border Collie is smarter than your Honor Student". Maybe but my ACD is, IMHO, better all-sround. All of the herding dogs are a chore. Right now my ACD is learning that ducks are not cattle and biting a duck is not like fetlocks on a cow!

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.....NO.

I think both breeds are probably a bit of an acquired taste. Try as I might I've not been able to cultivate the appropriate tastes for the ACD. Every last one I've ever known has been a complete and utter donkeyhole. My Uncle has one that I would LOVE to give a good dose of Opa's lead cure-all.

Olive - I have a Border Collie. She is 3 years old now. She actually is very smart. She was out herding sheep with me and 2 of the older ewes sent her flying when she didn't expect it. She ran out of the sheep pen and now when I take her in there to herd them she hides behind me. It's like she's saying " hit her, not me " LOL. Needless to say she is back at the trainers right now being re-trained. I do love her though. She is an awesome dog. Has no problem herding the barn cats.

I didn't know that! Very neat. I'm sorry about her bad experience. That's precisely what I'm hoping

to avoid at all costs. Picked the most precocious one of the bunch, we'll try to do everything right in starting him, but just like that once you get them on the stock anything can happen.

Hey, maybe once Tripp has got a good handle on him in a couple years we can come over and help you work sheep sometime. It might do a number on his dignity if he's relegated to hogs all the time.

For now he's using his superior intelligence to learn his name and that urinating and defecating are best done outside. Oh! And that Daddy's shoes are not for humping. But you know, that's a mere technicality.

 

[Olive Hill]

Olive: Your puppy is hilarious and sounds exhausting. A friend of my in laws has an aussie collie and that thing never stops running the whole weekend. Last Summer no one was allowed to throw his frisbee no matter how much he cried or dropped it in our laps due to a leg injury from a bad jump. Poor thing was dying and I told them a herd dog would kill me with the energy level.

Oh my gosh. How sad for that dog. I can't imagine the puppy dog faces he was probably giving trying to get people to throw his frisbee. As for the energy level, I think you pegged it perfectly. He'll be the death of me. Of all the ways to die this one may be the cutest though. So there's that.

 

[RBahmer]

I didn't know that! Very neat. I'm sorry about her bad experience. That's precisely what I'm hoping

to avoid at all costs. Picked the most precocious one of the bunch, we'll try to do everything right in starting him, but just like that once you get them on the stock anything can happen.

Hey, maybe once Tripp has got a good handle on him in a couple years we can come over and help you work sheep sometime. It might do a number on his dignity if he's relegated to hogs all the time.

For now he's using his superior intelligence to learn his name and that urinating and defecating are best done outside. Oh! And that Daddy's shoes are not for humping. But you know, that's a mere technicality.

Sure thing. Jessie was sooo good at the sheep until she got hit and sent flying. It wasn't funny but I couldn't help laugh at the dog LOL. She just looked so surprised. Teach her for stopping a minute and not paying attention. I got Jessie when she was a year old so I didn't have the puppy thing going on. My best friend raises and trains them so she was already trained when I got her. But, she is back there right now getting more lessons. LOL

 

[Olive Hill]

Sure thing. Jessie was sooo good at the sheep until she got hit and sent flying. It wasn't funny but I couldn't help laugh at the dog LOL. She just looked so surprised. Teach her for stopping a minute and not paying attention. I got Jessie when she was a year old so I didn't have the puppy thing going on. My best friend raises and trains them so she was already trained when I got her. But, she is back there right now getting more lessons. LOL

Hahaha! Poor thing. Hopefully your friend can rebuild her confidence and get her working again. I'm thinking the whole started dog thing is a good way to do it.

 

[NovaAman]

I am tempted to paint my WC... I gotta a big fan. Boy could that room use it. Hmmmm.

 

[NovaAman]

Dogs.... Love ALL dogs.... Except those pocket dogs... Those freak me out.

 

[RBahmer]

Hahaha! Poor thing.  Hopefully your friend can rebuild her confidence and get her working again.  I'm thinking the whole started dog thing is a good way to do it.

I wouldn't do it any other way than to be pre-trained. My friend is working her with some of her dogs to build her back up. I can't wait until she is done as I sure could use her this Friday to herd my lambs with me though. Besides, I miss her but she needs to earn her keep so she must be trained to work.