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[snowflake]

She told me that turkey start had the right amount of protien for them... As chicks and adults... She has raised them for many years. I didn't have any problems and the female laid an egg a day/ everyother day... until my cat ate her. I was soooo mad!!!
Beauty is truely in the eye of the beholder then

how did your cat eat a turkey? mine is afraid of the chickens

Nervous for this Wednesday. I have an interview with the TSA for a job at the local airport. Trying to get a job with them is like a march through a muskeg. BUT the fact I got called up and scheduled for an interview means there is a little glimmer of hope! Having applied to them over a year ago, hopefully actual employment isn't too far off, it I do well at the interview.

good luck with your interview!!

Get a Tin Cat. http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/SPEC/pick-minitincat.htm

Oh,I know on the heat! I don't know how my broody even able to handle it! I have a fan in there with a thermometer on it to watch how bad it gets. She is smart though. She comes out a few times a day. None often boys will go near her! She is so mean! Love it.
I also got a very weird shell today. Was all pitted, was able to put my finger through it.

did you take pic of that shell? sounds crazy

imagine.... 3 yr old asks for peanut butter on a spoon... You oblige then go back to reading.... Now, imagine same three yr old, goes to the potty.... Imagine white canvas and master painter... Imagine 3 yr old... Bathroom wall... And peanut butter.... No longer on a spoon. Oh. Joy. Not.

at least it was only peanut butter,,,,

Stayed up until almost 2am reading David Baldacci's book "The Innocent" and yet here I am awake at 5am. Wish I knew what it is that wakes me after so little sleep.

Well that's enough complaining so might as well get this day underway. I've a crossword awaiting, a sunrise to watch and another good day is starting. I've got to take Granny to the pain management clinic for the MRI and xray follow up. Hopefully they will enable the doctors to devise a regime that will afford her some relief from the arm pain she has been experiencing. With the exception of her arm hurting after a few hours of crochting she is in remarkably good health. I know had she remained in Kentucky she wouldn't be alive and since moving here we have been able to resolve all of her health issues. When one considers the debilitating issues she had there is no doubt that the "good old days" are now.

hope Granny finds a fix for her arm. sounds like you had a good day

Around my animals (which is everywhere) I only use non poisonous methods. Too big a chance that some pet can get into the poison or the animal that ate the poison, even when well hidden.

Busket
Dowel
2 liter soda bottle with top and bottom cut off
bucket
molasses/ Peanut Butter/ feed
piece of wood 1 1/2 - 2 times longer than height of bucket.

Cut the dowel a few inches longer than the top of the bucket. Slip the Soda bottle sleeve over the dowel. Set this on top of the bucket, about half filled with water. Put the molasses/ peanut butter, etc on the soda bottle sleeve. Use the piece of wood as a ramp against the side of the bucket. Mice will go after the bait, but once they step on the sleeve, it should freely roll, thereby dumping the mouse in the bucket of water. It shouldn't be able to climb back out. Disposal is easy. Just dump and refill the bucket with water. The only time it doesn't work is when it is cold enough to freeze the water. Just keep checking that the bait doesn't melt off in extreme heat.

this sounds like a fun project for my grand sons. I may try to build one ,,might have to worry about small chicks getting in it and drowning ..... do your bigger chicks try to get the mice out?

 

[swampducks]

I've got 27 pages to catch up on. My friends just left to drive back to MA. Dang but you guys got wordy! And I'd already read maybe 5 pages in the last couple days in my minimal pauses to rest1 They wore me out and we didn't get to do half what we wanted, but they both want to come back for longer. We went to Frankenmuth, the Henry Ford Museum and Ford Truck assembly tour, Leelanau Peninsula for a bit of wine tasting and site seeing and Light house climbing, Alpena which is very dead on a Sunday afternoon but we found a little art gallery with some cool stuff that was affordable and had fun ladies manning it, and Sturgeon Point lighthouse in Harrisville, which if anyone is in the area, they now allow people into the tower to see the Fresnel lens. Took them about 7 years to get the Coast Guard to allow it because it's still a working lighthouse. Very cool. Okay, back to my reading.

 

[normanack]

Get a Tin Cat.   http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/SPEC/pick-minitincat.htm

We have a couple of those -- they work great. We don't even have to bait them. In the winter the contents turn into Mousesicles for easy disposal.

One warning: don't leave the traps too long without checking them. Mice are cannibals. 'Nuff said.

 

[taprock]

Their names are Shawarma and Peking





Isn't he purdy.

Those are some impressive Uggos! Love the red beard!


rbahmer - I have button quail. I started with turkey and have gone to gamebird mixed with seeds. I went to the feed store and said this is the protein level I need what do you have?

 

[RBahmer]

I drove to Charlotte yesterday, met up with Robin and she gave me some really good looking hatchin eggs. Met her son and got some chicken info from both of them. Thanks, Robin. I like you too, but then I suspect you knew that. this note is to anyone who didn't know how nice, friendly and generous you are. Also many thanks for the clear concise directions to get to Charlotte via M 50 off of I 96. What a beautiful drive, found myself wishing for someone elsewith me so they could drive and I could enjoy that pastoral beauty and the small town ambiance I didn't know existed in our beautiful state. Most of my travels in Michigan have been to the north of Muskegon, or on major highways, (always the fastest route) and ( that) scenery is limited thereabouts.

From Charlotte, on to Howell, the noun, not the verb, where anothe pleasant experience Awaited me. Thank you so much, Sam, for the tour of your Facalities, no ! not those facilities (joke) Your Containment, housing for people and chickens , show the high value you place on both. Great smoker too. Wish I had just a bit of the ingenious building talent and skill uou display. Nice garden. Super Over the Old Deck Room. Loved it.

I've not had the pleasure of meeting others involved in BYC, but if all of them are as nice as the two I met yesterday, It's a super, great , friendly bunch.

Thanks again to both of you.

Gotta get crackin on a place to isolate our two broodies so they can get into mommyhood.

ps. I saw that book on Opas' table, so he may not just be blowin smoke. He jost could be readin stuff.

Thank you so much Bob.I really enjoyed talking to you and meeting you. And the generous offer you made if you go to the fall CS. I may take you up on that offer LOL. The pleasure was all mine. Glad you made it back home safely. Let me know if you ever need anymore eggs.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Nova... Really? You have a 3 yr old PB on a spoon?... you were just asking for it!

have you all seen this?

Eeeeeewwwww!!! Awesome! they look so real and the making of looks pretty messy!

We have a couple of those -- they work great. We don't even have to bait them. In the winter the contents turn into Mousesicles for easy disposal.
One warning: don't leave the traps too long without checking them. Mice are cannibals. 'Nuff said.

Hmmmm... yulk!

 

[NovaAman]

They eat peanut butter off of spoons all the time. One of their favorite snacks. But yeah. That mongrel has been doing some dang naughty stuff lately. NOT KIDDING! LOL. He got in my jeep, found my tums, and thought they tasted yummy. Not the after taste though. He was like, I don't like this anymore and was trying to spit them out. LOL. Lesson learned there. LOL

Well anyway, Yup, the fleas are atrocious. I steamed the carpets too, and that was a big help. BUT, going to bomb the house tomorrow. Its pay week from both jobs this week, so I am going to take the kids out to picnic and play for a what ever park they want. Or maybe I will take them to the local paint-a-pot. Jace has been wanting to do that FOREVER! He's addicted to Michael's. He will even find something for a dollar just to be able to look around. So many arts and crafts... so little money. I'd hate to see him in the hobby lobby. OMG! I better get married to an old rich fart real soon who will leave me all his money. Call me Bubbles. LOL. SO, I'll bomb the house, lock the dogs and the cats out in the back yard. Spray their hineys down with Sargent's before they come back in.

Mr. F is in my bathroom. Getting the egg yolk soaked bread treatment. Yogurt and water too. Nothing like chicken poo on the floor to know your home. HAHAHAHA.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

how did your cat eat a turkey? mine is afraid of the chickens

LOL No quail! Quail are pretty easy snacks... Poor quail.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

They eat peanut butter off of spoons all the time. One of their favorite snacks. But yeah. That mongrel has been doing some dang naughty stuff lately. NOT KIDDING! LOL. He got in my jeep, found my tums, and thought they tasted yummy. Not the after taste though. He was like, I don't like this anymore and was trying to spit them out. LOL. Lesson learned there. LOL

Well anyway, Yup, the fleas are atrocious. I steamed the carpets too, and that was a big help. BUT, going to bomb the house tomorrow. Its pay week from both jobs this week, so I am going to take the kids out to picnic and play for a what ever park they want. Or maybe I will take them to the local paint-a-pot. Jace has been wanting to do that FOREVER! He's addicted to Michael's. He will even find something for a dollar just to be able to look around. So many arts and crafts... so little money. I'd hate to see him in the hobby lobby. OMG! I better get married to an old rich fart real soon who will leave me all his money. Call me Bubbles. LOL. SO, I'll bomb the house, lock the dogs and the cats out in the back yard. Spray their hineys down with Sargent's before they come back in.

Mr. F is in my bathroom. Getting the egg yolk soaked bread treatment. Yogurt and water too. Nothing like chicken poo on the floor to know your home. HAHAHAHA.

LOL!
My mom would say 'Next time I'll marry for money."
Be really careful with flea sprays... my cats and dog had seisures from them. They are a neuro toxin for fleas... but can effect the dog/cat too.
PB... Poo... what else do you put in your bathroom?

 

[1muttsfan]

While there are some intestinal parasites that are passed on before birth/hatching, coccidia is not one of them. Infection is the result of eating the egg form of the parasite (the ova). This can happen very shortly after birth with exposure to feces from other animals that are shedding eggs in their stool.

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/21200.htm