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[chickflick]

GOOD LUCK, SARAH!!! Go to your interview with confidence and you'll wow them!!

I got two bantam hens from Shelleyb last Saturday. They are laying machines. I put 4 eggs under my silkie broody. She's such a good mamma, I thought I'd give her another go at it.
Looks to be a beautiful day. Going to take the dogs for their walk and let the chickens out to free range. Enjoy the day.

Newbies!!!

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

If you are looking for pet quality I would say a silkie instead of quail. Quail appear to be more nervous not as tame, and the ones I had - well the little thing crowed pretty loud for a quail, Not loud like a large rooster, but louder than you would expect.


On the quail page there is a woman training quail!!! It is so neat! It is worth checking out!

As I sit here reading all the posts since I last was on and drinking the day's first cup of coffee, I'm reminded of the Folgers coffee jingle. A very pleasant catching tune but they've got it slightly wrong. The best part of waking up isn't a cup of coffee, it's waking up.

Sure is a bite that it now costs about $10 just to mow the lawn.

Great thought process for waking up!
It sure is a chunk out of the wallet! How much land do you have? I've got almost an acre... that has yet to be mowed...

Good Morning Sam!


I just came back in from putting the babies under her...and remember that I said I put four eggs out there, but two werent any good? Well, imagine my surprise when I reached under her to remove the eggs, I felt eggshell...so I lifted her up, and there is a little black baby under her! Goes to show, sometimes we just get it wrong, lol. So, three Uggo offspring. I wonder if the black comes from the Polish? ( They are black....)

SURPRISE!!! I guess that would count as chicken math!

Morning All. 2 cups coffee down while reading all yesterday's posts. Chatty folks indeed.

Welcome to newbie BackYardFarmMom (hope I got that name right).


Have a productive day everyone. Looks like it will be a nice one.

Thanks for the welcome!! You guys are too much fun! I spend more time here than Facebook now!

Good Morning All & Welcome to All the new Comers! This thread just keeps growing and growing.

Thank you!

Mom2....what a nice surprise you got this morning!

Agreed Wonderful surprise!

OH, BYFM, I love my silkies. Great pets. Laryngitis crow... They grumble a lot which I love. I don't want to eat them... I want to eat quail. Lol.

I am a wienie... I couldn't kill either to eat them. Unless I HAD to...

HAVE YOU SEEN THE PBS CHICKEN FILM THEY MADE... I THINK IT IS PBS... THERE IS A WOMAN THAT PUTS A DIAPER ON HER SILKIE AND BATHES HIM!!! SHE TAKES HIM IN THE CAR AND TO BED WITH HER...
I THINK SHE IS A LITTLE NUTTY BUT I LOVE IT!

THEN THERE IS THIS OTHER WOMAN THAT FINDS HER CHICKEN FROZEN /DEAD AND BRINGS HER INSIDE TO PUT HER IN A SHOEBOX... SHE FINDS OUT HOURS LATER THAT THE CHIKEN IS STILL BREATHING AND GIVES IT CPR!!! IT SURVIVED!!!

ALL THE STORIES ON THERE ARE GREAT!!

Haha, yea, I hear that. Technology is useful, and don't get me wrong I like the internet and I love my playstation, but I would give all that up to live the way the frontier people did. Sounds corny I'm sure, but honestly I love history and I'd rather be living in any other time period in history than the current one we're in. That being said, I agree about medical technology...it would suck to die from a toothache or something, haha! Oh well, I can dream, and I live vicariously through books. The Amish have a pretty ideal lifestyle in my opnion, except I'm not really down with the religious part. Nothing against that, just not personally interested in that aspect of it.


Agreed!

Woke up to a pipped Am egg, some really pretty blue eggs too - yay!

Yay!!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I would totally have a house chicken if i could!! I only have a puny flock, but out of them there are 2 that think they are cats/dogs and come running when they see me. Lap babies! The other 2 are light colored, and flighty, so i call them my "blonds" lol.

 

[sarah92480]

GOOD LUCK, SARAH!!! Go to your interview with confidence and you'll wow them!!

I got two bantam hens from Shelleyb last Saturday. They are laying machines. I put 4 eggs under my silkie broody. She's such a good mamma, I thought I'd give her another go at it.
Looks to be a beautiful day. Going to take the dogs for their walk and let the chickens out to free range. Enjoy the day.

Thanks, keep your fingers crossed! Only 3 more hours before I go, lol! Im so excited and nervous and I hope I get hired.

I wish I was home more right now, I want to be outside w/my chickens. Ive had them locked in their coop since Monday, in hopes that they'll recognize it as home. It seems like theyre having a good time, exploring all the nooks and crannies and pooping on everything. I plan on letting them out of confinement tomorrow, hope the weather is decent again. Supposed to rain this weekend which sucks but at least the area where their coop is is covered. What do you guys think are good chicken snacks/treats? I bought some of those Happy hen treats dried mealworms and they could care less about them. I gave them some thawed frozen veggies, seemed like they liked peas the best. They also didnt care for bread. Just looking for some ideas on what to give them for fun!


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Thanks for the welcome!! You guys are too much fun! I spend more time here than Facebook now!


HAVE YOU SEEN THE PBS CHICKEN FILM THEY MADE... I THINK IT IS PBS... THERE IS A WOMAN THAT PUTS A DIAPER ON HER SILKIE AND BATHES HIM!!! SHE TAKES HIM IN THE CAR AND TO BED WITH HER...
I THINK SHE IS A LITTLE NUTTY BUT I LOVE IT!

THEN THERE IS THIS OTHER WOMAN THAT FINDS HER CHICKEN FROZEN /DEAD AND BRINGS HER INSIDE TO PUT HER IN A SHOEBOX... SHE FINDS OUT HOURS LATER THAT THE CHIKEN IS STILL BREATHING AND GIVES IT CPR!!! IT SURVIVED!!!

ALL THE STORIES ON THERE ARE GREAT!!

I know what you mean! I hardly ever go on facebook lately, only to talk to my classmates really. It's a good change! lol...and that chicken show sounds great! Id like to watch it. I do agree that woman was probably a little nutty though, hehe.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

If my family would let me... I would probably have an inside chicken too!

I do wish this site was a little more like facebook with the LIKE button and commenting off of the original comment. Might be a little easier to follow exactly which comment/question you want to.

 

[swampducks]

Had an awful start to the week on Monday. Let my 2 dogs out front into the "fenced" yard after a nice walk in the woods with their buddy from next door, Farfel, and at sometime between 11 and 12 Ziggy disappeared. He's done it before, he's this short half lab half beagle and he can sail right over one part of the 3 foot field fence and no matter what I have tried to block it with he even climbs it if there is even the smallest place for his feet to find purchase. Usually, he heads right over to Uncle Butch's house, our yards run together so I go over there and no Zig. I start calling, walking have Luna with me, nothing. I get the car drive up the 1/4 mile driveway into town, nothing, call my friend and he starts looking. To make a long story short after calling the local vet and the sheriff's department around 4:30 I head back out into the woods down an old logging trail calling his name and hear frantic barking coming from the street Uncle Butch lives on. Now there's a creep there who has threatened me and my dogs in the past and has waved a homemade machete at me. I feared he had Ziggy so I snuck up behind his yard (I have a large chunk of land that runs between 2 residential streets) but as I got closer the barking would stop.

So I went back home, got a leash for Luna and walked down that street. The barking resumed but was not from the creep's house but the one next door. He's got a long asphalt driveway with a 2 car garage at the bottom. I walk down it and there is Ziggy with his head out a cat door trying desperately to get out. This guy is somewhat of a recluse so I go next door and enlist the help of the neighbor (other neighbor not the creep). To make a long story short again, Mr Recluse trapped Zig in there on purpose. Mr recluse came outside and I'm not sure but from a few words in his tirade, he thought Zig belonged to another guy on the street whose dogs (Farfel being one) have a tendency to roam, yes they do but generally in the opposite direction taking my driveway into town and enticing Ziggy to leap the fence). While I am sure they've been to his yard it's very doubtful it's been everyday, pooping all over yard). Anyway, he is ranting and going on and on about my dog and all dogs in general destroying his peace while the neighbor is trying to calm him down. At some point he finally realizes I am not married to the Farfel's owner nor do I live with him and those other dogs are not mine. Finally, he makes a comment about "seeing what kind of damage" Ziggy's done to his garage while he's been locked in there without water for hours! (He contemplated calling the sheriff but didn't and I am wondering if I ever would have found my dog if it hadn't been for that cat door.) Well he destroyed the cat door and the insulation surrounding it. I told him I would replace it, he wanted it within 2 weeks, no problem, etc. I'm not sure he really apologized at all, I did most of that, I even said I would speak to Farfel's owner.

Monday night I find several possibilities on line, including one that would be an exact fit to his door. (BTW the man doesn't have any pets but "he might get a cat someday". Doubtful, his garage was pristine, a tractor, a car and nothing else!) Next morning at 8:30 he shows up at my house with an order form from Foster's and Smith with the door he ordered. Won't fit his hole, he'll have to do stuff to his door to make it fit. He's also getting the insulation himself. Nothing like even trying to trust me. I was going to bring some cookies with the check. He'll have to be happy with the check now. The neighbor is getting the cookies. (yeah, I know, he doesn't know me from squat but I can see why he never has any visitors).

However, what has come from this besides a lot of stress is:

DH has finally decided he will help me improve the fence. He still won't replace it with a decent 4 foot wire fence, citing money and hard work and still insisting it won't work, but we did head to TSC on Tuesday and bought the stuff for a 2 strand electric fence, one wire on the bottom, no more digging! And one at the top. He even pounded the top row of insulators into the posts yesterday while I cleared brush. I'm doing the lower row today while he works on drilling holes through the house to run the wires to the fencer, etc. In the meantime Ziggy is tied to a chain while Luna basks in the sun. (She's escaped by digging as well but heads straight to Uncle Butch's for goodies).

Plus I had a long talk with Farfel's owner and he is hiring a contractor to put in a fence. Don't know when that will happen, he was getting a quote yesterday. But Farfel is out there now and neighbor has gone to work and left it to me to get him back in the house again. *sigh* I sure hope he gets his fence up soon. Funny, I have suggested he needs a fence over and over to him but he just scoffed at the idea. Why are some men (people?) so **** hard headed? It is now Thursday and I am exhausted and frazzled from all this high drama. Plus I still have to go over there with the check. Not looking forward to that.

 

[chicken grandma]

Let's make a village like "The Village" without the creepy 'things we do not speak of' beasts. Oh, and modern medical attention if needed.

That is the draw back with Hawaii. There are many creepy things in the tropics and to get a simple stent put in your heart or if your baby is born needing neonatal care you need 4-5 hours to be transported to Oahu (the main island) where you get satisfactory but not cutting edge medical care. Might as well live in Michigan and drive to Traverse City, Grand Rapids, Holland, Lansing or Detroit hospitals (I am sure I am missing some good hospitals here). We can live in the country, live on water, enjoy the seasons, don't have the parasites and still have good schools, good medical care and a fair judicial system (ie. not sure about Florida or Hawaii's judicial system. They seem to be Banana Republics).

 

[chicken grandma]

Can't go wrong with All American or Presto. Just make sure you buy a Pressure Canner, not a Pressure Cooker. Lots of times people will use the terms interchangeably in conversation, but they are not interchangeable pieces of equipment.

GREAT info here Olive. For clueless people like me - you just saved me a ton of time and trouble. Thank you!

 

[Juise]

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Does anyone know why the minimum, anyway?

Someone told me once it was to help prevent things like Easter chicks and such. Not sure if that's true.

I was waiting for the punchline. I thought the chicken was going to explode.

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Agreed! All my friends have told me I am grandma like and one says I should be Amish. I don't think I would mind.

I have an old spirit I guess. Let's make a village like "The Village" without the creepy 'things we do not speak of' beasts. Oh, and modern medical attention if needed.

And though it's cool to put faces with names I'm afraid as soon as I walk out of the park I won't remember anything. I am terrible at remembering names and faces!

Haha, me too! Hey, if I go to Chickenstock, will someone stuff a couple little pygmy goats in my DH's back pockets when he's not looking?

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HAVE YOU SEEN THE PBS CHICKEN FILM THEY MADE... I THINK IT IS PBS... THERE IS A WOMAN THAT PUTS A DIAPER ON HER SILKIE AND BATHES HIM!!! SHE TAKES HIM IN THE CAR AND TO BED WITH HER...

Ohh, my mum is always trying to get me to buy chicken diapers!

 

[sarah92480]

What's a banana republic? Besides a clothing store?