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Its been a fun filled evening here on my 'funny farm'

I stopped off at fleet farm for some broiler feed and found a new head for my weed trimmer that uses steel blades instead of strings. Hot dang does it work good but there are NO safety guards or anything. My DW started calling it 'The Widow Maker'... i think she was looking for my life insurance paper work while i was chopping weeds :)


Followed that with splitting a face cord of wood. @Rhetts you make it sound like such a chore. I find chopping wood to be therapeutic. Nothing like swinging a splitting maul to get some stress out. Maybe if more people in the world heated with wood there would be less problems/violence on the news.

Finally, our single CX pullet got the presidential pardon tonight and was moved into the coop and run with Big Buck and his harem. I think she must have gotten all recessive genes because she is tiny and all legs, no breast (i know some guys are into that though...) She was aptly named Betty White and is getting used to the new digs. I've never kept back a CX so I am curious to see how it goes and what she looks like as she grows. May add her into my broiler breeding experiment next year with Big Buck, but who knows.

Anyone else take advantage of the beautiful weather tonight and get some work done?
 
Well Klop first I must laugh at the legs comment in your post! Then I must call u crazy... Who likes chopping wood?? To me something stress relieving is working with my cow or cleaning the coop. But then again I have been called crazy for those things to...
 
duluthralphie said:
I am down to 5 remaining adult guineas after today. It appears they either pushed the one in front of an oncoming truck, or executed it is some other manner.

I am seriously considering taking the 5 adults and sending them to freezer camp. That would leave my all juveniles for next year. I was considering selling 5-6 keets, I might just eat the adults instead.

I am thinking with luck, I could limit some of the wondering for a while and maybe some of this bullying and fighting. I know all guineas are crazy but my adults seem doubly so. I would then be able to release my young ones from the pen to free range. I am kind of afraid to let them loose now because the old ones might kill them or teach them bad habits, like playing chicken with cars in the middle of the road.
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So sorry about the crazies -- that's just nuts -- and I am flabergasted that they are enamoured with that road by y'all -- you'd think it'd scare the crap outta them!!!
 
Can I rant?

I went out to the garage to check the 7 chicks for feed, water, and temp for the night. Little Silkie was doorknob dead. This is the 2nd dead chick plus 1 sick chick in the last 14 days.

I know, I know, - buying chicks off Craigslist is a crap shoot -- but the seller still maintains she has no sick birds and has had no one report sick/dead birds to her.

My vet referred my call to the Board of Animal Health - regarding paralyzed bird. She's still not showing any sign of standing or not having the head draw - but she's an eating machine. Tonight her little crop was poofed out but good. She is laying against my chest, wrapped in 4 towels, and snoozing soundly after getting her grub on.

Anyway back to BoAH - he called this morning and we talked about this chick - he said he felt it was not AF. I didn't say anything about the 1st chick that I found dead because I figured it had decided to perform aerobatics and crowned itself against the heat lamp as the light bulb filament was broken (not bulb) and light was off when I found it. He did tell me to contact him should I have any birds drop dead or show any upper respiratory symptoms.

But it was sudden death - just like the Silkie.

I am peeved and pi$$ed and heartbroken at same time. If I've brought home something from the seller then I have potentially signed a death warrant for my guineas, my peacocks, and Ole & Lena.

The remaining 5 in the brooder are okay. Or they were 2 hours ago.

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Mistahbue said:
Can I rant?

I went out to the garage to check the 7 chicks for feed, water, and temp for the night.  Little Silkie was doorknob dead.  This is the 2nd dead chick plus 1 sick chick in the last 14 days.  

I know, I know, - buying chicks off Craigslist is a crap shoot -- but the seller still maintains she has no sick birds and has had no one report sick/dead birds to her.

My vet referred my call to the Board of Animal Health - regarding paralyzed bird.  She's still not showing any sign of standing or not having the head draw - but she's an eating machine.  Tonight her little crop was poofed out but good.  She is laying against my chest, wrapped in 4 towels, and snoozing soundly after getting her grub on.

Anyway back to BoAH - he called this morning and we talked about this chick - he said he felt it was not AF.  I didn't say anything about the 1st chick that I found dead because I figured it had decided to perform aerobatics and crowned itself against the heat lamp as the light bulb filament was broken (not bulb) and light was off when I found it.  He did tell me to contact him should I have any birds drop dead or show any upper respiratory symptoms.

But it was sudden death - just like the Silkie.

I am peeved and pi$$ed and heartbroken at same time.  If I've brought home something from the seller then I have potentially signed a death warrant for my guineas, my peacocks, and Ole & Lena.

The remaining 5 in the brooder are okay.  Or they were 2 hours ago.

:barnie  :(  :/  :hit
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That just bloody bites the big one.

(It's the best I can do with the censorship here)
 
@KlopKlop Actually, I LOVE splitting wood. And stacking it. And mowing lawn. I know how crazy that sounds but I get so much satisfaction getting work done. There is an endless supply of things to do but it doesn't scare me. Sick I know!
 

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