Minnesota!

[Coffee 1st]

Beautiful quilt Coffee! I bet it will be great for combating the winter blues by adding a big splash of color

Your pups are adorable! I know the two in front are Poms but is the back one a longhair Chi? I like little dogs and would one if it weren't for the fact that I have visions of a squashed puppy under the weight of my current 5 month old puppies that already weigh 70 pounds

yep 2 in front are Poms. Bella on right is 10 no teeth,bad joints.liver problems..white one is the new pup Aspen,,,old man ButterFluffin 11 plus years Pom/yorkie i adopted him over year ago he was found in a forclosed house. he was almost starved to death nothing but bones,broken ribs,he has no teeth, 3 legs and almost blind, he doesnt do much he is served his meals in bed, carried outside to got potty and then back to bed,, and he LOVES his Momma... Does not like men and Hates the new puppy...LOL...

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Sigh.

I am sure it really hurts, but I think you lucked out on the bruising!! Hope it heals up quick. Stupid goat.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

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Originally Posted by Coffee 1st

I finished the quilt last night ,,, finally,,, it covers a king size bed. Now I just have to make the pillow cases to match.. Yep it is very bright.. But it was made with leftover scratch materials...
Super nice!! My DW quilts too.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Hope your chicken is doing better, Klop. So much work trying to make her feel better.

Speaking of this. I don't remember anything final, Coffee. Your chicken with all the swelling problems is all good now?

 

[Minniechickmama]

Can't say I blame her. Unless you can throw them out in a heated garage/shed, they are horrible to raise in the house. Normally we only raise them in spring too and kick the ducklings out to barn/pasture as soon as possible. We are down to just the 1 pair of rouens left and my exhibition muscovies from Jim/Patti Zimmerman from KS. Darn my luck...every one of those ducklings are rouens!

I have kept ducks in rabbit cages before when they were little. My brooding hutches for ducks have wire bottoms. SO much easier. But I also am not crazy enough to hatch ducklings in DECEMBER!!!! LMBO!!! You are nuts, destiny!

Editted because I said chickens when I meant rabbits.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Waiting for those pictures Lala. So glad she is looking so much better!

 

[Cluckies]

Quote: I too think there is something more going on than just a molt. I would not put her out with the others until she is doing way better or yes, they could kill her, plus, I think she needs to be warm for awhile. have you checked for mites? poor thing...

Well I seen my hawk today looked it up it is a red tailed hawk. It is a big one it looks to be about 2 1/2 feet tall. It was sitting in the tree right above the chicken coop. I tried scaring it away by yelling at it and flapping my arms that did no good so I picked up a rock and threw it at it, it finally flew away. But it only flew to the neighbors top of the garage so I threw another rock at it. And it just flew to another tree. That dang bird would NOT go away.. So my hens are on permanent lockdown and my dogs are not allowed to go outside without supervision which makes it inconvenient..

Oh no! sounds like he'll stay around for awhile looking for another meal, terrible.

Hi Everybody!
MinnesotaNice, the chicks are doing great, went out to check on them this morning and they were all running to the door to be pet. How are the hens? After I traded with you I went to the feed store to get some grower feed and got bit by an Irish Wolfhound. He didn't puncture anything badly but I have a g on my wrist. Mom made me go to the doc and nothing is broken but I have some nerve and tendon damagee and won't be use that hand for much for awhile. He just had to bite my dominant arm

. I'm thinking of raising some of my own chicken feed and read somewhere on here about raising guppies, minnows, and duckweed as a supplement for chickens. Anyone else heard of or did it? I was also thinking about aquatic snails and crickets.

A guy at work said he threw some minows in his chickens water this summer, said it was hilarious watching them bob for minnows, the chickens loved them! sorry about the dog bite, ouch!

I finished the quilt last night ,,, finally,,, it covers a king size bed. Now I just have to make the pillow cases to match.. Yep it is very bright.. But it was made with leftover scratch materials...

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Wow, that is a gorgeous quilt!

Quote: I don't understand how people can be so cruel. thank you for giving him a loving home. is he all better from his mishap a few weeks ago? or am I mixing him up with one of your other puppies?

 

[lalaland]

1. Good to hear that Goldie is perking up. You are doing such a great job with her!
2. Crawling mealworms? The ones I buy are dead, I hope.

the dead ones are usually from china and reportedly have a high arsenic content. on the other hand, no one I know has had a chicken die from them. The crawly ones are good for recalcitrant eaters, like goldie. It is the wiggly movement that gets them to eat. very gross

Well I seen my hawk today looked it up it is a red tailed hawk. It is a big one it looks to be about 2 1/2 feet tall. It was sitting in the tree right above the chicken coop. I tried scaring it away by yelling at it and flapping my arms that did no good so I picked up a rock and threw it at it, it finally flew away. But it only flew to the neighbors top of the garage so I threw another rock at it. And it just flew to another tree. That dang bird would NOT go away.. So my hens are on permanent lockdown and my dogs are not allowed to go outside without supervision which makes it inconvenient..

I'm glad you saw the hawk. It will stay around for awhile, unfortunately. I have put up about 6 windjammery things. There was an old farmer at the flea market who would make them - just a vane made out of a flatten tin can , and one spinner thingy. Hawks don't like moving things, of course if there is no wind, they don't bother them! It is very inconvenient to have a hawk hanging around. or a neighbors dog...

Hi Everybody!
MinnesotaNice, the chicks are doing great, went out to check on them this morning and they were all running to the door to be pet. How are the hens? After I traded with you I went to the feed store to get some grower feed and got bit by an Irish Wolfhound. He didn't puncture anything badly but I have a g on my wrist. Mom made me go to the doc and nothing is broken but I have some nerve and tendon damagee and won't be use that hand for much for awhile. He just had to bite my dominant arm

. I'm thinking of raising some of my own chicken feed and read somewhere on here about raising guppies, minnows, and duckweed as a supplement for chickens. Anyone else heard of or did it? I was also thinking about aquatic snails and crickets.

thats awful, hope it gets better soon....if you learn about how to raise guppies or minnows, let me know. I would like to learn!

Waiting for those pictures Lala. So glad she is looking so much better!

yuck. No pics tonight, I got delayed at work and only had a short time with her before I turned out the lights. She flew up to the top of the kennel and I took the opportunity to give her a good looking over and I can not believe she is still alive. Those are very deep and very bad wounds, - in good shape, but....somehow I didn't let myself really see how serious they are.
Still not a good eater, but thanks to cluckie's suggestion (am I remembering right?), she ate enough meal worms yesterday to have a good number of droppings today. that's a relief. I'm going to order some from Amazon, twice as many at half the price.

She was very active tonight, happy to come out of the coop, walk around, fly up to the top of the kennel...not so happy with me forcing her head into yogurt. I'm like, " you are going to eat, gx3d da727$%. She probably shook more yogurt off on my walls than she got in her, but...every little morsel counts. Trouble is, she was so happy to be out that she didn't have much interest in more mealworms - she ate the ones I left for her today.

Very alert, very curious about what was in the bathroom - looking everywhere. I will move her to the coop tomorrow morning but still keep her in the kennel. I am lucky that it is so mild out!

 

[lalaland]

Forgot to say that Petunia is back to being broody! This morning, at 4:30 am in the dark, she was in the nesting box. I thought maybe she fell of during the roost in the night - it is pitch black in there....but when I got home she was still in the nest, sitting on 3 eggs. Danged girl, she is confused by the mild weather perhaps. And my broody cage is occupied by Goldie...


Scandia, I actually had a hen lay an egg on the roost while I was under it....got bombed in the head by an egg, and yes it broke on my head!

 

[Coffee 1st]

Hope your chicken is doing better, Klop. So much work trying to make her feel better.

Speaking of this. I don't remember anything final, Coffee. Your chicken with all the swelling problems is all good now?

yep she is like a brand new chicken.. lets hope it lasts...