First off...I am glad everyone enjoyed my disgusting photo of "egg junk". I kid you not, it felt like plastic and would not break up in the sink, just sat there!
Needless to say, I tossed out the ENTIRE carton of $5/doz eggs!! I love my DD too much to even THINK about giving her something from that!!
If you want to look at it under the microscope...I think it is STILL in my drain catch thingie (it's late and I can't remember what that metal thing is called.
)!! I'd be MORE than happy to hand it over to someone...after all, it would be rather interesting to know what it is/was...but more curiously...HOW did it get IN there??
BHep -
LOVE the coops. They look SO NICE!! You all did a great job!!
Wild - I would PM GavinandAllison. I got my Orps from them, and my BO Roo is not only one extremely handsome fellow, he's HUGE!!
Good luck finding one!!
Green - Let me know when you play the lotto for all of us, so I can cross all my fingers, toes, eyes, appendages while saying extra prayers!! I could use another barn to start getting some ducks and a few sheep for milk/wool!!
Now on to sad news.
Susan has taken a turn for the worse. When we wormed her the other day, her comb had started to turn pale and today it was very pale. I am going to make her a special "treat" first thing tomorrow because while I did see her out and about in the yard, this evening she was cuddled up in the nesting box while the others were getting their treat. I placed some oats in front of her (which she LOVES) and she didn't even try to eat any. Perhaps they will be gone in the morning, not sure. I don't know what else to do for her....I don't know what else could be wrong. Do I force feed her? I know her crop was (at the time she was in the box) empty. What would be a good "treat" to give her that would be a pick me upper? I don't have any dairy products in the house (remember allergies) and I am fresh out of sheep's milk...aside from some raw sheep's milk cheese.
Maybe this is just the worse before she gets better, but I am starting to really worry now!!
Praying I don't go out tomorrow morning to find her worse off or....
I won't even say it!!
Because I cannot/will not end on a sad note, I will say that my two new girls...who are still currently nameless...are just the SWEETEST things EVER!! Oh my word, I just want to carry them around and cuddle with them all day long!!
I was trying to put them back in the coop for the night (they or the boys knocked over the crate separating them...so they were let out to free range) and was trying to lure them into the coop with some treats. They came right up close to me and while they wouldn't eat out of my hand, they were right by me and didn't even run away when I was yelling at Tink (the stray cat) to go away!! Then, I picked up the white one and she just laid flat (haha...it was funny because she was in that, "I am ready to mate" position) and when I picked her up...nothing. The blue laced one was a little more standoff-ish but she was a doll to pick up too, and both of those girls LOVE to talk (they will fit in just perfectly with me...there, I said it so you all didn't have to!!
). Why did I wait so long to get Cochins?? They are now my absolute FAVORITE birds (shh!! Don't tell the others...I don't want them to get jealous)...although now I will have to actually remember how to trim butt fluff and such!!
