Official Squatch Watchers

[Redhead Rae]

No take-backs! They are mine now! My babies! MINE!

Too true! I'll be going out to check on them tomorrow morning to make sure the babies are getting out to eat. If the hen isn't off the nest I'll remove her.

 

[staceyj]

Good Tuesday Morning all. I'm not even gonna pretend to read back over everything. A heap of taters piled on my plate lately, so I'm posting a *place holder*, gonna write my novel, to those who need is, swift :kickinthearse for the others.

Has @Parront checked in here yet???

Miss you gurl.
Yes. She did. Yesterday I think . This thread or somewhere. I’ve been busy getting DH ready for his trip home to see his dad. He’s leaving tomorrrow am. And I’ve been trying to go through some coop pages. ....Said she hadn’t been well and was “kinda back”.

 

[staceyj]

I was going to go close up the coop, and what do i see?View attachment 1471988
A big Kingsnake, headed for the coop!

Cappy - just another name for
#indianajones
When she’s not constructing buildings before coming in for lunch.

 

[staceyj]

@Smuvers Farm -sorry about pic being sick. -
Your mother coming for a long visit
DH feeling lost
Omg-3puppies.
Just say no and get rid of that alpha girl right away.
They are cute now, you don’t need a dang 4 way dog fight four months from now.

Many hugs coming your way.


@Redhead Rae
She’s going to be a good mommy. Thanks for taking the time to catch that video and posting it here.
I loved it.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Here's what's up lately:

1. PIC has been sick. Like, really really sick. Got him into the Dr; he is on Keflex and a very boozy smelling expectorant, cause whatever he has has settled into his chest and decided it wants to live there for awhile.

2. Super Tater DH is already going through work withdrawals, and he hasn't even started his retirement process yet. He's pretty much completely *checked out* in the work department. Plus, I think he's a little depressed about it. His unit will be out training during the time he will be turning in all his paperwork and clearing post, so basically no parties, no fanfare... just *wipe ya feet on the way out and don't let the door hit ya where the good lawd split ya*........

3. Mom is coming for her yearly visit. SHE wants to stay for at least 2 months.... Oh dear.

4. Did I mention THE PUPPIES?!?!? We got puppies.

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Yeah, there's that. I DID tell the boys they could get a couple of puppies when STDH retired.... so, here they are. We took home 3 to see which 2 would *fit* the best.

We have decided on the single boy, the white one, who we named (David) Bowie Bleu. and the black one (the runt from a separate litter), and named her Twilight Dreaming. The Brown one, we were calling Poppy Cox... and it's a shame we can't keep her... but she is too much of an Alpha personality, and doesn't do well with submitting to the older dogs.... PLUS I didn't want puppies at all PLUS blah blah blah. To be honest, if it was JUST the puppies, we'd keep all 3, and Poppy would more than likely be the lead dog.... but Wolf is already or lead dog, so don't need an Assistant (to the) Lead Dog. (Anyone get that reference?!? )

5. Our closest neighbors are moving, and they are taking PICs BFF.... so, dealing with those emotions. They sold their property pretty quickly, so we're very curious as to who will be moving in...

So, there's all that... OH and my skin procedures as well.. which has been cutting (no pun intended) into my work out and swimming time this summer..... I'm verklempt!!!

Get well Pic
Sorry about Hubby hair pulling those retirement yrs or when they're home for long periods of time
Awesome your Mama is coming to visit
Adorable pups love the
names
Wish it was us moving next door still looking
Take care all the best

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Found a surprise in the chicken run when I went to let them out—a quail. At first I was horrified I must have missed one of the chicks and the poor thing had been out all night. Then it stopped running long enough that I got a good look. A little bob white female as best as I could tell.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Found a surprise in the chicken run when I went to let them out—a quail. At first I was horrified I must have missed one of the chicks and the poor thing had been out all night. Then it stopped running long enough that I got a good look. A little bob white female as best as I could tell.

Is it wild or did it escape from captivity? I don't know which breeds of quail are wild or not.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Is it wild or did it escape from captivity? I don't know which breeds of quail are wild or not.

The landlord has them in captivity to train bird dogs. Bob whites can live here. Pretty sure when he uses the bird he just lets it go. So could be one that was used for training. Could be an escape. Could be a descendant of a survivor. (Can’t wait to move away from that nonsense.)

 

[apryl29]

I....Ummmm...????

For some reason my computer wouldn't let me play the video yesterday... I've heard that sound before. They make the strangest noises before, during, and after laying.

The salamanders down here are bigger than the skinks lol! I'm suprised you don't have these in Ohio, it is skink city here skinks and anoles. I hate that one got his tail eaten but it was probably his fault, they kind of move it around like a lure to attract stuff to eat. No kidding though Dutch looked very much dead I squealed a little bit when she moved...dang zombie chicken.

If we have them I've never seen or heard of them. Maybe it's too cold? We had one TINY salamander last fall. His name was Newt Salamander [Harry Potter]. The longest one I've seen was still a super tiny 3" long. In first grade the kids do a field trip where they go to the local bio station and dig up / catch things. It's amazing what they find & catch. I was stunned that a kid actually caught a bull frog during one of the field trips I was on. I really didn't think they'd be able to do it. I had to apologize to him b/c I didn't believe in him.
Story time:
My aunt's husband told me this story a few years ago from when they lived in Montville [a bit north of where I live, in NE Ohio]: One day my uncle went jogging down the road they lived on. He's running for a bit and sees a tree in the road. Said it was about as big as his thigh. He gets closer and begins to slow down b/c the tree in the road is dangerous and was going to try to move it. As he approaches he realizes that the tree is not a tree but a large snake stretched across the road. Seeing this he speeds up and runs quickly past the snake. He did not have his cell phone with him, so he didn't have any photos and couldn't call anyone. He continued down the road and when he eventually came back through the snake was gone.
Now, he *could* be lying, as he told this story as my family was sitting around soon after my gma had died and was trying to make the situation less sad, but I asked my aunt if he made it up and she said she didn't know.
We have plenty of reptiles that manage to winter here and survive... I'm really surprised that there wouldn't be any skinks or other similar reptiles, but it's possible that they have what it takes to make it up here.
I do recall a few stories of a huge pirahna being caught up in Lake Erie even though supposedly they can't survive. Of course that's probably a case of someone releasing a pet that got too big for it's cage than something that migrated naturally.

My girls see anything smaller than them running through the pasture and it = food. Off they go....

Mine don't seem to think this way unless it's a frog. It seems I have a rodent of some type frequenting my coop and no one has killed it yet. I keep seeing foot prints in the pdz. I put out a couple traps last night so I'm hoping I caught something today.

I was going to go close up the coop, and what do i see?View attachment 1471988
A big Kingsnake, headed for the coop!

Nope.

Molting hens... stupid autocorrect. My phone updated and forgot my normal vocabulary, so it assumes I'm a normal human being. I hate when phones get amnesia, now I have to train it all over again.

My phone does that too. Recently it was censoring my bad worse with **** & I had to go turn it off, I assume an update turned it on. I've had this phone for years and it still can't spell my kids' names correctly even though I've correct it all the time. I do like that it spells my bff's name Becky b/c she hates it & spells it Beki so that's nice.

Update on my broody leghorn. I hatched out 5 Chocolate Orpington chicks in the incubator today. I've been incubator hatching because it was so hot that my broody hen eggs were going rotten on them.

I went out about 30 min before dark to give the babies to her. I wanted to watch and see if she would accept them. When I put the first baby in, she was shocked, but when I went to put the second baby in she flipped out and flew out of her nest box scattering the two babies. This is the way she's been any time I've gotten near the nest, she runs, squawking madly. So I decided to remove the eggs, put the babies in the nest and see what happens. She didn't want to go back in, and the babies were trying to crawl out of the box. So I caught her, putting babies back in the box as they kept popping out and shut her in. I wasn't too worried because she started making broody clucking noises. I peaked a couple times and she almost escaped again when I tried moving a chick back under her. So I left her alone for a bit and focused on putting the rest of the birds to bed. When I came back, this was her response to me trying to take a video of the chicks underneath her. She went from flighty to bitey. She didn't like my trying to move her to take a look at her babies.

Awww! She's being a good mama. Took her a min to realize what was going on when you tossed those kids at her. Honestly, that's how I felt too when they laid my first kid on my stomach.. Like holy wow.. this is happening.