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[rjohns39]

@RJ, could you list ALL the animals on your 100 acre farm please?

Chickens:
Delaware
Non-Industrial Leghorn (Isabella LH)
Holland
Rhode Island White

Ducks: Rouen

Turkeys:
Bourbon Red
Royal Palm
Narragansett
Black

Coming soon:
Pot Belly Pigs
Cotton Patch Geese
Mulefoot Pigs

Sorry I was outside picking a provocative radish !!!!

Just went for a stroll on the deck and had to discuss with a young fawn that those carrots are people food. He knows he's safe here and strolled back and under the fence. Then proceeded to enjoy the grass on his side of the fence.

Sure am!

I can see I won't be able to keep up here!!

They can move pretty quickly here.

 

[rjohns39]

Well, kiki if you're opposed to bacon, then I guess Pancetta should be for you. Brown it up, then cook the Brussels in the fat, maybe toast some pine nuts and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and a little cracked black pepper.

 

[apryl29]

@21hens-incharge Thanks. I thought I was losing it. A molt before a year would be odd but who knows. As long as she's healthy. She's got feathers coming in everywhere. Looks like a normal molt to me, except for the age.

I don't think I can wash her legs. It's a tad to cold and she's tiny. I could dry brush them to loosen anything then coat them.

I have a few that were born in Feb/ march that are molting. My tiny little bantam's comb shriveled up, turned black and all her feathers started falling out about a month ago. She's growing them back it, but she looks pitiful. Her tail is finally growing back in. I didn't think they'd molt like this until next fall (18 months), but I guess nature will decide when it's time.

Sorry your kitty is sick!!!! Glad to hear the vet was able to do something for her though. You are a champion for going through so much trouble to make sure you fur baby gets what she needs Hope you get some thank you snuggles in return

@apryl29 sorry about your kitty.

I just stopped by the post office and the truck is 90 minutes late! Dude called the driver and the truck went to another town first before coming to ours!!!!! Both instances seems to be very unusual. So I am having lunch while I waste some time waiting for the chicks.

sorry about your kitty.... I know the deal with daily meds... we adopted Buddy, who has to take seizure meds 2xs a day.... not a terrible PIA unless he wants to be stubborn and doesn't want his peanut butter or his little sausage with the pill inside it...

I REALLY need to grow okra..... we go through it like water around here during the winter and autumn. Can you send a pic of Jacks giant okra tree?!?!?!?

Thank you all. I've had her even before my kids were born.. 16 or 17 years old now. I know it's getting close, but I hate making that decision to let her go. She's still eating and drinking and I swear she's fatter than she was on Monday so hopefully the meds work. I just pry open her jaw and shove the pill in. She us normally ok w/ it, but now that I have to do it every day she isn't as obedient. I have another cat that absolutely hates me, hides when she sees me coming b/c I'm the doer of unspeakable things, like giving meds and removing ticks. I'm a monster.

I have them!!! All alive. Headed home! Pics to come.

I don’t think I have seen any chicks this tiny before!!! They just wabble around like they were born this morning.

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YAAAYYYYY!!!!! I'm so jealous. They're adorable!

Ok. Here's the okra tree.
Each time it produces, it grows higher, it sets a new set of leaves,produces new flowers and a couple of new okra, and in the meantime the bottom set of leaves falls off. Think of them like x# of stories tall a building is. This plant has grown 14 (of its) stories high.

The other picture is for comparison. The okra plants on the left are about a half foot taller than me, so approximately 6 feet tall right now.
The crazy thing is that the tall plant came from the same seeds

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I had no idea okra was grown on trees! Do you at least get quite a bit off a single tree?

 

[Kiki]

Well, kiki if you're opposed to bacon, then I guess Pancetta should be for you. Brown it up, then cook the Brussels in the fat, maybe toast some pine nuts and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and a little cracked black pepper.

Parmesan cheese....GAG!
I even have a real piece of it brought to us all the way from Italy, and can't get past the smell of it.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Parmesan cheese....GAG!
I even have a real piece of it brought to us all the way from Italy, and can't get past the smell of it.

 

[staceyj]

I have a few that were born in Feb/ march that are molting. My tiny little bantam's comb shriveled up, turned black and all her feathers started falling out about a month ago. She's growing them back it, but she looks pitiful. Her tail is finally growing back in. I didn't think they'd molt like this until next fall (18 months), but I guess nature will decide when it's time.




Thank you all. I've had her even before my kids were born.. 16 or 17 years old now. I know it's getting close, but I hate making that decision to let her go. She's still eating and drinking and I swear she's fatter than she was on Monday so hopefully the meds work. I just pry open her jaw and shove the pill in. She us normally ok w/ it, but now that I have to do it every day she isn't as obedient. I have another cat that absolutely hates me, hides when she sees me coming b/c I'm the doer of unspeakable things, like giving meds and removing ticks. I'm a monster.




YAAAYYYYY!!!!! I'm so jealous. They're adorable!


I had no idea okra was grown on trees! Do you at least get quite a bit off a single tree?

They aren't supposed to be trees, that's what's funny about this one!

 

[Kiki]

I have a few that were born in Feb/ march that are molting. My tiny little bantam's comb shriveled up, turned black and all her feathers started falling out about a month ago. She's growing them back it, but she looks pitiful. Her tail is finally growing back in. I didn't think they'd molt like this until next fall (18 months), but I guess nature will decide when it's time.




Thank you all. I've had her even before my kids were born.. 16 or 17 years old now. I know it's getting close, but I hate making that decision to let her go. She's still eating and drinking and I swear she's fatter than she was on Monday so hopefully the meds work. I just pry open her jaw and shove the pill in. She us normally ok w/ it, but now that I have to do it every day she isn't as obedient. I have another cat that absolutely hates me, hides when she sees me coming b/c I'm the doer of unspeakable things, like giving meds and removing ticks. I'm a monster.

Woah...comb turned black from a molt!?? What tha?

Poor kitty

 

[rjohns39]

Parmesan cheese....GAG!
I even have a real piece of it brought to us all the way from Italy, and can't get past the smell of it.

DW calls it "stinky feet" cheese, but that doesn't slow her down...

 

[staceyj]

I have a few that were born in Feb/ march that are molting. My tiny little bantam's comb shriveled up, turned black and all her feathers started falling out about a month ago. She's growing them back it, but she looks pitiful. Her tail is finally growing back in. I didn't think they'd molt like this until next fall (18 months), but I guess nature will decide when it's time.




Thank you all. I've had her even before my kids were born.. 16 or 17 years old now. I know it's getting close, but I hate making that decision to let her go. She's still eating and drinking and I swear she's fatter than she was on Monday so hopefully the meds work. I just pry open her jaw and shove the pill in. She us normally ok w/ it, but now that I have to do it every day she isn't as obedient. I have another cat that absolutely hates me, hides when she sees me coming b/c I'm the doer of unspeakable things, like giving meds and removing ticks. I'm a monster.




YAAAYYYYY!!!!! I'm so jealous. They're adorable!


I had no idea okra was grown on trees! Do you at least get quite a bit off a single tree?

You are the third person in less than a month to report that your elderly kittykat has a thyroid issue.
The good news is that is easily treatable as long as you can get the pill in her.
Do you have a pill popper? They are awesome especially with old cats who's mouths aren't usually very clean.

 

[apryl29]

They aren't supposed to be trees, that's what's funny about this one!

OHhhhhhhh. LOL!

Woah...comb turned black from a molt!?? What tha?

Poor kitty

Yeah. She's a sebright bantam so her comb was never what I would call red. I thought it was strange b/c I was waiting for the telltale bright red comb to say she was ready, but then she just started popping out eggs. I'll have to get a picture of her tonight, I can find any that are close up of her. I have picture of her from before she started laying and her comb was yellow. Now it looks darker.

You are the third person in less than a month to report that your elderly kittykat has a thyroid issue.
The good news is that is easily treatable as long as you can get the pill in her.
Do you have a pill popper? They are awesome especially with old cats who's mouths aren't usually very clean.

No, I don't have one. I'll have to check it out. Anything to keep her from being unnecessarily tortured would be nice. I never heard of a cat having a thyroid problem before. We had 2 who had kidney failure & one who had diabetes, but he was 15 when he died after the vet gave him too much insulin. He started having seizures so we had to have him put down.