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[21hens-incharge]

It's now a half hour past ok to make noise time. Breakfast, done. Turns out hubs is an egg snob. He dislikes duck eggs. With chickens molting he will be having no egg breakfasts soon.

I was out at the duck house early so will likely find a bonus egg when I go back out. As soon as the dogs finish eating I am headed to the shop.

Hubs is at the hunting neighbors house. He took him some of our garden goodies. I guess he didn't have a good harvest this year.

Good morning everyone,

Sadly, we aren't having church today. The founding pastor of our church (who just turned 80) is dying. In the last week he's taken a dramatic turn for the worse. The other pastors are all related to him (son, SIL, and grandfather) so the entire pastoral team is together with their family saying goodbye. Apparently, it won't be long. He seemed to be doing very well when we last saw him 2 weeks ago. He looked near death almost a year ago but recovered. They put him on hospice this week and he is going downhill fast. We messaged the lead pastor to ask if they wanted us to bring over some food and he said not today, and they would let us know when he passes.

That is very sad Rae. Losing family or those we know and are close to is definitely hard.

 

[Redhead Rae]

On a brighter note, Thing 2 is too funny. He just pointed at the TV and said “T...V...” I said “What do you want me to do?” He pointed at the TV again and said “On.” Of course, I told him no. We don’t turn TV on for the asking. Now he has the toy remote and is pointing it at the TV trying to turn it on himself.

How is this boy only 14 months old?

@Kiki

 

[Molpet]

Good morning everyone,

Sadly, we aren't having church today. The founding pastor of our church (who just turned 80) is dying. In the last week he's taken a dramatic turn for the worse. The other pastors are all related to him (son, SIL, and grandson) so the entire pastoral team is together with their family saying goodbye. Apparently, it won't be long. He seemed to be doing very well when we last saw him 2 weeks ago. He looked near death almost a year ago but recovered. They put him on hospice this week and he is going downhill fast. We messaged the lead pastor to ask if they wanted us to bring over some food and he said not today, and they would let us know when he passes.

So sorry

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning everyone,

Sadly, we aren't having church today. The founding pastor of our church (who just turned 80) is dying. In the last week he's taken a dramatic turn for the worse. The other pastors are all related to him (son, SIL, and grandson) so the entire pastoral team is together with their family saying goodbye. Apparently, it won't be long. He seemed to be doing very well when we last saw him 2 weeks ago. He looked near death almost a year ago but recovered. They put him on hospice this week and he is going downhill fast. We messaged the lead pastor to ask if they wanted us to bring over some food and he said not today, and they would let us know when he passes.

So sorry Rae

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had two banty Cochin/chocolate orp girls go broody last year. They were sitting on a pile of 35 eggs + 5 that hatched. The rest (except for maybe 6 obviously bad ones) were in different stages of development. However I wasn’t in a place to do a staggered hatch with my baters. I was fairly pregnant, not planning on hatching anything, and was leaving on a work trip within a week. So I sadly had to let the eggs die. I couldn’t trust my in-laws to manage 5 days of a staggered hatch and we weren’t ready to brood chicks.

About half the eggs have hatched now! I can't believe how long this hatch is going on.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Omg what an unusually stupid day even for me lol.
First thing I look in the mirror this morning huge popped vessel just as gross as can be.
Murder eye in the morning ugh.
Hubs wanted the breakfast sandwich deals that go in the microwave and old murder eye shot it across the kitchen trying to vent the bag
Rained all day here so the kids got the run and.the small side of the coop
To close the walkway between sides I must cluck my butt up the ramp and into the coop.
Somehow today this already glamorous task kicked it up a notch.
I must have crawled over a Buick sized turd, literal full body skid mark
I had poop in my pocket, no idea how,why or where.
On my way out one of the ramp slats broke shoving a splinter in my hand.
And to end such a lovely day I was changing the hay in the littles pen reached into the bag and stuck a thorn into the middle knuckle of my birdie finger.
Wow, im hoping today is slightly less eventful lol!
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Chicka, can I borrow that murder eye look? I want to use it on husband next time he tells me something needs to be cleaned up.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

@Molpet I have been happy with my Panasonic 1200w model # NN-SN686S It’s only 2 years old so it should still be available. No idea on cost though as I got as a gift when I moved. (Also a necessity since I had stove burners but no oven.)

I could probably sell them now since they are off heat, but I think I'll keep them in case we can't capture our free ranging guineas this winter. I want to coop train them so we can make sure they won't get eaten over the winter. I also want to pair a hen and a cock off with the new blood I have. I'm having at least 4 breeding pairs in pens.

Oh I also have a few chicks I think I need to cull. My last hatch was.... over a month ago. I have three chicks that are probably 6-8 weeks old but are the size of 2 week olds, but more feathered out (but not completely).

A friend that raises guineas has the best luck letting a chicken momma raise guineas with some chicken chicks. They have more of a chicken mindset.


I fixed the curtains I made. Straightened the edge on the kitchen curtain and added fun colors to the bottom of the backdoor curtain. (Have to post pictures later, they are on my phone which almost dead.) Then I dug more of the trench by the coop. Supposed to get lots of rain so wanted to try and get it going downhill smoother and clean the chicken debris out of it. Covered the deeper end with pallets to try and keep more debris and chickens out of it.

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning everyone,

Sadly, we aren't having church today. The founding pastor of our church (who just turned 80) is dying. In the last week he's taken a dramatic turn for the worse. The other pastors are all related to him (son, SIL, and grandson) so the entire pastoral team is together with their family saying goodbye. Apparently, it won't be long. He seemed to be doing very well when we last saw him 2 weeks ago. He looked near death almost a year ago but recovered. They put him on hospice this week and he is going downhill fast. We messaged the lead pastor to ask if they wanted us to bring over some food and he said not today, and they would let us know when he passes.

About half the eggs have hatched now! I can't believe how long this hatch is going on.

Good morning Cappy Enjoy your Sunday

 

[CapricornFarm]

@Molpet I have been happy with my Panasonic 1200w model # NN-SN686S It’s only 2 years old so it should still be available. No idea on cost though as I got as a gift when I moved. (Also a necessity since I had stove burners but no oven.)


A friend that raises guineas has the best luck letting a chicken momma raise guineas with some chicken chicks. They have more of a chicken mindset.


I fixed the curtains I made. Straightened the edge on the kitchen curtain and added fun colors to the bottom of the backdoor curtain. (Have to post pictures later, they are on my phone which almost dead.) Then I dug more of the trench by the coop. Supposed to get lots of rain so wanted to try and get it going downhill smoother and clean the chicken debris out of it. Covered the deeper end with pallets to try and keep more debris and chickens out of it.

I am digging drainage ditches too, a bit at a time. Not much of the 13 acres here is level.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning Cappy Enjoy your Sunday

Good day Sue, how are your headaches doing? Decreasing I hope.