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[lonnyandrinda]

Actually, when things pile up like that (ssssooooo very sorry about it all ....I've had most of those things - but luckily spread out - not all at once), anyway....when there is so much and so little that you can actually do except damage control for the fallout..... Go outside, or inside, and scream for as long as you can, as loud as you can. It does add a level of stress release. Not sure of the physical or chemical wherefores or whys but I've used it a time or five, and it helps. I often feel enough 'recalibrated' so that I can clearly prioritize the issues, and understand what I CAN do about each, and then actually start to do them. It helps to get through the overwhelmed feeling.

Good luck! and hugs

and sympathies for your multiple (and in progress) losses

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Thanks. Feeling better tonight. Even though I got MORE bad news (and very bad at that) on the chicken front tonight. Weighing my options before I discuss it much. Apparently God knew I couldn't handle anymore so he has taken it out of my hands and my load is probably about to get much lighter- not in a way I wish.

Never thought of it like that, but, yeah, to a cow that's hemmed in an over crowded pasture with nothing to eat, traveling through acres of timber and creeks to find green grass and clean pond water, it would seem like paradise alright.

 

[Kassaundra]

I know Captain Jack Sparrow, and Captain Jack (song of Billy Joel), then there might be CAPT Jack USN.... or those O3 Captains. I am not familiar with the other Captain mentioned.

Not familiar w/ Cpt Jack Harkness!!!!!!! For shame!!!!

It is a Whovian thing. (Doctor Who)

 

[Kassaundra]

OH, Dr Who. Should have known!

 

[bardies]

Thanks. Feeling better tonight. Even though I got MORE bad news (and very bad at that) on the chicken front tonight. Weighing my options before I discuss it much. Apparently God knew I couldn't handle anymore so he has taken it out of my hands and my load is probably about to get much lighter- not in a way I wish.

So sorry. You know we are here for if you want to talk.

 

[Kyzmette]

You must have one of those spa type pastures where there is heated and scented water, hot towels, soothing moosac, ice chips and the yummy flavored jello!

I wanna live in Sagetown's pasture!

 

[hotcurltr]

So sorry. You know we are here for if you want to talk.

That is such a sweet thing to say. I need to talk, but will wait. I'm always windy but that's not what I mean. I just got in about 10 or so from still catching up on chores and have more tomorrow, it's really not much to do I'm just really slow for now. Thanks for always asking about me.
welcome more newbies. I think I did welcome everyone but Capt. Jack so just in case, welcome, you all have come to a great place. I wouldn't talk before and now I won't shut up.

Not only do they make huge chicken addicts out of you, but the conversations and pictures are so awesome you feel like you have to join in, When I first started with my chickens I was told I needed Storys book on chickens. Well I bought it, but I get much more info from thes people

You got it. This is one of those groups!

RINDA-----HUGS FOR YOU.

Sometimes i don't know when enough is enough, but God always does and sometimes I feel really mad and let down, but eventually, in .His own due time things come around. If I didn't believe that and have had it happen before, I couldn't endure some things and might not be here

@Ksane I'm sorry for your losses too. I know we all say sorry but with us it means so much more. The hot stabbing pain, and shortness of breath is felt in all of us when we or one of ours loses something they dearly love. I wish you peace and know mourning will not last forever. Glad you got the racal. They are looking for meals, but I see too many wild birds and rabbits. Sometimes they like being lazy and think they fiound an easy target.

@Kyzmette --- I thought Ksane rooster looked a lot like Floyd. I think he's been with his girls long enough that I might try to hatch some of his babies. I know you only had him since Oct., but did u get any early chicks from him. Pullets actually that might have just started laying, because I was wondering what color egg they were laying. Whew, I feel like I said that all in one breathe.

@shelbydog Thanks for the congratulations on the hatch. It was raining so much yesterday I didn't take pics and today was one of those days. Humphrey is being patient, but since I didn't give him any cigars, he's passing out big pieces of mulch. He's going to lose weight if I don't put them back together soon. I wouldn't have separated him, but I didn't know how he would act, this being his first time, but I can already tell he's going to be a great daddy. I've had a few drakes that would want to breed right away and would kill a duckling. They went to camp fast. Donald always liked to stay w/ his girls and when there were many laying he'd just make the rounds. After hatch, he did a lot of babysitting.

Congratulations on your hatch. Do you know which drake is the proud papa? I'm happy for you because I know you have wanted your own hatch for a while now. Feels good. Huh? Cleaning all the poop doesn't though. Good thing the grass is up and they can graze and noodle in mud. I hope someone will give in and make that quilt for you. I love it and can see why you do. It will be a lot of work

@Kassaundra Love the colors you picked for the Wedding Quilt? You always have a lot of projects going. Lucky you. I'm glad you're feeling better. I started a big batch of fermented feed since I had been staggering mine in several gallon jars. There was a lot of white foam when I finally opened it. I thought mold at first but it wasn't. It smells good. Kinda like a cowboy in my rodeo days/ I liked what you wrote about fermented feed, I didn;t know any of that, but I really live in a vacuum. I was told, however, if fermented properly and long enough, it doesn't go bad. I've always been afraid of keeping a batch going. This will be my first time, w/o having several going at once and using it all. Mycotoxins shouldn't be able to live in the fermentation, should they?

@Chickenfan4life --- I know it sucks being on crutches, but unfortunatly sometimes the choices we make come with consequences and sometime we don't even make the choice. It will heal soon. You have a lot of people praying for you. I spent 4 months only aloud to go to the bathroom with the wound vac, because of where it was located. (I did sneak off to a goat sale and the machine freaked out so I got caught, because homehealth had to come late at night. They were not happy. See even at my age I get caught LOL It will be two years in July and I would post a pic, but I don't know how to close it so the people who did want to see could look and the others wouldn't have to. Hope that made sense.
I want to wish everyone a good night and a happy Wednesday tomorrow. I have a chick that has been chirping loudly all this time, one of my blue marans, so I better treat her w/ something and hope for the best. Should of done it first, but was exhausted and needed PEOPLE.

 

[TRUE5]

Thanks. Feeling better tonight. Even though I got MORE bad news (and very bad at that) on the chicken front tonight. Weighing my options before I discuss it much. Apparently God knew I couldn't handle anymore so he has taken it out of my hands and my load is probably about to get much lighter- not in a way I wish.

Let me know if there is some way that I can help! I pray the bad news gets turned around and some good comes out of it all!

Apparently Tuesday is a repeat of Monday for me... $500 to replace the radiator in my van, puppy chewed up a nice crate I left in the chicken yard because of the rain, lost another mottled orpington juvie last night, goat managed to pull down and chew on an extension cord, and I had a shed full of dead and dying chicks because one set of brooder chicks knocked their door loose and another brooder I forgot to set the pin in the door after putting in a larger lightbulb last night to keep them warm. GAH I am so frustrated today. And honey season is here and I'm not prepared, all the frames and boxes I was prepping got drenched in yesterday's rain, and we are closing on our old house in two weeks and I have no idea how or when we are going to finish moving the things we still have up there. And because of the cold I have a metal trough in my laundry room full of stinky 3 week old chicks that I don't dare leave in an outside pen until the cold passes. And I need to do laundry so bad. This is not my week. I would scream it I thought it would help.

When it rains it pours. Doesn't it seem that laundry is always piled up just to make things worse? Praying that your week goes better. Again, let me know if there is some way I can help at all.

 

[shelbydog]

This scovy hen hatched out 2

The toulouse goose hatched out 2 today before I left.

Here is my new sebie goose bathing with the gander

I still only have 1 chick mama hen brought it outside today.

 

[greenbeetle]

Just my luck the 7 SLW chicks I hatched are now 8 weeks old and I have 5 boys and only 2 girls.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Gosh that is so true- when it rains it pours! Discovered last night I fed a predator a $50 chicken dinner, a very good quality black copper marans rooster out of dark egg lines I had just bought last weekend. He was in the duck pen with some other roosters for quarantine and I guess got chased out of the one small gap in the netting on top. Yeesh.