Coral! Big hugs!! wish there was someway to help- we are on a limited income, and it is very stressful- you can still have your dream, but on a smaller scale....
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Glad the owl is settled now.
The garden pics are awesome. Love the use of the soaker hoses and chicken tractors. So smart & efficient.
, just liked him for a pet. If you ever need him back, let me know. No real breeding plans for him at the moment beyond letting Carrie get a hatch or two. No desire to get into breeding any of the AOVs right now either. He's just for my bantam flock of pretties and misfits I've kept because I like to look at/watch. As far as I know he's still a he anyways.
Mylie and I had to pull a few possible suspects out of the boys pen because we found a few eggs. He's not in with any boys though that we know of. Shows no interest in the ladies either, not surprising. I'll let you know when we know for sure.
The garden pics are awesome. Love the use of the soaker hoses and chicken tractors. So smart & efficient.
Ok, thanks. Someone asked specifically what was in him and I went
Too Cute.
Coral I understand what you are saying 100%. That is why we moved out here last spring in a single wide trailer & agreed to stay in the trailer 2 yrs & not build our house until we were debt free. I worked until we were well on our way to our goals then quit work when we moved to the farm. We live off less than 1/2 of DH pay check & save as much as we can towards building-- of course things come up but it always seems to work out.
DD found another snake today. He was tangled in deer netting but not dead. Took out most of the blue game chicks. Now we only have 5 left. DD caught him with the loppers while I cut the net. Then she took him outside & opened him up so she could see what exactly he ate. That girl is really something else. Oldest DD is finally getting more comfortable around snakes. I am sure the repeat exposure to snakes helps. Crazy part is when the kids have seen so many huge snakes they think one like this is small now.
DD found another snake today. He was tangled in deer netting but not dead. Took out most of the blue game chicks. Now we only have 5 left. DD caught him with the loppers while I cut the net. Then she took him outside & opened him up so she could see what exactly he ate. That girl is really something else. Oldest DD is finally getting more comfortable around snakes. I am sure the repeat exposure to snakes helps. Crazy part is when the kids have seen so many huge snakes they think one like this is small now.
That's kind of where we're at but it stems from my fear of having something that can be taken away. Probably comes from my childhood. The house isn't big or fancy but it'll be paid for in less than 2 yrs. We've never had car payments ever, never had credit cards, ever. If I want something (and I want a lot of things lol) I save up for it and pay cash. I don't work now but I did for many years when my oldest kids were living at home. My big thing is wanting whatever I have to be mine and nobody can take it away. We don't have much but what we've got is ours free and clear. And if something were to happen to my husband (God forbid) I wouldn't lose anything and could work at a minimalist job and be able to take care of everything I have and all the animals. People have different priorities in life-my brother has the hugest nicest house I've personally ever been in. Yet if one of them loses their job, they'll lose the house. And the house will never be paid for in either of their lifetimes. Living in his nice house would mean nothing to me because it could all be taken away. But like I said-everyone has different priorities and we all still have a lot to learn.Coral I understand what you are saying 100%. That is why we moved out here last spring in a single wide trailer & agreed to stay in the trailer 2 yrs & not build our house until we were debt free. I worked until we were well on our way to our goals then quit work when we moved to the farm. We live off less than 1/2 of DH pay check & save as much as we can towards building-- of course things come up but it always seems to work out.
DD found another snake today. He was tangled in deer netting but not dead. Took out most of the blue game chicks. Now we only have 5 left. DD caught him with the loppers while I cut the net. Then she took him outside & opened him up so she could see what exactly he ate. That girl is really something else. Oldest DD is finally getting more comfortable around snakes. I am sure the repeat exposure to snakes helps. Crazy part is when the kids have seen so many huge snakes they think one like this is small now.
Christina-your daughter is flippin'' awesome lmao! She cut the snake open to see what it ate??? I remember watching a necropsy on a dog when I worked at an animal clinic. The others were green and gagging but to me it was so cool to see the actual liver and stomach and intestines, the heart......of a dog. I can deal with about any kind of guts and gore in animals. It's the hands on brutality and killing of them that I have a hard time with.
Ok Bantam Okie folks...got a deal for you!
Looking around the farm and deciding what is priority, what is taking up the most real estate for the size, we've decided our Belgian d'Anvers have to find a new home. (making room for all the pheasant chicks we have)
We do have some young birds that we will be taking to NEOCS, but for our breeders, they've become pets if you will...and really wouldn't want to separate them...they just need a good home.
They all are quail colored, We have a Roo that is kinda spunky, a hen with him now and 3 chicks 1 1/2 months old. (They are excellent broodies and mothers!) and we have another hen that is separated from the flock with 2, 1 1/2 week old chicks. (still black fuzzy bottoms)
We really don't want to separate the chicks from the hens right now, they worked so hard to hatch and raise them....
PM for any takers! 1 Roo, 2 hens. 5 chicks....(8 birds) $20!
At NEOCS, we will have two young pairs there...and tomorrow will be running all the extra cockerels to Mary's Swap....
But again the breeders are pets so we are a little more picky....
Looking around the farm and deciding what is priority, what is taking up the most real estate for the size, we've decided our Belgian d'Anvers have to find a new home. (making room for all the pheasant chicks we have)
We do have some young birds that we will be taking to NEOCS, but for our breeders, they've become pets if you will...and really wouldn't want to separate them...they just need a good home.
They all are quail colored, We have a Roo that is kinda spunky, a hen with him now and 3 chicks 1 1/2 months old. (They are excellent broodies and mothers!) and we have another hen that is separated from the flock with 2, 1 1/2 week old chicks. (still black fuzzy bottoms)
We really don't want to separate the chicks from the hens right now, they worked so hard to hatch and raise them....
PM for any takers! 1 Roo, 2 hens. 5 chicks....(8 birds) $20!
At NEOCS, we will have two young pairs there...and tomorrow will be running all the extra cockerels to Mary's Swap....
But again the breeders are pets so we are a little more picky....
Those are gorgeous! I hope you find a real good home for them. I wish I had space for more bantams. I'm just about all chickened up though.Ok Bantam Okie folks...got a deal for you!
Looking around the farm and deciding what is priority, what is taking up the most real estate for the size, we've decided our Belgian d'Anvers have to find a new home. (making room for all the pheasant chicks we have)
We do have some young birds that we will be taking to NEOCS, but for our breeders, they've become pets if you will...and really wouldn't want to separate them...they just need a good home.
They all are quail colored, We have a Roo that is kinda spunky, a hen with him now and 3 chicks 1 1/2 months old. (They are excellent broodies and mothers!) and we have another hen that is separated from the flock with 2, 1 1/2 week old chicks. (still black fuzzy bottoms)
We really don't want to separate the chicks from the hens right now, they worked so hard to hatch and raise them....
PM for any takers! 1 Roo, 2 hens. 5 chicks....(8 birds) $20!
At NEOCS, we will have two young pairs there...and tomorrow will be running all the extra cockerels to Mary's Swap....
But again the breeders are pets so we are a little more picky....
PoCo sorry to hear you may have to downsize too! I didn't want to but like you it was the best thing to get us where we need to be. Hope you can hang onto your goats,they are such beauty's!
We are sitting on uncomfortable bleachers waiting on grandsons graduation to start. Had to come and get seats two hours early! Over two hundred in his class.
Someone was talking about fostering chicks,I tried it with one hen and she refused,but another took more even tho she had fifteen already!
B Francis those are nice d anvers,if I was closer I would take you up on them,my soninlaw loves that breed. They are really a personality breed.
Well guess I will go back to people watching!lol
We are sitting on uncomfortable bleachers waiting on grandsons graduation to start. Had to come and get seats two hours early! Over two hundred in his class.
Someone was talking about fostering chicks,I tried it with one hen and she refused,but another took more even tho she had fifteen already!
B Francis those are nice d anvers,if I was closer I would take you up on them,my soninlaw loves that breed. They are really a personality breed.
Well guess I will go back to people watching!lol
Dang it! Aint that the way them snakes are, they always go for my favorite one!!!! I got to where if I like somethin alot I act like it is nothin special, that way the snakes and varmits leave it alone and go for the other one I "like" LOL, hope she can raise up the rest of them, she and I would really get along, I love blue chickens!!! LynnCoral I understand what you are saying 100%. That is why we moved out here last spring in a single wide trailer & agreed to stay in the trailer 2 yrs & not build our house until we were debt free. I worked until we were well on our way to our goals then quit work when we moved to the farm. We live off less than 1/2 of DH pay check & save as much as we can towards building-- of course things come up but it always seems to work out.
DD found another snake today. He was tangled in deer netting but not dead. Took out most of the blue game chicks. Now we only have 5 left. DD caught him with the loppers while I cut the net. Then she took him outside & opened him up so she could see what exactly he ate. That girl is really something else. Oldest DD is finally getting more comfortable around snakes. I am sure the repeat exposure to snakes helps. Crazy part is when the kids have seen so many huge snakes they think one like this is small now.
Nice and windy this afternoon/evening. Have been out picking apricots, picked 7 gallons, have more to pick, up high in the trees. Umm, hubby is working and I am afraid if I fall off of the ladder and knock myself out the chickens will eat me ! They sure did like the apricots that i dropped or fell off the tree though.
just had to share this link for a good laugh tonite..
Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/664772/come-at-me-bro We've now had Remy, our New Hampshire cockeral, for 1.5 months. He'll be 7 months old on Thursday, and while he is now used to my DH and I and gives us no trouble at all, he's ever wary and skittish around strangers (and he doesn't get exposed to many, so we're not sure that's going to change). This weekend, my sister-in-law and her husband (Greg) came to celebrate my DH's birthday with us. They like our chickens and are considering starting their own flock, but this was the first time they've visited since we got Remy. While I warned them both that Remy needs a warm up period with strangers, Greg apparently didn't really believe/understand. So the flock is out free ranging in the yard when they arrive, and the first thing Greg does when he gets out of the car is greet my DH and I and then over to see the chickens. He liked Remy on the spot, but the feeling was not returned and Remy wouldn't get within reach of him. My DH went to get some of their favorite treats for Greg to offer and make peace with, but Greg decided to take his own approach (even though I was warning him to wait for my DH and his wife was just watching with a big smirk on her face). So what was his approach...Greg raised his arms over his head and started bounding towards Remy saying, "Chicken! Chicken! Here chickens! Chickens! Chickens!" Keep in mind that Greg is over 6ft tall and about 200lbs and has a rather deep, booming voice. But while this may sound crazy, the hens often WILL respond positively to such ridiculousness and even come over (for treats). This is apparently what Greg was remembering, but Remy was not at all keen on this. As Greg, more or less, flailed towards the flock, Remy snapped; no warnings issued. Like a flaming arrow of doom he launched right at Greg's man parts! Greg didn't know what to do as he stumble-hopped backwards trying to get the homicidal whirlwind out from between his legs. In a valiant effort at extricating himself from the tangle, Greg took a flying, spread-eagle leap backwards. At the apex of his jump, I saw Remy leap once again....and manage to shove his HEAD up Greg's short's pant leg (literally, his whole head up leg in mid-leap). I thought for sure that he'd have Greg by the jewels and methods for explaining such an injury to a doctor ("Well, a rooster pecked my package....") started coming to mind as I took off across the yard to break the battle up. Fortunately, both sides were completely intact, but I had to pick Remy up and head for the run because he would NOT let him move; he just stood right in front of him and crowed and crowed and crowed. He wasn't taking any more of his crap! tongue.png For the rest of the weekend, while he didn't attack, whenever he saw Greg, he started crowing and wouldn't quit until he was out of sight. Greg learned to respect the chickens.
got the broody's moved to the floor in their boxs, looks like i may need to baracade them since one of the other hens actually dragged each one off their nest by their wing!
Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/664772/come-at-me-bro We've now had Remy, our New Hampshire cockeral, for 1.5 months. He'll be 7 months old on Thursday, and while he is now used to my DH and I and gives us no trouble at all, he's ever wary and skittish around strangers (and he doesn't get exposed to many, so we're not sure that's going to change). This weekend, my sister-in-law and her husband (Greg) came to celebrate my DH's birthday with us. They like our chickens and are considering starting their own flock, but this was the first time they've visited since we got Remy. While I warned them both that Remy needs a warm up period with strangers, Greg apparently didn't really believe/understand. So the flock is out free ranging in the yard when they arrive, and the first thing Greg does when he gets out of the car is greet my DH and I and then over to see the chickens. He liked Remy on the spot, but the feeling was not returned and Remy wouldn't get within reach of him. My DH went to get some of their favorite treats for Greg to offer and make peace with, but Greg decided to take his own approach (even though I was warning him to wait for my DH and his wife was just watching with a big smirk on her face). So what was his approach...Greg raised his arms over his head and started bounding towards Remy saying, "Chicken! Chicken! Here chickens! Chickens! Chickens!" Keep in mind that Greg is over 6ft tall and about 200lbs and has a rather deep, booming voice. But while this may sound crazy, the hens often WILL respond positively to such ridiculousness and even come over (for treats). This is apparently what Greg was remembering, but Remy was not at all keen on this. As Greg, more or less, flailed towards the flock, Remy snapped; no warnings issued. Like a flaming arrow of doom he launched right at Greg's man parts! Greg didn't know what to do as he stumble-hopped backwards trying to get the homicidal whirlwind out from between his legs. In a valiant effort at extricating himself from the tangle, Greg took a flying, spread-eagle leap backwards. At the apex of his jump, I saw Remy leap once again....and manage to shove his HEAD up Greg's short's pant leg (literally, his whole head up leg in mid-leap). I thought for sure that he'd have Greg by the jewels and methods for explaining such an injury to a doctor ("Well, a rooster pecked my package....") started coming to mind as I took off across the yard to break the battle up. Fortunately, both sides were completely intact, but I had to pick Remy up and head for the run because he would NOT let him move; he just stood right in front of him and crowed and crowed and crowed. He wasn't taking any more of his crap! tongue.png For the rest of the weekend, while he didn't attack, whenever he saw Greg, he started crowing and wouldn't quit until he was out of sight. Greg learned to respect the chickens.
got the broody's moved to the floor in their boxs, looks like i may need to baracade them since one of the other hens actually dragged each one off their nest by their wing!
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