Hola, ALL!
Sorry I've been MIA, but I was super sick, got better, wasn't really, sick, sorta better, sorta better, sick, sorta better, mildly normal. I've been trying to figure out what the heck is wrong, because this isn't your normal stomach bug.
Worshipping the porcelain deity shouldn't be so prolonged...
Anyway, I have chicks hatching and will be drowning in them soon. Several will go into a box to ship out to Shawn, but I'm going to have a bunch to raise up.
I have 28 turkeys still cooking. I'm wondering what the heck I was thinking with so many set!?!? What will I do with them?
I spread 7 bales of straw throughout my facility (22 coops/runs ATM) to help with the unbearable mud throughout. It's rather tragic...when you start out with lush prairie grass (in clay on a hill) in your run which has been there since the beginning of time, then add poultry who have a voracious appetite for plant growth, then add a horrific drought that causes the roots of said prairie to evaporate...you get pavement. Clay + dead grass roots = bricks. Now I'm adding straw, so I have to do whatever I can to make certain something is growing in the soil despite the strikes against it. I bought one of those big bags Honey Hole seeds at the farm store and I have scattered it abundantly...as well as wheat and oats and plugs of grass from the surrounding prairie (big bluestem, etc.) I'll have to put in some goldenrod, liatris, sunflower, brown-eyed Susans, roses, and a few other things that are more native and able to survive.
Unfortunately, the well water is ruined. It's as though it's pure septic tank. I can't bear to haul water to the degree I had to do it last year and I'm not really prepared to do it again. I'm tired.
I've decided that my human chicks need me more right now than I have had time to give them, and I'm going to be cutting back- WAY back on my breeds, projects, etc. In the next week or so I'll be posting some of my flocks for sale. If anyone is interested in something in particular, please PM me and let me know. I'll be selling most in pairs to prevent me from being piled with lonely roos.
I'll be posting auctions for the adults over the next couple of days, I think, once I've decided who I'll keep. It's not forever, just a few more years until I'm done brooding my girls. I only have a few left with them.
