Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Alaskan]

Hehehe

 

[tjo804]

Quote: I like that idea too! DH not so much he wants to make sure the hunter Never comes back! Said fines and police only piss off the neighbors.

 

[tjo804]

I want to thank every one for the great suggestions and support.

I do hope the horse is having a better time of it today.



Alaskan Teachick Chickiesoup and Ron : You guys are a staple here and so very informative and supportive. This is my favorite thread because no one gets bullied or ignored!

I came here for the coffee, I stay for the people

ANy and all prayers are welcome here! my spirit has taken a huge hit this year!

How did I loose them, Sadly I did not know the neighbors got a puppy and I lost one of my fav ladies a week ago just vanished I have been looking everyday for her thinking she went broody in the long grass or woods behind us. she was my project chick Birda She had cross beak split wing and onel leg longer than the other but she kept up with the flock like a champ! I am sure that puppy got her now. Trouble made it through the night and went out to the coop this evening in an attempt to lessen the stress from AC house to airy coop. It was sooo huuumind today Even I was uncomfortable. Baldie Is still gone and Moe is resting comfortably in my now expanding pet cemetery. So I have just lost 3 Ladies to that puppy and if the diarrhea clears up Trouble should be fine. no open wounds (thank you Jesus). I am still playing with the Chicks in the house I really like the standard Cochins personalities.

Today DH helped me to make the coop a bit more secure we wrapped it with goat fencing and we also took the pool cover and put it over the run to give them shade. added more litter pans and since they will not be allowed out of the coop / run area for the near future I will spend tomorrow potting some of the plants they love into big pots and moving them into the run. I am also going to till up the dirt to see how many bugs I can scare up for them. with some shade there now (drought killed most of the shade trees that covered the run) the ground might not crack and break. DH still plans to build a larger coop for them closer to the house! And before I can get the perimeter fence he wants to level the ground. bring in dirt.

It was a better day today but my flock looks like someone elses somehow to me the balance is off. I have 8 hens left and my bantam roo. Today I got 4 eggs 2 were leghorns so I am not sure that counts since they haven't missed a day since they started to lay. So even after the trauma of yesterday I am still having a 50 % production rate. So I think as long as they stay safe they will begin to feel safe again.

Teachick I hope you find what is mauling your ladies (or a hawk does -find the mauler not your Ladies-)
Alaskan I hope your swallows find their way home! You are a good steward of God's creatures.
For all the broodies out there God Bless those Eggs!

Thanks again for the support

Have a great sleep everyone and a Blessed new day!

 

[Alaskan]

@tjo804

That was the sweetest post ever!

Can't tell you how good it makes me feel to know I have been helpful, and appreciated!

I think so many people forget to appreciate... I definitely appreciate you!

It is lovely that your DH is upset about the dog, even if he wants to handle things differently. Think how horrid it would be if he didn't care that you were hurting. That is a great blessing!

There are several big scary fires up here... But it has been super nice to see how everyone has been pitching in to help.

The pizza place got so many people calling in to order pizza for the fire fighters that the pizza place had to tell them to stop, they had reached their maximum pizza making capacity.

People with boats and pumps were cruising up and down the river spraying water on houses... So many people brought hot food to the displaced dog mushers that that had to stop too.... They ran out of stomachs to put the food in!

One lady needed cat food but couldn't leave her house, so someone else got it for her..... Someone evacuated from their house had no diapers, so there was a quick run to get those....


It has been very touching....

 

[perchie.girl]

@tjo804

That was the sweetest post ever!

Can't tell you how good it makes me feel to know I have been helpful, and appreciated!

I think so many people forget to appreciate... I definitely appreciate you!

It is lovely that your DH is upset about the dog, even if he wants to handle things differently. Think how horrid it would be if he didn't care that you were hurting. That is a great blessing!

There are several big scary fires up here... But it has been super nice to see how everyone has been pitching in to help.

The pizza place got so many people calling in to order pizza for the fire fighters that the pizza place had to tell them to stop, they had reached their maximum pizza making capacity.

People with boats and pumps were cruising up and down the river spraying water on houses... So many people brought hot food to the displaced dog mushers that that had to stop too.... They ran out of stomachs to put the food in!

One lady needed cat food but couldn't leave her house, so someone else got it for her..... Someone evacuated from their house had no diapers, so there was a quick run to get those....


It has been very touching....

I have seen it all too... People coming out of the woodwork to help evac livestock Big stock trailers loaded with more horses than capacity just to get them out of harms way.

This is where I see the good in humanity in people in general....

deb

 

[chickisoup]

Good morning everyone
@tjo804 - I agree with Alaskan

Yes we can see the very best in our species in times of tragedy and unfortunately, in some places, you can see the very worst. Seems most of us here are blessed to be living in the former, or maybe it's just that all you great folks on here help to make it so

Anyway, I hope you all are seeing a better morning!!! (Just watching the morning news and the main story is just breaking my heart, nuf said.)

My silly chicken is still making broody noises and acting like she has the worst case of PMS ever. She raises her hackles at EVERYTHING. If somebody
even gets near her head while she is pecking in the grass she throws a fit!!!
It is hillarious to see a big fluffy Aussie puff herself up and raise all those hackle feathers. She looks like she belongs in the Jurassic Park movie!

When she growls and fluffs at anyone now her flockmates just turn their heads and give her a look like, "will you please go away" then ignore her.
For all the bluster she is still an Aussie after all and they know it and that just seems to irritate her more

 

[Bunnylady]

Can't tell you how good it makes me feel to know I have been helpful, and appreciated!

I think so many people forget to appreciate... I definitely appreciate you!

I think you are right about this, Alaskan - I know I am guilty of it. I get reading along, and forget that people can't see me smile and nod in affirmation at something they have posted. That I really should say, "Honey, you nailed it," because we all need to hear it, at least once in a while.

Oh. and . . . . . have I ever told you that I appreciate you?

 

[chickisoup]

 

[chickisoup]

I think you are right about this, Alaskan - I know I am guilty of it. I get reading along, and forget that people can't see me smile and nod in affirmation at something they have posted. That I really should say, "Honey, you nailed it," because we all need to hear it, at least once in a while.

Oh. and . . . . . have I ever told you that I appreciate you?

Ditto.
(and I am guilty as well)

 

[TeaChick]

Looks like the broody thing was a false alarm, for now anyway. She hopped off the nestbox late this afternoon. However, she has had a SERIOUS attitude problem for over a week, grumping at the other girls, parking in the nestbox and hackling up and YELLING at me when I kicked her off to get the eggs (plural because they all fight over that box). This is one of the BA's I got from Cackle Hatchery last spring so she is just over a year old. Quiet, shy, meek aussies but today when I went to check if she was sitting on anybody's eggs she tried to bite me!!!

I'm thinking because she is so young, she just may not have quite figured out this brood thing yet. Think I will leave eggs under her tomorrow and see if she decides to stick. If she does I can always swap out the eggs for fertile ones from my neighbor.

Alaskan - we get both tree and barn swallows. Well, actually my neighbor gets the barn swallows but they come to our field to chase bugs. We put up several swallow nest boxes in our field for the tree swallows. There were fewer that past couple years but this year there were no vacancies! In fact they even tried to take over the blue bird houses but they lost that battle.

That sounds like my broody girl. Normally, she's friendly enough, but she just stayed on the nest box, then she switched for a larger clutch, then she switched back to her own clutch (so I removed all but three of the other eggs), then she switched back to those three, so I removed all the eggs from that box and she's stuck with them.

@TeaChick it sounds like you have both the heat, AND perhaps a worm load AND maybe a giant group of snakes (what is that called? a flock of snakes?

)

whatever... you have three very probably causes for a lower egg production... and if the snake freaks out the girls before it eats the eggs, then that can cause them to slow or stop production.

After any big attack in my coop, the girls often stop laying for a full week or even two.

@chickisoup silly broody, and I sure am happy someone has a good crop of swallows!

A flock of snakes...

Yeah, I'm concerned about there being several factors too. We just try to keep several waterers spread out around the yard (in the shade) and I wormed and we kill the snakes when we find them.
A week or two?!?!?!?! I've had predator scares, but my Comets and Leghorns only stopped laying for a day or two for those. I guess maybe these NHs are more sensitive to all that.
There were two gray rat snakes in the same nest box one evening. DH always makes a major racket when he kills them too. I don't remember how long ago that was, three four weeks ago though. Anyway, I got two eggs on the porch yesterday. IDK how many (if any) I got in the coop; maybe, I'll go out later this afternoon and take a peak.

I love to just sit and watch them swoop around after mosquitoes. Only thing is after the first hatch fledges, it can get downright dangerous outside at times because the young ones get too focused on the bugs and almost run into you!

Ooo! I like to watch the bats do that in the evenings. DD stands still looks straight up and whistles in short bursts: tweet, tweet, tweet; like that. And the bats start flying around in a circle above her (well around above her).
DD had a close encounter with a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird like that once. It was flying around and we were walking around the backyard and it was getting close to us, but then it swooped right around her and hovered right in her face, literally less then six inches from her nose. She fah-re-e-e-eked out! I had to chase her down, tackle her, and make her stop and calm down. She wouldn't talk about it and just wanted to go to her room and go to bed. The next year when the hummingbirds came back, she didn't even remember the incident; all the other kids did (so I know it wasn't just some weird dream I had).