South Carolina

[Joycats]

I have the same iron I got at our wedding shower! LMAO! It is in the cabinet in the laundry room.

I always have to hunt shoes. Like those I wore today - I have no dang clue where I took them off. Either in bathroom, in teh closet, in the kitchen, laundry room or living room or even probably in the Jeep.

I have to hunt my good shoes because I never wear them. They get lost in the bottom of the closet. I only get dressed up about once a year - funeral or wedding - and last year I had one of each so I should be covered for this year too.

I've only ever had the one iron either. As a matter of fact, I've only ever had the one refrigerator, stove and microwave. My appliances are 24 years old. If I'd had any idea they would last that long, I might wouldn've insisted on getting nicer ones to start with.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

So - what we are hatching - I have 120 eggs in the incubator. They are a combination of marans (blue and black), blue orpingtons, giant blue cochins, bantam and frizzle cochins, 2 Sebastopol eggs, 2 call duck eggs and silkie eggs from Kimberly and Nikki and also some eggs from a customer. I am watching 60 of the eggs as they were in my other incubator when the heating elements went bad. I don't think they're going to make it but I hate to give up, that batch includes my silkie eggs from Nikki and my call duck eggs.

I'm getting ready to add 15 BLRW eggs, another Sebastopol egg and another call duck egg. Oh yes, there are also a few d'uccle eggs and today I got an egg from my blue d'uccle so it will go in also. AND I forgot about the polish crested eggs. I gotta get that second incubator back up and running, I'm getting low on space in there.

Silkies. A couple of BTW Japs, a couple more cochin eggs. Mostly Silkies. Maybe 6 are not silkies..........the other 90 are.

Let me know how those chicks are for you. OH that one egg was a sizzle egg lol.
Out of the last almost 4 dozen to hatch here, I have issues. it is like one out of every dozen...is a problem bird. Three chicks hatched with four toes and one with no middle toe feathering.

I have NEVER had one with four toes. Never with NO feathering. It has feathering on the toe beside middle one, but not middle one.

No issues were in the BBS from last year. And this year this is popping up in my blues. Splash seem fine so far! Black too. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm - gotta go back through records and see if maybe I have one in that pen that should not be.

 

[Joycats]

I don't think I want to count. DH counted how many Mottled Cochins I have now in 4 breeding pens and said I finally should have enough....for this year! He is such an enabler!
I don't count chickens so maybe my feed bill won't be so enormous!
And after putting $70 in gas in the truck this week, that horse is starting to look good again.

It'd be hard to haul all that chicken food by horse unless he'll pull a wagon. Our horse is trained to drive a wagon, maybe I need to start looking for one. Amy, I need to ask you since you're a horse person....and Kimberly too if you know .... our Haflinger "Mike" is a bit, ummmm, healthy! Okay, he's fat and he's not losing weight. The trainer has him penned up during the day so he doesn't have full access to the pasture or hay but she isn't happy with him not losing weight. Any ideas of something I can do for him? He gets a small amount of grain once daily and she turns him out at night for hay and pasture. I've been researching the dietary supplements like Kelp that helps horses metabolize food better. Any opinions?

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Fair warning.........they won't last that long when you replace them.

My washer and dryer and fridge were all bought new in June 1993 - washer and dryer lasted 16-17 years. Replaced them with cheapos couple of years ago. Got the new set for a little over $500 cause I did not want to spend $3000 for the front load set I wanted. Fridge still going. I did have top of line w & d... but just a cheap little $800 fridge lol.
My microwave is one of the big old ones from Christmas 1993. Still runs - light bulb burnt out though.

 

[Joycats]

Silkies. A couple of BTW Japs, a couple more cochin eggs. Mostly Silkies. Maybe 6 are not silkies..........the other 90 are.

Let me know how those chicks are for you. OH that one egg was a sizzle egg lol.
Out of the last almost 3 dozen to hatch here, I have issues. it is like one out of every dozen...is a problem bird. Three chicks hatched with four toes and one with no middle toe feathering.

I have NEVER had one with four toes. Never with NO feathering. It has feathering on the toe beside middle one, but not middle one.

No issues were in the BBS from last year. And this year this is popping up in my blues. Splash seem fine so far! Black too. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm - gotta go back through records and see if maybe I have one in that pen that should not be.

I'll be sure and let you know what I get. I haven't candled yet, since I only got them in there on Monday. How long have you been breeding this particular bloodline that you're getting wierd stuff from? My D'uccles did that to me. I don't mind really as I like the unusual colors and it's interesting to see how it sometimes goes back to the original breedings. I have a d'uccle with a rosecomb, he's so cute. I don't sell the oddballs, they are pets. But my point was that this didn't happen with these birds until 3rd or 4th generation. I've had this bloodline for 6 years now.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Ah geez! I grew up with a maid. Now you see why my house is in such bad shape. Didn't have to do those things and still wish someone else will and usually DD does now.
I do love to mow the grass....when the mower works. I do not mind hard work. I just never learned the finer points of how to clean a house. I never had to keep my bedroom picked up and the maid seldom did my room since I lived in the upper story of the house with a long staircase she hated to climb, a 20x20 bedroom, my own bathroom and den, plus a walk in closet the length of my hallway. Our place now is tiny compared to that. However, I sure could use that maid now!
I must say, I did some dishes and dusted a bit to show mom how grown up I was when I was in my teens. She was not impressed! LOL

Like I said, I am a power tool kinda gal. And I love trucks.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Amy may know.... have you seen ours? They are F.A.T. lol. I like them like they are LOL. they aren't ridden much and at the age of Liberty - even the vet is surprised she is as healthy as she is....because it is hard to keep weight on older horses.

One of the three is not fat....but it is hard to put weight on him.

I would say start with supplements. but IDK. DH or DH's bro may know......I don't know that much other than feed them and pet them LMAO

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I'll be sure and let you know what I get. I haven't candled yet, since I only got them in there on Monday. How long have you been breeding this particular bloodline that you're getting wierd stuff from? My D'uccles did that to me. I don't mind really as I like the unusual colors and it's interesting to see how it sometimes goes back to the original breedings. I have a d'uccle with a rosecomb, he's so cute. I don't sell the oddballs, they are pets. But my point was that this didn't happen with these birds until 3rd or 4th generation. I've had this bloodline for 6 years now.

3rd gen blue & splash. First gen had three or four blood lines. Second was mother to sons & dads to daughters. I am thinking it maybe something from previous lines I know nothing about.

I changed them around - put my show rooster in with his mom and aunts. New rooster in with my show hen and her sisters. Will give it a month then see how that hatching goes.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Well, I can say that Coke and candy bars won't help him diet well. I tried that. Didn't work so well for me! ROTFL

Our pony was like that. We always teased that he could live on air. Even when I trained him for Endurance riding he did not lose off his tummy but he carried it well and we won enough for me not to worry.
Make sure he is dewormed well since it could just be roundworm tummy. I still have a fecal done on our boy since wild animals and birds carry in parasites. He never leaves the farm but after 4 years of negative fecals he came up positive last month. Ick.

No grain whatsoever and only low quality hay and pasture. That is about all you can do.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have only 180 eggs in my Sportsman and another 22 waiting to go in when some come out into the hatcher tomorrow, plus I will be adding to that when I collect tomorrow. Had a hatch yesterday of Ameraucanas and EEs with a few bantam Cochins.
I have way too many breeds to say what all I have in there but every egg is marked and it gets candled by day 18. I should have checked on Blueberry Hill's BLRW eggs but got too sleepy so I sat down here. Now I am hungry and sleepy.

Here I come Peanut Butter and creamed honey sandwich, chocolate milk and then bed. Six thirty comes too early.