Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[smkchick]

Good morning all; dropped the Volvo off yesterday for service, waited all day for the call to come get it. Around 3:30 I get a call saying that they haven't looked at it yet and I will have to wait till today for it to be done. What is the point of making an appointment ???
Suzanne have a great weekend with your family. Make sure you stop several times so your mom can get out and stretch. Make sure you do also for your back.
Tomatoes coming out my ears.
I think both silkies are crowing so that would make it 5 out of 5 chicks that I brought home from Massachusetts roosters. What luck.
On my way home from Huntington yesterday I went truck shopping. I stopped at Honda to check out their version of a truck. The salesman wanted to know why so I told him that I was an Urban Farmer. Definitely need a tee shirt to that effect.

I think they moved Buffalo. It seemed like it took forever to get here. We stopped every two-three hours. I was in agony at the beginning of the trip, but then was okay.

On the way from the hotel to my brother's house, we stopped at a corner and were visited by one of the locals:




Yikes.

I have total garden envy. I can't begin to tell you what a fantastic garden my brother and sister in law have. They even have some tomatoes that sprouted from their compost pile that are enormous. The size of acorn squash. The acorn squash is the size of pumpkins. Unbelievable. And everything is from saved seeds. My sister in law is amazing.

Carol, go to www.goldenegg.spreadshirt.com. Urban chicken farmer shirts and much more!

 

[magsrags]

I think they moved Buffalo. It seemed like it took forever to get here. We stopped every two-three hours. I was in agony at the beginning of the trip, but then was okay.

On the way from the hotel to my brother's house, we stopped at a corner and were visited by one of the locals:




Yikes.

I have total garden envy. I can't begin to tell you what a fantastic garden my brother and sister in law have. They even have some tomatoes that sprouted from their compost pile that are enormous. The size of acorn squash. The acorn squash is the size of pumpkins. Unbelievable. And everything is from saved seeds. My sister in law is amazing.

Carol, go to www.goldenegg.spreadshirt.com. Urban chicken farmer shirts and much more!

Susanne, when you said you were going to Buffalo NY I just said to myself better she than me!LOL It's a HIKE up there!
Have fun!

 

[magsrags]

Babys are arriving!
Late last night before bed 2 silkies were piping in the bator.
This morning 1 tiny white one is safely out! 2 more silkies are piping, also 1 EE and 1 Blue Orp.

I hope this goes well and no problems. I am done for the year and want some little ones to keep. No more roos......repeat after me....no more roos .........

The silkie eggs are so small. I'd forgotten how tiny some are. My Snow Cone's a hatchery silkie and her eggs are 1/3 bigger at least. She isn't a tiny one at all. These are from smaller stock and it will be interesting to see them grow up.

 

[queenchick16]

When it rains it pours, or at least it drizzles.my husband has been using my car for the last couple of days while I get his serviced. Well this morning I go out to let the girls out and notice the parking lights on ( just barely). Dead battery.....the car is 13 years old the lights don't turn off by themselves.the battery is only a couple months old.
Suzanne it was the brakes, and he damaged the rotors so all in all the service cost $1000+
What a drag, I could have put that money toward a new truck.
Well I'm going to spent the day getting ready for a wedding I have to go to. Mani, pedi and I better get these legs waxed. I know too much info for you men out there.
Suzanne enjoy the fair.

 

[smkchick]

When it rains it pours, or at least it drizzles.my husband has been using my car for the last couple of days while I get his serviced. Well this morning I go out to let the girls out and notice the parking lights on ( just barely). Dead battery.....the car is 13 years old the lights don't turn off by themselves.the battery is only a couple months old.
Suzanne it was the brakes, and he damaged the rotors so all in all the service cost $1000+
What a drag, I could have put that money toward a new truck.
Well I'm going to spent the day getting ready for a wedding I have to go to. Mani, pedi and I better get these legs waxed. I know too much info for you men out there.
Suzanne enjoy the fair.

Usually when the battery dies, the store will prorate the cost. Since the battery is only a couple of moths old, that should work in your favor. Ask!

 

[littlecritters]

I have kept them in quarantine in a dog crate for 2 weeks in the house. I just take them out and carry them around with me and we have a nice walk in the yard every day (or in the playpen in the yard, think small fenced in area while I garden), then into the crate for an hour or two here and there to eat/poo/drink then in again at night to sleep. I find it really helps them to get used to you and lets them be in a relatively low stress environment for a time (since they have just been taken out of one flock, before sticking them in with another).

For instance, the most incredibly adorable and sweet silkies that Vera was kind enough to bring this direction for me are chirping softly at the side of my desk as I type this. Have I mentioned how much I love them? I LOVE them!!!! So does everyone else. They are getting a lot of lap time.

May I have your permission to copy this post and place it on the Quarantine thread that i started? I will give you full credit for the post...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/695961/lets-talk-quarantine

 

[littlecritters]

The broody moms ALL try sitting on each other's nests or even resort to stealing other's eggs and roll them on over into their nexts. It is comical!

Glad hammy is feeling better.

With Cinnimon look for respitory illness, strange looking or runny poops, pests on their skin, sneezing, coughing, shaking their head or any discharge coming from any place it shouldn't. Stay strickt to the 2 weeks though..... as stress alone can make a pre-existing disease they live with suddenly rear it's ugly head when their immune system is vulnerable.
I can't tell you how many times in the 4 years or more I am here that I've read posts about a seemingly healthy and great bird brought mayhem into a flock because it wasn't quarentined properly first.You really don't want to go there.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

May I have permission to copy this post also and place it on the Quarantine thread I started?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/695961/lets-talk-quarantine

 

[magsrags]

May I have permission to copy this post also and place it on the Quarantine thread I started?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/695961/lets-talk-quarantine

Absolutely, I hope it can save someone a preventable heartache.

 

[JerseyHen]

May I have your permission to copy this post and place it on the Quarantine thread that i started? I will give you full credit for the post...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/695961/lets-talk-quarantine

Sure.

 

[littlecritters]

JerseyHen and MagsRags -- Thank you! I'll copy the posts tonight when I can get to my computer.


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