Stella's Social Club

[Hangtown Farms]

I just checked the brooder which has held solid at 60% humidity with the pump going. I have four chicks hatched. Three have the wheaton coloring and the fourth is more Ameraucana looking. Three more are pipped. Four others have done nothing but I think I hear sounds inside 2 like they are trying to pip. Absolutely impossible to candle they are so dark.

I had to help 2 olive eggers out of the shell this week . they where big healthy chicks and our thriving

 

[tbitt]

I love seeing everyone's pictures. LOVE the food ones...and the puppy ones, and the babies.....Oh heck, I just enjoy them all.

We have had some fun and not so much fun going on here.

Fun...
I am hatching pure Cayuga and Welsh Harlequin ducks, (first time EVER hatching) my Husband feels the need to put 3 of out bantam eggs (mix breeds - Dad's are all Silkies) into the incubator.....each one day apart from each other.

Well heck, they are not going to hatch so what is the harm? I was diligent with them all (my ducks are in there you know) then I move each egg over to the hatching incubator on their assigned day.....and all three hatched!

All three have leg feathering, beards and the extra toes. I am so excited to see what they look like then grown up (wish me girl vibes please)








Not so much fun....

We have been having a lot of rain lately; like 5-7" over the past week... On Thursday, the heaviest rain fall day we've had, my husband (not using his brain) tried taking the truck around behind the pasture ...... Yup, he got it stuck.

It sat there buried from Thursday evening until Sat morning. I did not get a picture of it in the mud....too gad.... it was buried to the running boards in the front end




This picture shows how deep the back tires went.... lower right




One of the back tire ruts....the fronts were still filled with water so they show nothing.

 

[The Sheriff]

Yikes that reminds me of all the times Michael got the Hummer stuck in the mud.

For anyone interested in a Louis update this is what his back looks like today.

 

[The Sheriff]

Oh, and Laverne would like to make an announcement.

 

[debs_flock]

Oh, and Laverne would like to make an announcement.

We have an alpaca like that, I can't tell you how many times we've had to cut him out. And he doesn't even have the excuse of horns!

 

[The Sheriff]

This is only Vernie's third time.

I couldn't get her out on my own because she had pulled the wire off the fence. I couldn't hold it still and force her head out at the same time. I had to go wake up Michael.

Laverne is just fine now.

 

[debs_flock]

This is only Vernie's third time.

I couldn't get her out on my own because she had pulled the wire off the fence. I couldn't hold it still and force her head out at the same time. I had to go wake up Michael.

Laverne is just fine now.

Yeah, she probably stood with a "Mom, would you get this thing off my head expression". Our alpaca, Cadbury, constantly gets his head stuck in the field fence between his pen and the neighbor's field. The stupid thing, the neighbor's field is bare dirt, our field has grass and he gets fed hay/pellets every day. Besides just manhandling his head out, I can't tell you how many times we've had to resort to cutting a wire. Eventually there will be no fence left. On the other hand, I can't tell you how many times I've suggested to DH that all he needs to do is ziptie up some smaller mesh along that section of the pen.

 

[thebirdguy]

Mary... you need a great Pyrenees to keep the raccoons away!! Then you could have turkeys and ducks and everything!!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Mary... you need a great Pyrenees to keep the raccoons away!! Then you could have turkeys and ducks and everything!!

and no more pit

 

[1muttsfan]

Laverne looks like she is thinking about going back to the fence again.