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poor Bitsy...
And the Turkey hunting report.......After 3 attempts we are still eating Chicken.
Our Daughter and @camboy77 were guided through open fields, cattails, swamp land, and 6 mile hikes to the blind and they were still unsuccessful. According to the guide, this is his first year that his apprentice has not shot something or shot at something in the 7 plus years he has been guiding. So the guide felt so bad for our Daughter that he said we are heading out on Sunday. Back out to a different blind.....at 5:30 in the morning...and they called in 2 large deer. Daughter comes home from the hunt all smiles and excited.....Mom if only I could have turned forward the calender 7 months and had slugs instead of Turkey load. (We will now blame her for wanting fall and winter to come.) Now, to pluck her off cloud 9 and back to reality.
I shipped my son and husband off to a 3 day Field Trip to Deep Portage.....some form of "glamping" in a lodge with 18 hours of the 24 hours spent outside orientiering (sp.), canoeing, walking in the woods, hiking to a fire tower etc. If you are reading this....you are not allowed to send sympathies his way....as he is given a chaperone retreat area and he only has 5 - 11 year old boys that he is responsible for.
I lost my first Crested Cream Legbar chick. She was only 3 days old and I think there may have been a trampling issue but I can't be certain because they do have a 4 ft by 4ft area for only 20 chicks (less than 1 week old). Why a female though......
Later tonight I will have to cull a Toad (6 weeks old) and a Rhode Island Red both have leg injuries just 24 hours apart. I thought I could rehab the toad.....but not looking so promising.
Our Daughter and @camboy77 were guided through open fields, cattails, swamp land, and 6 mile hikes to the blind and they were still unsuccessful. According to the guide, this is his first year that his apprentice has not shot something or shot at something in the 7 plus years he has been guiding. So the guide felt so bad for our Daughter that he said we are heading out on Sunday. Back out to a different blind.....at 5:30 in the morning...and they called in 2 large deer. Daughter comes home from the hunt all smiles and excited.....Mom if only I could have turned forward the calender 7 months and had slugs instead of Turkey load. (We will now blame her for wanting fall and winter to come.) Now, to pluck her off cloud 9 and back to reality.
I shipped my son and husband off to a 3 day Field Trip to Deep Portage.....some form of "glamping" in a lodge with 18 hours of the 24 hours spent outside orientiering (sp.), canoeing, walking in the woods, hiking to a fire tower etc. If you are reading this....you are not allowed to send sympathies his way....as he is given a chaperone retreat area and he only has 5 - 11 year old boys that he is responsible for.
I lost my first Crested Cream Legbar chick. She was only 3 days old and I think there may have been a trampling issue but I can't be certain because they do have a 4 ft by 4ft area for only 20 chicks (less than 1 week old). Why a female though......
Later tonight I will have to cull a Toad (6 weeks old) and a Rhode Island Red both have leg injuries just 24 hours apart. I thought I could rehab the toad.....but not looking so promising.
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@erlibird but Bitsy is soooo cuuuute.....awww..... look at her face. I think they sometimes do that with their faces when they are on the chopping block. Marigold did that to me. I still have those golden EE cheekers with big eyes looking at me as the sun was setting. I don't know why I whacked her. I do. But I don't.
Okay. All the snow is about gone. The yard is opened up for good free ranging. The birds can escape--not get stuck in snow. So. Sadie Mae is tied up on a cable down by the coop doors. It is sunny out. The ground is dampish...but not bad. She yipped once as I walked away to my car and after devouring her bribe of duck breast jerkey. She could be yelping and yelping her fool head off and giving the neighbors an ear full. I don't know. I'm not there.
Things I'm worried about: She winds herself up tight on the trees. A wolf comes into the yard.
Things I'm reassured about. She's territorial and a good deterrant for BOPs and foxes.
Okay the broody situation. During the weekend, I'm pretty sure 2 extra hens crammed themselves into Pearl's favored nesting box and in all the caucaphony and egg songs of assault and unrest, a dominique egg was lost in a yolky mess and Pearl's little dish of wet food tipped over. The eggs were a complete disaster. She seemed to get the mess settled with her feathers and rotating in the straw though and my help of getting egg shell and yolk that didn't belong. Last night I cleaned coop and prepared the broody coop. I went down at dark-thirty and candled eggs and put them in the beer box and took sleepy Pearl and put her in the broody coop. Not a word out of her. She wanted out this morning. She broody-pooped and came up the hill grazing and following the flock. Quite a long time. I did something in the house and I went down to the coop again before work and found her on 'popular nest' no eggs under her, mind you.
I put her in the broody coop and closed the door and she proceed to raise holy H-E- double hockey sticks in there. I felt bad for her but then I chewed my self out
for being to rough on myself. Because she has her precious jewels (fertile eggs), water, feed and privacy. 
Hen Song, Predator call your crazy broody head off. 
Okay. All the snow is about gone. The yard is opened up for good free ranging. The birds can escape--not get stuck in snow. So. Sadie Mae is tied up on a cable down by the coop doors. It is sunny out. The ground is dampish...but not bad. She yipped once as I walked away to my car and after devouring her bribe of duck breast jerkey. She could be yelping and yelping her fool head off and giving the neighbors an ear full. I don't know. I'm not there.
Things I'm worried about: She winds herself up tight on the trees. A wolf comes into the yard.
Things I'm reassured about. She's territorial and a good deterrant for BOPs and foxes.
Okay the broody situation. During the weekend, I'm pretty sure 2 extra hens crammed themselves into Pearl's favored nesting box and in all the caucaphony and egg songs of assault and unrest, a dominique egg was lost in a yolky mess and Pearl's little dish of wet food tipped over. The eggs were a complete disaster. She seemed to get the mess settled with her feathers and rotating in the straw though and my help of getting egg shell and yolk that didn't belong. Last night I cleaned coop and prepared the broody coop. I went down at dark-thirty and candled eggs and put them in the beer box and took sleepy Pearl and put her in the broody coop. Not a word out of her. She wanted out this morning. She broody-pooped and came up the hill grazing and following the flock. Quite a long time. I did something in the house and I went down to the coop again before work and found her on 'popular nest' no eggs under her, mind you.
I put her in the broody coop and closed the door and she proceed to raise holy H-E- double hockey sticks in there. I felt bad for her but then I chewed my self out
for being to rough on myself. Because she has her precious jewels (fertile eggs), water, feed and privacy. Hen Song, Predator call your crazy broody head off. 
And the Turkey hunting report.......After 3 attempts we are still eating Chicken.
Our Daughter and @camboy77 were guided through open fields, cattails, swamp land, and 6 mile hikes to the blind and they were still unsuccessful. According to the guide, this is his first year that his apprentice has not shot something or shot at something in the 7 plus years he has been guiding. So the guide felt so bad for our Daughter that he said we are heading out on Sunday. Back out to a different blind.....at 5:30 in the morning...and they called in 2 large deer. Daughter comes home from the hunt all smiles and excited.....Mom if only I could have turned forward the calender 7 months and had slugs instead of Turkey load. (We will now blame her for wanting fall and winter to come.) Now, to pluck her off cloud 9 and back to reality.
I shipped my son and husband off to a 3 day Field Trip to Deep Portage.....some form of "glamping" in a lodge with 18 hours of the 24 hours spent outside orientiering (sp.), canoeing, walking in the woods, hiking to a fire tower etc. If you are reading this....you are not allowed to send sympathies his way....as he is given a chaperone retreat area and he only has 5 - 11 year old boys that he is responsible for.
I lost my first Crested Cream Legbar chick. She was only 3 days old and I think there may have been a trampling issue but I can't be certain because they do have a 4 ft by 4ft area for only 20 chicks (less than 1 week old). Why a female though......
Later tonight I will have to cull a Toad (6 weeks old) and a Rhode Island Red both have leg injuries just 24 hours apart. I thought I could rehab the toad.....but not looking so promising.
I sat out and have done some calling but haven’t taken a gun out.. We were going to go hunt in the hay field by the house but decided not to... When we left there were two big gobblers dancing around about 20 yards from where we sit...
We did go set gopher traps last night... Those suckers are out in force this year.. I took my new shotgun out and shot it a little... My grandpa have a brand new Weatherby PA-08... Love it..
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Amy the chickens were delicious .
Amy the chickens were delicious .
I'd ask for a discount....
LOL - He plans to sit in the canoe and have the boys paddle and heave ho themselves across the lake. Something about sychronized paddle lifting of the canoe.
On the bright side the chances of falling out of the canoe and drowning are about nil.
Could get some nasty bruises from hitting the hard water though.
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