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[Ms Jellybean]

I'm feeling better today. I'm still sad that things are unsettled. It's his problem though not mine.
I went and picked up some paint samples for his room. Now I just need him to get the stuff out of it. It is really funny to see what things he chose to take and what he left behind.

Trevor helped me get the 5 gallon bucket to Home Depot to have it shaken up again. He weighed it too - 65 pounds! No wonder I have trouble with it!!

@A1momof3 - this is the collar Brynn is talking about.

I picked my big squash tonight. I had Trevor help me get it down form the Handy Panel.

I'm not sure what to do with it. lol!

I finally got my Roman Shade put up in my bathroom. I bought it in February. lol! I'm not real handy at that kind of thing but I did it and all by myself too! Now I can keep the hot sun out of there and my room will be darker now. I can sleep in easier. Oh, wait, that might be a bad thing....
Not the best photo....

Taking a photo of a window never really works well.

 

[Roosting Robin]

My first egg from one of my 16 week old Red Star gals! So proud. Grocery store large white egg next to it for comparison

 

[Brookshire11]

Awwww, bye turkeys!

Good luck @harley1975


@A1momof3 that story is so funny!


Well....Pearl has rubbed off her bad habits. I came early today to find Pearl in the old feed bin, laying....with an actual line beside her.
Little Hawk, Freya, and Eloise were all lined up, one in front of the other, waiting their turn.
I took them all back out to the boxes but sure enough...I pulled 4 eggs out of that feed bin this afternoon.

 

[A1momof3]

I don't know what's worse. Waiting for that first egg or realizing you just sold the only chicken that was laying?!?!?

Both equally bad! Lol

I'm feeling better today. I'm still sad that things are unsettled. It's his problem though not mine. I went and picked up some paint samples for his room. Now I just need him to get the stuff out of it. It is really funny to see what things he chose to take and what he left behind. Trevor helped me get the 5 gallon bucket to Home Depot to have it shaken up again. He weighed it too - 65 pounds! No wonder I have trouble with it!! @A1momof3 - this is the collar Brynn is talking about. I picked my big squash tonight. I had Trevor help me get it down form the Handy Panel. I'm not sure what to do with it. lol! I finally got my Roman Shade put up in my bathroom. I bought it in February. lol! I'm not real handy at that kind of thing but I did it and all by myself too! Now I can keep the hot sun out of there and my room will be darker now. I can sleep in easier. Oh, wait, that might be a bad thing.... Not the best photo.... Taking a photo of a window never really works well.

That's an amazing squash!!! Very cool!

My first egg from one of my 16 week old Red Star gals! So proud. Grocery store large white egg next to it for comparison

That's wonderful!!!

Awwww, bye turkeys! Good luck @harley1975 @A1momof3 that story is so funny! Well....Pearl has rubbed off her bad habits. I came early today to find Pearl in the old feed bin, laying....with an actual line beside her. Little Hawk, Freya, and Eloise were all lined up, one in front of the other, waiting their turn. I took them all back out to the boxes but sure enough...I pulled 4 eggs out of that feed bin this afternoon.

My ladies are 17 weeks and doing the squat and waddles/faces/cones all red on most if them....... This is killing me!!!!! Lol

 

[A1momof3]

ok question! In putting my new birds in with the rest of the flock, should I do it before I go to bed, early in the morning or set the alarm and do it in the middle of the night.

 

[henless]

Good luck tomorrow. Ken and I did 5 last January.

Lisa

Lisa, what method did ya'll use? Did you hang them upside down and slit the neck or just chop/wring their necks? I plan on trying the upside down method so that they won't chase me around the yard!

I picked my big squash tonight. I had Trevor help me get it down form the Handy Panel.

I'm not sure what to do with it. lol!

I finally got my Roman Shade put up in my bathroom. I bought it in February. lol! I'm not real handy at that kind of thing but I did it and all by myself too! Now I can keep the hot sun out of there and my room will be darker now. I can sleep in easier. Oh, wait, that might be a bad thing....
Not the best photo....

Taking a photo of a window never really works well.

Whoa! What a squash!! What are you going to do with it?? The shade looks good.

My first egg from one of my 16 week old Red Star gals! So proud. Grocery store large white egg next to it for comparison

Nice egg! Pretty color too.

Awwww, bye turkeys!

Good luck @harley1975


@A1momof3 that story is so funny!


Well....Pearl has rubbed off her bad habits. I came early today to find Pearl in the old feed bin, laying....with an actual line beside her.
Little Hawk, Freya, and Eloise were all lined up, one in front of the other, waiting their turn.
I took them all back out to the boxes but sure enough...I pulled 4 eggs out of that feed bin this afternoon.

You've got some very opinionated girls! Maybe they just like to lay close to the feed. Take a bite or two while they are waiting? LOL

ok question! In putting my new birds in with the rest of the flock, should I do it before I go to bed, early in the morning or set the alarm and do it in the middle of the night.

I would try putting them in there tonight, when everyone is up on the roost. Just put them up on the roost and then be out there early am and see how it goes? They have been introduced to each other through some wire I assume?

Good news and bad news. Went and checked on the chickens. Everyone is up on the roost! I didn't have to put anyone up there tonight. It only took 4 nights of placing them on the roost for all of them to learn to get up there.

Bad news, my Jack-Rat terrier appears to have been snake bit sometime this afternoon. I noticed him earlier standing around with his head cocked. I thought he had a tick in his ear. He gets those from time to time and they are a bugger to get out. Makes his ear really sore. I tried to look in it, but he kept whimpering, so I let him be planning on getting him on the porch tomorrow in the sunlight and checking out his ear. Hard to see a tick in the evening even with a flashlight and reading glasses. I checked him again when I came back from the coop. He usually goes with me, but didn't tonight. That is when I could tell his jaw/lower lip was swollen. I planned on taking him to the vet tomorrow, but just remembered tomorrow is the 4th, so won't be open. He only weights 18 lbs, so don't know how it will turn out.

You can give them benadryl, but I don't have any injectable and there is no way he can take the oral. Keep your fingers crossed for me. He's my little buddy.

 

[lovingmyhens]

Quote:
I have to have my room pitch black or I can't go to sleep and then I wake up at the crack of dawn. Even moonlight will wake me up and prevent me from going back to sleep!

 

[Brookshire11]

@A1momof3 - this is the collar Brynn is talking about.

Yep!
And look at that squash!

My first egg from one of my 16 week old Red Star gals! So proud. Grocery store large white egg next to it for comparison

Congrats!

My ladies are 17 weeks and doing the squat and waddles/faces/cones all red on most if them....... This is killing me!!!!!
Lol

Its soon then!!!!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Lisa, what method did ya'll use? Did you hang them upside down and slit the neck or just chop/wring their necks? I plan on trying the upside down method so that they won't chase me around the yard!

Whoa! What a squash!! What are you going to do with it?? The shade looks good.

Nice egg! Pretty color too.

You've got some very opinionated girls! Maybe they just like to lay close to the feed. Take a bite or two while they are waiting? LOL

I would try putting them in there tonight, when everyone is up on the roost. Just put them up on the roost and then be out there early am and see how it goes? They have been introduced to each other through some wire I assume?

Good news and bad news. Went and checked on the chickens. Everyone is up on the roost! I didn't have to put anyone up there tonight. It only took 4 nights of placing them on the roost for all of them to learn to get up there.

Bad news, my Jack-Rat terrier appears to have been snake bit sometime this afternoon. I noticed him earlier standing around with his head cocked. I thought he had a tick in his ear. He gets those from time to time and they are a bugger to get out. Makes his ear really sore. I tried to look in it, but he kept whimpering, so I let him be planning on getting him on the porch tomorrow in the sunlight and checking out his ear. Hard to see a tick in the evening even with a flashlight and reading glasses. I checked him again when I came back from the coop. He usually goes with me, but didn't tonight. That is when I could tell his jaw/lower lip was swollen. I planned on taking him to the vet tomorrow, but just remembered tomorrow is the 4th, so won't be open. He only weights 18 lbs, so don't know how it will turn out.

You can give them benadryl, but I don't have any injectable and there is no way he can take the oral. Keep your fingers crossed for me. He's my little buddy.

Hope he is ok. My handyman's neighbor's little dog got bit by a copperhead and was ok. I'll say a prayer for him.

People are shooting off things that go BOOM near me (in the park I think) and poor Sasha is so scared. I think I need to get her a Thunder Jacket. I hope they stop soon. I may need to call the police otherwise. Fireworks aren't legal in the city limits.

edit: The guy I spoke to about raising chickens uses one of those cone things to cull his birds. He slits the jugular enough to make the bird bleed out, but enough to instantly kill it. That way the heart pumps all the blood out of the body for you. Made sense to me. I don't think I could do that though. I have a hard time killing anything more that a big.

 

[hungnguyen]

Happy July Fourth to all of you... wings and without wings.