Georgie seems 100% back to normal now. She's pushing her weight around like a general.
Some folks keep asking for Brahma chicks and eggs and I am close to saying I just don't sell them. I have the 4H person who drives here from SC to get my extras. She's been such an advocate for Brahmas and particularly, this variety, so until and unless I see something concerning, she will continue to be my #1 customer.
However, in another case, the man down the road from me, a man I generally like, has contacted me to see if I had bantams for sale. Of course, I don't-mine are really old and don't lay much. But, he has some hatchery Brahmas in and among the menagerie of birds that includes chickens, turkeys and guineas he allows to run loose on the road we live off of so I can see him asking me about them. I do not approve of his housing, if you can even call it that, so no way I would sell eggs or chicks or birds to him. We have a different idea of proper management. A dog kennel with no house, no tarp, nothing to shield birds from predators or weather is not appropriate, period. And though he has a couple of mutt dogs that may keep some away, he's had losses. I've seen the piles of feathers as I drive by. I'm getting really picky about who I allow to have my birds anymore. If you have disease on your place, forget it! If you have losses upon losses with predators, sorry, can't help you with new stock. I can't in good conscience send birds down the road to die or suffer in the weather. God knows, he probably only feeds them all corn.
This has been a not great season for me and someone on a group (not BYC) was really nasty this morning and I had to report them so I am already in a mood to take off heads. I have a thick skin myself, but when someone says something hurtful to a group of people who are already in an emotional situation, that is just, well, it's going to really bring out my claws. I'm getting to be Zero Tolerance Zelda here, on
so many levels, LOL. And it's so darn cold in my quilt room, I can't finish a stupid lap quilt to save my life. GAH!


