The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

The last thing I want is for us to drive over an hour, then someone not show up. That's one reason I don't meet people. At least if they're coming here and don't show, I have not wasted gasoline/money, only time waiting.

Ida is not looking good at all. She just lays in the dog kennel, won't eat or drink. And she's very pale, too. Guess this may really be the end of the line for her.

 

[speckledhen]

Washed our first load in the new washer. Very quiet. But, when you open the lid when it's done, it plays a few notes for you. Tom says it sounds like the ice cream truck, LOL.
More teen pics today, plus Lizzie and her three chicks, who are turning 3 weeks old this weekend. She has two cockerels, one pullet.

 

[kitkat5505]

Those chicks are so cute! Sorry Ida is not doing well.

 

[kitkat5505]

I got my bunny cages moved under our deck, I should have gotten a before pic under there, it was a disaster. And the baby bunnies are 9 days old and getting furry and so so cute. My chickens are probably feeling neglected because I'm spending more time with the bunnies lately lol. Still waiting for our first egg. The older girls are almost 20 weeks and some have looked ready to lay for weeks now.

 

[cppeace]

Aww baby bunnies are so cute. I remember having them years and years ago. I don't breed my bunnies now.

 

[speckledhen]

Baby bunnies are adorable, though not really a fan when they're grown. I like seeing bunnies in the wild, having had to save quite a few very frightened ones from my cat. I don't really want any livestock that gives birth, but for some reason, never could get my head around having rabbits, something about their eyes, LOL. There is a lady on YouTube I sometimes follow who raises rabbits, so I watch her videos with her bunny escapades. The channel is Hope's Homestead (her name, I gather, is Cherish. I thought it was Hope).

Haven't been out to the barn yet, too dark to see much. Need to check on ailing Ida and Thea's babies.

 

[1muttsfan]

At 20 weeks you should see eggs soon

 

[speckledhen]

Dealing with a plumbing emergency this a.m. The copper pipe that goes into the top of the water heater sprung a leak from a teensy pinhole in the side that was spraying at the canning shelves and drippiing down. Took us a few minutes to see where the water was coming from, it was such a tiny spray. It had been spraying for days, I think because half the floor was wet. We don't go down there every day, no reason.

Now, how does a pipe develop a pinhole? At first, I thought the water heater was kaput because it's at the end of its 12 year warranty, but not this time. Would be my luck, though, to need a new water heater the day after they deliver the new washer.

 

[getaclue]

Old copper pipes often wear from the inside, and get very thin, like foil. Usually the first sign is a pinhole, where it's worn through. While you probably don't have any chlorine, chlorinated city water does that to them real bad.

 

[speckledhen]

No chlorine, we have well water. And it's not hard, either. But Tom ended up cutting out the piece and connecting the two ends with a sleeve and he's getting all the joints re-soldered.

I told him I was happy to be married to a real man who knew how to do things. Men who wear skinny jeans and have man buns tend to be helpless. Men should know what a lug wrench is and know how to use it. I pity the type of man who knows less than I do about fixing things! I once put in an alternator in a car when DH was down after a spinal tap. So, take that, girly-men!