The Front Porch Swing

[babymakes6]

I am finally feeling better about things and finally getting relief from some of the main stresses in my life right now.

Still have a few things to deal with, but not nearly as overwhelmed and things are finally looking up again.
I have my first doctor appointment tomorrow and was told this morning that I would LOVE this doctor, so that is encouraging as well!

I am sorry to hear about everyone's difficulties. Seems like when it rains we get a tornado lately!

 

[Daloorashens]

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Hey all!!! Okay, now that was FUNNY!!! It's been crazy around here... when school got out all the sudden it was just craziness. Baseball, gardens, work, more baseball, oh then the laundry, rearrange the grow out pens again, teach son to ride bike without training wheels, garden, etc, etc, lol It's been long enough since I've been on that not only is my garden planted, it's now coming up!!! YAY!! For some reason BYC is only letting me do one quote at a time, so I need to go back now and keep catching up on the thread =)

 

[Daloorashens]

Okay, now to comment on everything I just read, lol...

I was seriously ROFL at all the names of the animals you all eat, BWAHAHAHA!!!


All the talk about MG has also been very interesting... I've read in several places that there is a good chance that 75% of many backyard flocks have it, so very interesting that it has the stigma that it does... I often wonder to myself if we wouldn't all have healthier chickens if we were actually trying to breed immunity into them... Of course, then there's those who have had it and lose tons of their birds, so I dunno either...


TNB.. those choco orps are sooo pretty!! And I agree with you on the being nice to each other thing.. .sheesh, life happens to all of us and, I can't help thinking it's a little over the top to be rude to someone else over some chickens (as much as I love mine, I love my kiddos ALOT more)


LOVED the pics of your dogs, MaryRuth!! That one of the chihuahua was hilarious, especially b/c the bigger dog was like "ACK!!! He's going to eat me!!"


pysanki-- sorry about your goat, but that's awesome that you have a new baby around, baby goats are SOO cute!! I would love to have one behind my house.. there are some railroad tracks behind our lot, they used infrequently, and the weeds really grow out there.. of course the railroad doesn't really maintain the part closer to my house, so last year we burnt them, a goat would be much more efficient...


Okay, the Frontline talk intrigued me also... does it just work for mites/lice, or does it work for internal parasites, also, does it come in a big syringe already or a bottle?

 

[Daloorashens]

Ok, that is really annoying... I put spaces between the different topics to make it easier to read... why did it bunch the whole thing together??? GRRRR

 

[babymakes6]

Welcome back, Mesha!


I just had a nice long (interrupted) chat with Ann (flocksalot).

 

[NotAFarm]

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you all have a great day!

 

[babymakes6]

You too!

Mary, are you in the path of these storms as well? I need to get outside and get things cleaned up, strawberries picked, and animals cared for. Sounds like a nasty line of storms heading our way and I don't want to be caught out in it. Straight-line winds are scary! Stay safe, everyone!

 

[NotAFarm]

Heather, Yes, we have severe storms with hail forecast for late afternoon here...and I'll be at work until mid-afternoon..........ditto, on the stay safe!

Haha....just thought that ditto to most on here is just an expression from a movie and they may not know that there was a machine that made copies called a ditto machine. What a mess that was!

Progress is good!

 

[babymakes6]

I never knew there was a ditto machine!

Stay safe everyone!

 

[pysankigirl]

All the talk about MG has also been very interesting... I've read in several places that there is a good chance that 75% of many backyard flocks have it, so very interesting that it has the stigma that it does... I often wonder to myself if we wouldn't all have healthier chickens if we were actually trying to breed immunity into them... Of course, then there's those who have had it and lose tons of their birds, so I dunno either
pysanki-- sorry about your goat, but that's awesome that you have a new baby around, baby goats are SOO cute!! I would love to have one behind my house.. there are some railroad tracks behind our lot, they used infrequently, and the weeds really grow out there.. of course the railroad doesn't really maintain the part closer to my house, so last year we burnt them, a goat would be much more efficient...

I think that there must be different varieties of MG because Hollowoak actually had birds DYING from it and mine is so mild that they don’t even have any symptoms. And the only two that I had that did have symptoms, they were fairly minor (a bit of a rattle in their breathing and some sneezing) and by the time I thought to myself: “hey, they are only cockerels anyway, why not send them with my mom to drop off in Harrisonburg on her way home and find out what this is, because the testing is free”, They had already gotten over it almost and I was worried the Harrisonburg people would think that I was an over reactive new-mom type.

So I really think that some of the strains of it must me much more intense than the strain me might have. Either that or it really WAS just the birds that I brought in in my quarantine pen and my real flock isn’t infected. I wish I could get someone out here to draw blood. I may have to learn how to draw blood myself.


Thanks about the goat. I just wish the new goat was not so tiny…he can get through any hole big enough for a chicken!!! Makes things difficult! If you do get a goat…and they are great by the way!!!...get one that is big enough that you can keep him out of the chicken house. This one is way too small!!!!

Goats are great at clearing and I sometimes take them out to places we don’t have fenced and sit with a book to read while they chow down. I love watching them eat. They bite stuff off at the base of the sprig and then munch it in like spaghetti…too funny!