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Tomtommom said:
She just tried to sneak out the window with her boyfriend... teenagers!
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In all seriousness, she should be coming off the light today
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I managed to feed her pumped milk all day yesterday, except for one feeding. Output looking much healthier, mustardy (anyone who has had a baby knows what I mean).

We're watching the weather closely, stormband should get here around dinner time. School is letting out early, just in case.
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Yes..teenagers! I'm so glad things are looking better for her and maybe you will get her home soon...that makes all the world of difference for her and you. Sweet rest and solitude to bond with your baby girl. Well...all except those other pesky kids ya got...that kind of removes the rest and solitude from the picture.
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lovingmyhens said:
Miss Bee I think the problem with the new bully has been solved. I observed them all together Sat and Sun. The only confrontation was last night and I think she (the bully) was confused about where to go to sleep as there are now 2 coops to choose from and her other friends were choosing the new coop, not the one they have been in forever. My friend gave me his coop as well as his chickens. We thought they would be happy with at least one familiar thing in the move. She got upset and pecked one of mine on the head and I whooped her. She ran off and came back and went into her coop. But she was dismayed that she slept alone...the others stayed in my coop. It was really funny.
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That's good to know! I have a couple of bullies in my flock right now but since I have so few I have to deal with them until I get more hens for the rooster to serve. After that, all bullies will die, laying or not. I won't suffer a hen that can't be trained for harmonious flock life....nothing upsets the peace of the flock for long if I have anything to say about it. And I do.
 
rrrmamma said:
The highland lassies are here, or at least one of them is. The other one was very agitated from a run in with the bull over breakfast then being loaded in the trailer and taken on a long bumpy ride. Her owner pulled the trailer in our pasture, not close to the paddock that we wanted them in for a few days, then opened the door and forced them out. She may be about to calve for the first time and is really skittish. She took off at a run and cleared the fence. He could have let them come out on their own because I bought the trailer too. He only charged us for the one and we can pay him for the other when we get her back. A neighbor saw her come up on the road then turn and go back into the field next to ours so hubby is out walking the woods with a bucket of grain. I guess I won't sleep much tonight if she hasn't come back by bedtime. Of course it is raining and cold again. Just the best weather for searching for a lost cow!
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Hoping you get her home soon.

Lisa
 
Got a tornado warning going on at the moment. Say a prayer if you don't mind. Also have flood warning.
 
I let the young chicks and the duckling out of the brooder for the first time today and it's a joy~as always~to see birds that young foraging like kids in a candy store. That's the first time I've seen that duck come to life and move quickly!
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They haven't stopped all day and their crops are bulging...if they are like my last group of layer chicks they will live on the fringe of the meadow and become a wild gang, subsisting on mainly foraged food, as wary as wild birds, and healthy as horses.

Will be getting 5 ducklings on May 5 and am going to try an experiment with them...instead of keeping them in a brooder I think I'll run them right away with this young bunch, leaving a brooder heater in one corner of the coop, and let them forage for most of their first foods like ducklings do in the wild...I'll watch and see how that's going and supplement them, of course, if it's needed but I want to see if they can get better food than ol' chick starter. This duckling would eat a bite and immediately run and take a drink...how miserable. He's been out foraging all day long and I haven't seen him run to that waterer all day! I'm guessing bugs and worms don't need to be washed down like grain feeds.

As of today the older flock are getting cut off from the big meals they've been getting also, as well as the meaty flock. It's forage all day, eat some each evening, like before and everyone will be all the more healthy for it.

I had a meat chick with a bum leg...not sure if it got injured by the older birds or just got it caught in something, but it was wanting to lay down all day...could take a few steps and then lie down. I put some castor oil on it's leg this morning and it's up foraging with the others this evening.

Will kill the extra rooster this week and let the big boy out of the pen for some flock duties and breeding. Got to get a group of eggs in the incubator nest one last time this spring before summer is upon us and fertility is lower.
 
It is ripping through the TN/KY line. Tornados and flooding all around here. Showing pics of several tornados on the local news.

Setting in my recliner Bee. I can run and duck and trust God with the rest. ha
 
Triple Willow said:
It is ripping through the TN/KY line. Tornados and flooding all around here. Showing pics of several tornados on the local news.

Setting in my recliner Bee. I can run and duck and trust God with the rest. ha
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Amen! God is great and He is also good. There are so many benefits of being a child of God....peace and no anxiety over storms is one of those.
 
Triple Willow said:
It is ripping through the TN/KY line. Tornados and flooding all around here. Showing pics of several tornados on the local news.

Setting in my recliner Bee. I can run and duck and trust God with the rest. ha
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If it gets chilly on the recliner Hola! and I'll bring you some brownies and hot chocolate or milk.
 

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