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Morning everyone! Wow, the last day of August already...guess fall will be showing up soon (I hope). Been terribly warm here, looking forward to some cooler weather.

@casportpony that sale looks like fun, have you ever been to it? I grew up with horses but haven't had one for years. I don't see a new horse in my future but you never know where life will lead you.

Blooie, I'm glad the 28th wasn't an emotional shipwreck for you. :hugs

@bruceha2000 :frow

Hope you all have a great Thursday, time for me to get up & go!
 
sunflour said:
Likely she won't start, those that do don't live long in our area.
How is Bear doing - does Bear like the puppy?



Oh my, glad they evacuated. If their home flooded, they will not be able to salvage much.



Your reputation is spreading :)
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Bear tolerates her...doubt he'll ever like her. He's pretty jealous. She jumps on him a lot so lots of growling and barking going on. He's bit her a couple times so she's learning Bear means business. She has actually made him more active for an old dog. He wants her food and she wants his so we have to stay by them when they eat.
 
Blooie said:
Oh my! You guys are so funny!! I was just gone from BYC while I wrestled with the decision of whether or not to get out the chicken raising world, and I know me so well that I knew if I kept coming here it would make the decision even harder. Unreasonable fear of not fitting in anymore, I guess. But the decision was made, the chickens are gone, and guess what? I'm still me! :wee
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When the chickens I have are gone I will be done with chickens. With all the predators around here it's to stressful. I haven't lost any in the last couple weeks but they don't get to free range as much as they used too. I'm glad you will still be with us.
 
DigMyChicks said:
When the chickens I have are gone I will be done with chickens. With all the predators around here it's to stressful. I haven't lost any in the last couple weeks but they don't get to free range as much as they used too. I'm glad you will still be with us.
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It has been a long, stressful event for you and your family.


Blooie said:
Monday would have been Linda's 65th birthday
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It still may be emotional when Monday comes, so make plans to be busy ( I know you likely already have plans) :)

N F C said:
Morning everyone! Wow, the last day of August already...guess fall will be showing up soon (I hope). Been terribly warm here, looking forward to some cooler weather.
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We had temps only in the low 70's with rain yesterday and it felt like fall....I hate to wish time away, but do look forward for cooler weather. But your "cooler weather" gets really cold quite soon, so enjoy the warmth for now.

DigMyChicks said:
Bear tolerates her...doubt he'll ever like her. He's pretty jealous. She jumps on him a lot so lots of growling and barking going on. He's bit her a couple times so she's learning Bear means business. She has actually made him more active for an old dog. He wants her food and she wants his so we have to stay by them when they eat.
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This sounds like integrating newbies to a chicken flock - supervision is a must during treat time:) At least Bear is tolerating her and she is learning respect for the elder :)
 
It already came and is gone, @sunflour . Her birthday was Monday the 28th. I didn't word that very well! :lau

DMC, you have had your battles, that's for sure. I never lost a bird to a predator so I can't even imagine what that's like. :( It's not that my setup was so great (even though I think it was) or that mine didn't free range all the time (they did) - it's just that my number never came up before their new owner came and took all of mine to his place. With predators, it's usually just a matter of "when", not "if" and I know darn well that I was just lucky. The ones I lost were from them being stupid - one ate a bit of wire, one crawled under a board and the board fell on him....see? Being stupid.

Initially we were going to convert the run into a greenhouse. That was the plan yesterday. Then the coop/shed was going to be a place to store lawn equipment, patio furniture, etc. But shoot, if I'm not going to be hear to take care of the original inhabitants, what makes me think plants out there would fare any better? So last night we had the brilliant idea of putting the winter plastic back on the run, taking off the end piece, and just driving the riding mower and the ATV and parking them in there like a garage. We can use the wire from the cattle panels to hang rakes, garden forks, hoses and such during the winter months. We'll still clean out the coop and use it for storage of the grills and furniture and such, so at least the money and work we put into the setup won't be a waste. Sounds like a plan to me. Must. Clean. Run. <sigh> I don't wanna!! :hit Three years of virtually untouched deep litter in there. Yuck!

Oh, DD - ever the eternal optimist! If you've found a way for the cold to kill off just the stuff you don't want to have around, you are under obligation to share!! (Back me up, guys!!!)

I can't believe it's Labor Day weekend already!! This year has been dead run for us, and I'm still waiting to take a breath!! The last three big holidays for 2017 are Halloween, Thanksgiving, and my favorite, Christmas....then a new year starts! I don't ask for much - could somebody please slow down the speed here?
 
Blooie said:
The ones I lost were from them being stupid - one ate a bit of wire, one crawled under a board and the board fell on him....see? Being stupid.
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Horse people say that if there's a way a horse can hurt itself, it'll find it; sometimes I think poultry are trying to one-up the horses.

Dumb ways I've lost poultry:

birds getting caught on electric fences. I had one duck hen that reached through the 2"x 4" welded wire fence to get her beak around the hotwire that was several inches outside of the fence to keep the foxes, etc, from digging in.

Birds going out of their way to get into trouble. I lost a couple of birds and nearly lost a few more when they somehow escaped the pasture to eat ant bait on a fire ant mound 50' away from the fence.

Chickens that had previously been roosting in a coop, started roosting on top of it, and got taken by an owl.

I had several neighbors that, with my permission, walked across my property to take their dogs for a run/walk in the woods behind us. A Polish rooster nearly took himself out of the gene pool when he suddenly decided to fly over a fence that he had respected for months. He did it during a 45-minute period when I wasn't home, at the precise time that a neighbor was passing through with a dog that just happened not to be on a leash that day. When I found the rooster, he was surrounded by feathers and I thought he was dead, but he was just in that shocky "faint" that chickens go into when violently, severely stressed.

No need for predators to sneak in and take them out - my stupid birds volunteer!
 
It's great to have you back Blooie! We missed you!

It's September here already and I can't believe it! It's supposed to be a warm, wet spring here. Our backyard is still a swamp, which is great for the pair of ducks that have turned up for the second year running. They are wild mallards and the drake had a very muddy face from dabbling in the puddles yesterday. At least they have the stream to wash off in.

I should have some Button quail hatching in the next few days too. I'm excited about that. I'll have to find a cute photo to share on here (once I'm on the computer and not my phone). Out in the aviary a quail is on eggs and her younger sister has been helping out, hopping on the eggs when she has a break. Little Spicey is only 4 weeks old, a bit younger when I took the photo. It's just so cute!
 

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