The Old Folks Home

[Arielle]

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Oh you should see some of my writing after 11-- I don't even recognize misspelled words any more. Hehe . . it is what it is.

Glad it is less toxic than DEET. I hear dr Sears recommend using Deet and I was left wondering when information witl catch up to main stream doctors.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Ohhh Nooooo, google search doesn't work for me on BYC, I couldn't searrch for anything. I would have to open firefox, enter BYC as a spectator and then search. Of course then I would want to comment on thread and couldn't!!! Copy and paste the thread address back to the Bing search engine . . . . that process would use my days allotment of patience.

No one could tell me why google search did not like my CP any more.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

My 5 day old chicks finally "got it" when I put the meal worms in today. I love how cute they are when they're running around trying to keep the worms away from the others. I throw in enough worms that they can ALL have one at once, with some to spare, and yet there is still pandemonium in the brooder.

It's amazing to me with no momma and no training that all chicks have the same behaviors. Yay, DNA.

 

[wolftracks]

Geez people. I'm crosseyed from trying to catch up. Biggest problem is I can barely remember everything I read. Someone's getting married?? And who wants to send my those horse apples. And rocks? I still have a rock in a box in storage that may husband had always carefully packed whenever me moved. It was one that my youngest daughter protected and was so affraid it wouldn't move with us after we got married. Then she saw the box with her name on it and opened it to see what was in it. There was her big rock, packed in newspaper, so it was nice and safe. She's 25 now and we've always moved that rock for her. We're all rockhounds in my family. I used to find them in the washer when the kids were little. They stick them in their pockets and then someone would wash and not check pockets, which at times was profitable.

 

[gryeyes]

I was awakened this morning by my house silkie Miss Sparkle perching on the blankets over my knees. She's been investigating more and more of the house. The BO and BR pullets. Punkin and Beth, were at the foot of the bed.

Sparkle is half the size of Punkin and two thirds the size of Beth. She's a year old and laying - not a broody silkie! - and the other two are five months old. Sparkle lays her egg in the brooder bin in the Office/infirmary/Nursery/Guest room.

Beth has apparently become the top bird in the house, with Sparkle next, able to take treats from Punkin at will. Beth terrorizes Sparkle; she always runs to me when Beth pecks at her. Sparkle was picked on by other birds in her first two homes to the point of feather loss. She squatted right away to Beth but got pecked anyway. I pecked Beth. (The Famous Big Person In Charge Peck, using my forefinger and middle finger to thunk her on the side of the head.)

Sparkle enjoys going out onto the deck and into the fenced garden area. The other two girls get to go out of the garden into the yard to mingle with the flock during the day, but they always come back to be let in at night....

Nothing like watching a full sized BO "dust bathing" on my heated throw over my legs.

 

[sourland]

Linda, they cracked and threw away the mold after creating you.

 

[wolftracks]

I was awakened this morning by my house silkie Miss Sparkle perching on the blankets over my knees. She's been investigating more and more of the house. The BO and BR pullets. Punkin and Beth, were at the foot of the bed.

Sparkle is half the size of Punkin and two thirds the size of Beth. She's a year old and laying - not a broody silkie! - and the other two are five months old. Sparkle lays her egg in the brooder bin in the Office/infirmary/Nursery/Guest room.

Beth has apparently become the top bird in the house, with Sparkle next, able to take treats from Punkin at will. Beth terrorizes Sparkle; she always runs to me when Beth pecks at her. Sparkle was picked on by other birds in her first two homes to the point of feather loss. She squatted right away to Beth but got pecked anyway. I pecked Beth. (The Famous Big Person In Charge Peck, using my forefinger and middle finger to thunk her on the side of the head.)

Sparkle enjoys going out onto the deck and into the fenced garden area. The other two girls get to go out of the garden into the yard to mingle with the flock during the day, but they always come back to be let in at night....

Nothing like watching a full sized BO "dust bathing" on my heated throw over my legs.

OK...We need video

 

[gryeyes]

You should be here when I have to portion out bits of whatever snacks I eat to the entire household: first the elderly dachshund Zorro, then dachshund Dooley, then cat Lizbeth, then Beth or Punkin whoever gets there first, then the other pullet - quickly, or there will be chasing! - and finally Sparkle, who is the most patient AND the daintiest at accepting her bit of whatever.

Then I get to eat some of my own food before the cycle starts over.

 

[DDNONIN2016]

You should be here when I have to portion out bits of whatever snacks I eat to the entire household: first the elderly dachshund Zorro, then dachshund Dooley, then cat Lizbeth, then Beth or Punkin whoever gets there first, then the other pullet - quickly, or there will be chasing! - and finally Sparkle, who is the most patient AND the daintiest at accepting her bit of whatever.

Then I get to eat some of my own food before the cycle starts over.

Love it
Someday .... when I live alone. House chickens I cant wait

 

[Arielle]

My 5 day old chicks finally "got it" when I put the meal worms in today. I love how cute they are when they're running around trying to keep the worms away from the others. I throw in enough worms that they can ALL have one at once, with some to spare, and yet there is still pandemonium in the brooder.

It's amazing to me with no momma and no training that all chicks have the same behaviors. Yay, DNA.

Free entertainment--- for us!!

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Got back from errands tonight and DH told me a lamb had been born.

WTH?? I just put the ram in a couple weeks ago. Consult calendar--OOPS, timing put the breeding when the young rams were still in the pen. Darn. Nice ewe lamb, good vigor, and ate from the bottle like a PIG. Might keep it.

My turn for a long night to feed the new baby. I need to be up to manage the incubator anyways.