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[drumstick diva]

I haven't encountered any BYC problems either - hope I didn't jinx myself

 

[tnspursfan09]

I have 44 in the brooder, 15 or so still drying out in the incubators and several pipped and zipping!

The folks who own the property next to my driveway mowed their field today and these two babies showed up in my yard. We tried to find their families but I think that their nest was destroyed.

 

[ozexpat]

I am back in the USA after 28 days with my family and beach farm.

Busy times. We are up to 600 bird sales. I started a guy with a BS in Animal Sciences to help run the place.

The kids were awesome. I miss them so much already.

No to read the 1000 posts I missed in the old folks home

 

[tnspursfan09]

Welcome back

 

[ozexpat]

Just got word one of our gilts had 11 piglets so far

 

[drumstick diva]

AW poor duckies, looks like the one got injured at the tip of his beak (red). When they mow fast - there isn't the time to run or fly. Out by us, many years ago, the mowers completely scalped a woodchuck - the poor thing was in shock.

Do you have a wildlife center or rehab place, that would take them in?

 

[chickadoodles]

tnspurs those are awfully cute chicks there!

And I'm with Diva on the wildlife rehab center they probably can put them in with a family of the same kind of duckies.

Diva that is so sad about the woodchuck.

When we would cut the hay a lot of baby deer were in the fields and my ex-FIL would bring the baby's home to be bottle fed and released.

I have tried several times to hit an ovation and it not work this past week.

 

[Highcotton]

[COLOR=333333]Originally Posted by Highcotton [/COLOR][COLOR=005CB1] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]You need to take the bridge from St. Petersburg to Bradenton Florida.[/COLOR]

If that's the Sunshine Skyway, it doesn't look too bad - two lanes in both directions, a breakdown lane on the side nearest the rail, and a divider down the middle. This is the Bonner bridge in the Outer Banks. It is two lanes total - one in either direction. My husband and I wound up playing "chicken" with another driver on it a few years ago. He was driving spang down the middle of the bridge. Fortunately, he woke up and jerked over into his lane before he hit us; though Hubby had hit the brakes and the horn, there was no place for us to go to avoid a collision. It doesn't really show in this video, but the roadway is pretty much sand-colored. We were driving a "Sandlewood" colored Bronco II; we think maybe our vehicle just hadn't really registered on the guy's mind:

I think it is the Sunshine Skyway. It is fairly new so it does have nice wide lanes but it is so high that gives you nose bleed and it is very long.

 

[dsqard]

Welcome back Oz! Congrats on the new piglets and the success of the farm. I know it must be so hard to leave those beautiful children and Mrs. Oz and come back to the states. I know you have been working on getting the passports for the kids. Once you have the passports, are you all coming to the states? I am just not sure what your plans were once the kids could travel.

Diva and Alaskan, I didn't go down and talk to the dad with DH for the exact reason you wouldn't have. The sight of those two kids scaling the fence with ease after I caught them in the coop and apologizing the whole time they are trying to get away made me want to strangle them. I wouldn't have been coherent in front of their father. I would have sounded much like a sailor

The good news is, I believe "dad" made an impression on them as they did NOT visit us yesterday. Now all I have to do is collect up more turkey eggs to give miss Broody Biddie and we will be on the way. The other broody hen still has her four turkey eggs so the hatches should only be about a week or two apart.

 

[drumstick diva]

However, sometimes talking like sailor and then showing a very warped grin, works well to keep kids from coming back.