The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

I suggested hot dogs and smores for supper but DH said we are out of hot dogs. Oh well, smores for supper! View attachment 1145281 We have to clear out this type of brush and clean up the leaves in order to burn the pile.

Looks like home.

We were out in the timber last night. I came in and pulled floribunda rose thorns out of my left thigh. Hate those things. I love them in the spring when they bloom and the whole timber smells like wild rose.

Tonight I did an official beak count. I hadn't for awhile. I thought 40 something. I came inside and asked DH if he wanted the truth or the number I made up. He said the truth. I told him 57 or 60 it's kinda hard to count bantam pingpong balls when they are bouncing around the roosts. I tried to look contrite and innocent. Luckily, he just chuckled and said that was what he was thinking. I'm down to just 21 standards. Marek's really hit them hard. I started the year with 37 standards meaning the Marek's purge took 16 plus 2 bantams. I really thought it was less than 18 which really hit me hard. I have 4 with ocular Marek's and quite a few standards that have lost a lot of weight. One Buff O rooster with OM and my two BO/Welly cross roosters just aren't getting through the moult. I swear they have been loosing feathers and growing them for three months. Time will tell. I told DH today that logic tells me that I should cull come spring but my heart just won't let me do it.

As for flu shots. Sigh. I've taken them and got flu. Sometimes they work and sometimes they are just a waste of time IMHO. Both DH and I have very low resistance to viruses though and since I do the brunt of the shopping I am debating getting one so I don't drag anything home to him. We both took the Pneumo-vax though. We got H1N1 back when it rolled through and dang near wound up in the hospital. That pretty much made us believers in the pneumonia vaccine.

 

[pennyJo1960]

well took house dogs out then the pyrenees pup snow and old gsd bad news putting plastic chairs in the barn realized snow had found a chicken out and proceeded to play tag the wrong way had her down fast I go after her no wrong answer me on my knees try to stand only to fall again managed to get her from snow back in coop clip her wings check her over let her go finally James heard me yelling for help but came out as it all concluded
I simply said I was done for the day

 

[CapricornFarm]

well took house dogs out then the pyrenees pup snow and old gsd bad news putting plastic chairs in the barn realized snow had found a chicken out and proceeded to play tag the wrong way had her down fast I go after her no wrong answer me on my knees try to stand only to fall again managed to get her from snow back in coop clip her wings check her over let her go finally James heard me yelling for help but came out as it all concluded
I simply said I was done for the day

I am lucky my GSD listens and will stop chasing anything if i tell her no.

 

[microchick]

Around here the 'name' logs are very popular. They take Osage Orange and use a chain saw to carve addresses, names, etc in the log. They are very cool, except they then soak the logs in antifreeze. Not so good if you have stupid dogs like we do that would probably stand and lick the darned thing.

As for turpentine, I can remember my mom telling me that when she was a kid they used to dose kids down with it to treat them for worms.

Yummy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am lucky my GSD listens and will stop chasing anything if i tell her no.

GSD was not the culprit she was at my side used he to stand only to fall again it was the damn white dog

 

[pennyJo1960]

Around here the 'name' logs are very popular. They take Osage Orange and use a chain saw to carve addresses, names, etc in the log. They are very cool, except they then soak the logs in antifreeze. Not so good if you have stupid dogs like we do that would probably stand and lick the darned thing.

As for turpentine, I can remember my mom telling me that when she was a kid they used to dose kids down with it to treat them for worms.

Yummy.

wow never heard that before about a anti freeze soak on stuff or turpentine for worms know old hunters would worm dog with tobacco kill or cure if the dog lived it was a good dog

 

[microchick]

Yeah, I talked to a guy who mad the name logs and he said that it lengthened the life of the osage Orange and protected them from insect damage.

I've heard of the tobacco treatment, also.

One of our dogs sets and watches the chickens for hours. No honorable intentions. If one gets out it goes back in with less feathers than it had when it got out. I have one Bantam crele pullet who was a Houdini. I'd catch her out casually strolling through the orchard, chase her back to the run where she would fly up and bounce on the net until she found a seam and pop back into the run before I could catch her. Clipped one wing....meant nothing. Clipped the other wing. That did the trick. I never did figure how she got out.

 

[Alaskan]

Clipped one wing....meant nothing. Clipped the other wing. That did the trick. I never did figure how she got out.

yeah...I prefer it when my animals are not as smart as I am.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I learned it as a child forgot as an adult yup do both now
done it to all the ameracauna already they do not even go out yet

 

[microchick]

Last week I watched first one, then the other little Silver Duckwing pullet fly a complete circle around the run. My run is about 30X25 feet Impressed the devil out of me. Luckily neither went as high as the netting which is over 6 feet. I'd hate to have to clip their wings. They flew so effortlessly. The other two pullets I caught staging escapes both settled down with only one wing being clipped. Strange that none of the cockerels have tried the grass on the other side of the fence.