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oldrooster and alaskan on their new badges!
 
microchick said:
Congratulations Bruce. They are adorable. I would just love to get goats for the farm, if for nothing else other than to keep the weeds down for us so we don't have to mow so much. I'm leary though, given the strain of Marek's I've been dealing with for 4+ years now. The previous owner had goats but I truly doubt if he did any testing for any diseases so the soil is probably full of something that would either a)make a goat sick or b) just outright kill it. I don't have too much desire to go through that with goats the way we have had to deal with the Marek's.

The friend who ordered chicks for us has a Doe that kidded two doelings last spring and a friend of his brought his buck over for a visit last fall so all three of the does are due to kid at some point. I would buy goats from him without hesitation but I don't want to bring them here just to have the land kill them.

So we keep on Mowing.

Chicks arrive on Wednesday so we are picking up either Friday or Saturday.

I also ordered a bread machine. It should be here on Thursday. I gritted my teeth and just did it. I have to admit I'm going to miss pounding bread dough. Great stress reliever it is but my Amish bread rises the best when I set it near the fireplace to rise and keep a low fire burning. It feels like about 120 degrees in the house right now. I'm always cold and even I am sweating right now.

Good news is that I have found a modification for the Amish white sweet bread I make so I can make it in a bread machine.

TRex is happily sitting on her two ceramic eggs and trying to chew on anything or anybody who comes near her. Guess I have to run up the white flag and declare defeat. Planning on getting the broody pen ready this afternoon for her.

@CapricornFarm, I don't know how I'd be able to break that kind of news to DH. I think I'd just grab a sleeping bag and move out to the hay loft.:gig:hugs I read your post to him and then said See! I'm not so bad, I just have one broody hen and only 6 chicks coming!

I think it worked! :bow
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Way to go!
 
Alaskan said:
Have you thought of giving her the shipped chicks?

I have done that in the past and it worked well. However, your broody of course has to be willing.
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We thought of that. She's a first time broody and has been so aggressive towards me and the other hens that I don't think I'd trust her with magically appearing chicks unless she went through the hatching process with them. Plus, she's so small that I don't think she could handle 6 Fayoumi chicks easily.
 
Good points!
microchick said:
We thought of that. She's a first time broody and has been so aggressive towards me and the other hens that I don't think I'd trust her with magically appearing chicks unless she went through the hatching process with them. Plus, she's so small that I don't think she could handle 6 Fayoumi chicks easily.
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