Perchie, all I'm going to say to you is You Are Loved! Now remember that!
Well, my quail egg hatched on schedule Found it dead outside the nest box partially cannibalized. Juliette was acting really flakey in and out of the nesting box I took the bantam egg away from her not knowing if she has done it any harm and stuck it under a hen that has been begging for eggs for the last week. Egg is on day 18 so don't know what will happen with the surrogate mom if and when it hatches.
I'm a better broody, I've decided.
Got the juvenile Fayoumi's moved. They are trying to comprehend wind and sunlight. The bantam roosters immediately started dancing their way around the little coop. Tut, the Fayoumi cockerel was crowing his little brains out. Mom Trex and her three babies are in the coop and seem to like it in a pen there instead of outside.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the pups decided to stage an escape...under the fence while I was mowing tonight. They were gleefully runing around like ping pong balls. Caught them, put them back, fixed the low area where they had squeezed under, turned around and Varn discovered that if he could climb the security gate, by golly, he can climb a cattle panel that is covered with wire and so he did. Catch pup again, back in pen, mow until I realize it's dard and I haven't locked up the birds yet.
I've decided that trying to keep 5 pups out of mischief is a lot like trying to keep shoes and socks and sometimes clothes on 5 toddlers.
Like I told DH. They have discoverd that there is a big exciting world on the other side of their fence. There will be no holding them in now. DH said, no, it's more like finding the weak areas in the construction and putting out brush fires as they occur.
Night all...
I think a lot of people are or are at least harder on themselves than they would be to another person, even if they don’t admit it. I saw something once that was like treat yourself like you would your best friend or would you ever say the stuff you say to yourself to your best friend? Or something along those lines and I thought that was great and so true and I was like no... no I wouldn’t and I probably shouldn’t say it to myself either. But easier said than done of course.
