The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

Could we get a picture of porcine belly rubs?

next week.

Analou's photography skills are enough to keep me updated but not publishable.

 

[ozexpat]

i could get pics of this kritter no problem

 

[kingfrodo]

so today after working in the yard all day (it got up to 70 here) I needed to go to TSC to get some chicken feed, I had to talk the DH out of buying an incubator!!!???

What parrallel universe am I in?

I probably should of said yes, but I got scared b/c I know nothing about hatching eggs......

 

[chickadoodles]

She is precious! How can anyone do that to a baby anything?!

All of my pets ahve been rescues, the lates being the kitten I have now. Woke up on morning last September, went to let the chickens out. A tiny kitten had taken up residence on our stoop. she had a small injury to her snout, so I guessed somebody way dumping a littler of kittens the previous night. We kept her, got her spayed, and now she is part of our family.

Thanks Moxies,
I do not understand how people can be so mean to animals or other people! Two of our other dogs are also rescues. I think they make the best pets. We will get her spayed when she is old enough we already paid for it in her adoption fee along with her shots. She also has some scabs on her little face from hitting pavement!

That is so nice that you kept the poor little kitten and gave her a loving home and got her spayed!

 

[Highcotton]

I do!  She is a Golden Retriever, will bark, but she is in a separate area..fenced off from our area.  If she sees the cat, she will bark, and that will do the trick.  But, if she's asleep in her dog house at night, she can't see them, they are sneaky.  One night I heard the chickens, opened the door, and sicked my Shcnoodle on them.  He always knows what I want him to do when I say..go get em!  He goes along our back fence, back and forth, sniffing.. One night he almost caught up to one that was running from the coop.  They can fit into the side of the chicken coop gate.  When they hear me and the dog, off they go.   Only takes a once or twice of that, and that one is gone, but inevitably there is always another.  Most aren't Ferrell.. they are someones cat out at night.  :/

We have a Lab in the back yard with my chickens. A cat doesn't come in his area. The dog's best buddy is the big clumsy Cornish cross rooster. The rooster sleeps in a tractor and the dog sleeps beside it. When the rooster plays turtle and gets stuck on its back and can't get up the dog stands there and barks for help until one of us show up and turn the roosterover. I don't know what the dog did yesterday but I heard a commotion, wings flapping, and I turned around and one of the Australorp roosters was putting something on the Lab that lye soap wouldn't take off. I don't know whois better at protecting the flock the rooster or the dog.

 

[Highcotton]

Well you're welcome I helped you fall asleep...sleeping, not bored you to death!  I take no credit on what happened during REM sleep though...LMBO 


Be warned...I bin told I cause massive head aches and pains in the rear...just wait till I go full blown genetics mode and we'll see issues; fall out, brain freeze, wide eyed gronks of make her STOP!   

Then I start peddling pain meds on the side.  How else does one get by, eh?  <---that's a free stock tip...invest your retirement savings into pharmaceuticals and never mind the goose that lays the golden egg!!  No such beast...like chicken teeth...ever more elusive. 

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada   

I am investing my retirement savings in pharmaceuticals but it don't get any returns, just another perscription for expensive pharmaceuticals.

 

[ronott1]

so today after working in the yard all day (it got up to 70 here) I needed to go to TSC to get some chicken feed, I had to talk the DH out of buying an incubator!!!???

What parrallel universe am I in?

I probably should of said yes, but I got scared b/c I know nothing about hatching eggs......

Get a Genesis!

Incubators from TSC are hard to use.

 

[kingfrodo]

Get a Genesis!

Incubators from TSC are hard to use.

really? that's good to know. I'll tell the DH. Maybe that will quell his desire to hatch furry butts.

can you elaborate for me since I know NOTHING about incubators?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

really? that's good to know. I'll tell the DH. Maybe that will quell his desire to hatch furry butts.

can you elaborate for me since I know NOTHING about incubators?

The control is very touchy and can take forever for it to settle. Being still air, the place where the temperature is monitored is critical. Humidity control is a problem as well.
They're very hard to disinfect.
That's just my take.
On the other hand, a lot of people have hatched a lot of birds from them. They're just not set and forget.

 

[ronott1]

really? that's good to know. I'll tell the DH. Maybe that will quell his desire to hatch furry butts.

can you elaborate for me since I know NOTHING about incubators?

The one they sell at TSC is a Wafer based incubator. They are hard to keep at a stable temperature. They also do not have a fan that keeps the temperature even.

The Genesis is digital and keeps temperatures very stable. The fan helps with keeping a nice even temperature in the incubator. You can hatch a lot of chicks in them.

Others are a lot more expensive and are just a bit better--like Brinsea.