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[perchie.girl]

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awww what a great story... I thought he looked like a wood duck but I have only seen pictures....

 

[perchie.girl]

Just had some input on allergies... This time of year when things are soaked or thawing out Mold is a big issue. Doesnt necessarily cause hives.

I just cleaned out the refrigerator.... ONe of the stored food containers was trying to crawl out on its own....

Id been searching out an odor in the kitchen for a couple of weeks now... NO I am NOT a good house keeper.....

IN the process of cleaning and disposal I got a good whiff of mold.... its been about half an hour now and my eyes are swelling up After the sneezing fit and I will be taking some Benedryl soon. Nothing dramatic for me its the same reaction I get when I crack a bale of alfafa thats iffy.

Mold spores are incidious...

deb

 

[microchick]

Years ago I rescued a brood of wood ducklings that fell down a storm drain. Momma was frantic and we couldn't find anything long enough to reach the babies. Out of desperation, I laid on my belly in the street and stuck my arm through the grate. I was amazed that two of the babies crawled up my arm and rejoined mom who took off with them leaving about four behind. I stuck my arm down and the little devils hopped up. A neighbor kid caught them for me but mom never came back. Friends knew somebody with a lake that took and fostered them.

I've had a soft spot for wood ducks to this day.

 

[microchick]

Just had some input on allergies... This time of year when things are soaked or thawing out Mold is a big issue. Doesn't necessarily cause hives.

I just cleaned out the refrigerator.... ONe of the stored food containers was trying to crawl out on its own....

Id been searching out an odor in the kitchen for a couple of weeks now... NO I am NOT a good house keeper.....

IN the process of cleaning and disposal I got a good whiff of mold.... its been about half an hour now and my eyes are swelling up After the sneezing fit and I will be taking some Benedryl soon. Nothing dramatic for me its the same reaction I get when I crack a bale of alfafa thats iffy.

Mold spores are incidious...

deb

One of my rules of housekeeping. When you open the refrigerator door and something growls at you, time to clean the refrigerator.

I loved Erma Bombeck. I remember reading one of her books and her saying that any woman who claims they clean under the refrigerator every week needs to have either a lie detector test or a psych test one or the other or maybe both.

Frankly, I'm just too short to go shoving appliances around. I told DH, they get cleaned under twice a year or whenever they break down.

Don't feel bad. My mom's ashes are probably spinning around in their crypt even as I type.

 

[Alaskan]

Serious bummer Al!  When I had goats you could tell a block away they were close to due.  They looked like a small truck with a BIG load round bales!    If she's that close, even if it's a small one, you should be able to feel the kick (unless it's already went quiet).  Fingers crossed for you 

Thanks! And @superchemicalgirl, yep....hauling goats around in the back of the car....all fun and games until they pee.

Well....luckily my pessimistic self was proved wrong. Mocha (the one due Tuesday), has almost gone ligaments, and a goober covered back end. So....clearly she IS pregnant and will soon birth, but I guess just one small one.

And yes chicki! Goats do usually look like that when pregnant! (A small truck with a BIG load of round bales ), which is why I started to panic....

The other goat, Feta Face, due the 20th, is a properly round "totally pregnant" goat.

that is beautiful...  mom was the crocheter...   she would do it while watching TV...  Made me a dress once and lined it with silk because it would have been completely see through....

Best I could do was hats and bags...  but I did do an Afghan in White...  Using the afghan stitch...  Looks like a long knitting needle with a crochet hook on the end.   I started it when I was about 24  and finished it when I was about 34.   iF I had stuck to it the whole thing would have taken about a week.

deb

The story of my life "I'll get around to it"

 

[superchemicalgirl]

And yes chicki! Goats do usually look like that when pregnant! (A small truck with a BIG load of round bales

), which is why I started to panic....

Mine look like that and they're not pregnant.

The vet said to stop feeding them grain.

She said nothing about the cookies.

 

[Alaskan]

Mine look like that and they're not pregnant. 

The vet said to stop feeding them grain. 

She said nothing about the cookies.

Ha! And there I thought that the round-but-not-pregnant ones just had a giant rumen.


If yours are round from cookies.....then they must be winners at the super-cute-goat-face-please-feed-me-now

 

[drumstick diva]

Goats like cookies ?? Who knew

! I thought they just like tin cans and Xmas wreaths.

 

[perchie.girl]

Goats like cookies ?? Who knew

! I thought they just like tin cans and Xmas wreaths.

and chicken feed and telephone wires and sunflower seeds the salty kind and rose hips and christmas cactus and tree bark and Alfalfa .... and Fermented chicken feed the kind with fish meal in it... I almost got killed over that one....

deb

 

[Bunnylady]

Goats like cookies ?? Who knew

! I thought they just like tin cans and Xmas wreaths.

I was reminded of a line from this comic:


http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/09/28

"Tigers don't know if they like ice cream until they try every kind."

That seems to be how goats work - they have to try every kind of everything to see if they like it, and that includes things I would automatically consider inedible, like T-shirts and horse hair. Some seem to figure out the palatability factor after one or two samplings, and others seem to forget, and have to refresh their memories periodically.

The vet may have said nothing about the cookies, but I'll bet the goats have plenty to say - especially if they think the supply is diminishing.