The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

Perchie, my husband says that is why he never finished learning to fly. He went through flight training but never completed. He's a daredevil at heart. Would have gotten along really well with your dad. We would have been visiting them both a lot in hospital.

 

[room onthebroom]

I'm cringing with all the near miss & not so near miss stories. DH rides mountain bikes out in the middle of nowhere. He's had a lot of little accidents & a couple bad wipe outs where he's had to walk a broken bike & a broken body across miles to get back to his car & drive himself to the ER. After the last time, his boss noticed he was wearing a longsleeve shirt in the dead of summer, seeping blood through tons of bandages & had a broken color bone. His boss was furious & took him down a few notches telling him he had a wife & children & needed to settle down & be more responsible. I'm glad he did, because he never listens to me, but he's been careful after hearing it from him. It still worries me to death.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I failed flight school found my depth perception has never been great
good to know how fast the ground is coming at you

 

[getaclue]

It's so peaceful here at home now. All the grandkids left. They hadn't been gone an hour, when Dh and I hit the bed for a nap. Whew, they sure can wear us out! I've got quite a bit of cleaning to do, and grocery shopping tomorrow.

My chickens got wormed, dusted, the hay removed from the coops (except for in the nest boxes), and everything got raked. Tuesday I want to clean all the roosts, nest boxes, feed and water buckets, and spray everything down. Rinse, repeat in 10 days. All my hens are laying again.

 

[CapricornFarm]

So pleased, quail hutch almost done! It even has an automatic egg collector.

 

[Beer can]

Actually i have 12 if you count the roosters. They are a bit crazy but then , so am i. I used to have 4 coops with various Polish segregated by color and sold chicks and eggs .But at that point i had over 20 coops!

Be cool if someone bred them for egg production. One of my oldest hens is a golden laced polish. Laid great first yr, so so second, not very many the last couple, cool chicken though and not very big so I doubt she eats much. Been a few different roosters favorite, for obvious reasons and it ain't cause she's perty. Had a buff, and a silver laced cockerels in that batch, looked like punk rockers, lol.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I get between 13 and 15 a day banty hard to know as my silky brooder hides eggs under her from the other three the ones in the main coop my boo boo those banty are fertilized eggs bit chances are the get would lay banty eggs so no way one lavender cockerel is leaving the two banty and one home grown from blue she roosts by herself none of the others want her not even the cockerel but she is always yapping away

 

[Beer can]

my hens don't get Marek's we don't. Believe In disease, we have Jesus and a lot of Christian chickens

That's my predator defense, just say a prayer.
Been working pretty good so far. I've lost a few to hawks through the yrs but none lately. Lost one giant hen last yr, giant rooster beat the crap out of it, fox didn't get to eat it but it was mortally wounded. Lost some broody hatched chicks last yr to a skunk, skunks gone too.
Not too bad for many yrs having coops that are not predator proof, always open pop doors, and free ranging.

 

[Beer can]

I get between 13 and 15 a day banty hard to know as my silky brooder hides eggs under her from the other three the ones in the main coop my boo boo those banty are fertilized eggs bit chances are the get would lay banty eggs so no way one lavender cockerel is leaving the two banty and one home grown from blue she roosts by herself none of the others want her not even the cockerel but she is always yapping away

My dad always free ranged his flock of RIRs. Had a broody little cross beak crow, black japanese bamtam, hatched many eggs for him. Anytime he didn't let her set, she'd disappear into the woods after awhile, show up few weeks later with a clutch of her own lol, must have been hiding eggs.

 

[Beer can]

Yeah they were bunny turds, holy crap tons of them, they must have been living there. Fertilizer I guess, kales gone though.
No I don't fence my garden, don't usually have any rabbits around, they just taste too darn good.
I'll 'remedy' the situation.
Beagle ain't doing her job, getting old, pretty sure she's same age as DD#2, so 13yrs. Lost my little bitty awesome male to old age about five yrs ago. Half her size and best rabbit dog I've ever seen. Lots of rabbits with those two.
Have the cranky old girl in the house this winter, times coming, don't think she can see very good anymore.
Have to put her in the cage to eat or she'd bite the pups head off, not normal for her, one of the most important things I expect from a dog, calm when eating.
Pup doesn't bother her otherwise, fat old girl lays in the living room and doesn't move most of the day, not too interesting to pup.
Bad pic, they won't stop moving lol