Aww thanks hunYour sweet and sensitive.I hope you stay that way.
i hate that! i am also considering selling my chickens (i may keep my ee trio and mama hen, but that is it!) they are a complete PITA and they are almost all free loading at the moment! Hubby glares at me every time they do something stupid!Same here! I don't understand why they can't get along better like us waterfowl people. Sure we have the occasional disagreement but we're never all at each other's throat. I think the animals we raise show a reflection of our personalities. I've always thought of chickens as more proper and bickery...like some of the chicken people. Now ducks on the other hands are messy, fun loving, and don't kill each other when someone new is around... like us.
That is word for word exactly how I feel! The whole EE thing has actually bothered me a few times. I see people so excited thinking the have a Ameracuna and next thing you know you have a pack of "Ameracuana Experts" down their throat saying oh no that's a mutt EE. I rarely see that being put in a nice way.
I had the exact same experience when I had the egg bound goose. Replies in the Chicken section? None. Same thread in the goose section? 3 pages worth and people checking in every morning asking how she was doing. Now THAT'S how it should be.
I always view Geese as Crazy Loving Old People. They're always so sweet and seem to want to help every single baby.
I found this labeled as a "Goose":
so sorry about your dog!
poor girl! i hope she feels better soon!
I'm more than frustrated!! I feel so bad for what this girl has been through and will continue to go through for the next 7-10 days. Plus, it will make it that much harder to bond with her. So much for the fun of enjoying a blossoming new relationship. Here is her face. Doesn't look very happy, eh?
oh no! atleast you wont be hot for a while! have you tried hats, a woman i know lost all her hair during chemo and it never came back, so she has a HUGE selection of cool hats!Sorry I haven't been on today. I had a hair experience from hell. I was chemically straightening my hair as I always do and this time it fell out. ALL of it. I'm basically bald now. I bought a wig but it just doesn't look right on me. Today was just one of those days
Heres a pic of my newest sebbie. Its a girl. My lone grey dewlap is a boy. I gave in after years, and got bifocals. Now I can see to vent sex.Its much easier than making my kid hold the bird, and me get the vent ready, and grab the magnifying glass to peek, or try....
I have recieved my Fancy eggs !
1st box $71 for 3 eggs.... 2 cracked (box leaking) noted by my PO..... When I spoke with them again today. INSURED .... Now I get to submit a claim... OH WHAT FUN!
& I found out even though you get insurance it does NOT cover delayed delivery. Only broken etc contents.... SO if this was my GUINEA egg shipment & it had insurance I would still be SOL !!! ( I would be crackin me some eggs)
But I did get my impeyans ($255 for 5 eggs& they put in 1 extra) So THESE BETTER HATCH !!! or hubby will leave me
I also got my Swinhoes & Elliots
Bought ~ 12 Swinhoes for $123 & 10 Elliots for $110 ~ So I am going to be sleeping with my Master Bator
So does this make me Bat Sh$t Crazy????
CRAZY thing is my Impeyan Pheasant eggs are almost as big as my Bourbon Red Turkey eggs !
yes please!!!!!
cool!Wanted to share a photo of our huge artichoke plant. Thanks, duck poo.
Morning report:
Injured buff girl is looking better. Swelling not as bad this morning as yesterday, and she and her grey dewlap boy look so cute cuddling together. Hate having to drain her face 3x a day, but I think she is realizing that we are not going to kill her when we pick her up and is not stressing quite as bad when she gets treated. But it is sad to enter and see her go into back corner and turn her back to me while all the greys excitedly run to me.
At least the other two new buff babies are warming up nicely! Last night, we put them in their own garage pen adjoining the other two pens to make sure they could have free access to food/water without getting bullied, but hope after another full day of turnout with Barley and the ducks, they will be accepted.
Spirit turned 3 weeks old yesterday and has gone 48 hours without falling!We are going to take all the indoor babies outside for some exercise today. Fingers crossed Spirit has better balance moving around than the last time she went outside.
very cool!
Thanks to Celtic, we have a name for our expensive girl... Diva! Here's a pic of Diva with Tank, her new best friend.
not at all! that poor thing was probably suffering till the moment it passed
Fred update...... whee she was nesting one of the babies got out the back and she didn't see it. So we resqued baby..... the proceeded to move the family. Fred and Ethel Were Not HAPPY! Knowing that moving her would probally break her off the nest we had the bator on stand-by. got them moved and gave back one of the 2 babies that were fully hatched. The other was kinda flippy so we brought it in for vitamins and to keep an eye on it. Hatched and gave her more of the babies today. She's up to 4, the last one was SW. I have it's head out now and it's making noise.Hoping it does the rest by it'self and make it. I figure 5 babies for one year olds and their first hatch is pretty good. Fred has learned that I'm not taking her babies, just making sure they have food and water and know where the baby food isI plan to give vitamins in the water till all 5 stop flipping and are doing good. Pics tomarrow and pics of my new Black Sumatra chickens
GQ You can borrow my first edition Geese Gone Wild.
too cute!Thanks everyone!! Hubby has been taking a special liking to Diva and Tank. Yesterday afternoon, as I was going to take a shower, I mentioned to hubby that I wanted Diva and Tank to get outside for a little play time before dark. When I got out of shower, I Iooked out my window and saw this:
I lost my Ollie on Friday. It happened so fast. He went peacefully and, I think, painlessly - it was the end I was praying for. Still sucks. Cancer sucks. I lost both my boys, less than a year apart, to osteosarcoma and then hemangiosarcoma.
The house is so quiet without his "talking." I forgot to feed my Golden Retriever dinner until 10:30 last night because she doesn't remind me.
Momma Fred and Ethel with 4 babies
#5 assisted hatch still shaky and a bit sprattle legged in the hatcher/brooder
Godzilla- black Sumatra Rooster with 2 black hens and a splash hen Mom bought
Dutch!!. Yep I'm basically bald for the moment. Perk of tall, having no boobs, and bald? No one dares to cut in front of you in the grocery line. Plus instead of like 2 hours of hair styling I'm done it like 3 minutes. Plus all the money I'm saving on hair products I'm sooo going on a Poultry Shopping spree
Ok...will try to get some tomorrow. They are growing fast, and Simon is a tank. They are like puppies, so sweet. I let them out of their hoop house to free range around 6pm, then lock back up at dusk. It's so fun to watch them run around, play in the pool, and follow me around as I do chores. I absolutely adore them! Mother Goose and her man keep an eye on them, too.
Hey KevinDutch!!. Yep I'm basically bald for the moment. Perk of tall, having no boobs, and bald? No one dares to cut in front of you in the grocery line. Plus instead of like 2 hours of hair styling I'm done it like 3 minutes. Plus all the money I'm saving on hair products I'm sooo going on a Poultry Shopping spree
They look really sweet. Sounds like a bit of a scare tactic to get them adopted. I'd think they'd get adopted quick, though.
Wow....very sick lady! I so hope you get well soonok here is my rant (of the month):
so this last week has been rough and thoroughly depressing! saturday i start feeling like crap and i'm in bed with a broncial type thing, long weekend so i suffer along till tuesday, monday night ear infection starts by midnight i am in screaming pain! by 8am i haven't slept at all have taken strong pain meds that help for about an hour each time, and i am throwing up my ears hurt so bad (yes it has progressed to both ears now) by 8am i think i am saved by i call and the doc office is not open for some strange unexplained reason, and the clinic 1/2 hour away is closed too! so hours and pain later i end up having to go to ER (thing i was trying to avoid) i waited in the triage room for about an hour them they admitted, hung around in the room for about an hour the doc comes in takes 2 minutes looking me over and says "yup you have an ear infection"! another hour for discharge and i am on my way to pick up my 3 scripts and on my way home.
They whole week i was wiped out and felt horrible, and today i go in for my follow-up with my doctor, he looks in my ears and now it is infected behind the ear drum in both ears! he said it looked like i have a very severe infection and should have gone to the ER sooner! so 2 more scripts later my head is still ringing and i can't sleep
and to add to that we built the "teenagers" a more permenant house and only 3 out of 15 will use it! Mama has gone rouge during the night with her babies. And 5 of my ducks have come up missing, no feather, nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they were here this morning, now there are only 2 and they have been wandering around looking for their friendsoh and did i mention they all got their voices in and there were 2 males and 5 females!
ok here is my rant (of the month):
so this last week has been rough and thoroughly depressing! saturday i start feeling like crap and i'm in bed with a broncial type thing, long weekend so i suffer along till tuesday, monday night ear infection starts by midnight i am in screaming pain! by 8am i haven't slept at all have taken strong pain meds that help for about an hour each time, and i am throwing up my ears hurt so bad (yes it has progressed to both ears now) by 8am i think i am saved by i call and the doc office is not open for some strange unexplained reason, and the clinic 1/2 hour away is closed too! so hours and pain later i end up having to go to ER (thing i was trying to avoid) i waited in the triage room for about an hour them they admitted, hung around in the room for about an hour the doc comes in takes 2 minutes looking me over and says "yup you have an ear infection"! another hour for discharge and i am on my way to pick up my 3 scripts and on my way home.
They whole week i was wiped out and felt horrible, and today i go in for my follow-up with my doctor, he looks in my ears and now it is infected behind the ear drum in both ears! he said it looked like i have a very severe infection and should have gone to the ER sooner! so 2 more scripts later my head is still ringing and i can't sleep
and to add to that we built the "teenagers" a more permenant house and only 3 out of 15 will use it! Mama has gone rouge during the night with her babies. And 5 of my ducks have come up missing, no feather, nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they were here this morning, now there are only 2 and they have been wandering around looking for their friendsoh and did i mention they all got their voices in and there were 2 males and 5 females!
