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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yeah, we're at close to 2500'.

Let me know if you get any snow....they are saying it is suppose to snow today and tomorrow. Have you seen the snow in the Mtns above conconully? I am not mentaly ready for it.

Yes we got snow today! Just a dusting but it's snowing out now...not hard but definitely snow!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Peanut butter!!! And the CAB FRESH. Since I got my car all detailed and a bag of that, NO MICE!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Have any single combs in that bunch?

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Oh what fun! Sounds like a great combo!
PM me if you're serious... I wonder if DH would reconize 2 birds in the 'quarantine' garage just when the new bantam Araucanas moved out

 

[justbugged]

The best mouser I have ever seen was the best dog we have ever been blessed to live with. Berber was a chow mix. The people we got her from said she was a Saint Bernard and Chow mix. Well I know that she didn't have any SB in her. She might have been mixed with Newfoundland, but she wasn't very big for either breed. She was awesome though with the mouse hunting, and she had a high find and kill rate. I could put her on the hunt by just telling that I didn't like mouses.

Berber also saved the kids and me one night. The carbon monoxide detector started sounding an alarm at 2am in the morning, but I had never heard the sound before and I was kind of ignoring it until Berber came and nudged me a couple of times. So I got up to see why she wanted me up, and to figure out what was making the noise out in the kitchen/family room. The moment I stepped out of my bedroom I smelled natural gas. The rescue Komondor that we had at the time had managed to turn one of the knobs on the gas range on and Chuck had got the knob past the igniter, so the natural gas was free flowing into the house. I got it turn off, and opened up the doors and window very carefully. I got the fans turned on, but I could not get the carbon monoxide detector to stop sounding.

So I finally called the fire department. When they got here about 30 minutes after Berber woke me up. The fire departments carbon monoxide detectors were still registering that there was a buildup of CM in the house. The FD finally got the air exchanged out of the house for me with a really big exhaust fan. Unfortunately the fan they used was run on diesel and the diesel exhaust was coming into the house and smelled awful. After the FD left we went back to bed, and I had to leave all the doors and windows for the rest of the night.

If Berber hadn't insisted I get up and check things out, I am sure that the NG would have blown out about half of the house. There is a pilot light that was only 20 feet away from the range would have ignited the gas sooner or later. I miss Berber a lot. She died of bloat. I learned about bloat when we got Puppy, and had worried that the Komondork might get it, but I hadn't worried about Berber because she was so much smaller than the big dogs. We couldn't get her to the 24 hour Vet fast enough; she was brain dead by the time we got to the Vets. We had for Berber for 11 years, and I think she will always be the best dog I have ever known.

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The firemen here in Enumclaw are really cute at 2 in the morning.

My DD and I had a good time watching them that night.

There were some older ones for me, and some younger guy for DD.

I might be a bad girl for looking, but it was fun.

 

[Chickielady]

Illia wrote:
Hey, anyone care if their Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucana is rumpless? Because of the three I hatched a little while ago, I've got two girls, but. . . They're somehow rumpless. No, I don't have any Araucanas who could have possibly sired them, because the only one who could have would have made a duckwing colored Easter Egger. (Which I have one of) Hmm.

Well, my response to that is didn't you have Mr Duckwing Araucana running spiffy and free for a short time amongst the girlies ???

Perphaps the babies have a duckwing Araucana for a Daddy...naugty naughty boy !
I prefer a pure BW Ameraucana roo.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Good luck on your hatches Illia and Robin.

I ended up with 7 BLRW and 4 Crele OEGB's from my last hatch. Very happy with the outcome! Also finished the Orp Coop, gotta get photo's uploaded one of these days!

Have any single combs in that bunch?

Not that I remember seeing. I'll look them over again when I tuck them in for the night.

I'm jealous of your snow! It felt like snow today. Cold and wet though only. If it's gonna be cold, it might as well snow I say.​

 

[justbugged]

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I want your skunk. At least I want it after it has been de-skunked. I would call it a Norwegian Snow Kitty. I have been told that they can make great pets. I don't think it's legal to own in this state though. I think that is a big bummer. If I ever have to live in Wisconsin I am going to get one for sure. I understand that it is legal there. I really don't want to live in Wisconsin, but DH works for a company that is in Racine WI. So it could be possible one day that we could have to live there.

I thought you were going to Ecuador !

I will have to check it out. I am now wondering if I could take my Norwegian Snow Kitty to Ecuador.

I really need to figure out what it will take to get through customs with at least 3 dogs,5 cats,25 chickens,12 finches, 1 19" eel, and a NSKitty. I am thinking that I might need to travel by private plane, I don't think that I could con enough people on one flight to get that many animals under the seats.

I think that traveling will upset the eel and finches a lot.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

I was living in New York City when my first son was born. We had your basic slum landlord. My son was allergic to everything except breast milk, so I nursed. One night I woke up to a mouse, clawing at the front of my night gown, trying to figure out where the milk it could smell was!!!!!!!!! I didn't sleep until my husband filled every nook and cranny a mouse could get in with steel wool.

That would have put me right.....over.....the......edge. No doubt about it.

My last car was a 10 yr old Suburban. The mice loved it. The first time one showed up I was sitting at the bus stop with my two younger girls in back waiting for the bus. One little critter climbed out of the seatbelt hole in the third row and ran to the back toward the wheel storage. I happened to be looking back at the girls at exactly the moment it decided to show itself. I about lost it from that!

Justbugged, you are lucky that special doggy woke you up!!!​

 

[justbugged]

Today it would have been really nice to be living in the village in Ecuador, where it is 82 degrees nearly year around. I don't like this wet cold thing. I just have to remember that come spring weather like this will feel warm.

I should have gone to Santiago Chile 6 weeks ago. It's spring there.