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[Rare Feathers Farm]

Good morning!

I'm off to work!

 

[Chickielady]

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LOL The wormies are in full rut here!!
Seriously, go out at night with a flashlight & look at your compost & garden soil...I was on a slug hunt, but was blown away by the very soil MOVING...and red worms & nightcrawlers EVERYWHERE, and looked down and they were all around my feet, everywhere and most mating.
Yup, it is wormie weather for sure!!

 

[Chickielady]

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*cough* out of area person here...checking up on the FIL/Emu situation (sounds rotten, sorry Robin!), saw your bell & wondered... since I can't make it to the show ... is anyone headed to Santa Rosa, Calif. area from the show? I'd buy a bell!
Thanks!
Laurie

LOL we have been making a run down there every week, and I imagine as soon as DH gets back, we will go down there maybe within a month, so yeah, if you can waite a month DH can deliver a bell to ya.
Just get your order in to CR or PM me for his phone number and order it to your specs, and we can get it down to you.

P.S. One emu has been claimed, lots of folks interested, so far two males sitting, one on 8 eggs and one on 3 eggs, 9 adults left...if you want eggs you have to chase the male off the nest & get the eggs and incubate them all the way home, a styrofoam incubator on a cigarette lighter converter works for power in the car.
No way to tell if any eggs are good, you cannot candle them, and we have no way of knowing when/if they will hatch cuz no one was there to document the date of lay.
PM if interested...

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I have the perfect breed for the weather here in WA!...................... DUCKS!!!!!

Can ducks and chickens live together? I keep pondering the idea of ducks, they're so darn cute! But I just wonder how they would do with my chickens? Also if chickens are carriers of bugs that can kill the ducks. Like I know you can't keep chickens and turkeys together because of the blackhead illness.

I wanna duckie so bad though

hahaha

Uh, oh.....sounds like THi and Blueduckling has invaded her brain......She has been assimilated by duckie people.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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LOL The wormies are in full rut here!!
Seriously, go out at night with a flashlight & look at your compost & garden soil...I was on a slug hunt, but was blown away by the very soil MOVING...and red worms & nightcrawlers EVERYWHERE, and looked down and they were all around my feet, everywhere and most mating.
Yup, it is wormie weather for sure!!

ooooohhhhhhh....ick.

 

[Chickielady]

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We can share.

I mentioned that your DH is going to build one and now he would love to help build it. Of course he doesn't know when he will have time. Let me know what my share of the cost is. DH was more than happy to contribute for it.

Deal!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

After much thought last night after I went to bed, I have decided that FiL does have guilt for being the one to order the plugs pulled.
But knowing this man as I do, for my entire life, I also have decided he has deep deep survivors guilt.
I can identify with this horrible guilt.
I had to put my 16 year old best friend Labrador retriever down last fall as some of you can remember.
She was with me 24/7 and even went to work with me.
We were enseprable, and closer even than my kids.
(Kids grow up and move away)
Dogs stay by your side through thick and thin.
So when I had to take her bye bye to the vets, she trusted me completely, blind and deaf as she was..I had to lift her into the van as her hips were so far gone...snd she trusted me completely when the vet came out with the syring...
And I still cry over it, and alot of my grief is that she is gone, and I am still here and we should be together as we always were.
Survivors guilt over my dog might sound silly, but for a while it was thick enough to smother me.
I should be with her.
So I decided FiL feels this way,he more than likely has thoughts like "why didn't he get her to a doctor sooner, she may have survived"...like "if he had only taken her to the hospital the day before, she may have lived survived".
And if he had left life support on, maybe she would have recovered.
So many 'ifs' and the guilt of pulling the plug (honoring her wishes) and of surviving while she did not, and guilt from maybe not doing enough in protecting his dear wife, is probably consuming him completely.
I still think his routine needs to be established early, and strictly adheared to, that comes from nursing training.
I still like the puppy idea.
Something helpless that needs him may draw him out of depression, and give him a reason to stay sober, a reason to be alive, something to love and talk to and be with.
So I have been surfing for pups down there at the SPCA & will tell DH when we talk again.
**Sigh!**
And I too have been grieving for this my second Mom.
And greiving alone.
And yes, all the Grandkids, great grandkids & Dh and his siter have been in & out of that house and standing with FiL all along.
OK enough of that update...

 

[Chickielady]

So I was awakened at 5 AM by a horrendous hail storm & flashes of lightening....argh!!!!!!!

Will it ever stop?!?!
Of course my big long garden boxes of lettuce were uncovered, so with a flash light & staple gun, I stapled the plastic back over the hoops, looks OK...I was expecting the entire box of 10" lettuce to be shot full off holes and beaten to a mushy pulp by the hail.
There was so much hail I could barely walk in gum boots for slipping & could not see the soil on the ground for the white ice balls...
Jack finally ventured out of his dog house sheepishly..he does not care for lightening and thunder or hail either.
So, now I may try to get a nap....yeah right.
OK later guys~~~~

and welcome to all newbies!

Glad to see more & more fowl fanciers here.

 

[blueducklings]

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*cough* out of area person here...checking up on the FIL/Emu situation (sounds rotten, sorry Robin!), saw your bell & wondered... since I can't make it to the show ... is anyone headed to Santa Rosa, Calif. area from the show? I'd buy a bell!
Thanks!
Laurie

If it fits the USPS box, they will ship it for cheep.
Anything under 70 pounds.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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*cough* out of area person here...checking up on the FIL/Emu situation (sounds rotten, sorry Robin!), saw your bell & wondered... since I can't make it to the show ... is anyone headed to Santa Rosa, Calif. area from the show? I'd buy a bell!
Thanks!
Laurie

If it fits the USPS box, they will ship it for cheep.

Um, they weight approximately 40 lbs.....LOL I dont' think they will ship for cheep, cheep, cheep....whoops that was the baby chick typing.