Washingtonians

[Stumpfarmer]

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I love pigs! I still dont know why everyone says they are so hard to keep in. mine never got out. 2 x 4 welded wire wired up to t posts...hotwire around the bottom and all 3 stayed in. I gave them a big enough pasture though. they didnt really stink much and they stayed in their pen. my pigs ate the roots first. did not take them long at all to clear out the patch in their pen.

X2 Only time my hogs got out was when we had to leave town and DD was SUPPOSED to take care of them. Last thing I told her as we were driving out "make sure to feed and water the pigs or they will get out". Well the pigs got out and my first question did ya feed em??? Auhm I forgot!!! Form my experience if ya give em food water and shelter they have no reason to want to leave.

A couple of years ago we had an intruder down at the BIL's family place who, at one point, let all the feeder pigs out, twenty-one of them on the run. It was calving season, and the Angus mamas did not like the pink intruders, so they chased them all back into the pig barn. My sister said it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen, fifty Angus cows and half that many baby calves thundering down on twenty-one freaked out half-grown pigs running their short little legs off and squealing. (The intruder also opened a new sack of feed corn and nearly killed a sow by over-feeding her; my BIL eventually had to put up a video system and proximity alarms to catch him, and even then all he was guilty of was simple trespass, which isn't something that keeps a man locked up for long).

 

[Chickielady]

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Pitch her off the nest with a stick, like gently pry her off....after a few times dumped out she should "wake up and smell the coffee"

NOPE either she don't like coffee or there is something wrong wiff her nose cause she is not changing.

Do it several times a day ??
It worked for me.
Boy do they get mad though!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Did you get them from Blue Ducklings ?

Nope. I got them from little_grey_bantam.

Oh no..............................

 

[Chickielady]

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Another good idea!! No sideways beak flicking !
Do they still scoop towards them though ?
Messy birds...sometimes I over fill mine & they scoop it towards them and spill and I threaten to pull the feeder and then the nasty messy birds will be forced to eat it off the coop floor....argh!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

I have technically been working since 7 am...and at 9:44 pm I am finally quitting and doing something for me (reading BYC). I worked on real estate for 2 hours this morning....trying to make a deal work (I think it will) and now tonight I wrote up another offer (yippeee) and just got it done. So in between I was at the vet office working. I am very tired. But I had to stop by and not get behind in my BYC fix. ..... I think I will go make a cup of tea and start reading. Hope there are not too many pages.

 

[Chickielady]

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CL thats sounds really good..

Say Blue Ducklings everyone wants the fried rice recipe!!
Wash the Jasmine rice , measure & wash then cook.
I never did wash it before but it helps so the rice does not stick together.
Linda has the best recipes.

 

[Chickielady]

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Hopefully you remembered to EAT today!!
And I am going to beddy bye, goodnight all......

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

I have technically been working since 7 am...and at 9:44 pm I am finally quitting and doing something for me (reading BYC). I worked on real estate for 2 hours this morning....trying to make a deal work (I think it will) and now tonight I wrote up another offer (yippeee) and just got it done. So in between I was at the vet office working. I am very tired. But I had to stop by and not get behind in my BYC fix. ..... I think I will go make a cup of tea and start reading. Hope there are not too many pages.

Oh, and I was offered a third job today (DH made me say no as he would shoot himself in the foot if I did) .... It was doing medical transcription per diem for the hospital in Tonasket. I have not done transcription for 5 years...I am too far out of it anyway. I did do for 15 years though, specialized in radiology. Hated every minute of it.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Girl Ya gotta stay up on that BYC fix cause the withdrawls are terrible and really suck !!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Grandmother had 12 kids? Or 8? If I am reading this correctly 8 BOYS?

I do not think I could ever handle this - they would have drove me to drink - LOTS!!!!!. Crazy. But I sooooooo agree with Grandmother's logic.

Twelve kids, eight of them boys. She not only did not drink, but was the president of the Washington chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union

She was also widowed in 1936, with eight kids still at home, on a dairy farm where all the cows were hand-milked.

Now, my other grandmother did like a little gin, but she had to be married to one of my male relatives on my father's side, which only a daughter of my sane grandmother could deal with without strong drink.

(Grandma Jane had Wyandottes and Leghorns and raised meat goats for sale and a couple of pigs a year for bacon and ham, and baked six loaves of bread and two dozen cinnamon rolls every morning before breakfast along with maintaining two acres of truck garden and twenty Jersey cows; Grandma Laura complained about living on a farm and couldn't cook to save her life; the hired hand kept game fowl).

My hat off to this woman. I could never do it.