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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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

Yes, thank you. I made an egg sandwich for breakfast. I had to take my lunch time to take DD to soccer photos....so I bought a sandwich and drove and crammed it in my face. Also, I have a drawer filled with snackies at work...just in case. I am usually pretty good at watching it....but there are times, especially when I am doing something I enjoy, such as being outside in the nice sun (the few times it has made an appearance) that I just forget.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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

I know....I know...trust me .... I know.

 

[cheryl98117]

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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.

We had an automatic waterer and automatic free feeder for them. They were in a "corral" that was kind of like "panels" and then a hot wire run around it. We always loved to go and watch the piglets hit the hot wire for the first day. HILARIOUS. I guess this is kind of like "hillbilly" humor.

Geuss I have some of that hillbilly humor as well! lol I always get quite the giggle when my Filly tests my fence!

Sware this little girl is part cow, and very bull headed. Within 3 days of her last shock, she forgets and tests the fence for me again! She'll go to reach the tall grass on the other side of the fence, get zapped on her neck or chest, rear up, then go bucking kicking, and snorting across her field. Then she'll come over to me and pout with her head under my arm!

Love that little filly, but hopefully she will start to remember about the fence soon. But until then, I have entertainment.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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LEt me warn you....if you are just a chicken beginner and are already Chicken Crazy.....YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT THREAD.....these people on here are enablers. You will soon be having chicken math problems just like the rest of us. You will be hatching and incubatoring (word?), etc. You have now joined a thread with some of the best and most knowledgable people around. They are wonderful and full of it - ooops....I mean full of useful information.

 

[cheryl98117]

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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.

We did not have a sow....we bought piglets and raised them and butchured them in the fall. never had problem 1 with them. Loved having them and would love to have more some day. Did this for years and loved it. My mother always loved having fresh pork and keeps hinting at me she wants to again...but does not have the physical capability to do it. Who knows I may someday.

My mother has a pot bellied sow. Polly and I only get along 3 weeks of the month. My vote for that pig is for her to be roasted in the ground for 16 hours on the 4th of July!!! I even have a buddy who will kill, clean, prep, and cook her in a traditional Taipain "sp?" pig roast. He wants to show me how to make blood soup, and swares he will get me to eat fish eyes this summer. lol

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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We had an automatic waterer and automatic free feeder for them. They were in a "corral" that was kind of like "panels" and then a hot wire run around it. We always loved to go and watch the piglets hit the hot wire for the first day. HILARIOUS. I guess this is kind of like "hillbilly" humor.

Geuss I have some of that hillbilly humor as well! lol I always get quite the giggle when my Filly tests my fence!

Sware this little girl is part cow, and very bull headed. Within 3 days of her last shock, she forgets and tests the fence for me again! She'll go to reach the tall grass on the other side of the fence, get zapped on her neck or chest, rear up, then go bucking kicking, and snorting across her field. Then she'll come over to me and pout with her head under my arm!

Love that little filly, but hopefully she will start to remember about the fence soon. But until then, I have entertainment.

Cheryl: We are warpped aren't we? We would have a dozen wiener pigs and let them into the pen. They would hit the hot wire....SCREAM....run to the other side. Someone would hit the hot wire....SCREAM.....run to the other side. This would go on for quite some time.

We would all get a summer beverage (ice tea, lemonade, etc) and just watch. With piggies, part of THEIR problem is that they cluster/bundle up. So when one hits the hotwire....more than one gets zapped. Way too funny. Pigs are also very-very smart. And I think that pigs are second to chickens in how funny it is to watch them run.

(I forget) whoever posted the story about their cows chasing the piggies.....

I would have been laughing so hard I probably would have peed my pants.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Geuss I have some of that hillbilly humor as well! lol I always get quite the giggle when my Filly tests my fence!

Sware this little girl is part cow, and very bull headed. Within 3 days of her last shock, she forgets and tests the fence for me again! She'll go to reach the tall grass on the other side of the fence, get zapped on her neck or chest, rear up, then go bucking kicking, and snorting across her field. Then she'll come over to me and pout with her head under my arm!

Love that little filly, but hopefully she will start to remember about the fence soon. But until then, I have entertainment.

Cheryl: We are warpped aren't we? We would have a dozen wiener pigs and let them into the pen. They would hit the hot wire....SCREAM....run to the other side. Someone would hit the hot wire....SCREAM.....run to the other side. This would go on for quite some time.

We would all get a summer beverage (ice tea, lemonade, etc) and just watch. With piggies, part of THEIR problem is that they cluster/bundle up. So when one hits the hotwire....more than one gets zapped. Way too funny. Pigs are also very-very smart. And I think that pigs are second to chickens in how funny it is to watch them run.

(I forget) whoever posted the story about their cows chasing the piggies.....

I would have been laughing so hard I probably would have peed my pants.

Oh my moms pig Polly cracks me up. She's not quite a year old yet, but she is so darn funny. She will get to squeeling, then bolt, stop, bolt, squeel, jump, plop down, squeel, run some more, and can almost do a full 180degree turn mid air! The thing that makes me not like her, is that she goes into heat every 28 days like clockwork. That pig is more rgular than I am, and MAN is she a HUGE grump! She's funny to watch, but I am OH SO glad she isnt mine. Or i think she would be in the freezer by now. But if they do decide to keep her, I think she should be greased up at the least, placed into a secure pen for a good old fassion greased pig chase! lol Doubt it will happen, but it would be fun! Pigs are quick, and there are lots of cocky young men around here who think they can do anything!

 

[cheryl98117]

I think I am trying to do to much for easter...

I'm already doing the whole ham, potatoes, boil and color all the eggs, have to set up baskets for 5 or 6 little ones, and because I am the only baker in my family. I have to make desert... I'm drawing a blank as to what type of cake to make. I have ALL sorts of ideas on how to decorate the cake, but no clue what flavor would best fit a spring event. lemon cake, good old standard chocolate cake, a moca cake.. Naw scratch that one, too heavy... If I had my cast cake forms I would make a red velvet lamb cake... But I lost all those when I left my ex husband... Egg shapped cupcakes would work, but indevidually decorating them would take forever...

Anyone have any ideas that my brain hasnt thought of yet?

 

[Kaneke]

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carrot cake for the Easter bunny

or angel food ??

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Wallked outside with kids when the went to catch bus and this is what it looks like across the street. The orchardists do this to protect the trees when it is this cold...but it is so pretty. These photos really do it no justice...but thought I would share.