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[Chicken Rustler]

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Looks nice. It is also very nice of you to add certain amenities such as the radio. May I ask what their favorite station is? Are they into modern or pop, maybe country or classical? I would not let them have a computer though as they would probably poop on the keys.

They prefer "Classic Rock" and I put a special cover on the key board so they don't get it dirty when they are pecking out messages.

I am amazed of all those pics the biggest comment is on the dang radio that I had for got to remove.

 

[Ogress]

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My daughter's boyfriend describes the ones I gave him as "supremely edible."

I also did not add any of the 'bad' stuff commercial eggs DO have: Hormones, antibiotics and so on.
The abundance of vitamin D in free range eggs is almost nothing in commercial eggs, something like .0002 % instead of the 4 to 6 X free range eggs we have.

And they TASTE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!

And you can always just post a photo of the battery cage hens most people get their eggs from. 1 look at that photo and they may be willing to pay 10X as much!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Good grief. The whole rest of the country's sweltering, and we've got these temps! Hay's drying at least, I guess that's all we can rejoice in.

It's so bad I saw people locally that normally put in some nice hay. They were makin green chop of it yesterday.

My BIL just keeps mowing hay and puts up what the weather allows: sileage bales are a bother to handle (heavy, and prone to explode until fully cured) but the best nutritionally, square bales are the most salable but also take the most fuel and labor and the best weather, regular round bales are a challenge on some fields: last year one of them started rolling and then bouncing when it left the gate and ended up twenty feet up in a maple tree at the bottom of the hill fifty feet onto the neighbor's property.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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There's a whole lot of soil-surface molds growing under the grass, that's what's getting to me. It's too bad that you're currently shower-disenabled: what helps me is to shower every night, and wear a scarf over my hair, or have it up under a baseball cap so it doesn't get full of particulates.

The worst I can say about cottonwood fluff is that it's hell to get on my contact lenses.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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It's so bad I saw people locally that normally put in some nice hay. They were makin green chop of it yesterday.

My BIL just keeps mowing hay and puts up what the weather allows: sileage bales are a bother to handle (heavy, and prone to explode until fully cured) but the best nutritionally, square bales are the most salable but also take the most fuel and labor and the best weather, regular round bales are a challenge on some fields: last year one of them started rolling and then bouncing when it left the gate and ended up twenty feet up in a maple tree at the bottom of the hill fifty feet onto the neighbor's property.

Much of the green chop here is put in pits so it is easier the deal with than the marshmellows.
Sorry but the visual of that just had me

 

[renart]

We moved the chicks outside into a small 4'w x30"tall x8' long brooder box thingy we slapped together, it's in the garage. They were getting far too big for the trough we had them in, in the dining room.

Here are some of them in there chicky glory!

Priscilla on guard from "her" spot on top of the waterer. She seems to think it is her spot to be.

Becky and Becky2, two of the DW's girls.

The coop is coming along slowly, the weather has not been so sporting for it, and the farm itself does not allow me a lot of time.

 

[herbandteas]

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Hey, I warned ya!

Yes you did, but it was after I had already ordered.....

I got Linda on the phone yesterday, and it took her quite a while to find my order...Glenn was out in the field as usual.
She looked all through the May shipping books & could not find it.
She looked all over & finally found it tucked in another book...and read it to me, 25 Buckeyes, which she said (again) that their flocks were devastated by skunks, owls & possums, and so they were unable to send a full shipment of Bucks.
So I had subsituted some blue cayuga ducks to fill the order providing half were Buckeyes, but she said the Bucks in what is left of their flock are not laying at all.
(I do not think they have any left at all)

The "devastation done in January...in Ohio, IN JANUARY!!!
How did owls & the rest do so much damage in Januray in Ohio???

Skunks & possums are hibernating!!!!!!!!!!
Owls only fly at night when birds are in coops & roosting..INDOORS!!!

So anyways...they then just set my order aside and did NOTHING!!!!!!!
They never returned my 6 phone messages, they never returned my 10 e-mails...they were waiting for what ?
New chicks would have been laying by now!!!

I was nice about it all, she asked if I would like another subsitute ?
I felt so angry I wanted to ask her "Just when exactly were you going to answer my messages & let me know there were no Buckeyes ?
Next spring?"

Anyway
I said no, not at this late date I already have ordered from elsewhere..so she is sending my money back and every penny better be there.
No keeping of 25% to cancel my order THEY were unable to fill.
Curious why they still have Buckeye on their catalog list even now ????
How many people are sitting around wondering where the heck their order is ??????????

NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should have let you know this quite a while ago! As for the catalog they kept it up there but should have a least some where on their web site said what breeds they would not have for a while and why!!

 

[KMHunter]

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Hey, I warned ya!

Yes you did, but it was after I had already ordered.....

I got Linda on the phone yesterday, and it took her quite a while to find my order...Glenn was out in the field as usual.
She looked all through the May shipping books & could not find it.
She looked all over & finally found it tucked in another book...and read it to me, 25 Buckeyes, which she said (again) that their flocks were devastated by skunks, owls & possums, and so they were unable to send a full shipment of Bucks.
So I had subsituted some blue cayuga ducks to fill the order providing half were Buckeyes, but she said the Bucks in what is left of their flock are not laying at all.
(I do not think they have any left at all)

The "devastation done in January...in Ohio, IN JANUARY!!!
How did owls & the rest do so much damage in Januray in Ohio???

Skunks & possums are hibernating!!!!!!!!!!
Owls only fly at night when birds are in coops & roosting..INDOORS!!!

So anyways...they then just set my order aside and did NOTHING!!!!!!!
They never returned my 6 phone messages, they never returned my 10 e-mails...they were waiting for what ?
New chicks would have been laying by now!!!

I was nice about it all, she asked if I would like another subsitute ?
I felt so angry I wanted to ask her "Just when exactly were you going to answer my messages & let me know there were no Buckeyes ?
Next spring?"

Anyway
I said no, not at this late date I already have ordered from elsewhere..so she is sending my money back and every penny better be there.
No keeping of 25% to cancel my order THEY were unable to fill.
Curious why they still have Buckeye on their catalog list even now ????
How many people are sitting around wondering where the heck their order is ??????????

NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry you had to go through this. But I will remember NEVER to use them! I hope you get ALL your money back.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Still haven't received my Sweet Potato slips from Sandhill.

I don't think Illia would part with her Blue Wheaton roo. She may have chicks or juveniles by now though. I have 3 Blue Wheaton Marans from Cree farms which have Bevs birds. Illia has the same ones so I'm hoping to get a nice roo like hers. I am only picking one to keep but still dorky looking right now. Maybe in a few months.

I like no crunchies in my Potato salad also. I like the celery taste so use celery salt. And no sweet. I will sometimes put some dill pickle juice in the salad in place of vinegar. And sometimes dill weed. Never that nasty miracle whip either, mines not diet, put in lots of Mayo!

Got some bad news yesterday. My biggest landscape account replaced me with a big company. Seems they want their aweful and rampant salal (the landscape designer should be shot! They actually planted it on purpose!) to be cut all in one day which I cant do since I work alone and can only fill my truck once. If I go off to dump it there will be no parking on the street to reload when I get back due to a restaurant next door that is open for lunch. And the Salal I have gotten cut they say is too chopped. They are a wealth management company and have hoity toity clients that I'm sure are trying to find work for their landscape workers and they put on the pressure. I've done that account for 10 years and no one ever gave a rats patutty about the landscape and have only in the last few weeks mentioned anything. The "owners" complained when I cut the rhodies back which was needed. Things were either "too hacked" or "too over grown". So no keeping them happy. When other company 'sharks' come circling around they have a chance to bad mouth everything I'm doing there to get their foot in the door. Something fishy was going on. But, it's super hard for the little guy to compete with the big guy. I have been fighting off the sharks ever since we started this business. It's exhausting. I'm glad to have extra time for the farm but bummed I won't be able to generate the income I lost. Definately not by selling my eggs at $3.75 a doz. LOL. It takes time to recruit new accounts. Also, everything I've been busting my butt on at that place will all grow back and look gorgeous in a few months and guess who will be getting the credit! Not me. Oh well, anyone want to buy some chicks?

 

[Ogress]

Another day, another Rat in the Ratzapper!

What is it? Bald tail, tail longer than body, round ears, white belly (it looks like a cross of the bushy-tail and the rat the cat caught).