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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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GAWD, that's perfect! LOL

Yes, he knows about messy babies...but that's "different" because it's a human--not a filthy animal....

Just wait till the baby has it's first 'blowout' Poop in every direction! Only course of action is the bath tub! Might make him rethink a bit!

Oh what about older babies/toddler who has a blow out at night and then uses this for finger painting....Yep, had that one hapen. This was the most disgusting thing ever.

 

[Ogress]

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evey hen is different, mine all were brrody and in the "daze" where I could pick them up, and put them on my head all day and they would not have cared.
If in full "brood" the hen is usually dazed, not freaked out.....hope all works for you!

She's been broody for MONTHS!!!!

I had a hen who was broody for months, tried everything to break her. Then CGG gave me fertile BCM eggs. I tried moving mom to a cage in the coop. She went CRAZY!!! Would not sit at all and flapped and tried so hard to get out that she was bloody! I thought she would break her eggs!

I moved her back in the pen with the hens and 2 cockerals. Once the babies hatched (all 4!), she was fine about moving to the cage. At 2 weeks she insested to go into the main coop and run with the juvenile birds. I was scared, but not as scared as all those teenagers are of momma hen! NO BIRD comes near her chicks, even if she is not right with them. Tthey are 4 weeks now and doing great! She is such a doting mom, and she has taught the chicks that people are nice. DH and I can walk right in the run and scoop them up with no fuss from anyone! In the evenings, we scoop them all up again and put them back in the bunny hutch. I need to take some photos, they are all such sweeties. Momma teaches them well.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Funny about the pet thing- the last time we had any process about it was when we got Astro, our first dog, about a month after we were married: my husband had never had a dog (we already had a cat!). I'm using the chickens and Bacchus, especially, as a way to get him to go outside and move around more without getting over-invested in excersize as an object in itself and walking all the way to the top of the hill (Cl, there's another 100 or so feet of slope between my house and the SW corner of the property) and then folding up like a wet paper sack, and to bend and stretch in a natural way. He was a city kid, but one of his mother's brothers had a big ranch near Tulsa, and besides the cows and horses and chickens, his Aunt Garnet kept peafowl. His mother's dad was one of those legendary country docs who took chickens and produce in payment, and had a small farm to feed his family when the Dustbowl blew the money out of Oklahoma.

I'm coming off a long, long day, just sat down after hulling and slicing five pounds of strawberries, and too tired to think straight- I met an old 4-H friend at Freddie's, and she may want one of my surplus BLRW cockerels! I'm pretty sure I've decided to sell both of them, or pass them on for free to people here: I can't see much future in breeding a splash rooster's daughters to another splash rooster, and will be looking for a blue after the first of the year. I think. At this point in time. Depending on further evidence. Subject to change without notice, and all that jazz, y'all.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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LOL. Too funny. We all need to hear we are appreciated though, I bet it meant a lot to him.

BTW, send a bottle of Syrah to my house too would ya?

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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you would be correct.

 

[Ogress]

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Just wait till the baby has it's first 'blowout' Poop in every direction! Only course of action is the bath tub! Might make him rethink a bit!

Oh what about older babies/toddler who has a blow out at night and then uses this for finger painting....Yep, had that one hapen. This was the most disgusting thing ever.

Had that one too and when company was over!

Once whae I was changing newborn Alex, he shot one out that went perfectly through the bars on the changing table and landed inside the kleenex box without dirtying anything else! For 2 days I looked for that blob cause I smelt it. Then I neede to blow my nose and reached into the box,

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Well now you've just gone too far. Out with you and your outrageous demands.

LOL. Pulled that out of thin air didn't he?

 

[Ogress]

My heels cracked today and are bleeding. They hurt. Anyone have a remedy? Seems like this happens every summer when I wear sandals.

 

[RonB]

Ogress

I'm 99.9999% SURE that BOTH Austra Whites are PULLETS

They are 11 weeks now and the ones comb has not grown much at all. By 11 weeks my austra white roo's comb was so big it was starting to fall over !

PM me your address

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Oh yes the P&G is going to be in the paper, thats what everyone is saying. Has anyone other than me heard this?

Got mine tonight...only the P&G.