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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I feel your pain

I guess our Jake-the-dog decided too, that it was time for him ... though apparently he just ran and ran, so far that no one has found him yet
the place does feel empty here, only Krispy-cat is left, besides the chickens ... Cheddar never came home either

I'm so sorry that you both lost loved ones, thinking of you both in this difficult time.

dawn

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[herbandteas]

Yes it is

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Happy Anniversary!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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aw, what a sweet story!

 

[Illia]

for the lost!!




Well yesterday I wanted to get online but WOW it was WINDY!! Windiest, stormiest September I've ever seen. Power flickered a lot but didn't go out.



Anyway we got a new puppy!! Yes I know, we got two new ones not too long ago, but,

We have ourselves a very nice Harlequin Great Dane now. Always loved Danes, good ones at least, and we've had some in the past, but lately have been soo careful about both who to get a Dane from, and also sooo picky about the quality of the Dane. I hate how Danes in America are getting more and more refined, skinny, and fragile looking these days.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Hmm- I wonder why I get so much guff from them.

You have really got to look into Icelandics!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are so gorgeous!
Each is crested or has a long "hair do" like Einstein, and the colors are awesome, partridge, mottled & blues, grays, chocolates.
OMG I cannot believe them myself..and every day I look into their pen they get more beautiful!

Well, I have sold over 20 started birds to a tiny Cambodian woman out here, named Pan (pronouced pen)
She is older than I, about 80 pounds max, and about 4 foot tall.
She works at the Oyster processer 5 days a week, and is one busy gal on the week ends.
The original 10 birds I sold her (all sq Ameraucanas) were killed by a racoon.
Apparently she did not have a good pen.
This was last spring.
So she came back a month ago & asked for 10 more for egg.
I said OK but she wanted started birds, not chicks.
Anyways, I hatched her 12 Cuckoo Marans, and also gave her 4 assorted roosters for meat, for $80
Raising birds is expensive!!
Purina Flock Raiser last Feb was $12 a bag.
Now it is $18.99
So, anyways, Pan understanded why I charge $8 a bird for her only.
So off she goes last week.
Today she showed back up in her Nissan pickup full of baskets & clothing..and jumps out with 2 gallons of Huckleberries for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Washed, no stems or leaves!!!!!!!!!
She explained in broken English that she spent 4 hrs to drive & was 2 days pick the berries and I can make pie.
This is what the woman did on her week end off, is go to Idaho and pick Huckleberries.
It is amazing how awesome and strong these immigrants are, and makes you wonder all the more about the "lazy user freindly" Americans we have here.
You know the ones, who "expect" everything to be before them when they walk into a store.
The ones who think all food comes from a grocery store.
Anyways, I am so excited she brought me 2 gallons of Huckelberries, what is that nowadays...$37 a gallon ?
I gave her 2 of my recently butchered crosses, and she was also very excited.
She then asked if I like the oyster, YES!!!!!!!!!!
So I will not be surprised next time she pulls in my driveway with a bucket of oysters!
Life is good, bartering is good, we all get along & help each other!
OK bye! I gotta go close coops & feed the DH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

wow - that's a lot of huckleberries! I wouldn't even know how much they are - have only picked them in the woods. They take forever to pick too! Bartering is awesome

edited to say...you know how I feel about your beautiful Icelandics!

 

[Chickielady]

I just saw they (Huckleberries ) were at $17 a pound,
And yes, the Icelandics are amazing!!!!
I will get fresh pics of them tomorrow.....gotta go!!
Bye guys!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Need puppy pics!!!!!!!!!!! Oooooooooh, I LOVE PUPPIES!!!
What color is he(she) ????????????? Details!!!

 

[Illia]

Harlequin. I said the color.

This is an example of a Harlequin colored Dane, but not mine.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, I love Danes so much, especially Harlequins, but you're right a lot of the recent ones are too spindly and weak-looking. So lucky to find one you like.


My big adventure today was seeing a Cooper's Hawk almost take my cousin's Bantam Brahma cockerel. It had made a couple of passes earlier, but we were all out in the orchard- my cousin's wife was taking Senior Pictures, I was picking pears (the bartletts are almost a month late!) and it dropped out of the oak trees like a rocket those times. When the hawk was chasing the Bantam, I thought it was another chicken at first: it was running on the ground, chasing the little roo under the old dump truck that she uses for photo backgrounds.

He has about twenty boys up there- a bunch of what he thought were RSL pullets turned out to be RSL X RSL males, and the splash and blue EE/maybe Ameraucana Bantams and the one Braham bantam that were all that hatched from some mailed E Bay eggs are all boys; the blue Ameraucana cockerel I got from CL and Teeny Little Superguy, the Blue Red (or Blue Wheaten?) OEGB are kept with the hens; they seem to be best of friends! The cockerels are in the other pen, and just a ridiculous bunch.

Anyway, Teeny Little Superguy: