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[Illia]

Well right now they're getting the same as always. They play outside most of the day on weekdays, they get a little time in the living room or time to be worked on outside when people are available to work on them, on weekends their schedule is probably half-n-half of outside or indoors, the usual. They have a large run just outside the house to play in where we can watch and interact in the living room, they sleep in my mom's bedroom, and they spend their indoor time loose around the livingroom and kitchen. From Tues-Fri my younger sister works obedience with them.

We've got a couple people interested already though.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I really want to move some place with a bit more land.

Sorry to hear about your horrible neighbors! I'd rather have clucking chickens than barking dogs any day!! Can you afford a move? We have several places in southern Pierce County (think Eatonville) that are up for sale! Several are bank foreclosures and are going for a relative song.

Get some geese. LOL Chinese ones would work well.

 

[herbandteas]

I had a chinese gander for a while who thought I was his mom till he took a bite out of my daugter who thought he was her pet. He was a hatchling that the mom didn't want. So I raised him in the house he followed me every where. But I had to draw the line when he took a bite out of Amy she was so sad when he had to go so was I. He was a cute little guy!

 

[ultasol]

Anyone working with Embdens? I hatched females this year, and have a couple girls for sale. They are Holderread stock, I got my pair in MT at a spring show a year and a half ago. One of the females for sale is the original goose, she is a year and a half and I had fertility the first year with her (they say that the large embdens sometimes aren't fertile year one) and is coming into her prime. The other one available is one of her daughters.

These are big geese, very respectful of your space. They've been on gamebird maintenance and good pasture.

For sale because I have one male and five females. Don't need that many girls.

$75 each

Look at the price of goslings on the website. The original birds came from Holderreads top-show-quality matings.

 

[hallerlake]

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This is a basic coop. Dimensions could be altered if it's too small. http://poultry.purinamills.com/NUTRITIONMANAGEMENT/HenHouseHutchDesign/default.aspx

Hallerlake, this is a great little coop. Looks easy to build and, more importantly, easy to clean!
P.S. My little Dottie from you is doing so well! Just love her! Thanks again!

It's been well thought out.

I'm glad you and Dotty are happy together.

 

[hallerlake]

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This is a basic coop. Dimensions could be altered if it's too small. http://poultry.purinamills.com/NUTRITIONMANAGEMENT/HenHouseHutchDesign/default.aspx

Interesting, thanks for posting. I'll have to check it out more tomorrow. It's the "tapered" part that bothers me; I'm not sure how to do that.

With all our rain, a tilted roof is a good idea.

 

[ChristineR]

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I obviously don't know the dogs, I was just going off what the OP said about them (i.e. that they needed to find a new home because of temperament issues).

Just speaking in general terms, I don't think any animal that doesn't have a good temperament should be bred, regardless of how rare or special their bloodlines are. Just my opinion.

I hope everything works out with the dogs. They are young and a lot can change by the time they're fully mature.

 

[hallerlake]

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I obviously don't know the dogs, I was just going off what the OP said about them (i.e. that they needed to find a new home because of temperament issues).

Just speaking in general terms, I don't think any animal that doesn't have a good temperament should be bred, regardless of how rare or special their bloodlines are. Just my opinion.

I hope everything works out with the dogs. They are young and a lot can change by the time they're fully mature.

I have to agree with Christine. Illia said that other people have had temperment issues with other dogs from the same line. That's a bad sign. I hope they find a great forever home where they will not be bred, but I know the latter is unlikely.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I talked to Candy about ordering some camas bulbs this year; I have my bulb budget and my Arboretum Sale budget to draw on, and was wondering if anyone else wanted a share on an order from Van Engelen: 100 bulbs are $16.75, and I'm not going to plant more than 20 of them myself. I'm also ordering the rock garden mixture of Iris reticulata and 50 Tulipa clusiana "Lady Jane" for planting in some big containers to build up my retaining walls.

It took me decades to get over the feeling that buying camas was like paying for doug fir starts, but the influx of flatland furriners who mow their roadsides flat in April and May has wiped out every last patch from my visible public space; I'll be following Bacchus' brush consumption with a bulb planter this fall.

Actually, I shouldn't badmouth flatland furriners; my old neighbor, whose family lived the other side of Marvin Road as long as mine lived here, had no idea what camas were, even though her acreage was azure with them every spring. She also slaughtered down three big blue elderberries and some huge old twinberry bushes because they were growing next to her driveway where she wanted a neat barren strip of mowed grass: there's artificial constraints on land use and then there's ignoring what you have been blessed with by a generous providence.

 

[CarolynF]

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I haven't called yet... forgot today!

I'll let you know how it goes. I'm not sure when we'll get there, our schedule is still TBD. Thanks for the info.!

So are you "planning " to camp(?) at the fair grounds??

Okay... got the resv. made this morning. We'll get there "Friday before dark" is all hubby will commit to.
This will be the first show I've attended so I'm looking forward to it, it sounds like a lot of fun. I'm wondering if it's similar to the Swap that's in Oregon the following weekend. DH saw the brochure and started drooling when he read the part about a brisket cooked for 24 hours!