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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Chickie, I feel the same way. Posted this REALLY funny video and no on commented on it. I thought it was hilarious but I guess I must go to the beat of a different drummer.

CCG and CL: JMHO: I have not bee commenting much because I am still lerning this new BYC and I am afraid of getting lost. I am slowly becoming more comfortable with it...but that is why I have not commented much on different items. Besides my DH told me that I talk too much ...

on him. It is not that I was ignoring either's of your post. CCG: I have not watched the video yet as I have not had time. CL: noise in the woods: Possum? Skunk?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Fifteen months, a partly dislocated hip and broken rib ago:



The last gravel job: turns out that laying pea gravel on top of the snow/ice works better than shovelling.

(I think maybe this photo makes the driveway look friendlier than it is, too).

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

I think this time of year, Momma is kicking the calves outta the nest........and they are whinning about it.
The other noises are evn more higher pitched & more "urgent" which sounds exactly like cow in estrus............which backs up the late season.....which is why fawns are being born so late, lately.
We saw 1 doe with 2 twin fawns in eraly mod season (Nov) and these fawns were the size of small dogs, like 15 pounds each?
The warm weird weather IS effecting the wildlife.
So we have both mewling calves freshly kicked out of the nest AND cows in estrus NOW, which should have happened in November.






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Is this the calf in your back yard? A calf this small won't make it if his mother has kicked him out.....that is horrible. How adorable.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

I know but its so cute.

So is a baby skunk....but I still don't want one. Zgoat you are funny.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Okay, there was a photo with an incubator (I think Igress') .... in the middle was an "instrument"...I think I saw something similar at the feed store... is this a hydrometer/thermometer? The one I saw was around $50...I would like to have it but tight on cash right this minute. Wondering if it was the same thing, how do you like it, does it work well?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK I JUST couldn't resist. I found Arnold on the Serama thread and just had to share.

now this pic just strikes my funny bone, one of the roosters from June, mr SUPER Serama...

 

[Kaneke]

Fifteen months, a partly dislocated hip and broken rib ago:



The last gravel job: turns out that laying pea gravel on top of the snos/ice works better than shovelling.

(I think maybe this photo makes the driveway look friendlier than it is, too).

yes it does make it look much friendlier than the reality

it's a steep, narrow, rutted, bumpy, overgrown, potholed, exhaust-pipe-wrecking track

very good for keeping invaders away

fine for an off-road or all-terrain vehicle, or an older sturdier high-clearance vehicle

NOT looking forward to trekking our building materials up it, one by one, in our little hot hands

 

[SadieSue]

Is this the calf in your back yard? A calf this small won't make it if his mother has kicked him out.....that is horrible. How adorable.

Hey wait a minute - is that a target spot on that little calf's behind? Take it off! That baby is too young! (Nothing against hunters or hunting - I have been known to enjoy my BIL's Elk sausage just as much as anyone else, provided I haven't had to look into it's pretty brown eyes before hand.)

Cute Pic CL! Did you take this?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hey guys! Just checking in....been really busy....

Audrey is growing like a weed! Slept through the nights twice now this month (in the last two nights) and I gave her a pinch of brown rice cereal in her bottle, too. Here she is laughing!

DH started his master's degree (online) and between him having to do schoolwork 2-3 hours a night, Audrey, the farm in the middle of the winter and just life itself--it makes for not much BYC time!

I am still trying to thin my flock. No one seems interested in buying anything right now, though....quad of Sussex (light/split/coronation), a pair of MFC bantams, a pair of Houdan bantams and my flock of Crevecoeur.

I'm still looking for a bantam SLW roo, pair or trio. Decent (better-than-hatchery) quality stuff.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

OK I JUST couldn't resist. I found Arnold on the Serama thread and just had to share.

now this pic just strikes my funny bone, one of the roosters from June, mr SUPER Serama...