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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Well, call me slow, but I just focused in on your avatar and realize you are wearing scrubs. I forget names all the time....where you the vet I talked to earlier this year? I agree at your quote: "Play at what you do...." I agree 100%. I have been a client with this clinic forever. I used to go there when the original doctor, Dr. Gjesevold (sp?) was there. He had come out to my house and euthanized my old dog...I didn't have to take Spuds in....Doc had been Spuds' vet forever. The Doc went back to the truck to get his stethoscope to confirm. DH and I were balling our eyes out. Spuds was the dog that made my DH like dogs...and the rest is history, regarding our household critters.

Well, when Doc came back to the yard, there was a tear in his eye. Even to this day this tears me up. Doc was compassionate and gentle and respectful to Spuds. It was approximately 2 weeks later that Dr. Gjesevold was killed in a farm accident. This man probably was doing farm work before he could walk. The cover on the PTO of his tractor to his bailer had fallen off/broke off (whatever - wasn't there). Doc stepped off the tractor with the PTO running and the PTO grabbed either his pant leg or shoe lace or something in the area and ripped off his leg (lightning fast). He died in the field. His wife went looking for him for lunch. This was how he was found. I will always remember him.

The clinic is a mixed practice with the majority being dogs, cats, cows, horses...and I would assume sheep and goats. I have brought in chickens of my own and while doing checkin on a patint, yesterday, on a client noticed that they had an iguana (sp?) in the family. This clinic is also one of the only one that does emergency call during the weekends and they have had clients come all the way up from Wenatchee - as no one there does weekend call. (I just can't believe this, but it is true). Also they have quite a clientel list that comes from Canada.

I am excited for the stories I will get to tell....and I hope that not getting bit is a long time coming. I don't wanna get bit.

wear your scars proud girl! lol!

I remember hearing about Dr. Gjesevold when I worked for Dr. Deweert in Twisp. (that was a Loooong time ago!!!)

At least I am pretty sure it was him, his name seems very familiar, and it's not a very common one.... I think it's really nice when a Veterinarian is able to make a house call for something like a euthanasia, not all of them do that. You were lucky to have such a great Dr!

that is crazy to me that Wenatchee or Chelan.. not even Brewster?? none of those places have emergency hours??

actually.. you know..now that you say that.. some friends of ours were boating on Chelan, and their dog jumped from the dock into their boat; missed the boat and ruptured her bladder. It was a Saturday afternoon and they came all the way back to Tacoma to the Emergency Clinic here. Wild. Dog is ok~ btw, a gazillion dollahs later. You will have fun, there is NEVER a dull moment in a veterinary hospital! We just do cats only, but I started in a mixed small animal--ferrets and other furry creatures that make me really nervous! I'll take a feral cat over ANY of those--mean dogs, ferrets, birds.

You worked for Dan!?

He's our vet!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Isn't crazy what a small world we live in?

 

[Rainwolf]

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Those quail eggs are just beautiful... Hope they survived the storm blowout.

Thanks :} The quail eggs I think are fine the chicken eggs have been in since the 11th I hope are good still early days.

 

[Rainwolf]

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Those quail eggs are just beautiful... Hope they survived the storm blowout.

me too--and I was going to say earlier how pretty your incubator is with all those great eggs!! Like Easter eggs.

Thanks!

 

[Rainwolf]

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I'd help ya out but I'm in seattle

 

[jbear]

HOOK BILLS.. terrify me. *shiver* CR, funny thing--we used to have a quaker too--meaner n anything I have ever belonged to. Raised him from featherless too. Read every book on raising parrots, watched those foraging in captivity videos..pretty sure we did most we could right, but again..like a mean ol' rooster--no one would go near him but me and he didn't like me, loved my husband though. He bit the heck out of all of us more than once and man, those beaks are powerful!

Yes, it IS a small world!! I grew up in the Valley--we moved there from Tonasket when I was in the 6th grade. Graduated from LB, but went to Pateros until my Sr. year. As I lived in Carlton, I knew kids from all ends of the Valley. {I graduated with your bro Teresa

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I started working for Dan my Sr year--were you get to go to school in the AM then go to work for credit in the afternoon. Worked for him until I moved to 'the coast' to go to school for vet tech.. Had some very interesting farm calls with him--Llamas and camels, and pulling calves in muck up to your chin...

good times!! hahah! Heather, if you see him--tell him I said hi--it was a long time ago, but he has a pretty good memory. I worked for him in 88. (eeee.... see, I told you it was a long time ago!! lol)

Ok.. I am off to get ready for the work.

Also--NoCurs--where are you located. When you say So Sound, are you talking like... Tacoma? or further south yet?

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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My gosh this is absolutely crazy funny. I think maybe you and I had talked about this (maybe?) before a little. You graduated with Travis, so you are 4 years behind me? What was your maiden name? Where did you llive? Would you have been the same grade as Letha Hunter? She is over in Pullman (If I remember correctly) and is a vet tech to a horse surgeon.

OH, remember Christianson's or Belsby's or Brewster's....they all ran cows or had a ranch near me where I grew up, I grew up approx 6 miles up the Twisp River Rd. I helped them move cows in the spring and fall. I never had the "priveledge" of pulling calves, but have heard stories. The closest I came to this was when my "pet" milk cow Gertie had her calf. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey to bow. She bowed during the 49er parade. Always a good trait in a milk cow...

I will have to see if I have a photo. I knew the person who had the camel too...just can't remember the name...not enough coffee yet.

Travis is now in Yakima and is married and has a little boy who just turned 5...my nephew's name is Lex and he is so cute.

Well Jen, I am still half asleep.....but this is so cool. I will have to tell Travis.

 

[jbear]

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awwww... too bad you aren't closer..

I would LOVE for you to have it!! lol!

 

[Chickielady]

The strangest thing...Surehatch just PM'd me here on BYC...asking the physical address to deliver the GQF parts as Paypal only gave them my P.O.Box...ha!
How the heck did Surehatch know my alias here on BYC ?????

Paypal told them ? Paypal must have cuz I have bought/sold auction eggs...but I did not know paypal would give out my info...hmmmmmmmmmm....I am too tired to get upset about it but that is exactly what happened isn't it ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Yes I remember that one. The stables had to have the entire roof taken off so they could realign the trusses. I also went to my nephews in S. Bend on new years day that year and had to go over the hill from Monte.
How big are these trees and what kind? Will I need to bring my big saw?

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And how about the splitter?

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I wanted to cut firewood as far down as we can with a regular saw...won't it be awfully expensive to use the big one ?
I usually pay by the cord/cut and split.
And DH and I split and stack.
The butt is 6 foot through...so I was going to start at the pointy part

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