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[Stumpfarmer]

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The earlier T-post driver accidently smacked in the head and knocked out on the ground, was our girl Cheryl98117.........poor kid was 'blurry' for days afterwards.
Cheryl is tall too!
But pounded down and caught the driver on the side of the wire notch and the driver rang her bell good!!

Not funny then at all.

Oh, sorry. I was thinkingg that was you that got knocked out. I knew that someone got their "bell rung" good. Very dangerous.

Happens way too easily, way too often; my sister was about five posts over her limit the day she clocked herself. They have an auger for setting wooden posts and a tractor-mounted power pounder for steel ones now, but my chicken project is way down the list of approved tractor use.

I forgot to say, Chickielady, that I love the names. We have had a tendency to name cattle with puns, or, at my house, pop culture connections. Right now I have a set of twin girls named Aurora and Ariel. Just lost poor Tara, who got hit in the eye with a paintball, but Willow lives on: they were born on the same day. Willow's mother was Laurel and her sisters are Anemone and Rowan. There's one line where we ran out of imagination entirely: cow Nilla, daughters Nada, Narry, and Nix. The BLRWs, who sang to each other in their dog carrier all the way back from Seattle, are Ian and Sylvia, and I'm here to swear that I forgot that the Canadian folksingers' last name was Tyson until I was looking up YouTube clips to show my daughter.


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[Zgoatlady]

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You forgot the educational session at the Post Office.
My postal workers were worried about a prority box there for me, thinking the 15 pound box was hatching eggs (

) when it was all the canned goodies from Blue Ducklings YUM!!!
So they actually called me at 8 AM to ask if I needed my mail & this box brought to me.
There are so nice!
I said no, I have a friend coming today & we will come to the Post Office.
So when T and I arrived, we brought Daffy in the Post Office, and she di not like the slipppery polished floors but was her cute self o the postal counter and everyone petted her...this duck is like a movie star.

She rides in the car talking away and looking out the window at everything like a lap dog........Toni said truck driver do a double take.....

That is so cute...

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I can help you with the goats if you want dairy goats I have two breeds Nubians and toggenburgs, I do have a few that need a new home, but they are not to eat..
I also have some Wheaton Marans that need a new home, have a pair about a month old and have two chicks also they are not sexed yet. I also have some Black Copper Marans crossed with Wheaton Marans that are cheap and need a new home, they will lay nice dark eggs..

 

[Zgoatlady]

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[blueducklings]

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Is that the killer bunny that will claw and attack little children>

Funny how Bunnicular looks so tame in these pictures.
My nephew is finally back from their 3 yrs in Shanghai. Still remembers that I was going to buy him a bunny pet.
They brought all their American pets home, (one golden & 2 cats)
but had to leave all the critters they had accumulated in China behind.
He is very jet lagged, but managed to X-box all night with my DS. He has adopted Larry, (duck #2)cause Mo is taken.

So we might bring Mo to join the duck race on saturday, then head down to portland for OMSI.
Logistics.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Welcome from the Chief of the Washington's night crew. I know I shouldn't be here yet, cause it isn't dark yet.

Just keep posting and with a few more posts you will be able to post the pictures. I would love to see them.

I need to figure out how to put up an icon/avatar/userpic and add to the info under my name; I've been online so long under so many forms of coding that I'll probably post a whole lot of the wrong code.

Must get into town shoes and run off to the first weekend of the Oly Farmer's market, see if any of my friend's there have clues as to hens!

I have a couple of EE hens that will be two in June if you need them..

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Thank you! I will seriously take you up on that! We are getting a plucker soon and any tips would help! I am all for getting my hands dirty!! I was raised on a farm, did the FFA thing was a Vet Tech for 10 years and a Boatswains mate in the USN! Not much scares me or makes me blush! LOL! Let me know when and where!

Then you fit in very well at my house. I don't always have very good filters on my thoughts. I am in Enumclaw, and I am fairly sure that we will be processing on a weekend. Chinook Pass should be opened by the time we process the birds. We have always just skinned the birds, but this year I would love to have a plucker. A few of us are working at going in on a community plucker, but if you have a plucker by then, maybe you could bring it with you. My thing this year is I have to do the kill. DH has always done it in the past, but I am going to need to toughen up more and do it myself.

You can always bring a few birds that you want to process, and we can make sure that you are able to handle the sad part. It does get all better after you see all the wrapped meat in the refrigerator afterwards. I nearly out of chicken in the freezer, so I am going to need to raise a few more meaties than I did last year. Of course it would help if I didn't give all the neighbors a whole chicken this year.

Im pretty sure Im going to get Ultasol plucker so will have it.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I wonder how many of the BYCers on here know why you walked backwards...I do! I do! I do!. I showed a Gurnsey and a Brown Swiss in 4-H while growing up. Showing dairy, you have to walk backwards. Never knew why though. I taught Gertie the Gurnsey how to bow...now tell me how useful that is to a milk cow. that is alright, her first calf, Ash, I taught to shake hands. LOL.


ETA: Because I forgot the type of cow I had....too long ago.

When I was nine or ten- first year 4Her, in any case- I was hired to lead a perfectly tame and friendly Brown Swiss Junior Yearling Heifer for the 4H-FFA state championship judging at Puyallup; her muzzle was right at my face level, and she'd been eating spent brewery solids and had the worst breath ever for a cow.

I showed Holsteins (see dairy replacement heifer business) and my last one was a gem; she would stop and set herself up without a hand on the lead. We kept her as a family milk cow for ages after, and finally sold her to some who'd just moved to Rochester and were looking for a good cow to be around little kids.

(To keep this on topic, I just came in from contriving a small door for feeding treats to chickens; Ian and Sylvia had to supervise the operation, which made it more of a challenge).

My son was showing at ADGA Nationals and kept rubbing his white pants I couldnt tell why. Well when he stoped in front of me he told me and showed me the doe shot cude all over him. It was bad. But the doe did come in 6th at the National level. He was happy to smell than...

 

[Zgoatlady]

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We had snow here this past week not sure if you go it or not, but I think the weather is messing with the girls bad.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I need to figure out how to put up an icon/avatar/userpic and add to the info under my name; I've been online so long under so many forms of coding that I'll probably post a whole lot of the wrong code.

Must get into town shoes and run off to the first weekend of the Oly Farmer's market, see if any of my friend's there have clues as to hens!

I have a couple of EE hens that will be two in June if you need them..

My cousin's two (Wheaten and Buff) have sort of put me off EEs by their lack of common sense; they always miss the chicken treats because they run for the hills when they see me and sneak carefully back just in time to miss whatever it was my pocket food was (I'm an insulin dependant diabetic), but thanks for the offer. I'm also looking for a nice wether to help me with blackberries and plum root suckers, but it soulds like you're fresh out?

Julia, my Great-Grandmother planted Himalays back when the Extension Service was promoting them as "an easy fruitful plant for the family garden" and I've got burls the size of volkswagons.