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[Chickielady]

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I have BCM, Cuckoo Marans, OEs and Blue Ameracaunas and maybe an extra wheaten or Blue Wheaten Marans.
Tons!
All flavors!

 

[Chickielady]

Well luckily the nasty windy storm lasted only several hours, and no loss of power.
All is well but lots of stuff blew all over, and as usual, right down into a drop off...every so often I have to slide down the muddy hill & bag up all the crap that blows down there

Babies are all doing great, DH is in Oregon as I write, driving home and should be here by 4 PM.
I am glad this extravaganza on the credit cards is OVER!

We have a foundation to put in within 90 days it must be inspected or we loose the permit that has been sitting downtown for a week now.
You cannot just build a foundation a dollar at a time, it will be a minimum of $5K and maybe another $2500. for a concrete pump.
I have half saved, so need to save the rest and cannot go to Stevenson after all

DH has blown way too much on gas & galivanting around buying meals and such on his 3 week vacation.
So, you who are going take lots of pictures!!!
I am making the coconut curry chicken for dinner & stir fry rice.
I do not know why I am being so nice to DH..after he left me here alone with no car for 3 weeks...We women can be like dogs, take abuse & still have unconditional love.
I really feel like taking his car keys, hiding them, and then chasing him around with a stick and beating his rear end.

He did not need to to sit down there and have a week long family party.
3 weeks!

That is almost a month!!!

Oh well, it is water under the bridge now...
His family has no idea we live in a storage barn...like living in a public storage unit.
We have a shed with a washing machine in it.
We have a porta potty.
We have cold running rain water system.
We have to heat a big pot of cold water to hot, and dump it in a 5 gallon bucket of cold water to make the perfect "shower" temperature, then bathe & rinse with a dipper.
It is alot of work.
Same deal for dishes.
All this requires alot of rain collecting in various tanks & pumped to a big double tanks on the hill so it gravity feeds down to us in the storage barn.
His family thinks he has bucks to spend, and his 4 diva daughters never pay a cent he is a perfect gentleman with them, they are GIRLS!
I do not know why he EXPECTS me to endure here alone...

OK enough rant...I am gonna go get more work done...or not.
Maybe I will lay around for the next 3 weeks!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

In other news, the blue roan Angus X Shorthorn cow has just given me a red and white calf out of the black Not Angus bull from last year. My BIL will not be happy. (I'm buying a Shorthorn with my husband's family money because he only buys Angus bulls).

Cow genetics are usually simpler than chicken ones, but this black bull has so far given me two solid red bull calves, three red and white heifers and a red-and-white-still wet-unknown, one blue roan heifer, one solid black heifer, and three black and white bulls. The solid reds are not Shorthorn red but rather Limousin/ Simental/ Red Angus red, but the white markings are not consistant with Simental (which throws white faces as consistently as Hereford) and are not in the pattern of white markings that my Shorthorns carry. Is a mystery.

I'd send some swabs off for genetic testing, but after my sister's long-legged single coated curly square jawed droop-eared pup came back with a more than 60% Husky or American Eskimo

result, I'm skeptical of their reliability.

 

[pettec63]

Good morning my fellow peeps! I am looking for some Buff Orp chicks NOT hatchery chicks, I won't be able to get to the Stevenson show, so I thought I would send you a post and find out if any one here is selling some good stock, I will need a good quality rooster too! Thank you!

 

[RedReiner]

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would love to see the calves! my neighbor down the road, he has registered Simmental, flekveigh or however you spell it. red and white. huge cattle. I really want to get some Murray Gray... to expensive for me though.

 

[pettec63]

Well we are getting gale force wind AGAIN!!!

Glad you guys didn't lose power! gotta keep the chickies going!!

 

[pettec63]

I think I'm going to buy the Brinsea Octo 20 with auto turner, what do you guys think? I have read several posts and it seems to be a good one?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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would love to see the calves! my neighbor down the road, he has registered Simmental, flekveigh or however you spell it. red and white. huge cattle. I really want to get some Murray Gray... to expensive for me though.

Murray Greys are pretty, but they've never been affordable in North America; long ago Dad thought of buying sufficient semen to breed some Shorthorn and Shorthorn X Angus cows into a Murray Grey herd, but even that was prohibitively expensive.

Anyway, this years babies, or some of them, as of a couple of weeks ago one sunny Saturday:

 

[Chickielady]

Oh no, more eggs in the mail arriving soon.................the Easter Bunny is at it again !

Better get toothpicks to hold my cheese on my crackers from now on

No more storms !!!

We have part sun right now, but this morning & several times last night it was hailing so hard.
I staple the plastic over the hoops on the 2 long lettuce beds...to keep the hail from pulverizing it...then the sun comes out & even soft misty rains I uncover it, then the hail comes again...

Oh well.
Things should get back to normal soon & DH will be home and he has a KILLER honey -do list to deal with !

And I have about 50 chicks to sell, and post flyers & put out the signs....now that he is home and I can have the van back.

OK back to work~~~you keep the gale & hail up there with you!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Cute Stumpfarmer!
Do you sell sides or quarters ?
Let me know prices cut & wrapped sides and/or quarters.
What a lovely day that was.
We need some more of that!