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[SadieSue]

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Ooo, congratulations! I was looking at thosevand wishing I had an empty incubator. Can't wait to see those babies!

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Im not much help for your run, all my girls (but the Wheaten) get to run free here. But Im thinking of putting up some runs and Id use sand. Just the thought of cleaning straw doesnt sound fun at all. In my coops we have pine shavings.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Since I am sure I will miss yer B-Day I wanna wish ya an early happy 50th !!!

woah just saw pics on the news FUNNEL CLOUD in Mt. Vernon !!!!

Thats not good.

 

[RedReiner]

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I have got to come see your babies!!!! That is the cutest little one! Oh, did I just invite myself over?

I tend to do that, so you can ignore me.

am always happy to have visitors, want an orp cockeral? its a good excuse to see the babies, but ya gotta take a orp boy home lol

 

[Zgoatlady]

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I use alfalfa pellets for my brooders, that way when its time to change them I just toss into the garden.. When they are older I go to the shavings.

 

[RedReiner]

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OHHHH he's cute ! but where'd he get those EARRRRRSSSS! ( just kidding)

from his daddy lol. dad has some largish ears but its hidden under a pile of mane and forelock

 

[RedReiner]

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I heard peeping from one of my eggs this morning.

So much exciting news all around! New colts, new chicks, new ducks. Someone needs to get a new puppy. I know a couple of people here were looking...

I have two litters of miniature pinschers cooking lol.

 

[pettec63]

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I've been reading a lot about various beddings, and I'll be using pellets in everything but the nest boxes; I'm being really old school for those, and harvesting and drying moss out of my poor beleagered entry yard perennial garden (the one that will eventually be repurposed as a banty run). When it stops raining (faith is a lovely thing, isn't it?) I'm planning on gathering and washing/drying waste hay from the pasture.

Straw is hideously expensive; no-till and short stem wheats have put its price at a premium (there are other minor straws, but except for oat straw, which is magical stuff, sweet smelling and soft, rye, barley, et'c are not distinguishable from wheat). It's pretty and relatively durable (and hard to compost, as a result) but it's also in need of protection from ground and rain, harbors rodents and insects almost as badly as two-wire hay bales, and is a problem to handle: I've got scars from dragging it across my hands making up show-cattle stalls. The best thing about straw is that it doesn't support disease pathogens; my BIL keeps some around for bedding sick piglets.

Wow! that's interesting! We got our straw in Echo Or, think we paid 3.00 a bale, I didn't think that was bad, guess I hadn't gotten it in a while. MY BF asked me if we should start using wood shavings, I'm just being frugal cause I have some straw left. So you are using pellets on the coop floor? I haven't' gone as far as pricing shavings vs pellets, I would assume tho that pellets are more expensive? I guess I'm thinking of the comfort factor, would it be more comfortable to walk on pellets or shavings? ( that's the vet tech in me) lol!

 

[pettec63]

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So much exciting news all around! New colts, new chicks, new ducks. Someone needs to get a new puppy. I know a couple of people here were looking...

I have two litters of miniature pinschers cooking lol.

uh oh!! red or black and tan? I might take a runt! lol! when are they due? it's one of those, if I dood it I get in tweble, I dood it! LOL

 

[pettec63]

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OHHHH he's cute ! but where'd he get those EARRRRRSSSS! ( just kidding)

from his daddy lol. dad has some largish ears but its hidden under a pile of mane and forelock

Now is he from the same bloodlines as the other colt?