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[SadieSue]

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She is such a cutie!

 

[pettec63]

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Omg!! I have missed so much!!! I am not about to go though all the theads but, I am so glad I saw this picture!! RFF she is adorable!! What a good baby!!! Congrats again! Sorry I haven't been around to see the changes!!

 

[pettec63]

OMG!!! When did I get the award??? Thanks you guys!!!!

I feel like a bum!! I've been so busy with everything here I haven't been on the forum for forever!!! I will tell you I missed you all!!

But, you won't even believe what's been hatching here!! Oh yea and I'm 23 days away from my wedding, so yea, it's been crazy!! I just hope everyone has been happy healthy and safe!!

be back later!! promise!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Omg!! I have missed so much!!! I am not about to go though all the theads but, I am so glad I saw this picture!! RFF she is adorable!! What a good baby!!! Congrats again! Sorry I haven't been around to see the changes!!

I have been meaning to ask: WHERE THE HECK YA' BEEN STRANGER....I had not seen you on here. I was going to ask everyone if they knew.....but here you are.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

*sigh*

Another reason to avoid using paper towels as baby chick bedding: last night the corner of the chicks bedding got bent into their water dish, and wicked every bit of water out of the jar-style waterer onto the floor of their tub. This morning they were perching atop their feeder like the flood illustrations in Little Toot.

Argh.


Argh.

 

[RustyHen]

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Love this pic - so cute!

x2 .. she is showing more personality every time we see her

X3

 

[Kaneke]

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hey girl, are you listening to me ??

put your chick feeder and waterer up on top of 2x4s ... or some similar small holder (holder for pillar candle maybe ?) .... then the chicks won't kick as much stuff into them, they won't crowd them as much, and the 2x4 will stop them from trying to eat the edges of the paper towels (mine tried it until I battened the edges down)

and how is the ringworm doing? we haven't yet had any urgent reason to drive over your way, but may have to some time this week, DS has run out of a couple of things, and since he cannot drive, must go straight from work to work-release house, he can't SHOP ! could bring antifungal gunk though I suspect your Tiger Balm will poison it sufficiently

looks like we cannot occupy the Maui house until February sometime, so the chickens MAY have earned a reprieve .. DS says he will have put in his time about the end of March, so we'd only need a chicken-and-dog-sitter, or alternate placements, for a couple of months

you might ask your bird hunting relatives if they would like the loan of a good scent hound for a little while?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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hey girl, are you listening to me ??

put your chick feeder and waterer up on top of 2x4s ... or some similar small holder (holder for pillar candle maybe ?) .... then the chicks won't kick as much stuff into them, they won't crowd them as much, and the 2x4 will stop them from trying to eat the edges of the paper towels (mine tried it until I battened the edges down)

and how is the ringworm doing? we haven't yet had any urgent reason to drive over your way, but may have to some time this week, DS has run out of a couple of things, and since he cannot drive, must go straight from work to work-release house, he can't SHOP ! could bring antifungal gunk though I suspect your Tiger Balm will poison it sufficiently

looks like we cannot occupy the Maui house until February sometime, so the chickens MAY have earned a reprieve .. DS says he will have put in his time about the end of March, so we'd only need a chicken-and-dog-sitter, or alternate placements, for a couple of months

you might ask your bird hunting relatives if they would like the loan of a good scent hound for a little while?

Everyone I know who's hunting birds already has their own GSP, is all.

Got antifungals when I finally got to the bank yesterday- an epic story in and of itself, and one which I do not have the patience to relate. It's healing up pretty fast after three applications.

I've used up what little scrap lumber I'd had, and I'd have to cut up an 8' 2X4 to prop up the holders right now. It's not something I have any inclination to do, having plenty of 8' places to put the few I have. I also have to walk to the mailbox and back as soon as the mail's delivered every day for the next few days in case the latest ghost check has come. Our life, since my FIL's death, has been full of found money of various sizes as random small investments, legacies, and annuities show up. Not a bad problem to have. Only it's an extra almost half-mile walk to stretch my limited energy, and of course today it involved the rain starting while I was waiting to cross the road to the mailbox.

I'm in a really foul mood right now, having to do with the epic and yet trivial tale of why I had to go to the bank and the ways in which that trip was complicated beyond belief. I didn't realize just how bad until last night when I was pretty impolite on another part of the internet, where the rules are different and I feel free to be Bad Julia (a person who has little or no outlet in three-dimensional space, nor most of the internet). Sorry if I've let that leak into this post; I've read it four times and cleaned up some truly Leviathan run-on sentences, but suspect my tone may still be off.

 

[Chickielady]

Toni's daughters are after hackle, as in neck & saddle feathers from Cock birds.
So..well, so far mine are not moulting hackle.
I do have some hackle saved for her though.
Cuckoo Marans & barred Rock are a plus as they are black & white and can be dyed..and end up purple & black, for example.
White hackle is awesome too!
Natural colors in golds & oranges are great also!
Any fancy hackle, like Birchen or others with a pattern are fantastic too!

No one wants to buy this beautiful Silkie????????????????
If you do, please PM or call me if you can, CR & alot of folks here have my #
Bye guys!
Trying to pull up dying squash & mater plants...it is time.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

In happier news, sort of, a shirt-tail relation of mine has a three-year-old grandson who's been in and out of Children's his whole life; he's being weaned off a stomach tube now, starting to take food by mouth, but is hospitalized right now with another line infectiion. The steel workers on the new wing at Children's have painted greetings to the kids on the girders facing the old hospital, and at the top of the building "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

That's nice, I think, people are capable of being good.