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[CailetTempest]

These things make it difficult for him to arrange therapy. Making a few phone calls for him is the best thing you can do for him.

hubby got on the ball and made the calls.. took an hour of run around but he found someone that takes the medical. Stepson now has an apt to see therapist beginning of next month. It makes me happy because he needs it.... Right now he has his own space and only has to come in the house for the bathroom. I don't think that has helped him much. It has been way to easy for him to hide away from everyone. When we move his room is in the house. and the bathroom and kitchen are on the first floor so he will have to come out of his room for those and come downstairs.

He has taken an interest in the chickens and will actually go out to their pen and talk to them. (A very good thing) I have babies in the house and he calls them the chicken nuggets. lol.

Things are starting to look up for him.

(12 babies that are starting to feather, 13 babies just days old and 1 turkey baby)

They are all darling.. Only 1 is mine the turkey...

 

[Ogress]

Ferrets !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We left yesterday about 9 AM & stopped at a few stores in Aberdeen & then on to Elma to have a nice Dad's day with the family.
We had a great time & left about 3 PM & were alarmed when we pulled in the driveway there was a pullet running loose.
How strange, how in the world did she get out as she was in a totally enclosed pen right next to our cabin !
Got out & caught her and found a grisly scene !
Dead chooks everywhere, feathers all over !!!!!!!!!

One pullet was drug head first into a 1 foot deep hole that was freshly dug under the cabin...we just buried 12" of hardware wire there !
The pullet's body was too big to fit down the hole, so the killer just took her head.
There was another drug under a pallet, legs sticking out, and another drug to the pen fence, head through to the outside, head missing but the body once again too big to allow the killer to drag off the entire body.
Like this is exactly 3 feet from our cabin's front door !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The hole dug down 12" under the buried wire was the size of a baseball........I went further & discover yet another pullet, this one a Blue Jersey Giant

dead & drug into a deep dark corner, inside the next coop.
Did not find any more after that.
DH set up the web cam & recorded a DVD last night and as we watched, we could see something big & long under the cabin barn !!!!!!!! INSIDE Under !
It went under the 12" of buried wire & is IN THERE!!!
I got 3 almost adult cockerels from the bachelor pad & put them in this pen.
DH has the Hav-A-Hart trap set up with ground beef...but none were caught over the night.
We replayed the DVD this morning & sure enough there is one, and DH thinks a pair, of ferrets, much too big to be a weasel with bodies nose to atil about 2-3 feet long !!!

Right on the front porch !
These things are viscious and UNDER the cabin RIGHT NOW & can pop out and kill a mess of birds at any given moment, even in broad daylight while we were gone yesterday !
I am afraid to even sit here that they may be out trying to kill right now!
I for sure cannot go anywhere & have the .410 loaded & sitting next to me.......................everytime a cock jumps a hen & she squeals, I run out thinking the killer is back.
It is so awful...hard to describe how I feel, especially when we work so hard at security, to have these critters UNDER our cabin ?!?!
You'd think they would attack a coop far away, but this pen only had pullets in it.
I feel like I have been assualted, and the perp is still in the house.
I cannot hardly eat & have been physically sick.......................I will try to get updates when I can.

That's awful!!!! You may need to get some Jack Russel Terriers to go in that hole after them.

 

[itsren]

No, it's brand new - opened this month. It is right around the corner from Del's (by the Supermall). It is WAY bigger than Del's. Coastal Farm and Ranch: http://www.coastalfarm.com/

ETA...

Oops, this is for Jessica. Forgot to quote the comment I was responding to. Here it is:

Is it Del's? They don't have it either

Poo on them!

 

[StarryEyzz]

ChickieLady,
I am soooo sorry about your horrible tragedy, yesterday! How awful.

Hoping you catch them!

 

[FirewifeJess]

No, it's brand new - opened this month. It is right around the corner from Del's (by the Supermall). It is WAY bigger than Del's. Coastal Farm and Ranch: http://www.coastalfarm.com/

Thanks! I'll call them right away

 

[FirewifeJess]

Renee, they carry it! 10oz. powder for $18.95. That's even better than Twin City Poultry Supplies

 

[itsren]

And I'm excited to have you guys on Thursday! What time are you coming? I forgot if we already decided...

I don't recall if we decided. What time would you like us to come by?

 

[itsren]

Renee, they carry it! 10oz. powder for $18.95. That's even better than Twin City Poultry Supplies

Yay! If you go over there, you'll love it. During the grand opening, we went back twice (they had 25 cent hamburgers and a free bounce house for the kids). We literally spent hours there... at least a couple of hours walking around the store, and a couple of hours (or more) watching the kids jump in the bounce house.

We dropped some cash though... lock your wallet far away from you to avoid temptation.

My husband and I both came home with Georgia Boot Romeos and he also got a second pair of boots for work. And, of course, chicken feed, a rake, two sprinklers...

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Quote: I got Corid at Monroe Farm & Feed. I know that isn't too convenient for you though! I've also always ordered a lot of poultry stuff from Jeffers Livestock and Twin City Poultry Supplies online.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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That is a major bummer CL!!!! Hope you get them before they get anymore of what is yours!!!!