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[Chicken Rustler]

So I thought Id share a cute story
We have some new neighbors that are formerly "city" folks It a family with 6 kids all under the age of 8.. all so cute. The little boy who is the oldest Loves to come over and help me with chores.

He was over yesterday and was so thirsty so I told him to get a drink out of the hose. He looked at me like I was speaking gibberish.. So I said its OK.. that's how farmers get drinks I told him it would be the BEST water he ever tasted.. He tried it and LOVED it... So we finished up our chores and his Mom came over with his little sisters. She and I were standing talking and all of the sudden she gasped and her eyes got really big.. LIL she was looking at her kids.. Her son was telling his little sisters about the awesome tasting water and had all of them lined up and was teaching them how to drink out of the hose . The kids were loving it. Well come to find out Mom said that she can NEVER EVER get her kids to drink water . She had tried special cups.. flavoring it, bribing them etc... and here they were just lapping it up.

Another thing that happened during their visit that was cute.. My chickens are molting.. The 5 year old little girl was standing there just staring at my chickens. Pretty soon she looked up and asked "Do you vacuum your chickens??" I was taken back and said "No Why do you ask that" She said "Because I was thinkin you did an you are vacuuming those ones too much" she said this pointing at my 2 worst looking molting girls.. LOL


BTW... WELCOME NEWCOMERS.... AND BEST WISHES TO ALL !!

The little people come up with some of the funniest things .. Thanks for sharing that!

 

[itsren]

For those new to Easter eggers....

Imagine having 3 colors to paint with...... White, Blue, Brown
Now mix those colors......

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Unproven EE's can result in almost any color in the chart... mainly because it is so hard to prove the males color genetics.
If your willing to spend a couple years.. you can prove the males egg color genetics with a white egg layer.
Need less to say most EE's are unproven colors due to the males not being "proven"
It is one of the reasons I have White Leghorns is to prove colors of my males by hatching the white egg, growing up pullet and seeing what color eggs they lay.

Rainwolf - that is so cool! Thank you for explaining that.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Ha! Ha! Well, I'm not afraid to admit my downfalls.

Pun intended!
I wouldn't be either IF I had any!!!

Well, of course you don't! Bald is beautiful and yer pretty in pink!

I'll go hide now....
Dang straight !!!! The girls dig a guy in pink with a big scar on his beautiful bald head.

 

[itsren]

Justbugged.... I hope you feel better soon. You amaze me with all you have to take care of and how well you do it. Your yard and pens are wonderful. I don't know how you do it. I hope some day I'll be able to pull off a yard and garden half as beautiful as yours. You certainly gave me inspiration to do improve my barren, dried out looking yard. Sorry you had to get rid of the bunnies.

JNB.... that story was cute! Might I make a suggestion? Stop vacuuming your chickens! LOL!

Now, I'll go and stop hogging the thread.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I just did inventory on my supplies for Salem. Right now I have 114 items not counting 28 no mess chicks. And I still have 4 days of build time left ! !!

And WHAT you ask are no mess chicks ????




They will always be little cuties. Never get any bigger. Cost nothing to keep. They don't need feed and water filled daily. They will never leave cackle spackle where ya don't want it. And best of all they will never die. five bucks each or 25 for $100 and unlike the big hatcheries I will allow a mix-n-match order. Colors may vary and limited to stock on hand.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Hi. For those two that I read that had raccoon trouble. I wanted to say I am very sorry to hear of the raccoon attack (hope your special hen survives - sending good thoughts) and also sorry for the loss of your dear Luna. It strikes close to home for me as I also have recently lost a hen from a raccoon. It was bizarre! Afternoon, sunny day, hens in a fenced yard against our house to do a little foraging for a few hours. I was in the house for only 20-30 minutes and on my way back out to check on things. When through the window I saw a raccoon in the yard with one of my hens trying to pull its dead headless body over the fence. I was so angry I ran through the house yelling at my DH about it. When we got outdoors the raccoon just starred us down. Unafraid! We live in the country but as the population grows and people feed them I think they get bolder. DH ran at it yelling so when he was 10 feet away it finally backed off so he could retrieve the dead chicken, poor Gemini. But then it kept coming back over and over again. I have been nursing my last hen (she was in shock even crowing like a cockerel) Betsy Barr Rock wasn't injured but is now all alone which is not so good. DH put a large mirror in her tractor run which helps her somewhat. She loves her reflection so spends a lot of time in front of it. Anyway, I feel your pain.

~Dee~

Hi Dee;

Sorry to hear about your losses! You're correct that your Betsy should have a friend! Let us all know if you are looking for any particular breed/temperment/age.

dawn

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Just thought I should check in with the group. I managed to have a very bad week. I ran out of pain meds very early in the week, and I thought that I would have a refill waiting for me by the middle of the week. Well when I went to pick up the meds at the pharmacy there were no pain meds. I knew that the doc wanted me to see a specialist to manage the pain, but the appointment isn't until 7.5 months from now. I didn't realize that I was supposed to go without pain meds, or treatment for a progressive condition for that long.  By Thursday I knew I wasn't going to be able to keep the pain under control, so I went back to the clinic here in town. I was seen by one of the other doctors, and he refilled one of the pain meds for this month. I hate letting the pain get out of control, because it's so hard to get it back to a manageable level again. 

I am going to try and get an appointment with a different provider, that will hopefully be able to see me sooner than next May. 

So while I was stuck in the chair not able to move much, one of the rabbits died.   She was my favorite of course. I don't think she was healthy when I got her, so I have a feeling that my neglect of a day and half was more than she could handle. I have had to realize that without being able to count on pain control, that I just can't manage as much as I wanted to manage. I took all the rest of the rabbits back to the auction this morning.

I also got a call yesterday that the puppy that I thought I had sold 2 weeks ago was at risk of being sold again. So I had to drive nearly to Lake Forrest Park for the third time in 2 weeks and refund the lady the 450.00  that she had already paid me. I now have 6 dogs again. I will say that dear little Tag is awfully happy to be home tonight.

 I am now hoping that with DH back home for the next week, that I can get things back together better. It should help that there isn't as much to take care of. DH is going to be home this coming week, and he is planning on laying the new flooring in the kitchen. I just hope that I can keep up with him at least a little bit. 

Well that was the highs and lows of my week. 

So very sorry. I don't think a responsible physician would expect you to go seven months unmedicated, but all of them are once again under the cyclical pressure to make sure nobody is on any drug with abuse potential if they don't really, really need it. Pain warps everythig around it. I'm sorry your rabbit died (which used to be a joke, didn't it, back in the long-ago?) and that somebody who thought they were getting a squeaky toy got a Terrier instead. Anyone who thinks these are small things hasn't tried to bear them when already loaded to the breaking point.

My life is being warped by my own pain and mobility problems, but I think I could manage them if my husband was not in much worse shape; the small jobs he used to do now fall on my shoulders (putting dishes away, taking compost out, et'c) and the bigger jobs that were the young'uns before they moved out (taking garbage out, carrying heavy groceries, moving feed bags) fall to both of us, and we are not exactly in shape to benefit by the increased work-load. All I've lost lately is a flat of plants that got put under a tree that was infested with scale crawlers and doused with sugar-water, though.

It's a lot of why I haven't been online much, all I've felt like doing this summer is griping, and since reality was eager to give me reason (the water system and the refrigerator both died within two weeks of each other in August, for small example; the young woman who so ably helped me once a week cut back to once every two weeks and now says she's only available for five hours of that).

Fall always seems to be to be a time when the demands of summer back off a little and it's possible to get a handle on other stuff, but this year not so much.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

For those new to Easter eggers....


Imagine having 3 colors to paint with...... White, Blue, Brown

Now mix those colors......

.


Unproven EE's can result in almost any color in the chart... mainly because it is so hard to prove the males color genetics.

If your willing to spend a couple years.. you can prove the males egg color genetics with a white egg layer.

Need less to say most EE's are unproven colors due to the males not being "proven"

It is one of the reasons I have White Leghorns is to prove colors of my males by hatching the white egg, growing up pullet and seeing what color eggs they lay.

Rainwolf - that is so cool!  Thank you for explaining that.

Rainwolf, thanks for the chart; I have EEs that lay the lightest two pinks (one hen, they vary a lot day to day), the third down in the blue column (unfortunately that hen lays eggs with no outer layer, so I doubt they'd hatch) and the second and third in the first row of greens (again, one hen). One of the Hamburgs occassionally throws an egg which can be confused with the palest pink; the Australorp lays big eggs of the second most intense brown, and the two BLRWs who are dependable layers put out eggs that range up and down the brown scale from 1-5.

The EE hen that lays pink eggs was hatched from a pink egg, so we know nothing about Kaneke's rooster.

 

[jbear]

I just wanted to say hello! I haven't been on here in a million years... read back a few pages to try and see how everyone is doing.. nice to see familiar names and I see quite a few NEW ones!

 

[SadieSue]

Quote: It certainly sounds like you have a devoted, supportive BF who is working hard to keep your flock safer from future attacks. I hope your little hen continues to heal and get well.