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Good blessed Monday morning Pond!!! View attachment 1377184
Know I've been a bit MIA but spring has finally found us up here and it's time to get it in gear (or at least find the gear, not as easy for us age challenged pondites).
I was 40+ pages behind! :eek: So great pics on all the new baby critters and :fl the ongoing hatches.

HI DIVA! :frow


Welcome!!!:welcome



We had some real idiots that shared our southern property line (some of you might remember they were the ones that accidentally started a fire that scorched another neighbor right up to their back door and destroyed over 500 of our hand planted now 12 ft tall white pines and scorched our meadow when they passed out before putting out their party bonfire) they finally got foreclosed on by the bank but it took almost 6 months to get them out. They're gone but there's been a crew over there for two weeks cleaning up the property, hauling out trailer loads of junk and realtor sign is up. Finally got DH to see the wisdom in finally fencing that stretch of the property line, pointing out that we have no control over who buys the place next and what they'll think they can put on that little 2 acre lot that won't stay on that little 2 acre lot (reminded him we had had problems in the past with dogs, cats, kids with paintball guns, grownups with rifles and handguns, all coming from that property, DH got the picture) and I had had enough of defending my animals, and us. Anyway that is what is on our work list for the week.

Took the puppers to the vet on Friday to unstitch the eye to find out if the surgery worked or not, aaaannnddd,
SUCCESS!!!:wee My girl can see again! WHEW!!!!

Well it's supposed to get close to 80o today so I better get outside before it gets too hot. View attachment 1377229
Great news about your pup! I hope you have a beautiful, sunny day! We are in the 80s today - they say 90s by Saturday.

Lol agree not fond of venomous snakes though came across my fair share scary..I’m on my second cup and contemplating a third :hmm I wanna cut my dogs hair and finish painting the ducks trim and ramp on their home this afternoon need the energy :lol:
I pretty much drink coffee until noon... Then I switch to Coke Zero.... I know, I know...

I think im gonna need another shelf for my "hatching station" :lau

Please Ignore the cornner of the pool table/laundry folding station..:oops::gig
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Love it! Wow! You've got a full blown business going on!

Yep, same here. Which is why i have all my cats.. they're all good mousers.
We've only had one snake in the building since we've been here tho. A small copperhead in the bathroom. Dh got him.:D
We leave the black snakes alone but the coppers and rattlers get taken care of. Cant have those too close.;)
Snakes. Ugh. No thank you. We have an encounter about once a year (Rattlers) - and always see garden varieties - but I do not like them. Any of them.

One of my broody BCMs is hatching today! I thought I heard chick noises going on in the broody duplex, so I lifted her front feathers up and there was a little wet Blue Marans! She has two more eggs to go!
 
Great news about your pup! I hope you have a beautiful, sunny day! We are in the 80s today - they say 90s by Saturday.


I pretty much drink coffee until noon... Then I switch to Coke Zero.... I know, I know...


Love it! Wow! You've got a full blown business going on!


Snakes. Ugh. No thank you. We have an encounter about once a year (Rattlers) - and always see garden varieties - but I do not like them. Any of them.

One of my broody BCMs is hatching today! I thought I heard chick noises going on in the broody duplex, so I lifted her front feathers up and there was a little wet Blue Marans! She has two more eggs to go!

Im trying to get it going. Its been crazy..:lau
I drink coffee all day... i know, i know...:oops:

Yay!!!! :celebrate:wee
I hope the other 2 hatch!:fl
 
Ok.. question...what kind of jamboree?
Music, 4wheelers or trucks???:confused:

Music mostly, I think. http://www.wheelingjamboree.org/

There's also a "Jamboree in the Hills", a little further west from Whites, its over in Ohio. http://www.jamboreeinthehills.com/

Nice lineup this year.
http://www.jamboreeinthehills.com/lineup-2018
Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson......
I think its a pretty wild weekend.


Yesterday evening they were in my driveway way messing around my car. . I yelled out the window and gave them a good startle :lau
But then the little girl said her kitten was lost under my car. . I kind of felt bad for yelling. . but then I'm thinking keep your kitten at home!! Great. Another animal to be roaming around. :rolleyes:
I was nice and went out and got the kitten for them though. They had it scared to death :rolleyes:

Hey, use every opportunity to make friends with the kids.... Then teach them about your ducks, etc. How to be nice to them, never hurt ducks... etc.

And warn them if they ever touch one, you have crazy friends that will come and whoop their butts. :lau :lau

Nothin was going on the bator 20 minutes ago.. got all the eggs moved into the hatcher, no other pips yet but..
:eek:
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:clap :celebrate early bird looking for a worm? :gig

One of my broody BCMs is hatching today! I thought I heard chick noises going on in the broody duplex, so I lifted her front feathers up and there was a little wet Blue Marans! She has two more eggs to go!

Harriett should be hatching her OEGBs too, but I checked under her this morning and didn't feel any chicks or empty shells.

And I have about 5 more broodies that have just started. :rolleyes:


I drink coffee all day... i know, i know...:oops:

x2 :oops:
 
Music mostly, I think. http://www.wheelingjamboree.org/

There's also a "Jamboree in the Hills", a little further west from Whites, its over in Ohio. http://www.jamboreeinthehills.com/

Nice lineup this year.
http://www.jamboreeinthehills.com/lineup-2018
Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson......
I think its a pretty wild weekend.




Hey, use every opportunity to make friends with the kids.... Then teach them about your ducks, etc. How to be nice to them, never hurt ducks... etc.

And warn them if they ever touch one, you have crazy friends that will come and whoop their butts. :lau :lau



:clap :celebrate early bird looking for a worm? :gig



Harriett should be hatching her OEGBs too, but I checked under her this morning and didn't feel any chicks or empty shells.

And I have about 5 more broodies that have just started. :rolleyes:




x2 :oops:
Dang that sounds like fun...:celebrate
X2 Shaw!! :D

Why would they be hatching early? Any ideas?:pop

Go Go broodys!!! :woot:pop
 
Im incubating in the forced air bator and the temp has been stable at 99.5.
I did have them in a basket before setting them and collected every day. Tossed the older ones.. hmmm. Maybe the basket isnt a good idea.:hmm

I wouldn't think the basket would be a problem, unless a hen can sit in it with them. :D

Is your day count accurate? I've thought one day, then realized I had the wrong one in mind. This is a mutt? Bantam breeds tend to hatch early, but you don't have any bantams yet, do you? That's about all I got. :confused:
 
I wouldn't think the basket would be a problem, unless a hen can sit in it with them. :D

Is your day count accurate? I've thought one day, then realized I had the wrong one in mind. This is a mutt? Bantam breeds tend to hatch early, but you don't have any bantams yet, do you? That's about all I got. :confused:
I think its right, but ill go recount days.. i do have an ohiki and a couple of silkie roos, it wasnt a bantam egg so the hen was a standard...
 
I think its right, but ill go recount days.. i do have an ohiki and a couple of silkie roos, it wasnt a bantam egg so the hen was a standard...

We could probably go back 19-21 days here and find a post about them. :gig

(actually, that's one reason I like to post when I set eggs. If I forget to put it in my log, at least I have a place to look.) :lol:
 

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