Good morning! Lots to read again today--I like it! My coffee tastes terrible...I got a different type of flavored and I dont care for it at all. Of course I bought 2 bags! It lasts a long time cause we make it half and half with regular. THe scalloped potatoes and hap wer good last night DrH! See? Ya shoulda brought your pitchfork and barrow over here and then I woulda shared! (then I would have a clean coop too!)
We'd prolly still be working on it today!
Not sure what I am going to do for the day until it is time to go to get the incubator. The guy sounds questionable so I will probably try to get one of my friends to ride along with me. We are meeting at Mayfair Mall. He says he wants to sell the bator because he needs the $$? I hope I'm not driving for nothing! I wanted to go and get the feed from Cargill today but DH is traveling to Green Bay for a meeting and he didnt want to take the work truck so he took the "feed truck." That's the only one big enough to carry a pallet of feed...maybe tomorrow I can go.
Very exciting that we will have MORE chick pics soon!
And after they get too big to be cute my broody's should be hatching! She is sitting tight so I havent gotten to take a look at the eggs yet. I know she has at least 15 under there...they werent covered during those couple of really cold nights though so I am sure a few of them are bad.
No furry babies as yet in the goat pen...maybe the rest are waiting until the middle of February when I was expecting them? It is so hard to tell...they look huge for a long time before they have them!
MLH--fingers crossed on the kits! When I did rabbits the funniest stuff set them off. I never checked for dead ones until day 2. And then I would take them out with a hot dog tongs! The cages I had mine in had 3/4" squares and the babies would sometimes get their heads through and part of their bodies. I hated that cause they were so hard to get out. Many lived even after that ordeal though! I had one doe that always had the babies on the mesh instead of in the box. One time I almost stepped on them! They were really little and wiggled all the way through and fell on the ground. I couldnt believe how far those naked, blind things crawled! Anyway, I put the live ones in the nest and she raised them up just fine! Weird!
Well I think I better start to do something around here...it is becoming a pigsty again! I just have to much STUFF! Later! Terri O
ETA: I agree with MLH on the baby CC. Just pop it under here at night. I think the only way she wont take it would be if it is a yellow one and she has all black ones. Chickens cant count but they sure notice color differences! Hopefully the chick will be strong enough to keep up with the others...that is another way she could notice it is different. I would hate to have only one in the brooder though!
Not sure what I am going to do for the day until it is time to go to get the incubator. The guy sounds questionable so I will probably try to get one of my friends to ride along with me. We are meeting at Mayfair Mall. He says he wants to sell the bator because he needs the $$? I hope I'm not driving for nothing! I wanted to go and get the feed from Cargill today but DH is traveling to Green Bay for a meeting and he didnt want to take the work truck so he took the "feed truck." That's the only one big enough to carry a pallet of feed...maybe tomorrow I can go.
Very exciting that we will have MORE chick pics soon!
No furry babies as yet in the goat pen...maybe the rest are waiting until the middle of February when I was expecting them? It is so hard to tell...they look huge for a long time before they have them!
MLH--fingers crossed on the kits! When I did rabbits the funniest stuff set them off. I never checked for dead ones until day 2. And then I would take them out with a hot dog tongs! The cages I had mine in had 3/4" squares and the babies would sometimes get their heads through and part of their bodies. I hated that cause they were so hard to get out. Many lived even after that ordeal though! I had one doe that always had the babies on the mesh instead of in the box. One time I almost stepped on them! They were really little and wiggled all the way through and fell on the ground. I couldnt believe how far those naked, blind things crawled! Anyway, I put the live ones in the nest and she raised them up just fine! Weird!
Well I think I better start to do something around here...it is becoming a pigsty again! I just have to much STUFF! Later! Terri O
ETA: I agree with MLH on the baby CC. Just pop it under here at night. I think the only way she wont take it would be if it is a yellow one and she has all black ones. Chickens cant count but they sure notice color differences! Hopefully the chick will be strong enough to keep up with the others...that is another way she could notice it is different. I would hate to have only one in the brooder though!
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