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[jvls1942]

here is a typical case of possibly jumping to the wrong conclusion,
just because they seem to have quit eating, does not mean that they starved .. maybe it was something else that caused them to stop eating.. and in fact, maybe they did not stop eating..

guineas have a high mortality rate , especially during their first week.. it tapers off the second week and after that, the survivors are quite healthy..
that is why I hesitate to sell day old keets..

guineas seem to avoid getting sick.. that does not mean that you will not find a dead one in the coop once in awhile,, but as a whole, the whole flock doesn't come down with cocci or anything.
at least that has been my experience.. knock on wood..

muscovy ducks are similar in this regard ..

 

[Terri O]

Good morning--
Frenchie--guineas seem to be a little bit delicate when real new. I dont think the cold would bother them too much though if they were with Mom; unless she didnt warm them up at all...I bet they just didnt recognize the food you had as good to eat.

CHilly here this morning! I actually turned off the ceiling fans! I hated to get out of bed when that *&^($^%* alarm sounded this morning cause it was chilly with that fan blowing. It is a good thing I turned it to medium before I hopped in.

TImer just went off...that means I need to get my shoes on and head out. I LOVE timers (when I remember to use them that is)
Have a great day all! i sure hope your birds stop dying BigFam--it does get depressing when you see numbers falling off...I guess that's why I have so many? (there has to be SOME reason!)
TerriOlikingthiscoolnestalot


ETA: JIm, we are doing it again...posting at the same time, about the same thing, and what's really scary...mostly agreeing with each other! (must mean we are RIGHT)

 

[FrenchToast]

Hey BL4 here is a nice horse for you...... Little pricey but maybe would deal. I was just curious as to why they were selling such a nice horse so I emailed and asked. Guess they have two younger horses and just bought a fresian filly to train and they board thus the reason for selling. They sent me tons of pictures. If you want me to forward them to you just pm me your email address.
Looks like a nice beginner horse and nice looking too !!


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Rare: anyone can ride horse, reg Overo gelding - $2800 (N.MN: Mountain Iron)

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Titan is 14 year old Reg Paint Gelding. He has a gorgeous head with 2 brown eyes and eyeliner on BOTH eyes. I paid $4,200 for him so he is a steal at $2,800!! He has been ridden by 5 year olds to adults who have never ridden and teenagers who like to play tag in the dark on horseback. My mom rode him in a parade and had never ridden before! He has been used for horse camp for lessons, he has been ridden by children with disabilities, he is use to numerous animals from llamas to pot belly pigs ( the place I board at had a traveling petting zoo so very exposed), use to 4 wheelers & dirt bikes ( my son will ride with us on a machine when we trail ride), he has been in many parades-always cool calm and collected

, he knows his leads, great for vet and farrier, use to water, not spooky, use to dogs riding on trail rides, will lead or will be in the back, I can ride with a group and turn him around and ride back home, we do lots of riding along a 4 lane highway, I can't say enough great things about him. Just a rare horse because just about anyone can ride him. Perfect size:15.2 so not too big but big enough for a husband horse. We have even seen a bear while riding him and he didn't care, my husband actually used him to chase the bear into the woods. He just is confident and has been exposed to so much. Titan is the total package. As an LOL, his reg name is Titan Your Buns!!

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[RBerryChicks]

Morning - looks like it's going to be a great day. I'm taking the next two days off, so looking forward to a four day weekend

We are going to the Dane County Airport on Saturday. The National Air Tour of Historic Word War II Aircraft is in Madions this weekend and Rod is a huge history buff, especially WWII. So for his retirement gift he is going for a ride on a B-24 bomber. He's stoked, now I need to think of a really cool gift for myself when I retire this winter. Hmmm - not having to get up at 5:00 am and battle snowy roads on a blustery winter morning is a pretty nice gift.

FT: Ahh boat is your toy, well been there too. Actually I have my Dad's jon boat and motor, my hubby likes the motor not thrilled with the boat. Here is my "boys-n-toys" story. Two years ago we bought this place to start our hobby produce and egg business. Well the farm kid (hubby) needed a tractor. He purchased a 1957 Ford tractor, then found he couldn't pull a tiller (all that research ya think he would have checked that out

), so he proceeded to aquire a two bottom plow, and a drag, and a disc . . . then he found a Harley Davidson golf cart (justification: "this will be good for going down to the lower garden, meat birds, and work shop, PLUS we will have to it go across the road to the golf course) . . . yup it now needs about $600 - $1000 to rebuild the motor

Oh well - gotta love him

As far as watering - I have been switching over to soaker hoses and absolutely love them. We have a 250 gallon shuttle that the eves trough runs into and we run a hose from that down to the lower garden where we have the soaker hoses snaked through the rows it works great! I plan to hook them up to the hose that runs off the well spigot too.

bl4: I was HR for 24 years and know all to well your frustration of moving a position from LTE to permanent. Stay in touch with your colleagues from Fox, if there are some older individuals (like me) working there you may see more retirements over the next year that could lighten budgets so a new position could be created. Enjoy your date night this weekend - weather should be great!

Sounds like someone is here. ET just yelled Yeah !!!! after I heard someone yell out CHUCK !!! He came in the house, did you call me.... NO someone else did. Turns out it was the Macaw Montana... naughty boy !!! For a minute there I thought I had to get dressed and go out side !!!

Today is a lazy day....

That's just too funny

I had two swimming adventures in my life.. the first was when my father took me to the middle of lake Wausau and threw me out of the boat.. I had to swim over a quarter mile to shore.. the hardest part was struggling to get out of that burlap sack.. the second time was again in lake Wausau,, I tried to swim the half mile across.. I only made it three quarters of the way across, and I decided I couldn't make it, so I turned around and swam back..

there are quite a few new Delawares hatched.. I can't see all the way to the rear of the hatcher, so IDK how many.. I can easily see about a half dozen near the door..

my what a resilient swimmer. Our Delawres are seven weeks old now and I'm pretty sure there are a few roosters there, which I will be looking to sell or send along with the meaties when they go to butcher in September. I'm new at this but sure like the Delawares. The two adults we have are characters.

Wow, all this talk about "brownies" and "tootsie rolls" makes me not feel so bad bringing up my "smoke-able medicine" . I can't take most pain meds. and that stuff gives a boost to what I can take. Wis. better get off their @sses and make it legal here! There are 4 of us in this house could get a medical card for it in a heartbeat! I'll try real hard not to get on my soap box about it. I'll just say it's been around and worked as medicine as long as man has been around. It's only been the last 100 years or so anyone has squawked about it! OK, 'nuff said.

Cindlandy: I'll join you on that soap box - it would be so much better for my husband than those narcotics and I've watched too many loved ones whose quality of life would have been so much better were they able to have "brownies"/"smoke-able medicine". All I can say is people darned well better get out and VOTE every elelction, not just once every four years. OK - I'm stepping down from the soap box now too

My co-worker just got here, so now we can get down to business. Have a great day everyone!!

ps: wow - running at the mouth (keyboard) this morning . . . sorry about that

 

[Bigfamily4me]

It was just the 2 that died, but once again one I really liked. May be if I dislike them all they'd live a long time. Kinda like grumpy old men.

Since I'm melancholy I might as well get out my broomstick. (No Terri I'm not dropping by). Got some terrible type roos I can't use in my breeding program and they aren't gonna be giving me any eggs. Might as well stop feeding them. And the RIR chick teen that is already getting aggressive. Might as well make it a three way.

Tons of picking up to do today. I was sick yesterday for a couple of hrs. The kids took the time that I was out of commission to further destroy any space not covered in toys or clothes or something. So it looks like my downstairs has been hit by a tornadoes, which matches what the upstairs and basement already looked like. I'm not cleaning it all. No way.

AND... I'm OUT of COFFEE still!!!!!!!

 

[FrenchToast]

Thanks TO and Jim..... Yep, who knows what or why... just weren't meant to survive I guess. Wish some more would pop out of the weeds !!! OR I wish ET would get my ATV fixed so I can so egg hunting.... Geez.... I'm starting to sound like a broken record with all the repairs that need doing around here with equipment !!!!

Hey I still can't insert smileys !! That bar with the icons is missing ???? Anyone know what that's all about ?

 

[FrenchToast]

RBC then he found a Harley Davidson golf cart (justification: "this will be good for going down to the lower garden, meat birds, and work shop, PLUS we will have to it go across the road to the golf course) . . . yup it now needs about $600 - $1000 to rebuild the motorth.gifOh well - gotta love him love.gif





LOL, but not really laughing !!! LOL (now I am) we have a golf cart sitting in the middle of our driveway. It needs a part someplace on the drive shaft or something. Don't think it is to expensive but all of a sudden the backup buzzer would not go off when put in forward so ET took it apart. Needless to say when he tried to put it back together now it won't work. Forgot what it won't do cause it was a year ago but I'm telling you I'm really really really getting tired of all this BS around here... Ok, Now I'm the one on the broomstick.... I had better calm down before I go out in the living room and start blasting him.
It was pretty sad yesterday when we stopped at the neighbors at the cabin yesterday. They guy is going to be 92 yrs old and his yard is PERFECT, his garden is PERFECT, not one weed, Has already had a RIPE tomato and he lives in the woods !!! He is dating a younger woman 81 and has a twinkle in his eye when he talks about her !!!! I told him he is a young 92 yr old... My DH is an old 62 yr old !!!!!
Me, I'm just a Witch with a Capitol or is it Capital ??? LOL B !!!
Guess not a beautiful moring around here, I can't ride my ATV, We can't dig posts with the tractor because the tractor has issues AND he backed up the post hole digger that he left dangling on the back of the tractor and bent it in half (of course he hasn't found out how much a new one is although I politely keep asking), can't take the golf cart to get the mail, can't go for a boat ride cause he lost the key, then tore the switch apart without writing down what wires go where.... Now it's going to cost $20 for the part, ??? $$$ for help not to mention the boat is 12 miles away so every time we go to "fix it" it costs us how much in gas !!!

Ok, now I'm on my soap box today...... If I was born rich instead of beautiful this wouldn't be a problem. Now the looks are gone AND I am broke !!!!!
Ok, now I really really really need to calm down or I am going to go out there like a Banchee and he'll wonder where that came from and I'll have to blame it all on you guys !!! LOL Still don't know why I don't have smiley options !!! Then I'd be using the one little red man with his face on fire !!! LOL

As for the brownies..... I'll just take them plain old fashion brownies with powdered sugar on top. I am a food a hal lick !!!! BUT might start drinking soon !!!!!!

 

[jvls1942]

 

[my2boysteacher]

Hello! I am new to the 'Cheesehead' group and wanted to drop in.
We just re-started our flock with some Ameraucanas , after our amazing 5 Buff Orps were picked off by something. . So sad, they were the best chickens!
We got 8 Ameraucanas from a breeder, come to just find out that 7 of them are roosters, and half of the buff are Easter Eggers. Does anyone want roosters?
We just picked up some silver hens last night and they are SO loud! I hope they settle in soon because we keep running out to the coop thinking they must be killing each other only to find them sitting around Bawking their little heads off.

Loving to read over all the posts... Glad I saw someone referenced the WWII airplanes at the airport this week because 2 just flew over our house and scared my 11 year old. He thought we were under attack.

 

[Bigfamily4me]

WTH?! Jim's been hacked!!! Do you see what I see?!?! It's a gosh darned smiley face in JIM's post!!!

Jim's been hitting the elderberry wine, eating funny brownies with powdered sugar on top, and I've now seen everything!