Good Morning! <=2017

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:58 am

Our broody, Emily, has 5 cute chicks. She's a great mom. Would have put some of the shipped Marans chicks from this hatch under her, but none made it.

The hatch of shipped eggs is still ongoing. Started Friday, with a Serama, then 2 Isbars, then the Svart Hona and 3 more Isbars internally pipped. They have externally pipped but still waiting.

I have 4 more broody hens due next weekend. We will be swimming in chicks by then.

Goatgal35, I was looking at starting a 4H in my area. Any advise would really be appreciated.

Going to be another hot one here. So glad on days like this we live in a forest.

Have a great day and keep cool.

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 11:49 am

It WAS nice out, early, and I got some weeding done, and dragging around the hoses. I have the nozzle on one... set to pizzle... and the other was on some sprinkler thing, and it was set half way between settings, so it was kind of just leaking, and moved it around to squash plants. The other did tomatoes, my haskap bushes, and I moved it between the bean plants that are mulched. Now one hose is on the soaker, under the plastic, where the new strawberries are hilled. Kind of sucks, they are sending out runners, which I'm supposed to hack off.... and they have no where to implant. I have 3 I put in hanging baskets... and I have stuck some of them back into the soil by their mum. I will hack them off, when they have rooted, and pot them up, and plant them sometime the weather returns to normal.

I also took 6---5 gallon pails to the road, for the plants at the sign, and the chestnut trees. The ones 3 years old don't really need watering, as nut trees have such a deep tap root... but some idiots keeps killing off some every year, so some are just planted last year, and this year.

Colleen came and got 3 chicks yesterday (my black broody hatched 6), and apparently she took to them great. They weren't sure of her for abit tho, were scared of her, they were 4 days old after all.

The guys are picking up round bales. We got lots from the 2 fields next door. We also unloaded another load of small squares, wished it was done already, but hubby told me someone was coming to get it. Sigh. Oh well. Winter time cash from the horse people.

Got a big load of barn/outside clothes on the line, and the others washing. Those will go in the dryer. Hate to run it, but not spending the time on under things and socks to hang.

I can't find my sunscreen, so know my face/neck is burnt. My arms just get darker. Should find it. Its brutal out there now!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 6:04 pm

Nice time at the show in Odessa today. Met Melissa and she and her daughter did well. Lots of lovey healthy birds, nice clean barn. They had fans running to try to cool the birds. Will post pics when I get a chance!

goatgal35 · Post by **goatgal35** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:36 pm

redninja wrote:QR_BBPOST Our broody, Emily, has 5 cute chicks. She's a great mom. Would have put some of the shipped Marans chicks from this hatch under her, but none made it.

The hatch of shipped eggs is still ongoing. Started Friday, with a Serama, then 2 Isbars, then the Svart Hona and 3 more Isbars internally pipped. They have externally pipped but still waiting.

I have 4 more broody hens due next weekend. We will be swimming in chicks by then.

Goatgal35, I was looking at starting a 4H in my area. Any advise would really be appreciated.

Going to be another hot one here. So glad on days like this we live in a forest.

Have a great day and keep cool.

Anytime you wanna talk 4-H, kids, and chickens and or goats, horses, rabbit 4-H clubs etc.... give me a shout.
Wendy
boyert@xplornet.com
519-582-4416

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:42 pm

Thanks Wendy, will do. I may start a new thread for chicken 4H this week.

Post by **WLLady** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:45 pm

Good evening everyone
a bit of weeding done...amazing show of fireflies in the ravines last night-well worth the trip out to see them!!...not much else done...about to go and do chores and listen to the thunder. Its raining 1 concession away....gah. hope it rains HERE! My corn looks awful!!
Strawberries decided to quit from lack of water. My lawn is crunchy again. Thankfully it wasnt blazing sun today....fans on in the barn here too for the birds...

Had a bmw x5 suv for the weekend....nice car. Spunky. Weird braking system though. Nice ride, nice drive lol. But not in my future must own cars. Diesel to boot and amazingly spunky for a diesel!

Well just looked out the window. I better head to the barn now or i will need a rain coat!!

Had a great melbourne chicken bbq last night too. Yummy. And won a face cord of firewood and a t shirt on the penny draw lol. First time ever! 10$ worth of tickets and at leave a 60$ value! Yay!! Nice wood for the winter anyways.

Colleen Kinzie · Post by **Colleen Kinzie** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:44 am

Thanks for the baby chicks Shirley
Very proud mama

Colleen Kinzie · Post by **Colleen Kinzie** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:55 am

Thought we were having a bad day yesterday after lady t boned us in Brantford
No one hurt except my car thank goodness
She was pulling out from a stop sign to make a left hand turn and didn't see us as the guy beside us was making a right turn into the street she was on
Can't really be too upset at her because it is a busy road and I know I've looked and looked and looked back again. Only to start to proceed and slam brakes on or get horn blown
Anyways my day changed After a nap. Lol
Went out to field. New little heifer calf
Then my fav girl calved at 12:56 am. A little baby moose I think!
With ears like this only a mama and proud grandma( that would be me. Lol) could love
Watching the cows birth never gets old. Just like baby chicks hatching. Makes you see a car accident without injuries is
Just a small thing

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:59 am

Good morning! I wish it had've rained. On my bus run, mere minutes from here, north, they got puddles! Wth. I seriously know it breaks up and goes around us. Sandy got it to the south... and the north got it. Us in the middle.. nada.

Another new calf this morning. Glad its OK.. looked like a piece of afterbirth laying beside it. I've seen calves born with their whole head/half body in it... and I swear if I hadn't seen that, and ran to take it off, the calf would have been dead. It was a fresh baby too. Not up yet, and soaking wet. Mama probably yanked it off, thank goodness.

Going to be a blister of a muggy one. Just enough rain to dampen the grass.. and the heat already!

I'm not doing my run this afternoon, I have a Dr. appointment.. and tomorrow is my last day. Some of the kids told me to have a good summer, so hopefully NONE in the morning, AND afternoon. My last stop WAS just west of my place.. on the next road.. but then they put a freaking stop on the road just east of me, heading south. So, in the morning, if I have no body, I will have to go to the next main road, but will be able to turn around and come right home.

GADS, there is some small creature crawling on my back. Feels just like mites, after I dust birds. AND I know I have them on me, and it freaks me out!

Ugh. I hate all bugs. I hate chipmunks too. They dug up all my crocus bulbs, ALL of them. Took me 3 years, buying 4 bags each year from Costco, and had them from the back door here, all the way around the stone border, to the front porch of the house. They were beautiful this spring, and the bees loved them. First flower they see in the spring.

We have zillions of the little bastards. A pair of red squirrels too. They are bad. I was crouched down beside my bus, beside the driveshed this morning, looking under the bus for my circle, and two munks that were chasing each other didn't even see me!! I could have hammered one with my fist, he nearly ran into me!

So..... anyhow, last night, we were having a pizza supper with Dave/Jess... and Marv/Gary, when Dave brought the pellet gun out. The chipmunks were coming out under the bird feeders, because theres always lots of feed on the ground to attract them AND the squirrels, doncha know.

Anyhow, Dave took 4 shots, and missed. Little bugger kept coming back out. So, Jess.. whose never fired anything before lined him up for what seemed like an hour, and fired. Got it! She was so proud. Then shocked and saddened that she even got it. She was over that pretty quickly, and took off with it, to scout more, LOL.

Sawyer, who has pretty much grown up with this stuff... and is 3... was out the lane with the preacher, and his son and girlfriend, with Dave and Jess... and a coon scuttled up a tree. Sawyer got all excited and started yelling to Dave, "DAD... we've got to shoot that thing RIGHT????? DAD... DAD... get the gun....", lol. I think he shocked those people.

I wonder what he tells his daycare workers... and kids how he spends his days around here. Another funny story was this... just last spring.

I was watching Sawyer, when he went down the slide... middle of the morning, and he scared a coon right beside him in the lilac stems of a bush right by the climber. The thing was sick.. likely rabies with the epidemic going on... or distemper... anyhow, it slowly ambled away, and climbed the tree by the slide. I got Gary to get the gun, and lead Sawyer away, behind his own house so as not to see... (this was the first time Sawyer had actually been outside, when a killing was happening)... and as Gary was looking up the tree on the one side, I told him if he went around the tree to the other side, he could see the things face.

Sawyer and I went behind the house, and Gary disposed of it. Much later, when Dave came home, he ran out and shouted to his dad... "DAD... grandpa shot a coon right in the face!!!!!!". Same when Jess got home later. At first, they weren't too impressed... but then realized hes going to see this stuff sooner or later anyhow.

I heard the coons outside my window last night, under the bird feeders, growling and snarking. Probably that one seen the other night, coming down with babies. The trap IS out there, and will be set again tonight, before they make their way to the chickens, who sleep now with just a garden gate holding them in, in the barn. TOO hot to close up the solid doors.

Ok... done with my book now, lol.

OMG colleen... just read your post, before I submitted mine! BUGGER about your car, but thank goodness you guys are alright!

Nice calf.... and glad your mama and chicks settled in!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:57 am

Sorry about the accident Colleen. At least you're OK.