Good Morning!

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There you go

[WLLady]

I have had to rescue birds before in wind so strong they couldnt get back to the barn. There was one little pullet that actually tumbled between the coops in a gust once a couple years ago. I carried her in to safety.... Hate the windiness - its bad again today. I am seriously tired of fixing the greenhouse. Looks like i will be back at it when this wind quits if it quits. Well no takers for last years calendar... And no requests for this year....

[Farrier1987]

We are scared they might. We were robbed a few years ago of DHs work tools. There are a lot of problems in this area made worse by the pandemic.

Most of those that would steal a turkey woudn't have a clue what to do with a live bird to turn it into food. Now if this was a third world country, the reverse would most likely be true,

[Killerbunny]

Unfortunately around here they would certainly know! Got much worse after the huge grow-op moved in. It was shut down but people still come down the road to look.

[Killerbunny]

I have just been informed that the kitchen is looking more nd more like an old folks home! I was prepping an antibiotic for a turkey (from the vet) glucosamine for the cat and metacam for an old bird with a touch of a sore hip!

[WLLady]

Good morning all! Merry Christmas!
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Woke up to rain rain and more rain. soaking wet horse, cat wanting in because "it's raining out here!". Nice slow quiet morning. both DH and I are fighting something (likely the influenza A that one of my coworkers tested positive for about a week ago-neg for covid) so we are having a nice quiet day here at home. Stuffed turkey breast for dinner later on. oddly enough i'm thinking about cleaning out the chicken pen today, on christmas....hm.....

[Ontario Chick]

Good morning, still waiting for the ice on the front steps to melt enough to scrape, it's an adventure to get out of the house every day :)
noticed this morning that a group of turkeys came all the way to the front of the house and "harvested" the red styrofoam "berries" decorating my greenery pots. Apparently needed some change in their diet, I guess RED and Styrofoam is pretty irresistible

[WLLady]

LOL i was cleaning up in the barn yesterday and some enterprising individuals (likely the ducks) have reduced our 2 extra pieces of baby blue styrofoam wall insulation to mostly nothingness.....hm. Wonder if there's a nutritional difference between red, blue, pink and white. They don't seem to like the white.....but this was over the last summer- i just haven't had time to sweep up behind the equipment until yesterday. and we didn't lose any birds, so.....hopefully the turkeys aren't iced out of their normal diet up there! And i hear there's more ice/snow to come this weekend just in time for new years??!

Well some work in the barn done yesterday-amazing how the moulted feathers tend to collect on the far side of the hay under the things like the log splitter....so all that was moved and cleaned out. Looking way better now. So today i think i'll start on the pens. I think if i can get DH to empty the trailer every so often i should be able to get it all done today. And it's nice enough here to let the birds outside so they won't go all nuts while i'm shovelling. bonus! Not many end of decembers i can remember with nice weather for letting the birds out down here.

[Killerbunny]

We saw about 100 turkeys gleaning a corn field a couple of days ago. Quite the sight. The corn here hasn't been completely cleared up and the turkeys seem to be dong well.
I hate the freezing rain and ice especially when you have to go up a slope to get into the chicken pens. I didn't do birds for about 3 days because DH didn't want my leg ripped up again!

[Killerbunny]

Yesterdays excitement was an apparent bloodbath in the snow. Off to look for the corpse/injured bird. Found a very sheepish looking turkey hen with a BROKEN TOENAIL! she is totally fine but Oh boy in the the snow it looked terrible.