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goatgal35 · Post by **goatgal35** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:54 am

Well hubby and I had a nice time at Mount Forest yesterday. I finally convinced him to come with me. Hubby was excited and looking forward to going to more sales. It's nice seeing him getting more involved with my crazy critter hobby. We made more $ than we spent and got some nice turkeys. I spent an hour sitting on a bucket last nite, just watching the boys strut with their beautiful blue heads. It's a good think I bought turkeys. All hubby brought home after waking me up at 3:50 am while he was getting ready to go hunting this morning, was mud on his boots which he tracked all over my kitchen. He is having nap before he heads into work. I hope he gets his bird tomorrow, being the wife of a turkey hunter is exhausting :) have a Terrific day everyone !!!

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:17 am

Good morning everyone!

had a fun hunting morning this morning. taking today off work....one in the freezer (i can't tell you if it's mine or hubby's...posted in the hunting section LOL....you be the judge). not sure how much shooting i'll be doing, but i survived this morning, the walk out and back was worse than the shots....so looking hopeful that i might get to put one in the freezer. tried out our scalder and plucker yesterday. turns out the scalder thermostat was fried, so after waiting an hour for it to get to temp it never did. sigh. so a few tweaks later we had hot water at 140F....61C is the magic number LOL. worked like a charm once we figured it out. had 4 white leghorns to go, man, there's NOTHING on those things, even at a year old. then did another 6 cockerels...nice respectable birds those ones. all set for the rottisserie sometime this summer. YUM.

planted a bunch of flats with seed for the garden. and hubby was awesome and tilled the garden over for me. i raked out the lumps and it's all set to go once the weather warms up now. found our first asparagus spear coming up. it'll be another week or so before they're coming up in earnest. can't wait. i LOVE asparagus!!!! today is clean out the grow out coop....now that the cockerels are gone. that will be a turkey raising pen for a little while-until the wyoming sale. i'll have lots of poults for sale for that one. sounds like mount forest went well! that's awesome!

hope everyone has a great day!

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:01 am

poultry_admin wrote:QR_BBPOST What really gets me is the dump site in the woods. All kinds of glas, shingles, tires, construction stuff, fencing, two halve trucks (not off the same one) from the guys living here in the 40s to 90s. I understand the dump is 20min drive away... but that doesn't mean you can just dump the stuff in the ravine!!!

It's very frustrating!! Rusty old vehicles have an environmental impact. Tires do as well, etc.

When we dug the area for the garage that is being built we uncovered 2 dump trailer loads of garbage that was buried. Another area we found a tarp that was buried with garbage. In the same area we found bones, which I respectfully re-buried in a beter location. I am regularly finding items that the ground pushes up. Over by the compost pile I have we are finding metal containers, like pocket size febreeze, tide sticks, cans, etc. Being pushed up from being buried. These items are modern day and why they aren't in the recycling is beyond my comprehension.

I have another area where those old stubby looking beer bottles and wine bottles keep popping up. That's a yearly event so far. I have beautiful land and why it's ever been a garbage dump is heart breaking.

Because we are a remote road we get people dumping all to often. Last year Josh and I hauled 21 tires out of the ditch (ditches are about 12'-16' deep), paint cans and a bag of 8 new born kittens. Deceased. We have an agreement with the garbage contractors that they take the extra garbage we put out when I call and we don't pay to recycle the tires and paint cans etc. When I see garbage bags at the side of the road I call the city.

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:06 am

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Ahhhh Sandy, I wish we had as little junk as you have. I admit i am a bit of a "recycler" (the chicken wire and other fencing i get from the dump means i'll never have to buy any). But my dad, sheesh, he grew up in Germany after the war, and came to Canada with $20, but c'mon, he hasn't been on skis in 30 years, and you wouldn't be allowed on the hill with them them today, so can we toss them? The junk i've tossed when he wasn't looking, truckloads every year. If he had good taste he could have an antiques shop, but this pressboard junk from the 60's? Mom and dad went to an auction sale last weekend, he bought two glass china cabinets and stashed them at my sister's place, and mom came back with two boxes of dishes. An old friend died and we got a 12 year old Chrysler minivan, low mileage but needs bodywork, he won't give it away, so it'll sit there until it is real junk. Old house: they live in front, us in back. Sheds full of old construction supplies scavenged from jobsites (he's a retired electrician). C'mon dad, go to Germany again, then i can toss more stuff out....

Baron, I lose my marbles at least once a weekend with left over construction project items outside. I'm the type of person where everything has a home and wood, plywood and heavy equipment, snow pushers, trailers etc., make it look like a construction zone on the other side of the driveway. It's a real mental challenge to not accidently set up some dynamite and flip the trigger over there. I almost went bonkers with tarps over the chicken pen for the winter. It looked hideous. Fall project on that particular pen because I can not do another winter with tarps. Nope.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:01 am

OK so there's white

coming down, really?? Enough already. Birds not impressed. Poor turkey girls sitting under the white pines too.

WaupoosCowgirl · Post by **WaupoosCowgirl** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:07 pm

Enough for a pizza!

Post by **WLLady** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:11 pm

Jealous!!!!! 0 tonight...sigh. anything in my garden will be frostbit....but i didnt see any yet

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:48 am

Oh yummy!! Mine is up, just peeking. Snapped one off the other day, a pencil one, but oh so good. The other bed I have is very deeply mulched, and I leave it that way, so it comes up later, after this one by my house. (the other is up by the mother in laws). I want to post a FB page, that specifically says... "If you didn't plant this, and you didn't tend this, and you haven't been invited to have any of this... then stay the hell out of this'. Every single year, Gary's sisters, AND the gardener if there (mother in law hires someone who 'tends' her flower beds.... and he stole all my perfect melons one year, leaving the black rotted ones)... well, they LOVE asparagus, I mean, who doesn't... and it just brings out the vultures in everyone. They swoop in, and take it all!! Then give it to their kids, etc. I went up one afternoon to pick some to pickle... and the patch was clean. When I planted this row, behind the house, we first of all, rented to his parents for $450 LESS than what we were getting for the place.... I told her (4 years ago now... hes been long dead), that this patch was for ME and her. When Gary's sister Laurie came over, when I was busting my (you know what) digging the trench for it... (25' long), she snidely asked me if I was planting it for her mother, because surely she would be dead before she could have any), Thats when I told HER it was for ME and her. And, if you don't plant it, you will never have any. She went ahead and said that she SHOULD plant a row. I told her how to do it. Well, if she had of, she would probably stay out of mine. As it is... mother in law just invites anyone to go pick it, and every year, I 'yell' at her to NOT give it away. I have plenty of my own family and friends to share it with, IF I so desire. Now I am fuming all over again, lol.

It went down to -1C last night. Ground was pretty frosty this morning at 6am. I hope it doesn't hurt the foliage on those newly planted cherry trees. Their leaves are out ALOT, seeing as how they were at Costco, facing EAST, against the wall. I imagine it got pretty warm there, before I brought them home. Oh well. It is what it is.

The premie calf we had awhile back is still hanging on. How, I have NO idea. Its so thin. We ended up bringing it inside with the cow, and yup, shes freaking out, wants out, knocks the calf down, shes just plain stupid. Which is why I left it outside with her in the first place. But more often times than not, it would be out on the cement barnyard, in this cold wind/weather. I have seen it sucking, and she has so much milk, and I wasn't hopeful it would even suck a bottle of electrolytes I gave it last night, but it did. So, having JUST been to the feed store for that, went back for a bag of milk replacer. Two hours later, gave it a 1/4 bottle. 4 hours later, gave it another 1/4. Both times went back in with the cow, and tried to nurse. If she stood still, it was successful. I got fed up with watching her plow the thing down with her antics, and left. Poor thing, only weighs about 50 lbs, or less now. I fear taking her out, will depress the calf even more.

This morning, its rattly in the chest. So, pnemonia settling in, even tho I did NOT hear it rattling while feeding it. Tried hard to make sure, it didn't get it too fast, to prevent that. Last night I also gave it another shot of antibiotic. Especially for that, so hopefully it gets stronger, and fights this. If not, well then, we tried. Not real hopeful tho.

On a lighter note, there IS A brand new baby this morning, a big healthy heifer calf. Term, lol. So, I'd better get off this thing, so we can needle/tag it, and give it, its nasal vaccine for pnemonia. I know I'm not spelling that right, lol.

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:03 am

Yay for new babies BVF. guess the season has begun for you!

lost one of the turkey poults yesterday :-( i have no idea how it did it, but it did, it drowned itself in less than a 1/2 inch of water. unbelievable. dumb as poults......dumb dumb dumb. i am using a chick waterer, and they're bigger than chicks, and somehow it still managed to drown itself!
gah! The other 6 are doing great with mom. she's even learned how to not stand on them.....finally.

beautiful day. heavy frost down here too last night. glad i had the heater on in the greenhouse. it'll be warm in there now with the sun though probably already! had a couple of days off work to go turkey hunting. found it's rough on the back, but not as bad as i had feared....didn't find any ticks yet. the ramps are up! yay! soon it will be morel mushroom time. didn't see any of those while i was out-yet. lots of turkey sign, but also lots of coyote sign (as well as yipping and howling last night go figure). i think our flock is smaller this year because of the yotes...
i checked my asparagus again last night. there's some spears just poking up, just about 1/4 inch tall....thankfully still short or the frost would have nuked them completely last night. hopefully that is the LAST frost for a little while! i really want/need to get birds out to the coop from the basement (poults and chicks), and divide up the poults and chicks upstairs....poults out to the grow out coop until i know who i'm keeping for me and who to sell. and then the cornish chicks (and barred rock pullet) can go into their pens....3 birds to go for a backyard "rental" hopefully by end of week, if not, then next week. and then lockdown on the next hatch-some RIRs from Al, and ees and wheaten and blue wheaten ameraucanas, a few welsummers.... All to hatch monday and tuesday next week. then hatches every monday for the next month, various eggs-some chickens, some ducks....all for custom hatching service. the incubator is FULL, and i have another flat of ees and cornish ready to go in as soon as something comes out LOL.

oh, voting is over for the Piknik-it will be on July 23 at windwalkingwolf's place. That topic has a discussion about events - like pellet gun competitions etc if anyone has anything they'd like to do/see/organize, please post there.....i will probably be on my way back from Quebec that day, and will stop in and spend the night then carry on home on the sunday-depending on if the folks in quebec are available for visit the week before-given that the bbq is closer to quebec than home-may as well double up on the trip purpose!

hope everyone has a great day!

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:29 am

good morning everyone!

thought i would just pass along that sandyM is taking a break to catch up on things at work etc, and will be back later on. and got a message from hayladee that she also will be back in a little while....

cool morning....no frost though! yay! i started a topic for the piknik organizational posts...it's stickied in this forum, up at the top of the forum. i am very hopeful that martin and i can make it, no dogs in tow....no way. LOL. skeet would eat everyone's food, and tango would eat all the livestock. so they'll stay home (or get boarded). still have to plan my summer too, make sure i'm not hatching anything that weekend LOL.