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Post by WLLady » Wed May 25, 2016 10:12 am

morning all!

YAY SANDY!!! yeah, yotes are nothing without a nose, but martin was scent free :-) except the deet of course. lol. so unless they know deet.....which is totally possible. i think they knew something was different....they're smart that way. we tried, we had a good day. i sure hope i see a nice photo of a yote on the forum in short order! you have the PERFECT set up with a railing to steady you and a nice comfy chair LOL good luck!!!!!

well, just dropped my youngest dog (the bouncy GSP) off at the vet. We got him from a quite reputable breeder, but the vet is 100% sure he's got lab in him from his build (i've been wondering for a while)...he has mast cell tumours. It's a form of skin/dermal cancer. he's 5....so young. so he's in to get the lumps removed and sent off for testing, and ultrasound while he's under to see if there's anything weird inside. better to get them gone now...

looking forward to the wyoming sale! i had a good hatch too, BVF glad to hear things are peeping and cheeping and all that! it really should make the cold go away faster! i hatched out 9 cornish chicks, and i have no clue how many wheaten and blue wheaten ameraucanas (Kathy B, that boy is wonderful!) and a few easter eggers....gotta get my hubby to have a chat with that cockerel...he's almost a year (the cockerel) and isn't doing his job...only 2 fertilized from over 30 eggs! slacker. so for the wyoming sale i'll have lots of turkey poults and a few chickens....mostly turkey poults this year.

so. onwards at work....pick puppy up after work on the way home tonight. of course, worry about him but he's in good hands. hopefully lump free when he gets back. going to try the cone and see how it goes-he's a voracious stitch chewer....i asked the vet to please try to do internals in 2 layers...so we might have time to get back to the vet before he has them all out!

hope everyone has great hatches, and wonderful days! and please, just a little rain shower this afternoon on my garden would be wonderful.....
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Post by Maximus » Wed May 25, 2016 12:21 pm

Thanks Kathy. Yup definitely will be a bonus to be able to just sit and shoot from deck. PRACTICE PRACTICE AND PRACTICE. unfortunately I also have the perfect place for coyotes.

Good luck for your furry member. He's young and let's hope for a fast full recovery.
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Post by Killerbunny » Wed May 25, 2016 12:30 pm

Good luck with the pup Kathy!
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Post by redninja » Wed May 25, 2016 1:20 pm

redninja wrote:QR_BBPOST Good evening. Locked down eggs tonight. Have 6 Araucana, 10 BBS Ameraucana, 7 Serama, 16 Easter Egger and sadly only 2 Isbar. Need to find new DNA for them.
Well, 3rd hatch of the year done. Pretty happy. 5 Araucana, 11 Ameracauna(yes I miscounted at lockdown), 3 Serama, 2 Isbar and 12 EE.
I'll be bringing some EE from last 3 hatches to Wyoming, along with a couple Muscovy drakes.
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Post by Ontario Chick » Wed May 25, 2016 1:59 pm

Congrats, they are beautiful!
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Post by WLLady » Wed May 25, 2016 2:11 pm

Yay for more fuzzybutts! LOL. i thankfully have turned off the hatcher...until 2 weeks monday, then it will fire back up LOL

tango (GSP) is actually part lab according to the typing they did....go figure. so much for a "purebred" GSP....i'll be giving the breeder a call i think-this breeder was highly recommended too, so i'm surprised, but that explains the mast cell tumours. they're a lab thing not a GSP thing! he's through surgery, as the vet just said "happily enjoying his drugs". LOL he can come home about 530 tonight :-) they sent me a photo to my cell, all doped up and nowhere to go....he is cute...they found 2 more tumours we didn't find...gah. so we'll see exactly what it is and go from there.

get any practice in yet sandy?
i haven't seen a photo of a yote yet....hm.....maybe they know....and are spreading the word that you aren't to be trifled with!!
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Post by redninja » Wed May 25, 2016 3:09 pm

Good luck with your dog, Kathy. Glad surgery went well.
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Post by Maximus » Thu May 26, 2016 8:51 pm

Anyone else ready for bed before your chickens are??

Target practice sucked today. No, I don't want to talk about it. Josh might be a natural though.

Went to get flax bedding for coops at Minor Bros. They're not selling/carrying it anymore. Apparently the supplier can't keep up with the demand. WTH! That means it's good stuff. So now I need to try and source. I love flax bedding. I picked up two bags of chopped straw for the short term. Not a happy camper today.

Hope everyone had a good day. It's Friday tomorrow! That's good right?

Cheers

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Post by windwalkingwolf » Fri May 27, 2016 1:56 am

Good Morning all!

Any advice about turning a well-established hayfield into workable vegetable garden? Besides "don't" :rofl: ? I still haven't gotten all my seeds planted (never mind the started plants, they'll wait), the garden area has been tilled 4-5 times, and when smoothing to plant, I'm still pulling loads of chunks of sod out, so I'm not nearly done. Very slow going. I'm going to have to lay plastic or mulch heavily to keep the grass down, a prospect I'm not looking forward to, since there's approximately 7500 square feet of garden to cover. I really wish it had been turned under last fall, but it was snowing when we moved here :sAng_banghead: I've been preparing beds and planting for almost a week now, and I'm only on row three of 17. Had Richard till (again) the remaining beds this evening now that they're good and dry, it looks like it helped somewhat.
In other news, a friend lost her home to a fire, and needed a spot to pasture her cattle, so I volunteered. 2 adult milkers, one heavily pregnant and the other with bull calf at side, and 3 yearling heifers. So our cattle number is currently at 10 and counting, with all the poop that entails LOL. At least this time of year, they're out in fields where I don't have to shovel it roflmbo
Pink the sow had her litter on the 8th, and promptly destroyed and ate all except two, one of which later died from her injuries and the last one is now a house pig. Basically a 3-legged one since one hind leg is non-functional. His name is Hamlet, a.k.a. Chris P. Bacon LOL. He didn't get colostrum and developed a nasty skin condition, but he's otherwise healthy and a pain in my a$$ lol. Then on the 17th, Spot had a litter of 9 healthy gorgeous piglets. Yesterday, I caught Pink laying down, 'nursing' (she's dry now) Spot's piglets, grunting to them like they were her own!!! No idea why she killed her own, but I'll give her one more shot. If it happens again, she's ham.
Just had more chicks hatch, ran the incubator completely dry start to finish this time because I had a couple wet last hatch...but lost a whackload to drowning and defects anyway. 12 healthy from starting out with 35 eggs...I thoroughly washed about half the eggs in this batch to see if it would affect hatchability...marked the washed eggs with a 'W'. It did not, in fact, the opposite seemed to happen. 5 infertile at day 10 candling but they don't count, 2/3 early quitters/blood rings were unwashed, 5/7 dead at lockdown were unwashed, the first three to hatch were washed eggs. Culled a (washed egg) chick that hatched with its foot upside down and another died that stepped on it's umbilical and bled (unwashed egg) and the last 6 (5 unwashed) were dead in shell, some pipped, most not, all eggs full of liquid goo. One had skull deformities, one had pipped through a blood vessel, the rest clearly drowned or died from heart failure--swollen feet. It's too small a group and too beset with problems to tell if washing the eggs IMPROVES hatchability as it seemed to, but until humidity edges back down, I won't be setting more eggs except for under hens. SOOO, January LOL! Yeah, right! Luckily enough, I had a hen hatch 6 eggs on the 24th, so the 12 chicks have all gone under her wing, and I don't have to brood them in the house! Whoo hoo! I've still got The 4 week-olds from PP in the house, because the baby pen in the backyard has still got the last two hatches in it :chicks: :chicks: :chicks: Mostly cockerels, :gaah: and most are culls from my bantam project. If I had any good sense, I'd eat them now, rather than feed them for three more months, and make some room in the process. But some of them are definitely being grown out so I can pick a replacement for my best layer rooster, Shoeless Joe, who met an unfortunate end a couple months ago when he thought it would be a good idea to share the pig's food with the pigs. One of the younguns, most definitely Shoeless Joe's son, is already showing mounting behaviour, much to the distress of the 2 month old pullets. Darn leghorn blood. I find myself yelling insulting things at him like "Your mother was an Orpington!" and it's funny because it's true. He just looks at me like I'm crazy (probably also true), and chases the girls again. I was really hoping to get a red cuckoo boy to replace Joe, but it doesn't look like I'm going to, so this may be the guy. Oh, well. He's black cuckoo with loads of red, maybe Crele when he gets his adult feathers. Not a colour I like, but if he fathers excellent layers like Joe did, I won't hold it against him.
I have had ZERO losses to predators or 'mysterious disappearances' so far this year. I can hardly believe it. Barn holier than church mice, surrounded by raccoons, coyotes, rats, birds of prey, etc., and I haven't had so much as a snake stealing a chick or a skunk stealing an egg. Everybody pastured during the day, except a handful of roosters that I unequivocally cannot allow near the hens. Three hens with chicks under wing, have not yet lost a single one...unheard of in my world. Usually by this time of year, three or four have gone missing! I know it WILL happen, especially once young raptors are leearning to hunt and I'm certainly not letting my guard down, but I'm extremely pleased with the survival rate here. No forest or swamp near the birds for critters to hide in.
Anyway, I guess that's enough of a book, have to go out to do 'evening' chores yet, and then a weird shift at work for me tomorrow, 3 to 11 pm. Seriously cutting into my gardening time!
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Post by WLLady » Fri May 27, 2016 8:54 am

good morning everyone! WWW i'm tired just reading your post! LOL. congrats on baby pigs, and bad momma and good momma....? geez. animals.

Got the copies of my MRIs and xrays yesterday, so now at least i can go back and look at them again....yep, still what i remembered seeing at the surgeon's office. worth the 10$. so this weekend all the turkey poults (except martin's girlfriend and one lavender palm male) will be going to wyoming (if it's not pouring rain...i'm wussy that way). a few chickens maybe...and possibly a few chicks if the person that wanted them doesn't pick them up. I have my last hatch in the incubator-all going well and i get what i hope to get from my projects (they all need to have head dots!). if so, then 1 custom hatch is done in just under 3 weeks and then the incubator gets turned off for the rest of the summer.

still haven't decided on the horses staying or not. and tango is doing wonderfully so far after surgery. looks a little bit frankensteinish, but starting to be his normal self again. we put a tshirt over him, works really well, and it's long enough he can't run lol. steps on it and has to stop. and that's good because he has 20 something stitches just above his left hind knee that i really would rather he didn't pull out. can't believe the fur is starting to grow again and it's only been 2 days! only another 10 days of trying to keep him quiet....i'll relax a bit after the 7 days are up, because his skin should be healed up pretty well by then.

can't wait for the sale on sunday! it'll be like being at mount forest :-) i missed that this year. and this weekend will be finishing planting the garden and mulching it...my plan for saturday. then at least it's in, and growing. still hoping for some rain, desperately needed. need to run the hoses to the sprinklers too once i get things planted. i think i'll water the garden, then plant and then mulch....that might help some. need to move hay for the horses tonight, and put a timer in for the fans in the barn. otherwise looking forward to a "poultry filled" weekend LOL
hope everyone has a great day!
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