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Post by **WLLady** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:20 am

Whoohoo! Wake up and no hydro with 50+ chicks under heat.....gah

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:32 am

TomK wrote:QR_BBPOST KB...

Silly broody...cleaned out all the laid eggs from the nesting boxes on Friday night, including whatever the broody had laid/stolen/tried to hide, and put the fertile eggs under her that i received ....yesterday morning i went out to chk on her and she had noticed the other hens laying eggs in her favourite box and got up and moved over to set those...what is it about nesting box favourites?...anyway, took her eggs from under her and replaced the new ones again...this morning it all seems stable...it must be the box...go figure...anyway, hopefully there will be Ameraucana chicks in my future...fingers crossed

Tom, you are going to have to break down and make her a Broody box in a separate quarters, I know you have plenty of spare building material

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Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:39 am

WLLady wrote:QR_BBPOST Whoohoo! Wake up and no hydro with 50+ chicks under heat.....gah

That just sucks, hope outage doesn't last too long, what a pain to start all the alternative ways to supplement heat, always in the spring.
Hope it's back on by now :)

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 10:25 am

I don't get the hydro mindset....back in '82, yup I said '82, i was building a new house in south Ottawa...had a call in to Ont Hydro for the service proposal...the guy comes out one day while I was working away on the framing and introduced himself..nice fellow, but the first thing he said after the niceties were out of the way was " you'll be wanting underground service, right?"...at my cost from the pole of course at about thrice the price of am overhead hookup...the lot was heavily treed so a wire running thru woods with the eternal threat of branches taking it down was out of the question...i had always intended the underground..it was the only way to go in my mind, yet here they are constantly sinking poles in the ground and stringing wire on them out in the elements just waiting for calamity and asking the customer to bear the inconvenience and frustration and losses and costs...smh

WLL, i hope your service is back...so unnecessary

Post by **WLLady** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:53 pm

Just came back on....the hot hand warmers come in handy....everyone seems alive. Hubby got the generator out and running for the incubators....gotta love this guy!!!

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:08 pm

Power outages planned or unplanned suck. They have us all at their mercy. Pay your ever high going bill, or have none! Ugh. Course, you think your safe in the summer, incubators working away.... and it goes out anyhow. Either some stupid idiot hits a pole, or they do upgrades/work.

Another new calf yesterday. I believe the last of the AI charolais babies. Another bull. So... 3 bulls. Naturally. Nice calves tho. Out of a new mama, who was very good... stood like a rock when the baby was fumbling around back there, and loves her calf. yay. I didn't like to see the last heifer that calved, give it a good smack, when it started after her, like newborns tend to do. Everyone's their mama, when they first get to their feet. I mean... like she drove it with her head right backwards, and of course, it landed on its butt/side. Shes very protective of hers.... and shes abit like that with us. She won't last long here, the older we get, the more we don't tolerate being hurt.

Good luck Baron, with your brothers recovery. May he heal fast/well.... and be ever thankful and mindful of where he is now.

We got some rain. About 3/10th of an inch. The garden loves it. The grass is so lush again, although I really didn't see much difference in it, cept some yellow patches, where either a stone, or old foundations sit underneath. Certainly not like your lawn WLLady. That is horrible for this time of year!!!!!!!!!!!

Cleaning bathrooms and should do the kitchen. Got a hankering for raisin t-biscuits and so made 2 batches. Ate two of course, with a hot tea David brought me back from town. The guy's went to a Train show in Ancaster.... Dave drove himself so he could come home. The others are off to a farm tour, of peoples collections of 'old' stuff... mainly tractors and equipment. The golden horseshoe something or other.

Attending another babyshower for Melissa today, later. Not even invited, but she wants me to go. A work shower, so won't be too many people there. She works for 4 doctors.... so they will be there, and the 3 office staff. Shes one of those staff, lol. Don't really want to...... Went to a shower yesterday, her husbands mom and sister held one. Grannies/gramps... us... and Scott and Mel's friends.

Melissa's 3 sisters are holding one in September. After the baby is born. Mostly family on Gary's side... my side..... and friends that couldn't make it to this one yesterday.

I just don't get it. Shes due July 7th, and is still painting the babies' room. All the framing is off around the window. A new one is coming sometime. NO furniture, nothing. Well.. she got lots of diapers and onsies bibs... wipes... stuff like that. A crib is on order, but will take 4 weeks? Why? Its from Sears. Well, that may explain it.

She does have a bassinet, sister in law Heather dropped off yesterday, so other than that, diapers and a few sleepers, she will be ok. I guess she'd better work on a carseat to bring it home in. She doesn't have one yet.

Got lots of grass cut yesterday morning, started at 7am. Grass was dry. Planted lots of stuff, dill/beets/more beans/Jacobs cattle beans down here by my house/more lettuce/more tomato plants/pumpkin seeds/leeks..... and then the rain!! Still sore sitting here.

Better get moving. Enjoy what is left of the weekend!

Yay for hydro on!!

ross · Post by **ross** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:30 pm

Common sense in your balywack like here still reins KB . Luck

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:16 pm

SO another pleasant surprise in addition to the rain. Another of the eggs from the deserted nest hatched today so the lonely poult will have a sibling if it's OK, YAY!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:46 pm

And that was skunk #2 for the weekend by my broody coops - yikes!

Post by **WLLady** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:46 pm

skunk #2....! i hope there's no more!!!!! EVER!

i think i must have someone hanging out in my layer coop off and on. 2 eggs from 12 girls today. and 3 yesterday...and i heard them making all kinds of noise laying today....altho, they might be laying elsewhere.

LOTS of rain today! it was sooo nice! well, except the 90km/hr wind gusts with the last set...but even that was okay. just transplanted some hostas and the ground was actually damp 6 inches down! no clue how much rain, but had to be an inch or so. yep, 24mm.....that's about an inch. yay! we needed it. desperately. so now instead of laying down yellow crunching grass we have standing up not so crunchy yellow grass. LOL. maybe tomorrow it will be green again. (it already looks a bit greener).

something ate the lettuce in the garden. grrrrr. left all the sprouting grass and ate just the leaves on the lettuce. bugger. i have some started in the greenhouse that i'll plant out one of the evenings this week. rest of the garden is done except the brocolli and cauliflower. was going to do them today, but we had thunderstorm after thunderstorm after thunderstorm rolling through, looks like the next one on the way right now just west of us. nice and cool though. so i'll finish planting and mulching later in the next couple days.

and had our last meal of asparagus from the garden last night. going to let the rest grow up and be strong for next year. it's been a great asparagus year! we had some every night with dinner for the last month i think! it's been soooo yummy! peppers are in flower, tomatoes too. beans are up, corns up, squash in, carrots are up, need to replant peas, the robins and starlings pulled all the seed from the second planting. herbs are doing great. soon it will be time for fresh basil and tomato bruschetta (or however it's spelled).
better let the cat in before she gets wet. AGAIN (not the sharpest knife in the drawer). oh, hatch is almost finished. 2 more eggs peeping away...so they'll stay until tomorrow morning. rest are in the brooder. heated with hot hand warmers this morning with the power off....then hubby got the generator going, and tonight everyone is happily cheeping and eating and drinking away! and in the picture with the turkey mom you can just see the butt end of a fuzzybutt (brown and stripy) under her head....2 babies. both being talked to and doing fine! i took the one away from the red palm, she was trying to kill it. but bronze mom looks like she'll be a good mom.