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ross · Post by **ross** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 11:58 am

In strathroy at the Food Basics parking lot this Wed 10-1 there's a farm family who brings their stock trailer to town & folks from town & around can dump there unwanted pumpkins in it . Been doing it for awhile , their pigs love um . Luck

argosgirl · Post by **argosgirl** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:18 pm

WLLady I'm going to have to try that with my gelding! He's crazy enough he just might stomp them, or it will start him racing around the field like the lunatic he is. Either way, could be fun. We have lots of pumpkins left that didn't sell and only some of the birds like them. The turkeys look at me like I'm crazy when I put them in their pen.

Post by **WLLady** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:43 pm

The brown one is ted-pumpkin and squash killer extraordinaire...the black one is molly.
clydesdales, so technically YES feathered legs.....from the knees down! an awful mess with pumpkin seeds. LOL

anyhoo, i know, not really feathers like chicken feathers, but still....LOL....purebred clydes. a grooming nightmare in the fall mud and spring mud. ted could have been a bud horse, but he's so severely cow hocked it's funny.

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:52 am

They are beautiful Kathy. Clydesdales bring back a lot of memories for me ... Grew up with them on the farm up north. My favourite girls were Apple and Molly with Hanker being my favourite boy. He was always snorting so I called him handkerchief, Hanker for short.

Yours are beauties!

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:52 am

Good morning everyone!

Ya, i love those ponies....i admit it. thanks guys! life would NOT be the same without them....someday i will be riding again. someday!

half way through the week. headache this morning. but great news is the injections in my back and finally working on my back (and not on the rest of me-which is why my head hurts today probably....LOL)! yesterday was very difficult to not go and do silly things. i am actually feeling good enough to slowly clean out the grow out coops this weekend! shovelling and all! except i think i'll be sitting in my tree stand....

going to try to drag myself out of bed at dawn...that will not be easy. it's a very very nice change to be able to get around better now....yay! still being ultra-careful....because i don't want to go back to where i was before the injections, but i will take it!!!! sitting in a tree stand this weekend thinking about nothing but the wind and the leaves and deer and really fat comical squirrels and maybe grabbing a nap or 10 is going to be a nice change of pace.....even if it's just for a morning or a day.

and i am going to try to get some photographs this weekend for my entries into the online show-we took a look at the birds last night and i am totally embarrassed to say that everyone is in various states of moulting, and i am seriously thinking about hairspraying them so they don't lose any more feathers before the photoshoot! otherwise i will just have poofy moulting messes-my nicest wheaten marans boy has white underfluffy stuff showing-everywhere! sheesh. sigh. Do you guys realize-we have our forum anniversary coming up-and we are already doing our first show, and had a bbq and have lots of people, and great info on the forum!??

we rock!!!!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:56 am

Well I went out to open up the new boy and his ladies and apparently since the young pullets aren't putting out he thinks I'm cute! Did me a lovely dance and all. Hope we don't have a "Hamish" situation LOL!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:01 am

Good morning!
Yes, great strides made in one year mainly Thanks to those who were willing to take on the job after PSO demise.
Look what all we would have missed :)
Foggy and sunny morning here, love days like this when it's still warm enough to do lots of winter preparations.
DH doing a "new" stall clean out this morning, my turn to wash windows and put in clean bedding in the afternoon and Ivomec the girls before they go back in. Looks like we will have a nice day for it.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:04 am

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST Well I went out to open up the new boy and his ladies and apparently since the young pullets aren't putting out he thinks I'm cute! Did me a lovely dance and all. Hope we don't have a "Hamish" situation LOL!

I tell you those wyandotte boys, they are such romantics! Too bad the can't always support it with action!

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 9:26 am

Good morning everyone!
latest testing has been completed on my puppy and I think we are headed to hypothyroidism....his free T4 was low and TSH is just on the upper limit of normal. SO. vet won't start on thyroxine because he behaviourally is doing just fine and i agree. but his liver values were alarmingly off 2 months ago, and treatment for a month on a liver sparing drug brought them down nicely almost to normal again, we'll do that another month and then take a break for a month and see if he stabilizes or rebounds to high ALT and high ALP again. If he rebounds then either retest T4 and TSH or LDD and try to rule out cushings. But cushings doesn't usually move TSH...so. i'm leaning to hypothyroid, so. we will cut him back on the feed, get him onto this liver thing tonight and then i might look into changing his food up....hm. in dogs hypothyroid is usually autoimmune, so there is an organic chaste berry paste that is very successful in treating horses for cushings, just evening out the immune system and the hormones that go with it, that might be worth a try IF he goes back to high ALT high ALP low T4 high TSH over the month after we get his values back to normal.
ah well. he is doing just fine, at least whatever is going on we caught early, so that's really good.

in other news. my mousers have been fired. there was a mouse in my livingroom 2 nights ago, and i have not yet received the gift of a body from any of the 3!!!! and it was a nice big healthy mouse. grrrrr. and one of my mousers is so embarrassed she hasn't been home in 2 days now...last time she was gone she had got "lost" in the woods west of the house in the corn and was a tad confused on how to get home....um. i'll look while i'm hunting this weekend.

still doing pretty well after the injections-yesterday was a bit sore, but today is better again, i think i have to beat up a spasmed muscle every night to keep it happy(ier). Think i pushed it a bit on tuesday doing chores and lifting water buckets....um. that's the only thing i can think of, was filling a bucket to do the waterers instead of filling it just enough for one pen i took a full bucket. and yesterday was bad. so last night i just filled it a little and i'm better today....so i guess i now take more trips with a bucket instead of 1....gah. can't wait for the weekend!

i got a call from someone that got birds off me eons ago, the rooster has turned mean (killed one hen) what should they do!? they can't bring themselves to crockpot him, so he's in a dog crate, and will be delivered to me in exchange for a new boy this weekend. They are looking for a few more hens too, so i'll either find a few in my barn somewhere, or i'll be posting a wanted ad LOL. they just want free ranging colour with eggs. LOL. i have a sweet ameraucana x wheaten marans boy they can have-he is destined for the crock pot at my place, but he's so sweet he's hanging out in the coop right now. funny how some boys are good for a year or two and then turn....sigh. oh well, no tolerance for that behaviour.

well, hubby finally got home from work at 430 am this morning. i don't know what the problem was, but wow. he turned off my alarm this morning so a bit of panic this morning...meant i got stuck in traffic sigh. at least he doesn't work till 6pm tonight, so he CAN sleep.
hope everyone has a wonderful day! at least the liquid falling from the sky is liquid, and not solid yet....

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 9:45 am

Good morning!
A bit wet but have to vacuum the barn so don't mind, still living of of the amazing day yesterday.
Kathy your mouser is probably too busy hunting in the fields, couldn't be bothered with one mouse in the house?
Or possibly was fattening it for winter?
All creeks and pains today, also looking for what I did yesterday that I shouldn't have, not sure why I need to pinpoint the cause, when I will do it again anyway?
Enjoyed KB's pictures from the show, can't wait to see what PTO show will bring.
Yesterday cleaned out one pen, dropped in a bale of shavings as a base before starting to build up the straw bedding for the winter, when it gets colder, and the birds didn't want to go back in !!! Apparently nobody remembered what wood-shavings look like since last year?
2 hens stuck in the doorway, Mactavish the rooster behind them, egging them on, so I stuck around to see who will lead the SCARY entry charge, so first he send in couple Columbians the couple Blues then he sounded warning and everybody booted it out again, back to two hens stuck in the doorway. :)
Took a dish of scratch and 2 slices of bread to get some in, but eventually I had to push the rest in.
Now to get some of the last lettuce Swiss chard for a nice breakfas for them, since it doesn't look like anybody is going out today.
Have a dry one! :)