Good Morning! <=2017

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:02 pm

....or a farm husband's "can you come out and help me a minute?" .... Ladies you know that means your afternoon is shot and you better have the stove turned off, lol

WaupoosCowgirl · Post by **WaupoosCowgirl** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:06 pm

Brebis wrote:QR_BBPOST Sunny and still cold here but the worst is over thank goodness. All have come though it well except the poor light Sussex roo who's comb (what was left of it from last winter) now has serious frostbite on the rest of it and wattles arghh. Poor fellow, may have to put him out of his misery. Very nice too, quiet and friendly. Everyone else all have small combs so are fine. Why I don't get any more with single combs...

Just wtnessed the driving of the local sheep flock in front of the house. It's amazing to watch, 700+ sheep, several guys on atv's and finally 2 trucks side by side bringing up th rear. Takes about 5 minutes to go by. They move them around to all the spare fields over about 5 km or so. They have electro net fencing they move as well that is run on several massive solar panels they move on a trailer. Large bales are rolled out on one side of a fenced area then the sheep let in and bales put on the other side for the next day and so it goes. Really nice family, wife is from New Zealand, thus the low input grass based system. They own part of a small island off the mainland and in the spring hunt the coyotes off and ferry the flock over there for the summer. We took our 4H kids over to their farm one summer and watched her herd the sheep with the 2 types of herding dogs they use.

Well back to the weekend tidy up, keep warm everyone!

They are my neighbours!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 9:20 pm

Very cool. Have been to Sheep dog trials, where they used those sheep, amazing thing to watch.
I wonder how hard it is to keep the coyotes in check with such a large herd.

Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Sun Feb 14, 2016 9:35 pm

I heard today that they were moving 2200 sheep! I thought you might know them Waupoos Cowgirl, since they're right by Waupoos.
They have livestock guardian dogs in with the sheep, plus moving them around I suspect helps too as the coyotes can't get used to a routine.

WaupoosCowgirl · Post by **WaupoosCowgirl** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:56 am

Yes they are right here in Waupoos proper with me. The coyotes are terrible! We lets lots of people coyote hunt on our farm.

Post by **poultry_admin** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:59 am

Good morning! For those of you who were online at 7:45am, we had a brief system outage, recovered by 7:49am. I'm trying to find out why....

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:30 am

Good morning! Its a wonder I wasn't frantically looking for a recipe when the site went down, lol.

I'm sick too now. Thanks WLLady. We seem to kinda get sick at the same time. Must be travelling thru the internet, lol. Oh well, at least when we DO see each other, we are kind of at the same stage, with kind of the same strain, lol.

I felt this coming on yesterday. Its mostly in my sinus's but I have trouble with them anyhow, most of the time. Ever since I had the most GAWD AWFUL infection years ago. I thought it was a toothache, lol.

I had my hubby put down a chicken this morning, same symptoms as Farrier's... exactly exactly. Same thing.. wing down, looking like a broody when advancing... seeming to hold her up... then down on her side eventually, paddling. Sigh. Hasn't seemed to affected anyone else. NO other symptoms.. like a cold, or any other sickness. For awhile, she could get around and get food/water, but the last day, nope.

Its snowing lightly here. Hubby will likely have to go salt eventually. Dave and Jess yesterday suggested the hot chocolate festival at the dundas conservation... trails, things for kids... and of course, hot chocolate... but I wasn't sure how I would feel today. No outing today. I thought before I went out and chored, I would make cookies... those oatmeal chocolate cranberry ones... but feel worse than when I went out.

I have to clean the woodstove... furnace has been running... things full of ashes. I'm sure my hydro bill will be up $200 for the two days that thing has been running.

ALOT warmer today, at -10C when I first went out. Funny how -22C makes -10C balmy, lol. I worked outside with NO mittens!

Ok... guess I'd better get the vacuum out, to suck up the dust. One year, I sucked a hot coal up (didn't know it), and when I opened the cellar door, I could hear crackling in the canister. (beam central vac). Stupid. I now empty it after I am done sucking.

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:42 am

Good Morning,

I have never had a coffee that tasted so important this morning. Food and sugar hangovers are ROUGH!!

We had some of Lou's side of the family over for dinner yesterday. A lot of food and good company. Hence the food hangover today.
Big walk at the lake, exercise, and only greens in my day today to recover. Damn food!!

Organic chickens, almost ready.

Lou making pastry for butter tart squares. I kept telling him to make sure his gorilla fur doesn't get into it.

Ta-Da! Butter tart squares. He sure impressed his mom and daughter.

Despite it being Valentine's Day, no one coming for dinner really gave it a second thought. Valentine's Day really isn't an 'issue' in our home. I did away with it about 17 years ago with the mind set of love me 365/24/7 ... Or else. I'm not an easy going smooth sailing type A personality and im a challenge on my good days so I don't need Valentine's Day for a reminder. I'm reminded every day when Lou still walks through that door at the end of each day. Willingly.

Today is Family Day. No big plans. I have to work because i haven't been disciplined to sit down and get it done. Lou and Josh are doing some shop and garage chores. I'm still on the couch with coffee procrastinating which job to (pretend) start first.

So with that typed, coffee pot and last cup is empty and I better get at it.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day surrounded by family, friends or spent your favourite way. Book by the fire with fur-members by my feet would be my choice, but nooooooo don't get your paperwork done and you can't have what you want.

Cheers!!

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 11:39 am

morning all (just barely). sorry BVF....yeah, same thing. 7pm yesterday someone flicked a lightswitch and i was FREEZING cold...woke up with concrete in my head. holy. wasn't feeling great yesterday, but this is now definitely feeling AWFUL. LOL. i sure hope you feel better soon!
a visit behind the barn may be in order for this one...sneezing with facet joint arthropy=new experience....and best yet, my drugs for the cyst in my back cannot be taken with cold medications. so the big question for today is which is more important...being able to move, or being able to breath? hm.
maybe i'll just stay on the sofa and moan pathetically and hope someone takes pity on me. wonder which (#$Y&% gave this one to me...probably the person i had to send home last week from work, they came in raging sick, coughing and hacking and sneezing on everything...sigh. must be a cold though, because my appetite seems just fine....when's lunch SandyM? looks amazing!

well, hay moving day for the horses. everyone is fed/watered. amazingly looks like combs and wattles and animals are all intact! yay! snowing here a bit, and that flat whitish winter colour so you can't tell where the drifts are until you are in them up to your knees....lol. have to plow and shovel today. the truck will get out, but not the car. our friends got back from the sunny south a couple of days ago-i do not understand going and then having to come back to -20...but their choice. we dug enough out that they could get home on saturday. time to dig out our place now. tractor is plugged into the charger and block heater, should start fine. but need to plow before getting the car out so we can get to the hay....

hm....BVF try boiling some vinegar...that will help clean out the nose LOL. i'm cleaning our slllllooooowwwww coffee maker right now from the scale. can't stop sneezing. LOL. maybe it will get the cold out faster.

EVERY turkey egg i put in the incubator is doing something. yay! not sure where i will put them all, but we'll see how many make it to hatching. another 2.5 weeks (or more) to go....

hope everyone has a good day.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:47 pm

Mornin, funny story. I've been hanging around in my long johns and put my buns to the woodstove (amish wood cookstove, it has a bar in front to stop folks hitting the stove or hang a towel on.) So it put my buns against the bar and stayed there for a few seconds. Walked away and sat on the couch. Then Carla steps in the room and steps out and I notice a burning rubber/plastic smell. So I accuse her of doing something to make the smell. Go to the stove and a strip of something boiling in a strip along the stove... Check my long johns... A strip at butt level has burned or a hole. i guess I burned my buns!

I guess my long johns are polyester and not cotton.