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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 05:24:54 AM
I was out in the milk room this morning milking the goats and I can see out under the apple trees in the yard. There were 2 of my young game roos staring each other down getting ready to fight. They made a few rounds and here comes all the guineas running right over to watch them and cheer them on. It's the funniest thing to see. Like a bunch of kids on the playgroung all gathered around a few kids fighting. It's so funny how those guineas are always right there for any domestic violence or dispute. Right in the middle of everything.
Never a dull moment on this farm.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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| Claude09647 |
Posted - Nov 14 2009 : 3:30:35 PM
ha ha that sounds so cute to see!! You just have to laugh at animals at times
"My ideal day is sitting on the back porch, cup of green tea in hand, slippers on, and just watch the cows in the pasture"
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| Miss2Missus |
Posted - Nov 14 2009 : 1:59:39 PM
I wish i could have been there for it.
Karen ^_^
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 14 2009 : 1:51:47 PM
Tracy, I know what ya mean. I have been down sizing heavily. I sold 2 doea and gave back another one that had bee loaned to me. I sold all but 4 of the kids. And they are bucks. I will butcher 3 and keep one for breeding. My friend came last night and got 14 hens!!! I was so glad to see her. It's been real quiet here today except for roosters having crowing contest all day. I caught ALL the guineas in the hen house. That's where they will stay til I can get rid of them. I had the steer butchered so just have the heifer now. And next week I will be butchering 6 roosters. So I will be down to hardly anything soon. So much less work for me.
As far as the hen house keeping it clean. I hardly ever clean mine. I just clean it out really good about twice a year. They are hardly in it. So I just put straw down and they tear that up good. I need to go get a truck load of saw dust stuff and put out there.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| shepherdgirl |
Posted - Nov 13 2009 : 12:33:30 PM
I hear ya' Kristin-- about the noisy guineas (that's why only have TWO!), and the escaping chickens.
Several nights ago I raided the chicken house and weilded my scissors with a VENGANCE! I thought I clipped everybody (except my big maran rooster, "Robin Hood"-- I LOVE him! He's such a doll and I didn't want the other roosters in the pen beating him up. I didn't clip my three banty hens either), but the next morning at least 5 birds were in the front yard. The following day, there were three or four MORE than the day before. Hens I KNEW I wing-clipped! (and only ONE wing at that, to throw them off balance). So frustrating!
I wouldn't mind so much, them being out, but they dig in my flower beds and make craters in the yard that I am forever falling into! The worst is, they get inside the chicken house where I keep the brooder cages and the feed cans (where the chickens aren't SUPPOSED to be) and POOP EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! I have never had such a NASTY looking chicken house! It's so bad I don't even like to go inside anymore. I clean it out several times a week, but I just can't keep up, and I can't STAND the mess. Any suggestions?
Also, today, the hen that's been setting in the barn hatched out a dozen little black chicks with white spots on their heads. The mom is a little speckled hen and the dad just HAS to be my Robin Hood. He's the only rooster that ran around outside the pen. Not sure yet if I'll let mom keep them (she's a good mom), or take them and brood them up. Guess I'll wait a few days and see what happens. If they start disappearing, I'll know I need to take them.
What a PRODUCTIVE year this has been! I'm ready for it to STOP! 41 goat kids, 6 lambs, and only the good Lord himself knows how many chickens! I need a break! ..... sigh....
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 05:26:35 AM
My hubby really doesn't know a whole lot about what I have. He will notice what I don't have pretty soon. Because these guineas have got to go! They are tearing up the chickens at feeding time. It's the awfullest noise I have ever heard out there. I have to just walk away as fast as I can. Screaching and feathers a flyin' all over. So I think I'm going to call my friend and see if I can bring them to her tomorrow. And this other girl needs to come get the hens now, too. I am done witha ll this. I have a little bit of scratch left and when that's gone they get no more.
I jsut had to round up 9 Buffs. I was feeding the birds and saw some orange butts and there were 9 of them. Got out some how. But they are all back in again. They are pretty easy to catch. But I don't want to do that every day.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| 4HMom |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 7:21:35 PM
I think my DH has caught onto the animals "appearing" at our place. I keep telling him that as long as the total doesn't change, it's no big deal. Of course I said that after 3 of our rabbits had babies, so the count was up good and high! He did tell me that any more "appearing" acts (by birth or otherwise) might be grounds for the big D!
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| Autumn Leaves |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 3:49:20 PM
The ones I had that the bobcat got were lavender ones and for guineas they were really pretty, their heads didn't look nearly as scary. We had the standard ones all the years I was growing up and they are very ugly and the meanest mama's ever!!!
Warm Wishes
Jennifer
Never let yesterday use up too much of today - Will Rogers
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 3:28:59 PM
Alee, I hope you get your dream house soon. That one sounds good. Who knows? I waited 17 years for mine. It will come.
Jennifer, they do look a little like a chick for about a month. Then they get ugly quick.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| Alee |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 2:07:40 PM
Oh you ladies are making wish that it was a couple of years down the road and we were moving onto our own little farm. There is some acreage for sale right at the outskirts of town that would be great. Close enough to town that Nora could even ride her bike to school, but far enough out that I can have animals.
Alee
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| Autumn Leaves |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 2:02:26 PM
Kristen, you know that & I know that but, hubby doesn't know that :) He'll just think they are different kinds of baby chicks and when they are little they all act the same. When they get old enough to tell....oops looky what happened, the feed store made a boo-boo :)
Warm Wishes
Jennifer
Never let yesterday use up too much of today - Will Rogers
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 11:23:53 AM
Tracy, that reminds me of the hay bales I have put in the garage where my hubby can't get to his motorcycle! He gets so mad at the hay everywhere. But if he'd build me a hay barn, that would solve that problem, right? Gotta work these problems to our advantage, girls! He also gets tired of the chicken poop on the porch. So he needs to help me build a new chicken house and runs away from the house.
Jennifer, that sounds like a plan. It just might work. Too bad they don't look a thing like a chicken, though.
Julie, I know I would miss all this so much if I ever moved. Some days I want to get as far away as I possibly can. But then I come home and it's all still here and it's all good. I can still dream, too. I sure hope you get your dream place one day.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| shepherdgirl |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 10:51:01 AM
He! he! he! You have such a devious mind Jennifer! Kinda like my own!
I had goats for nearly two weeks before my husband even knew they were here. When he finally heard them, he thought my sheep (which I didn't tell him I was getting until the day BEFORE I went to pick them up!) had had babies. It was too early yet for that, so I had to 'fess up. He was SO MAD at me!!!!
I have snuck so many animals home it's not even funny. I think he's finally come to terms with the fact that if he's going to spend his life with me, he BETTER get used to the barking, meowing, whinnying, cock-a-doodle-doing, and Baaaing. Not to mention the fur and the feathers, the noise and the knocked over hay stacks, heads caught in fences, chasing critters back home in the dead of night (but that's usually HIS cows!!!), goat/sheep pebbles in the oddest places, horse turds and cow pies, the stench of the bucks in the Fall..... etc.... etc....
Ahhh.... farm life. Isn't it GRAND?
PS, Don't loose hope Julie. You might yet find yourself back in the country!!!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
| Autumn Leaves |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 07:11:51 AM
Guineas are those most nosey critters. Mine were always egging on the chickens. That is probably why the bobcat got them, they were running to see what the fuss was all about. Gotta get me some more, hubby hates them but I think come spring there will "accidentally" be some babies mixed in with my spring chicks I get. If they are "accidents" you have to keep them right????
Warm Wishes
Jennifer
Never let yesterday use up too much of today - Will Rogers
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| ClaireSky |
Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 06:19:00 AM
Oh, how I miss the country/farm life....
Julie
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