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The old sled is working pretty good right now but I may put in the kiddie pool when they get a little bigger and add bricks for steps. Thanks for the idea! :thumbsup I'm loving my ducks though. They are learning quicker than the chickens. Last night we put them in their duck house and locked...

It's never too early to start teaching them to sled! Aaaand the kiddie pool I bought them is too big and they can't get out on their own. So sled pool it is!

Got all the chickens moved to the coop except for the bantams. Got the ducks moved to the duck house today and they finally got to have their pool party.

The gods of poverty:lol:.....now I know who always comes after me when I have a little extra money and have to spend it to fix something.

Thanks Marianne, we sure do miss him. Also, I don't think I've got a bug problem, I'm just paranoid about them :hide I'm planning on getting some DE for preventing parasites. And Deb, they are just going to tough it out being bored another night and we are going to kick em out into the coop...

Went out to the garage to check on the chicks and ducks to find a white leghorn with a bloody tail! Naturally, they were all pecking at it so I grabbed her out of the brooder pen and put her into one of the empty brooder totes. While I was chasing her down I found 5 more that had small bloody...

More duck eggs or chickens this time? Hope this hatch goes well!

I will. When he saw them he just grabbed the water hose and sprayed them off. Woulda been nice if I hadn't spent so much time researching a problem I don't have, but on the upside, if it ever becomes a problem I'll know what to do. Also, I'm going to start regularly inspecting my flock now that...

Had a bit of a chicken lice scare today. Hubby came in early this morning saying that one of the white leghorn chicks got out of the cage brooder while he was feeding them and when he picked it up and put if back in the cage he noticed small white bugs crawling up his arm!:ep So I spent the...

It's supposed to be in the 80's next week. Pool party postponed until then! Ducks are grounded in the brooder until it warms up since they won't stay out of the water. Chickens seem to like the cooler weather though. It got up to 70 today and there wasn't a chicken outside. It's 56 out now and...

Ha! That lasted for about 5 minutes, right up until they figured out they could get into it.

I moved to 5 week old chickens to the coop on Friday. They seem to like if but didn't want to go into the run. The chickens were.......chicken:lol: they stood in the door way of the run and looked outside and every time they heard a noise or the wind blew they would go running in the coop...

Hickory chickens are morel mushrooms but everyone around here calls them Hickory chickens. And there isn't really a set season for them. Just whenever the weathers right for them to grow and it's only for a few weeks a year. They are good though!

Me and my hubby were just talking about fried dandelions a few days ago. We've both had them when we were kids and we wanted to have our kids try them. We have plenty growing around but we held off because its hickory chicken season in my area and if you don't pick em someone else will and they...

I'm glad things got worked out at the farm and good for you for standing up for yourself! You deserve things for yourself just as much as he does.

Bad day today. I woke up to find that my pup Jax had gotten hit by a car sometime last night.:hit I had a bad feeling when he didn't come home last night. We went and looked for him but it was too dark to see much. Hubby had already buried him before he woke me up to tell me, which is good. He...

You sound like my hubby Deb! He says the same thing all the time :gigI agree with you all too. Why do all that work when momma hen can do it for you.

It turned off cold the beginning of the week but its supposed to warm up this weekend. Hopefully good weather on Easter. Hubby and his friend, KP made plans to try and trap some coyotes soon. Going to have to put them in the very back of the farm otherwise all we will catch is our cats and dogs...

I'm kind of afraid to let the chickens free range very far. Right now we have a big coyote problem. Just today a lady that lives a few miles from me found the remains of her small dog, obviously killed by coyotes. We have a friend who hunts them and he came to our house last month to see if he...

We've had some beautiful weather the last few days. I've been going outside in the morning and not coming in until dark. Got lots done in the yard but there is still so much to be done. I'm mostly still going around and picking up junk and trash that the former owners left. The kids got lots of...