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Backtracking here a few posts. So the urine you tested for pregnancy on your does…. How exactly did you collect it or was it just smashing a test on the wet ground? Was it a test intended for humans? I hope DH is on the mend. I’m sorta thinking about PT for myself because old girl has seen much...

Bonjour. I’m up first!! Nature called, then the dish fairy passed cuz apparently someone had the munchies through the night. Just a few. Coffee brewing, Trouble taken to the front door to do her business. Ham and onions added to the red beans in the crockpot. All the ice trays are filled and in...

I guess I got my monies worth out of the food I selected. I baked the thighs yesterday and put the drumsticks to soak in a paste of buttermilk, eggs, flour and mustard overnight and today I fried them. Such big drumsticks!! Honestly I had enough with just one. I’m staying on a roll with the...

Life goes on. I now have been started on a new blood pressure medication and I have been found with increased uric acid levels in my blood after my knee wouldn’t allow me to walk and in desperation I saw DH’s doctor as mine might as well retire (no more than he is present). So recently we have...

I now have 5 does loaded up, all written in a journal with dates on when to put in nests. DH told me that he put in nests for Mini Rex’s 2 days before because sometimes the kittens come earlier, just like for bantam chickens. DH has been collecting ragweed and drying it on top of the cages...

My house guest is interesting. She thinks I’m a millionaire I guess. Always wants takeout. 🤦‍♀️. So anyway…life goes on. Saturdays I always babysit for a few hours to connect with my grandchildren and to help out. I came home on the interstate instead of the wooded shortcut because I had an...

Well I think I have a bunch of kits on the way next month between 3 does now but unfortunately the black doe is several days behind the white ones. I think he got her because I heard him squeal and he seemed to have fallen off. We have a few nests but DH needs to take some measurements and get a...

I’m just waiting around for an unwilling doe to mate with the buck. Sometimes I think it’s a myth about rabbits multiplying so fast.

I’m back!! Different rabbits same story. Well kinda. The buck got loose but he willingly allowed me to catch him when he saw all the new friends. He bred 2 does one day apart and I tried to put the black doe in but she runs around the cage unlike the proven does. So the white does are due on the...

DD 17 (unfortunately my youngest) has taken the natural approach to a whole new level that I’ve never dreamed of. Washable tampons. How did I never know about this? She talked to me about this yesterday and complained about 16 different kinds of toxins and she said they were even in pads so she...

DH is convinced that at least some of the pullets are from a fighting breed. He knows of a location where they are bred and he has been taking me to the location for drive bys. The guy has a bunch of tiny tractors in his yard each with a single rooster. Not many hens in sight. He said the guy...

It’s hard to take a good picture of the chicks at this time. I found one of them dead this morning but I will take the loss. I did put them through a major move yesterday after all. I’m so glad we have a 3 gallon waterer so I don’t have to stress all the time about them. DH pulled out another...

I don’t know what people think but someone invested money and cared for a bunch of chicks, giving them some kind of chick starter and brooding them through the hard part of their life and then all they would have needed was to be given a coop and wait for the goods to arrive in a few months and...

None there this morning and DH found a bit of feathers in the pasture close by but I did collect most of the started chickens yesterday. Well it got us moving earlier than usual so we unloaded the garbage bin and heading to DH’s place to feed the pigs and collect cucumbers. I will make a pass...

I’m trying to get started with hay bale gardening. I only put down contender green bean seeds that I felt needed to go in the ground or be wasted because something spilled on them. I saved one bale for lettuce. Well more on that later but if it looks like a winner I’m getting a bunch more and I...

In my area, no one has straw because we don’t have wheat fields. We do have corn but I don’t know if anyone uses the stalks to make straw and really it’s not many fields like it used to be. Mostly what we have fields of is sugar cane and that’s just used for sugar 🤷‍♀️. If it’s full of seeds...

Very close to our home there are square bales of hay for sale for $5 and I have been wanting to try hay bale gardening. So yesterday DD and I ran errands and on the rebound I picked up 4. We placed them in a boxed in area DH constructed for whatever 🤷‍♀️. I placed a bunch of contender green...

I think the pumpkin we originally planted (by accident) grew, but cross pollinated with a butternut squash or some other kind of squash because round 2 harvest resulted in some really small seeds, I wouldn’t ordinarily associate with coming from a pumpkin. The flesh was really good though. The...

I know what’s going to happen. The pumpkin will grow and take over the front yard and DH will chop the ragweed and cut grass around it and it will just have grass growing around the vines until harvest and he’ll get it back under control in the fall. Ultimately a pumpkin seed will grow again by...

I have a love/hate relationship with my rooster. He tried jumping me twice several days ago and that’s when I discovered I still have enough balance to at least give a low, left side kick. On his 2nd attempt at jumping me he was apprehended by me, and carried around in the cradle of shame...