Hey Boogity, I love your wax and I will definitely think about contacting my bee product suppliers. First I still need to finish the product, seems like I have been looking at the pot forever but right now I need to focus back on the horses. Wish that at least one of them would have takenwell, she did, and then aborted. Sigh.
My hen was dead this morning. She was starting to have the twitches last night and I turned the light off so she could hopefully have a peaceful death. I will give her a proper burial when I return from bringing Carmen up north for her experience with the stud I picked out. I just cant thank the lady enough, most breeders wouldnt be as patient. Thur I will drive Megan and Avalon up, I will have to make 2 different trips because those two fight like cats and dogs in the trailer and I dont have a divider in the head part, so there goes 90min up, 90min down, 90min up, 90min down.
Friday Katie will leave again. I will need my husbands help because she has Stringhalt and has a really hard time getting into the trailer. She kind of has to hop in, but then she keeps hitting her head. Need to get her a horsie helmet. That poor stud up north is going to have his hands full servicing 3 needy mares throughout the week and weekend, and into Tuesday.
The vet was trying to give me a guilt trip on trying to get 4 mares pregnant. I told him that is how it works, if you want to make money, you need to first invest a little bit. I may already have one of the foals sold, and the others I have plenty of interest for. He is used to looking at fancy barns down the road and since we are not fancy, maybe he thinks we are not worthy of breeding horses. We may not be fancy, but our place is safe and our horses are well taken care of. Maybe that doesnt matter anymore as long as the barn looks nice. He also thought I was unemployed and I told him that was not the case. He was still nice enough to give us a good discount on the ultrasounds. He should however save his speech for the lady down the road who is on welfare, Social security and child support while having 17 horses, a 30 horse boarding barn, a big F350 (which she takes to the food bank to beg for food) and 40 acres of landof course, all conveniently put into the name of her 70 year old parents. Sigh. So that was my rant today. If all goes well we will add an 8 stall barn this fall but that is still up in the air at this point. Hopefully then we will be worthy again.
I need to also get going on processing my extra roos and turn the roo house back into the hen house. I could really use some new pullets since my good layers are getting older and I keep losing some here and there. I think by the time I get done with breeding, chick days will be over. Hopefully a lot of people will want to dump their hens shortly thereafter because it is too much work and I can get them for cheap. That is what my quarantine area is for.
It is hard to know what the right answer is, I just think what ever you choose to do will be the right one. I am sorry for you and your hen
