Hen23's Journal~Goodbye

[Denim Deb]

Mine has been promising since last year to make me a coop at the farm, as well as a smaller one at home. And since he hasn't done so yet, I've lost Wanda (at the farm) and Henrietta (at home). But he also knows he needs to have something by the time the chicks are ready to go outside.

 

[Henrietta23]

He absolutely does mean well. He works hard and he's got some extra projects on his plate right now. I should have known that he'd need a nudge.
On the upside, it was one of the Wyandottes that weren't supposed to be mine in the first place. I ordered with someone else from BYC and she messed up when she gave me "my" chicks. She never followed through on her offer to trade back because she gave my real chicks to someone else... I've never been impressed with the three of them. They're skittish and lousy layers. They didn't even have a good first year. It makes a little more room for the three bitty bits that need to move out to the coop SOON!

We actually got play baseball today. Half the team had field day at their schools today and were toast.. but it was a good game otherwise. The boys got some good hits and made some nice plays. DS struck out his first two at bats and started to get frustrated. He came over for a drink of water and we gave him a pep talk. He seemed to settle down and got two nice hits. Unfortunately although he got on base both times, the other team was able to tag out another runner for a third out and he never got to run the bases. But he rallied and had a good attitude at the end.

Tomorrow he goes for bloodwork, a retest for rice and corn allergies. We're hoping that more than a year off gluten will have healed his system some so that those two mild reactions will have resolved.

 

[Farmfresh]

Tomorrow he goes for bloodwork, a retest for rice and corn allergies. We're hoping that more than a year off gluten will have healed his system some so that those two mild reactions will have resolved.

Here is hoping! That would make life SO much easier for both of you.

 

[Henrietta23]

Oh yeah!
So my reading over at BYC has me stumped. What would take just the head of a chicken that was out all night and not behind a fence? We didn't hear a thing.

 

[Farmfresh]

Skunk or weasel of some sort usually. They are only after the blood.

 

[Henrietta23]

Skunk or weasel of some sort usually. They are only after the blood.

Hmmm not even a hint of skunk odor but I don't think we have weasels around here. Opossum and racoon yes. Fishers north of us. We've never seen any of these in the backyard within the fence. All was fine this morning. I want an LGD!!

 

[Farmfresh]

Often if they have a nest close by skunks won't smell bad. There was a nest of baby skunks under my dad's three season porch every year for several years. He used to sit in his recliner on the porch and watch the babies play.

At the same time I was waring with the skunks in my hen house!!

 

[Henrietta23]

It certainly could be then....


I have to vent. I'm extremely grateful to all volunteer and professional emergency personel. I really am. But my neighbors across the street are having a tag sale and if all the cars driving up and parking in front of my house weren't bad enough, the grandson's truck is right there with its scanner blaring and I'm getting really sick of it. We're so used to little traffic on our dead end street....

 

[abifae]

Hopefully the sale will be over soon and it'll be quiet again

 

[Henrietta23]

Hopefully the sale will be over soon and it'll be quiet again

We left and got top soil for the raised garden beds!!! They're now cleaning up and the truck is pulled into the driveway. Can't hear anything anymore except every lawn mower in the neighborhood except hours (DH finished already). Happy unofficial start to summer!!