JUSTUSNAK...Summer coming to an end!?

[SKR8PN]

I had to have a heart cath yesterday, so I am out of commission when it comes to running the tractor and plowing............
soooooo, I stuck The Wife on the Kubota today and gave her instructions.
SHE HAD A BLAST!!! I thought I was going to have to go out and KNOCK her off the darn thing to get her to quit!!!

 

[justusnak]

I had to have a heart cath yesterday, so I am out of commission when it comes to running the tractor and plowing............
soooooo, I stuck The Wife on the Kubota today and gave her instructions.
SHE HAD A BLAST!!! I thought I was going to have to go out and KNOCK her off the darn thing to get her to quit!!!

OH NO!!! I had no idea you were haveing that done! How are ya feeling? Now you BETTER Take care of yourself...
I wish we had a Kubota....heck, right now I woud settle for a blade for the White Lawn Tractor. We looked into getting one...$3,000+ Ummm, NO!! I will find a small Ford or something...with a blade....eventually. :/

 

[Farmfresh]

You take it easy and get feeling better.

 

[justusnak]

18 Feb 10

Its morning...all is quiet...just the sound of the woodstove crackling.
I DO love mornings. I can hear the little cockerells on the baby monitor wakeing thier hens...getting them up and around for a new day. The turkeys softly chirping a good morning to each other...and my chicks peeping contently in the laundry room. im sitting here enjoying my coffee...enjoying the morning sounds of a farm wakeing up.

Today I have to run into town...havent been there in almost a week...and I need a few bales of hay, some feed...and a few groceries. Another "winter storm" coming in. I need to make a stop by a dear friends...and deliver her eggs. She usually trades me eggs for fresh goats milk, however she is drying up her 2 girls for breeding. Back to store bought milk. YUK! So, today she will be tradeing fresh made breads. Yummy.
Tonight is Bingo at St Mary's in town, I am tossing around the idea of going...just to have a bit of human interaction, before the next storm hits.
Yesterday I tossed a dozen duck eggs in the bator, along with a few turkey eggs that one of the hens layed. Not sure if they are fertile ( the turkeys) Its awfully early. She is a young hen...so..I dont hold much hope for her eggs. Its a shame too. She is a Chocolate hen, and she is in with a Bronze Tom. I was really hopeing the 2 would give me some pretty little poults. Will have to see. The dUck eggs are fertile, and I really need to increase the duck population around here. I can sit and watch them for hours! So funny. My little drake...is not friendly to where I can pick him up...so when I walk towards them, he runs...BUT, as soon as I turn my back and take a step away, here he comes..head down..like he is gonna get me. But, when I stop and turn to face him, he screams and goes the other way. He TRIES to be a good protector of his hen.
Im going to pick up a few heads of cabbage today, for the chickens. I can cut them in half and hang them in the coops...they love it! Since they are locked up, and have been for a week...and we are to get MORE snow...they need something to distract them from each other. I can see they are starting to get a little stir crazy in there. So, I am off...have a great day everyone!!

edited for typo! LOL

 

[Dace]

I know it is early but I can't help myself....but when you say
The dick eggs are fertile...what exactly do you mean?

I am sorry that you have more snow coming, hopefully Bingo night will give you that little human fix that you need.

I had to laugh at you sitting cozy in the house enjoying your coffee listening to your chickens with a baby monitor....then I thought what a great idea!!

Hope you have a wonderful day

 

[justusnak]

Thanks for catching that Dace...LOL. Why do they have to have the U and the I next to each other?? LOL

The main reason for the baby monitor, is predators. We were haveing trouble a few years back, with MINK! That darned mink got 10 dUcks in 2 days...and I just knew it was going to move to the chickens next. So I put in the monitor. One morning, about 4 am...I hear my chickens just screaming! I jumped out of bed, threw on my boots and coat, grabbed the gun and a flashlight and ran to the coop. I have a little white banty cochin frizzle hen, her name is frizzfrizz. She is the sweetest little hen. When I go in the coop, she runs to me, jumps on my foot, and looks up chirping untill I pick her up and give her loves. Well, this mink was in THAT coop. Oh, I was FURIOUS!! NO WAY is that SOB gonna get MY frizzfrizz. I threw the door open, and here she comes, screaming to me! All the chickens ran to me, and got behind me...I swear they were pointing to the nest boxes...as if to say....the monster is in there, get him!!
I turn the flashlight on the nest boxes, and can hear something scratching around behind them. As I glanced out the door, I see this "monster" had gotten my only faverole hen, and my only Polish rooster. I was determined to get it...before it got any others. So, I take my stand along the wall...flashlight in one hand...gun in the other, both arms extended...waiting...and waiting...I swear it felt like hours!! It would pop its head up just long enough for me to see it, but not shoot. Then after what seemed like an eternity...this stinky mink jumped up on top of the nest boxes...and just stared at me like...go ahead, take your best shot. So I did...BLAM!!! It went flying off the nest box, down behind another nest box. Slowly I crept ... step by step..trying to get alook at it..there it was...laying there, taking short breaths. For a moment I thought..I HOPE YOU SUFFER...then, I decided to take another shot, and end its life. BLAM! Funny how the chickens knew it was over, and they all started mulling around, eating and scratching. I got a stick and pulled the stinky mink from behind the box...and took it outside. The chickens settled down...and there I was...5 am, with a mink on a stick. I thought to myself...stick this stick through that mink, douse it in kerosene, and light it...then do a victory dance around it. But, the neighbors already think I am crazy....so I decided I better not. I called a friend later that day, her son traps...and let him have the pelt. I was just glad to have it gone. So now...with the monitor in the coops...I am alerted when something is "not right" and "Mommy can come running to the rescue"

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

NO WAY is that SOB gonna get MY frizzfrizz.

i think this is the funniest thing i've ever read..except for the 'mink on a stick'

we saw people yesterday! it was great! wheee! other people!!!!

i HATE buying milk! boooooo!!!

 

[Dace]

NO WAY is that SOB gonna get MY frizzfrizz.

i think this is the funniest thing i've ever read..except for the 'mink on a stick'

we saw people yesterday! it was great! wheee! other people!!!!

i HATE buying milk! boooooo!!!

Yep, those are clearly the best two phrases of the day!

Great story.....I guess that monitor came in handy! I love the idea!

 

[modern_pioneer]

You gettem Debbie!!!!

 

[justusnak]

Hey MP!! Where were you standing when you took that pic of me!?? I swear I didnt see ya comin!
So, after I went to town, got the hay..which the sheep were VERY appreciative of...I bought cabages for the chickens....they too were very happy....I started the normal chores of filling feeders...waterers...and getting the duck egg, before it freezes. Well, Im telling ya'll...my little frizfriz is SUCH a primadonna!! I moved her into a pen with a few baby NakedNecks.( they were a "gift" from a "friend") LOL Anyways...Frizfriz is such a good little hen, so she is the one that teaches the babies. When I went in there today, and opened her pen, she came FLYING out at me, just a bitc*in! I guess she is tired of babysitting! So, I let her out for a bit...to scratch around...and I stood there watching her...she ran to me, up on my boot..and bawled!! So I squated down, and up on my lap she came in a flash. See, I have been a bit busy, and sick....so frizfriz hasn't goten her "mommy time" lately and she let me know today in no uncertain terms, she wanted her time, and NOW! So there I am, squated down in the coop...with a frizzle on my lap, when in walks the ducks. Oh no, Friz was NOT going to let THEM get any of her time...she flew off my lap screaming and flapping those tiny little wings...and sent the ducks a packin! I fell to the floor laughing...as she turned...looked at me and chirped..and came back to my lap. We sat there for about 10 minutes....and she was content. There is another little chicken, in the banty pen...pretty little thing...Banty Cochin, rust and black. I can't tell if its a cockerell or a pullet....and it was at the door acting like it wanted out with friz..so I am thinking, ok, its a little cockerell...and I will put HIM in with friz...a flat and a frizzle. So I picked him up, and placed him in the pen with friz...where she proceeded to rage an all out war on that poor little ( now I know) pullet. I was able to call frizz off..and she came running to me..I scolded her, she dropped her head as if in shame...and I grabbed the little pullet and put her back with the others.
Here is a pic of my little friz...so tiny, but has the personality of a full size Rooster!

This pic is an older one, she is MUCH more filled out now, and has her "woman" figure. ( ie: wide bottom)
She USED to live with the Buff Orpingtons...but was literall bullying the larger hens away from the feeder....so I had to take her out. I just love this little spitfire!!