Messybun’s journal

[frustratedearthmother]

Might help to watch a youtube video - maybe a couple of them. Once you get it right at least once it gets easier! Have a holder and a sticker. Good luck!

 

[baymule]

Send daily updates and pictures on your phone!

 

[Messybun]

Well, a little kitten meandered its way to my yard. Malnourished and screaming. One of my big Muscovy drakes was trying to take care of it. I don’t know how I got such good boys, but I thank God. Who ever heard of a male duck trying to nurture a kitten? Now this little one is in the house getting fattened and tamed until someone wants her.

 

[Messybun]

Seems like it’s been a while since I posted here. How are y’all doing?

So, kitten was super sweet and got a great home.
Goats don’t appear to have CL, the abscesses are clearing up and seemed to stay small. My mom thinks horse flies, they’ve been bad this year. Only the smallest goat really still has a few, but they aren’t bad. She also gets attacked most by the flies, so good correlation.
Orphan puppy I’m raising died this morning.
Goose is limping bad, I believe it’s bumble foot. His foot is hot, but I don’t see an external bumble yet. Gave him some ibuprofen and we’ll see.
My tsc batch of chicks are getting overly friendly so have to figure out something there.
Aside from those highlights, which I think I’m missing some, life is going pretty good. It’s supposed to be rainy all week, which I’m glad about. Rain in the night/morning means cooler days and good grass.

 

[Alaskan]

So sorry about the puppy.

Huge heartbreak.



Rest sounds good.

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks for the update! Crazy about the goose!

 

[Alaskan]

Nice intro!

 

[flowerbug]

I’ve had ducks sitting. Two moms hatched six and those are starting to get independent. About time to give them to my friend, if she still wants them. I currently have eggs in the incubator. As soon as these hatch/ don’t hatch I’m going to steal the 30+ chicken eggs from under two ducks co-brooding in my chicken coop. Gotta love muscovies. They can’t have that many babies though and I don’t want the ducks with chicks. I’ve had issues in the past with ducks trying to teach the chickens to swim. It’s also way too many birds for those ducks to successfully sit on. I’ll leave them with their duck eggs though.
So, chicks to brood, current chicks to place outside (not in an old bunny cage in my room), and ducklings to be given away. Oh, and you may wonder why the batch of chicks hatching need a place to stay. I bought chicks from tractor supply a few weeks ago and they are currently in my brooder box. My small coop, which they would usually go into, currently has bantam chickens who hatched out babies. I hope I can add them together, but I have to clean the coop and rearrange some things first. The tsc birds are full sized/larger breed birds, which may cause a problem. But, it’s the best option I’ve got. Hopefully the little coop birds mesh with the new tsc juveniles and then I can get my indoor birds out to the brooder box. Then I can hatch more chicks and start the game of musical chairs again.
Don’t you love springtime and the overwhelming babies? I am!

oh my! how sad for chicken babies trying to be taught to swim with the duckies! but still it must also be funny to see as long as you can rescue them before things get out of hand (errrr webbed feet?) ...

 

[Messybun]

I had more babies hatch him the incubator. I almost unplugged it thinking they were done, had one hatch that evening. Glad I didn’t!
Got glasses today, first time. Wow, let’s just say I had no clue how bad my eyes had gotten...or how much I need to dust!
About to place an order for sugar beet seeds. Hopefully I can get them in before there is a rush on them. As soon as people realize sugar is needed for preserving and won’t just be easy to get. I’m hoping to be prepared.
Looking into building a smoke house. The book I found the plans in had an underground fire pit with a pipe leading to the smoke house. I’m wondering why you don’t build the fire in the bottom of the shack, my best guess is it’s too hot? In any case, I’m thinking I like the look of a brick fire place as opposed to in ground. Especially because it rains so much, any form of pit would become a muddy mess.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Awesome. How do you keep some of the moisture out? Even in my metal shipping container it gets really humid.

i dont worry about moisture. none of the feed has ever gone bad.