Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[ohiofarmgirl]

oh hey BBH!

i guess i missed all the yucks last nite!!? i'm trying to go bed earlier as its getting lighter earlier... got to get those clucks up and working!

the status so far:

dinner chicks = not dead: CHECK
Runner's chicks = happy: CHECK
Little Nibbles = no babies: slacker...no check
turkey hens screaming = yes: CHECK
bad neighbors = quiet as church mice: CHECK

and there you have it.

today we are working on more clearing. we got some pasture/hay mix for down by the bees and hopefully we can get it up and growing fast. i also want to get the hen house shoveled out again.... Runners babies are starting to pip and pop around and i want to get them running around in a bigger space - but they are still too small to be outside. the dinner chix have the tractor so we'll have to work some thing out for them.. hum...

happy saturday!

 

[Dace]

Happy Saturday!

 

[big brown horse]

Sounds good OFG. I love the high goal set out for the dinner chicks. Not dead: CHECK

My chicken is past due, :/ we are at 22 days now on the nest. When do you give up and get some chicks from the feed store?

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

i'd give her a couple more days...sometimes they screw around with sitting for the first few days....

its very sad when you have to take her off her eggs. we had one hen that lost her whole clutch and she was nuts for about a week.
:-(

but maybe you could fool her - go and get some chicks and put them under her at nite??? that way she'd be happy and she'd take care of the babies for you!



hey D!

 

[big brown horse]

OK good advice. I'm a first time roo owner, so I always did the old "operation chick switch" at night, never had a problem. I swear I'm as nervous for her as if I were hatching the eggs myself!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

but remember a watched chick doenst pip!!!

 

[FarmerDenise]

I just spent a half hour reading to catch up

You guys have really been carrying on. And I missed it!

The weather's been nice and we've been super busy. It takes a lot of energy to sit outside and watch baby goats, you know.
I am also still putting my order for goat fence together. I don't want to go and buy cheap and then find out for $50 more now I could have saved myself a lot of trouble.

OFG, I count my blessings every day
-Don't have to wake up to alarm clock, I wake up to hungry baby goats bleating in the living room
-Don't have to get dressed to go to work, I can feed the animals in my pajamas, they don't care
-Don't have to be at the office promptly before 8 am sharp, I get to stay in bed until the bleating goats make me feel guilty and I feed them, but then I can go back to bed, until the dog tells me she need to go out
-Don't have to sit at a desk all day in a cubicle barely seeing sky hearing everyone else around me in an office that is blowing recirculated air that is either too hot or too cold with recently shampooed carpet that is outgassing toxins that are making me sick with florescent light flickering and a boss talking to my cube mate about coach purses and shopping at the mall while she is checking to make sure I am actually working and not playing computer games while I am counting the minutes to 5 o'clock so I can get home and poor myself a glass of wine and get into comfy clothes I get to go and feed the animals who happily greet me and clean poop off the chicken perches and out of the nestboxes and collect eggs and feed baby goats bottles and pet the rabbit and throw the ball for the dog and pull weeds in the sunshine and take a nap when I want to even if I am outside and have chickens walk all over me and don't need no wine to de-stress and wear poopy clothes all day and water the seedlings and fall into the couch dead tired in the evening after a good meal of mostly homegrown food.

That last one is the best one yet. I may be broke, but I'd rather be broke and live the life I am living than go to that stupid office job every day of the week working for "the company"

ETA misspelled hour

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Howdy ofg!

Becca and I set up for chick days today and unloaded lots of peepers on unsuspecting victims - er - I mean customers!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

would you get a load of these little munchkins!!!

http://adventuresinthegoodland.blogspot.com/2010/04/goat-babies-galore.html

i'm running right outside to snuggle them.. i mean.. check on them.. no i am not in love with them. not even a hoot.. no pulling on my heart strings...

ARENT THEY THE CUTEST THINGS YOU'VE EVER SEEN!?!???

 

[big brown horse]

They are absolutely adorable!!