Sunny, hot and clear here at Dizzy Dog Ranch.
I spent the morning going through some old paperwork about my former foster dogs, trying to find a few of the owners of the ones I wrote stories about. I realize there are more stories I haven't told. I thought I had gone through the best ones, but I have several missing still. I tried to contact about 10 adopter/owners and we'll see how many of them I find. Should be interesting. I've never had a reason to contact them before, except curiosity.
Things are pretty calm on the farm. The chickens don't like it when it hits over 80 degrees (I know, they are spoiled chickens) but to them that is extreme heat so they have almost all stopped laying. I am unfortunately thinking I have two more ROOS than I thought. I'm rather disappointed with the "sexing" they did on those EEs. Looks like 1/2 of my sexed pullets are male. I have to take a lot of photos for BYC and see what they all say. But pretty much all the pretty ones are looking male.
My two remaining ducks are fine, the silly female keeps trying to sit on (unfertilized) chicken eggs and avoids the drake, and isn't laying any on her own. I tried putting her with Don and nada pasa.
I think Nana the rabbit with probable cancer is going downhill. She is thinner and not moving around much. I think I'm gonna tell Hubby that this weekend (if not sooner) we should end it for her. She seems calm today so I don't feel it is urgent, but I think she must be starting to feel some pain. Or else why wouldn't she move more?
Junior, the one that I think has hay allergy, has a terrible looking coat all of a sudden. He was shedding heavily before. I think his allergy must be affecting more than his eye. I removed the hay from his cage and he is opposite where the goat feeder is now, not next to it, so he should be pretty protected from floating hay, but so far I don't see much improvement.
The baby rabbits are adorable now, of course.
I took the goats out for a goat walk today. They have chewed down the grass in the main field to about six inches all over so I think I need to free range them more for a few weeks and let that grass grow up. Emilee is such a love, when I take them for walks, if I sit down in a "good" spot for them to eat, she will stop eating and come over for snuggles.
Our brush has grown so much, I couldn't even make it down the trail. There are too many nettles. Who was it that wanted nettles sent to them to start them growing?
We still have no foster dog.
No one from border collie rescue contacted me, they must be really short handed or no one active in my area. I saw the all-breed rescue had a PB Border collie last week, so they are not giving them to any border collie rescue apparently. I'll have to try some other breed rescues. I have thought before about starting a lab rescue in the area, simply because there isn't an active group here and there are so darn many labs, lab mixes, etc., in the rescue market, and such a huge market for them. Labs generally make good family dogs and are easy to understand so they are nicer to work with than some breeds. I've known many great labs, more than I can count. But starting a rescue group isn't something I would attempt on my own anymore. I have other breeds that interest me however that I might contact....
(well, Buddy was my first and only foster.. he is still here 
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