Savingdogs-Saving the chickens

[savingdogs]

People don't steal from me. hee hee

We had a crime spree in a former neighborhood and everyone else was hit practically except us.....it ended up being teens who hopped the fence and entered through the backyards. I guess our two ridgebacks and the border collie we had at the time were an effective deterrent! I would like to have seen their faces if they ever came over MY fence!

Actually my dogs are a force to be reckoned with, and there are FIVE, I feel very protected. Someone mentioned I need a hearing aide dog and I think I kind of have five.

 

[Dooley]

People don't steal from me. hee hee

We had a crime spree in a former neighborhood and everyone else was hit practically except us.....it ended up being teens who hopped the fence and entered through the backyards. I guess our two ridgebacks and the border collie we had at the time were an effective deterrent! I would like to have seen their faces if they ever came over MY fence!

Actually my dogs are a force to be reckoned with, and there are FIVE, I feel very protected. Someone mentioned I need a hearing aide dog and I think I kind of have five.

One of the benefits of having too many animals. I love dogs.

 

[Denim Deb]

If someone strange comes around, the goats start in. My neighbor told someone they were watch goats.

 

[Farmfresh]

Unfortunately someone who would steal a hoe probably just wanted the metal. :/

I can never find my tools when I need them. There are four of us here and for some reason I'm the only one who knows there the tools belong when you are done with them.

No. There was a lot of metal stuff they could have taken instead. I DO have guard dogs, but I bet that the stuff was stolen during the day, when you can see in our garage from the street and the dogs were possibly shut inside of the house.

 

[savingdogs]

Well people stealing stuff just stinks all around!

We have a cloudless sky today, I should take pictures. I've already milked the goats today and made a huge batch of farmer cheese, we had it like quesa fresca with chorizo and eggs. Course I didn't really have any of the eggs part.

Hubby is drying his clothes on the LINE! Whoot!

Nana has not kindled yet. I'm starting to be worried because this is what happened last breeding. She acted all pregnant and made a nest but never produced kits. I was very dissapointed in her to see no kits this morning. False pregnancies? I may contact the breeder I got her from for advice, she has been extremely helpful and I know she wants Nana to produce for me. I bought her knowing she was older, but we were both hoping she could produce a few more years. If that isn't the case, I'll really have to get another doe because the others are related to closely and I won't have anything to mate Junior to. So I've really got my fingers crossed that she produces some kits this afternoon.

Our incubator is really frustrating me, it keeps varying in temperature. Two degrees too hot for probably a couple hours and two degrees or more too cold for awhile today too. I hope these eggs are not duds. Part of it is that the room here warmed up a lot today because we are having a nicer day.

And my little doeling, Emilee, is getting FAT now.....I'll have to take a picture. Should I worry about it? She has a big round baby tummy. She is mostly nigy so I doubt she hs supposed to have a tiny rumen, and her short little legs really make her belly look round. I have to get some good pictures of her to post here, she is sooooooooo cute.

 

[savingdogs]

Proudly singing in my deaf person off key voice:


O! say can you see by the dawns early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
Oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Taking a moment of silence to remember the victims of 9/11, shedding a tear for those we have lost fighting this war, and saying a prayer that now our troops can come home.

Go Seals!

 

[FarmerJamie]

Don't forge the rest of it!

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 

[savingdogs]

Thank you, Jamie!

We have rain here again. At least it isn't too cold, and my plants and seeds outside are getting watered. I also got a chance to get all the animals taken care of before the rain started. I was hoping to get another day of sun to get some of the compost pile moved, but I guess it is composting just as well where it is at and I should not fret.

Nana never kindled. I believe she must be having false pregnancies. It is rather discouraging. I'm a little tempted to mate her to my other male, just to see if it has to do with my buck or with her. But that is her SON. I'm going to ask the breeder what she thinks I should do. I know she will be disapointed for me. I almost hate telling her.

The incubator is finally at an even temp. I hope I still get a hatch out of this.

They are coming to meet Murphy the dobieback on Wednesday. I hope we get a little sun. I have a nice outdoor area for showing a dog, but not if it rains and we need to go indoors. I have narrow rooms and a big long dog like Murphy doesn't show well there. And my house has had so much wear and tear. I hate inviting strangers in. The part of the house where I spend all my time is our back of the house in the bedroom areas, I have a big sunny room with a huge window seat (a bed) that has a huge window overlooking all the animal pens and my yard I use for all of them in the middle, I call it my "dog yard". But I can hardly visit with guests in this room, which is our bedroom! lol

We also have a HOLE that recently opened up in the ceiling to our bathroom (open to the sky) that is a rather interesting development. This house also has holes in the floor, which we have covered with planks and then carpets covering the planks, so it looks odd. But that was the only way to make it safe without spending money. I need new subfloor and a new ceiling in the bathroom, as well as new subfloor in the bathroom (we can't use the second toilet) and a new toilet. So that potty is taped shut and I have it covered up so it appears to be a chair.

We never thought we would be living in the house with it in this condition, we thought we had the funds to fix it up and it never happened because of all our set backs and debts and medical issues. At first we told ourselves we were "camping" but the hole in the ceiling of the bathroom is daunting.

I feel like I need to be on one of those TV makeover shows, where they go in and say, isn't this house a total wreck? And pound on it with sledgehammers with glee. Or just torch it! We had thought to build a smaller nicer house on the other side of the lot and rent this one out for income, but I'm beginning to think that other thought about pushing this house down the hill is more do-able!

 

[Wifezilla]

I have an alarm duck. His hearing is incredible. I was sneaking through the alley trying to catch an escaped quail and he heard me two houses away. I was being very quiet. And I know he didn't see me because of the fence.

 

[savingdogs]

I think I'm pretty well informed about things going on around here because of the animals. All of them get a certain look when they hear things and stare in the appropriate directions. I've learned to watch them as my way to "listen". I do hear sounds outdoors, but a chainsaw sounds like a mild buzz, and the sounds that come through best are either real loud or real high-pitched (like I can hear goats bleating). I hear the chickens when the rooster crows or the hens lay eggs, but never the smaller sounds they make. But I miss the subtle stuff like a snap of a twig or the sound of the wind or most of the birdsong. However I used to not live in the forest, I used to long for a more country life, and I must accept the good with the bad I guess. I don't know if it is my nature or just human nature but I seem to always want what I don't have. I feel like I need to get that Cheryl Crow song stuck in my head, the one about soaking up the sun.....

Its not having what you want, it is wanting what you got.....

I'm still working on it and I love that song's lyrics so won't filk it.

I'm going to rebreed Nana the false pregnancy bunny today, I'm sure she is not thrilled. I'm going to try the other buck. He isn't her ideal mate (her son) but I know he isn't shooting blanks and her "mate" Junior is an untried male so it could be the problem. This way I can find out if it is her problem or his. The breeder I got them from suggested this so I don't think it is too close of a breeding. But I guess my new motto will be to not count your kits until they are kindled!