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Date Posted: Friday, March 02, 10:01:41am
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Jim
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Subject: The life on the farm...

Ok, I need to re-organize my yard once again....I have been using my patio as a 'quarantine' area....it's a mess because there is hay spewed all over....there's now 3 cages.....with pairs of birds in each and the one VERY large chunky standard Cornish rooster....in a dog type X Pen, he's such a good boy though, doesn't try to get out at all......BUT boy does he have a deep crow....right outside my bedroom window which faces the patio....since the patio was added on to be as big as it is now with cover and all....and my beautiful brick flowerbeds all the way around it.....BUT DANG with those little roosters crowing and then that one big one.
The piggies are getting cuter and cuter and more responsive now.....snorting and oinking at me as I go out into the yard, the Greyhounds are loving the piggies, won't stay away from them....I think it's an intelligence thing too, the piggies are super smart and the dogs know it!
The geese STILL haven't laid but any day as one of them is really showing the signs and the males personality is also showing that over protective side....he actually gooses me! DANG IT, now I know where that phrase came from....dang bird. He's too cool though, huge and stately. The goat is coming along great, chubby little sides bulging out with her being pregnant. I can't wait, hoping she has twin girls.....one will stay and the other is going to some friends up in Central California. Chickens are everywhere and I am no longer climbing ladders and getting into trees to chase them away.....that ended in a cracked rib that is still aching....and I don't even have a great story about falling off the ladder or out of the tree, I actually jumped....just to find out I was too darn old to be jumping like that. Oh well, such is the life of a farmer. I can only think what will happen when I have a tractor out there and try plowing and tilling for the crops! OUCH.
I will try and get more pictures posted....I may wait until I can have goose eggs to get a picture of....or a setting goose and baby goats WHICH, by the way, are going to be some of the cutest pictures ever. Spring time will be perfect around here.
I will even have tons of button quail chicks to boot. I am gathering up eggs and putting batches into the incubator.
OH and I just got a new OVA Easy incubator from Brinsea....sort of their answer to the GQF Sportsman. Like I needed TWO cabinet incubators but I will probably sell off the Sportsman once I get the Brinsea up and running.....well once it arrives! :)

So who else has eggs going or animals having babies?

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Re: The life on the farm... -- Diane, Tuesday, March 06, 06:46:24am (NoHost/158.69.1.148)