27 April 06

well.. as for hatching eggs, all i can say it has been a few years since i did it, and you could call this first batch a moderate success.  LOL.  out of roughly 40 eggs, 8 hatched, but only 3 lived for more than 24 hrs.  some died right after hatching, some died while they were trying to get out of their shells, and most died before they broke the shell.  Not sure if it was the irregular temperature problem i was having or what.. but i’ll fix that with buying a temp regulator that will maintain the temp that its sposed to be without my having to adjust it.. as well as buying a forced air fan attachment.. that should help hatching also.  Also gonna buy a real candler, so the lightbulb i was using doesn’t ‘fry’ the babies in the shell.   anyway, the 3 babies that lived after 3 days.. died on the 5th day.  I had let my nephew hold them the day before, not knowing he had a bad cold, and i guess they caught it and they all died quickly after that.   they were doing so well too.  oh well, i’ll know better next time not to let anyone near them till they are at least a week old.

here’s a pic of Yeller II, Rosie II, and Charlotte the duck.  I bought them from the feed store where i get my feed at now.. they hatch babies all year long.  i bought these 3 the first week of march, charlotte a week later, and they are doing great, as you can see.  Turned them ‘out’ today for the first time and they all had a blast.  i think charlotte thinks she’s a chicken, or the chickens think they are ducks, cuz they stick together and don’t wander far from each other.. laffin.  they were a joy to watch all day, discovering dirt and taking baths, chasing flies, eating grass (they mowed the lawn bigtime today! lol).  They’ll be ready to put in the big pen soon with the big girls, soon as RosieII starts ‘roosting’.. Yeller roosts, but Rosie still sleeps on the bottom of the pen with Charlotte.  Is hilarious, Charlotte tries to get on the roost with Yeller, and can’t figure out why she can’t.. laffin.

have a great week! Huggggggggglez.

Poultry update

well down to 11 chickens, freckles and 10 girls.. but all of them are laying, so i get an average of 8 eggs a day.. when the squirrels and snakes don’t get em.. grrrrrr

still have the two baby buff chicks and they are growing fast.  bought a baby brown chinese duck, named her Charlotte.. she’s growing very well.. have all 3 in with Mr Nibbles and he snuggles em and cleans em and takes care of them.. he loves taking care of ‘babies’.. prolly a little odd for a rabbit to do that, but he’s a very good ‘father’.

Spider is growing rapidly.. turns out she’s a female, just like i thought and told my sister, but of course, she knows better.. LOL.. but she’s WRONG again.   Goblin died on the 8th of April, no idea why, went out to their ‘pen’ that morning and he was stretched out and stiff, Spider along side him keeping him company i guess.. Spider was pretty upset all day, so I kept her in the house with me all day and night, and then put her outside on Sunday.. by Monday she had found “Jack” the mallard and has been following him around ever since.  He protects her, takes her to all his feeding spots, and keeps the chickens from pecking her.. is so funny to watch the two of them together.. Jack finally has a girlfriend again, and he’s very happy.

None of the eggs i was trying to hatch worked out.. threw em in the woods for the snakes.. bought a real incubator on the 1st and put about 3 doz eggs in it.. hopefully this time next week i’ll have maybe half of them hatch!  Will let you know, not sure they are going to do right, cuz i couldnt get the temperature set right for the first few days.  I was using the thermometer from my aquarium because the one with the incubator was missing, and i’d have the aq therm at the right temp but the one for the incubator was showing 10 degrees lower, so by the time i got everything adjusted to the right temp, i don’t think the eggs are any good anymore.. oh well.. will find out in a week if any are going to hatch or not, and if not, will just start over with fresh eggs.

so that’s it for now.  Happy Easter to everyone and hope you have a great finish to this month!

 

3rd wk of March

Well i have 9 eggs in a homemade incubator, and i candled em yesterday and looks like all of them are developing normally.  so another two weeks and i should have chicks hatching.  Bought a couple buff orpington chicks from a feed store i found out north of town, they hatch a bunch all the time out of their own incubator.  I want to start raising aracaunas and delaware’s tho, so i have to order chicks from a hatchery online.  will build an extension onto the existing chicken house and fence it off so that they don’t interbreed with the rhode islands and black rocks. *s*

My sister bought a couple duck babies at the flea market over the weekend, so now i have 4 babies i’m raising for the moment.  Will be several months before they are big enough to join the rest of the flock.

Update on my girl that died and another i had to put down.  Turns out it wasn’t any disease, it was anti-freeze poisoning!  My brilliant brother-in-law drained some antifreeze out of my sister’s car and just left it on the ground.. so naturally, my chickens got under there and got enough to make two of them bad sick.  A third, “gramma”, got a little of it, but she seems to be recovering.  She had some vomit for a couple days, but no paralysis and lethargy like the other two, and she’s eating and drinking normally now.  So some good news at least.  But i’m down to just 11 girls and Freckles the rooster now.. until my chicks hatch and grow and the new chicks i’ll be ordering come in. 

So that’s pretty much it for this week.  May God Bless u and keep u safe.

testing

upgraded blogjet again.. let’s see if this little bugger works!  have a great week!

 

howdies

not much goin on this week.. finally gittin my progs reinstalled after i had to replace the graphics card.. i found the receipt on the old one.. i bought it in nov 04, so i guess i got good use out of it.. laffin.. bought a one-year warranty on this new one, so maybe it will last 2 yrs.. grin

One of my hens died yesterday, she’d been real sick for several days, and finally just gave up.  Buried her in one of my flower beds, will find something nice to plant over her.  Had been giving all the girls regular meds to keep them free of bugs, but she apparently caught something else or a snake bit her.. hard to say.  She had some bites on her chest, but hard to tell if they were ants or something else.

Gonna buy another incubator soon, had two of them in storage and the asses sold my stuff without notice to me, so lost em both.  Paid about 200 for them plus the auto-egg turner i had for one of them.  sigh, can’t afford to replace them both, will just git a small 3–egg incubator and see how it goes.  In the meantime, will try and set up a styrofoam cooler as an incubator, i got instructions from online, a bit complicated but will just use a lightbulb instead of all the fancy stuff it calls for.  With any luck , in 28 days i’ll have some baby chicks!

And how has your week been?

 

March already?

my how time flies when ur not having any fun.. lol.. back on dialup after this pos crashed again, the graphics card blew a tube so i wasn’t able to install anything because it kept crashing and blipping and generally driving me crazy.  But finally got a new board installed, so all is well again.

Just found out last week that my grandmother died shortly after her 104th birthday last year.  My Aunt, who promised to tell me if anything happened, didn’t.. guess she has her nose up my step-sister’s ass again.. JD is not even related to that side of the family, yet she thinks she can tell everyone what to do and who to tell it to.  She didn’t even let my daughter know about her great-granny, and that’s HER great-granny by BLOOD, as well as MY grandmother by blood.. It was bad enough she wouldn’t let me know where she was when she was alive, and now i find out she’s dead nearly a YEAR LATER?  Who does this bitch think she is anyway?

ok, enough blowing of steam.  Since the bitch reads my blog because she thinks she knows everything, this will be here for a long time, so everyone else on the web can know what an evil family i have.  No wonder i turned out to be the nice one in the bunch, with the evil one before me and the two evil ones after me. LOL 

God bless and i’ll rant again soon.. i know you all love it.  ~laughing~

Update

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Wow long time

hadn’t realized it had been so long since i posted here.  So much and yet so little going on.  Lots of small personal crisis’, but nothing that can’t be handled with time. 

December has always been a depressing month for me, but more so in the last 3 years.  The 3rd anniversary of my mom’s death is the 27th and we still don’t know where her ashes are.  My youngest daughter will be 11 years old on the 31st.. where does the time go??   My oldest daughter is 29 now.. my grandsons are six and five.. and i’ll be 50 next month.. yuckkk.. most days i don’t feel that old.. mentally at least.. laffin.. physically is another matter entirely.

Just finished another 5–wk series of shots in knees for the arthritis.  They are bone-dry, literally, from Arthur.. hurts to walk, sit, or do anything really.. ache all the time and when walking without my braces, i have a tendency to fall down, so i have to use my cane all the time.. don’t use it in the house much, cuz i have furniture and walls to lean on for support, but anywhere else if i don’t have it, i don’t get around very well.  Hopefully tho, with the knee shots every six months, i’ll keep out of a wheelchair or ‘scooter’ for a few more years yet.  The VA won’t replace my knees cuz they say i’m too ‘young’ and until the arthritis eats em up entirely, replacing them won’t do any good.. arthur would just eat what is left of the bones and the replacements wouldn’t have anything to hold on to.. so they have to wait until i can’t walk anymore before they’ll do anything.. oh well.

hope everyone has a good holiday season.  Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, and a general Happy Holidays to all.  Huggggggglez

 

Athur-itis

well now i know why arthur has been giving me so much hell… Hurricane Wilma is heading our way .. told my sister few days ago we had a big storm coming, i just didnt know when..and then comes wilma.. from ts to hurricane in 12 hours.. go figure..lol.. will still miss us by a few hundred miles, but close enough to get a lot of rain an prolly some wind.. everything is so dry this month, the ground will soak it right up, no worries

my sister never doubts me anymore when i tell her a storm is coming.. i’ve been right (well arthur has LOL) 100% of the time in the last 2 years.. and as bad as i was hurtin this last week, i knew it was a huge storm on its way..and that’s what wilma is turning out to be.. once she hits the gulf water, she’s gonna build up again, and wipe out the southern half of florida.. folks down there are evacuating already, they aren’t waiting till the last minute.. gas stations are running out of gas already.. this is the 2nd evacuation in a month.. think they are gittin tired of it? lol

have a good week! huggggggggggglez