well some good news and some crazy aniety stuff, but we'll forget the crazy anxiety stuff and focus on the goo news.
got someone who wants all 4 baby angora girls and their momma!
shes supposed ot be sending me 1/3rd the price via paypal to hold and deliver (its an hour rive to deliver but shes...
well im melting...BUT...I can cross the stall mat in the duck pen off the list, 25 ft of the heavy duty rubber stall mat cut into 2 10ft pieces and the last 5 ft cut in half long ways = a 10x10 duck/goose pen that can now actually be powerhosed down when it gets yucky, means no more trapsing...
we now have the under cabinate microwave hung :)
which means we'll be able to claim back a ltitle counter space once the old microwave gets relocated
looks very nice.
the 4 angora does have a few more days before they go to the freezer if no one buys, ive reduced them as far as they are going...
im actually hoping once the covers start to give I can replace them with roof panels...
I figure if I buy a couple each month by the time the covers start to give I can just put a solid roof on them :)
got the 2 of them today, gonna try and get them put up next week (weve got storms forcast the...
so looks like I have a shelter for my rabbits, if I can arrange pickup, its one of those 10x20 shelter logic car canopies with the roof...hes got 2 so im grabbing both, I can put them a couple feet apart so they dont collect snow between the roof pitches...(or dads might steal the 2nd as a house...
rosie did great at her spay!
ruthie is being very loud and yelly today
and my e-lop "misu" from last litter is going home tonight :)
still have 4 baby lop, 4 lops x rex, 4 baby angora an 3 dutch babies to find homes for yet...but...1 more down.
so cleaning did NOT get done, got a request form a rabbit breeder in the area to help sex...weve been talking about me going to see her rex anyway (she has standards) so I whent over and as a thanks she gave me a beautiful 8 week old broken lilac doe, no ped but I can start one on her since I...
thanks, its definatly getting there...a mass cabinate clean-out will help.
todays been a good but tiring day so far lol.
got up, did morning chores, the chickens are now in the coop outside the barn and no lnger IN the barn *YAY!*
then filtered milk and tattooed 4 angora rabbits and wrote up...
got a rex bun going home this afternoon, got an elop baby in iso (hes just not been gaining weight and this morning was weak, he may not make it :/ hes 6 weeks and just so little compared...)
the ups and downs of homestead life huh?!
kinda a rain showers on and off hot and sticky kind of day so...
microwave coundlt be fitted due to the fact that its some weird vent fan and not a standard under cabinate mount, so they are going to rienburse the instal fee and were going to have to get creative...fun times.
binx is home safe and sound, half had to wrestle him form the tech everyone loved...
so definatly off this morning...
but whatever.
microwave installers supposed to be coming between 11am and 3pm (you know cause a smaller window wouldn't have been helpful lol) and that's about it for plans. lol.
gonna work on the bunny tractor today, gonna put a floor in that's not dig-able...
well Binxy goes to the vet this evening, and by tomorrow hell be a little lighter...finally got an appointment at a low coast spay/neuter clinic for him...there seems to be plenty of places offering for female cats but no funds for male cats...guess they figure if they spay all the girls its not...
thanks, id be ok if pecky were a roo, hes...well...pecky...but reds so sweet I kinda want him to be a her lol
the plan currently is to send extra roos to the freezer.
side note:
chicken sexing help anyone?!
these are our rhodebars...
the 3 at the back are the hens, when hatched they had chipmonk stripes like they should...
the other 3 are boys...at least they are assuming they are all rhodebarrs/autosexing, all 3 hatched red with a cream headspot...
This...
so it looks like we are adding a physical pool fence to the "to do list" befor winter lol.
the pool apparently has an invisible fence around it...the previous owner had 2 big dogs...apparently that means nothing to gypsy who managed to fall in the pool a few times, once with the cover on...
we def got wet, but not as bad as lots of folks got it...weathers still whacky, whent out this morning an dneeded a light sweater...it was chilly!
im on the lookout officially for a doe in (or soon to com in) milk, ruthies production has halved this past few days and im just not going to be able...