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Savingdogs-Saving the chickens
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Well I'm diggin' this morning, but it is the snow! We have a foot. Our road is blocked and we are snowed in. Still have power thank goodness. Our road becomes impassible after a certain amount of snow and we don't have any city services here. Tonight they are predicting record cold and a big freeze so I doubt things will change, it will just get more slippery. I dug paths to everything this morning, to each animal stall and door, to the food and water sources and took hot water out to everyone. My hat is off to those of you who deal with this kind of snow all winter, I was thinking about Denim Deb's descriptions...... The goats and chickens both would not come out of their houses (ducks don't seem to care). I shoveled paths through the goat pen and now the babies are being so cute, boinging around on them and butting their baby heads. I guess their disbudding areas are not too painful! They are eating adult food now too I see.
I scooped out the entire chicken run which is quite large and it took a half hour at least while Hubby played computer games and made paths to the coop so we could reach it tomorrow and unburied the coop itself so I could collect the eggs. The chickens came out and were quite pleased when I threw out their scratch. So I come inside, shake off the snow and get myself a cup of java (with goats milk!) to relax, and Hubby looks out the window and says to me, "Look how great those chickens clear out their own run, stamping it down?"
The girl bunnies are still giving me dirty looks but the boy buns asked me this morning for a cigarette. :bun
I scooped out the entire chicken run which is quite large and it took a half hour at least while Hubby played computer games and made paths to the coop so we could reach it tomorrow and unburied the coop itself so I could collect the eggs. The chickens came out and were quite pleased when I threw out their scratch. So I come inside, shake off the snow and get myself a cup of java (with goats milk!) to relax, and Hubby looks out the window and says to me, "Look how great those chickens clear out their own run, stamping it down?"
The girl bunnies are still giving me dirty looks but the boy buns asked me this morning for a cigarette. :bun
glenolam
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So the boys were like
And the girls were like
then the boys were like
(been waitin to use that one!)
And the girls were like
then the boys were like
(been waitin to use that one!)
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Exactly! You guys all have such cute emoticon collections.
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glenolam said:
Farm life is the best, is it not?
glenolam
Lovin' The Homestead
Or were the boys like
then
and then
And the girls were like
then
and then
And the girls were like
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glenolam
Lovin' The Homestead
And the males bunnies were like this to SD today:
SD ->
<- bunny
And she's like
SD ->
And she's like
sekinkead
Lovin' The Homestead
You are all so funny! I will be joining you soon SD, my daughter has 2 mini rex bunnies and my son has 2 New Zealands that we will be breeding this weekend. Good luck!
Javamama
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I love speaking in emoticon 
Sorry to hear about your snow. I'll commiserate with you once our backyard lake starts forming tomorrow.
So after all my fussing about the goat milk taste - go figure, it's fine now I'm a dork. And it's fabulous in coffee. I may be able to stop buying cream because this milk is sooo thick! It leaves a coating on the jar. Now I just have to convince everyone else that they will like it, even if I have to put it in an old milk jug from the store.
Sorry to hear about your snow. I'll commiserate with you once our backyard lake starts forming tomorrow.
So after all my fussing about the goat milk taste - go figure, it's fine now
I'm a dork. And it's fabulous in coffee. I may be able to stop buying cream because this milk is sooo thick! It leaves a coating on the jar. Now I just have to convince everyone else that they will like it, even if I have to put it in an old milk jug from the store.
