Wannabefree...guess what I got in the mail today!?!?!?!?

[Neko-chan]

Well, sounds like DH needs to get in on it too. Mom was not my bio mother, and she was always on my case, so I got blase, but when Dad pitched in (usually in a big, very loud way), that was when I figured I should change it up a bit. I have no children, but I can see the way it's going nowadays, and it's not for the better.

 

[Wannabefree]

oh sheesh I forgot to mention I put the broody under a bucket(to keep her from ripping my hand off ya know) and stole the duck eggs out from under her today. I want her to hatch the chicks.

 

[Neko-chan]

Do duckies hatched under a chicken act like chickens, or do they instinctively just know to act like a duck?

 

[Wannabefree]

Well, sounds like DH needs to get in on it too. Mom was not my bio mother, and she was always on my case, so I got blase, but when Dad pitched in (usually in a big, very loud way), that was when I figured I should change it up a bit. I have no children, but I can see the way it's going nowadays, and it's not for the better.

Oh I'm not "mom" to them, never have been called "mom" unless they wanted something. DH worked out of town, and is just NOW getting the full "blessing" of helping raise this one. He's on board, just maybe a bit slow. He has a lot of catching up to do

 

[Wannabefree]

Do duckies hatched under a chicken act like chickens, or do they instinctively just know to act like a duck?

In my experience...I have no idea I have never seen ducks hatched by a chicken before. I have never had a broody either until now. Didn't WANT this one, but I'm stuck with her

 

[Wannabefree]

UGH time to get back out in the heat and tend the neighbors yard. I have to turn the sprinklers off, and as hot as it has been...probably water the horses again as well. Be back laters!

 

[Denim Deb]

Geez, you've had a lot going on! I'm behind on everything because of going out to eat Thursday night, and working on the fence yesterday. It's bad enough when your OH doesn't support you w/your biological children, I can only imagine how bad it would be w/step children. I feel for ya, I really do.

 

[valmom]

Many sympathies with DH! My SO was a step parent to my daughter through her teen years. It was incredible how horrid she was. She was always opinionated- I knew I was in trouble when she was 2 and she demanded I call her father so she could tell me how awful I was being.

When she hit 12 it was like a changeling she got so much worse. We had the horrendous room with so much crap you had to wade through it. Dirty laundry -so I quit doing her laundry. She did it herself or didn't have anything clean to wear. I was not going to wade through the crap to find dirty clothes. She had such a smell- because she wanted pets- at various times, gerbil, ferrets (I actually loved the ferrets, but they SMELL!), and a cat (and cat pan- she bought one of those automatic pans with her own money, but it still smelled like cat because she didn't clean that).

We had so many screaming fights, I'm surprised that the neighbors didn't call child services because I was such a mean mother and she hated me, and she wanted to go live with her father. Except that she didn't get along with her step mom or her father any better than with me.

I would go in her room periodically and fill trash bags with "stuff" and stash it in the garage where she wouldn't find it. When she couldn't find any of her "stuff" I pointed out to her that I filled up many trash bags from her room so it could be walked into, and maybe whatever she was looking for was gone. I kept the "stuff" just in case anything important was actually in there for about a month before I threw it out.

Good luck- my daughter and I hated each other for years. I have to say that she is now 27 and is quite human and admits that she was a terrorist for years.

 

[BarredBuff]

Which breed is broody?

 

[Wannabefree]

Which breed is broody?

Buff Orp...duh