Alaskan's Journal

[Alaskan]

One of my broodies with her half grown chicks.

She hatched out 11. 3 dark brown and 8 mix colored Leghorn.

 

[Baymule]

I love broody hens. Watching them with their chicks is so cute.

 

[RollingAcres]

One of my broodies with her half grown chicks.

She hatched out 11. 3 dark brown and 8 mix colored Leghorn.
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[RollingAcres]

You can even just tow a burrito

I usually just wrap 'em in foil and stick them inside my jacket pocket...

hungry jacket?

I carry the burrito in my hungry belly.

 

[Alaskan]

Blown away... I no longer own goats!

It totally had to happen.... but wow!

 

[Baymule]

You can't make a post like that and not tell us the details!!!

 

[Rammy]

 

[RollingAcres]

You can't make a post like that and not tell us the details!!!

X2!

 

[Alaskan]

I had planned to have goats until all of the kids had left home... which is 8 to 10 more years.

But the kids have ALREADY started running off, for a month + at a time!

Also, my arthritis has gotten worse.. I can no longer milk... at all. Zilch.

Next year all kids will be either gone... or boy scouts... which means every month 1 long weekend with them gone... and summer 2 to 4 weeks with them all gone.

Anyway.... that means the goats had to go.

Also... this summer my dad got sick then died... it was a bear of a trouble to find an emergency place to put the goats so that I could fly down to see my dad before he died, then the funeral.

That rather soured me on the goats... no way to drop stuff and go help my mom if she wants help to pack up my dad's stuff. Yeah... I can't milk, but I can lift boxes.

So... it was time.

I am pairing down the poultry too. Make it easier for neighbors to handle them.

I actually got rid of my standard black ameraucanas. Reducing breeds and males.

 

[Bruce]

Oh my, HUGE changes!