ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Breitenbach Winery has a dandelion festival every year - this year it is May 4-5. They have all kinds of dandelion recipies and cooking shows, contests etc. Never mind the delicious dandelion wine. We go every year - except this year. I picked a wedding date that interferes. :/

The festival information is at www.breitenbachwine.com. They are located in Dover Ohio. It's a beautiful drive and well worth the time.

Two years ago I bought several jars of dandelion jelly. YUM It makes you look at those little yellow flowers in a whole new light.

I saw that in our Co-Op magazine the other day and marked May 5th on my calender!

Too bad you're not going, it would have been fun to meet another BYH member.

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

Sorry to hear about your eggs Em.
That is too bad.

Here is a great link on egg incubation problems and solutions:
http://msucares.com/poultry/reproductions/trouble.html

Good Luck on your next hatch, Em. Also remember to clean your incubator between hatches, even if the chicks never hatched you want to make sure that your incubator is clean.

 

[autumnprairie]

sorry to hear about the eggs.

 

[elevan]

4 guinea eggs today! :bun That means that I've got one more hen than I thought and makes me a happy girl

And from what I read on BYC it seems pretty unusual but they all return to the coop to lay in a nest box there. It seems like everyone else's guineas who are out free ranging hide a nest. :/

Laurel, our East India duck is still setting her nest in the brush pile but she's returning to the coop at night. Isn't that odd? I mean she comes to the coop when I am doing a head count and quacks very loudly at the door until I let her in. I'm not sure how that's gonna work out for her eggs being set on only during the day...unless she's just accumulating a clutch right now... :/

I cannot believe it but our temps have dropped to the point that it has been trying to snow today. I think that February and April switched places this year. Then on Friday we're supposed to be back up to 60*. Guess my sinuses are gonna drive me crazy this weekend, I'm already getting stuffy.

Sent the dog warden an email today about the dog across the road and told her that she better fine them or something to make them keep that dog on their property before I'm put into a position that I have to shoot him. She responded pretty quickly and said that every time she stops out to talk to them they aren't home and she leaves a notice for them to call and gets no response. That she cannot cite them unless it's in person. Argh! She offered to bring out a cage for me to put him in next time and she'll pick him up...I might just do that. Then they would have to go to the pound and pick him up and pay their fine. But then again maybe they wouldn't care. I really don't want this dog to cross a line that makes me have to shoot him.

Gonna be a busy week this week (on top of normal crazy stuff in my life)...
Tomorrow I'm gonna do our taxes. Yeah, I know...nothing like the last minute.
Thursday B has a counseling appointment and then it's an IEP meeting for K at the school.
Friday we meet with the school again about B.
Saturday I have a whole bunch of eggs to deliver and gotta go to the vet for Boingo.

I've got Little Boy sold. We'll probably be delivering him to his new owner this weekend.
In addition to that it looks like I've probably sold our other 2 wethers.
That means I can get more does, right? I'm considering going on the hunt for some smaller statured Boer does and maybe a LaMancha.

 

[autumnprairie]

4 guinea eggs today! :bun That means that I've got one more hen than I thought and makes me a happy girl

And from what I read on BYC it seems pretty unusual but they all return to the coop to lay in a nest box there. It seems like everyone else's guineas who are out free ranging hide a nest. :/

Laurel, our East India duck is still setting her nest in the brush pile but she's returning to the coop at night. Isn't that odd? I mean she comes to the coop when I am doing a head count and quacks very loudly at the door until I let her in. I'm not sure how that's gonna work out for her eggs being set on only during the day...unless she's just accumulating a clutch right now... :/

I cannot believe it but our temps have dropped to the point that it has been trying to snow today. I think that February and April switched places this year. Then on Friday we're supposed to be back up to 60*. Guess my sinuses are gonna drive me crazy this weekend, I'm already getting stuffy.

Sent the dog warden an email today about the dog across the road and told her that she better fine them or something to make them keep that dog on their property before I'm put into a position that I have to shoot him. She responded pretty quickly and said that every time she stops out to talk to them they aren't home and she leaves a notice for them to call and gets no response. That she cannot cite them unless it's in person. Argh! She offered to bring out a cage for me to put him in next time and she'll pick him up...I might just do that. Then they would have to go to the pound and pick him up and pay their fine. But then again maybe they wouldn't care. I really don't want this dog to cross a line that makes me have to shoot him.

Gonna be a busy week this week (on top of normal crazy stuff in my life)...
Tomorrow I'm gonna do our taxes. Yeah, I know...nothing like the last minute.
Thursday B has a counseling appointment and then it's an IEP meeting for K at the school.
Friday we meet with the school again about B.
Saturday I have a whole bunch of eggs to deliver and gotta go to the vet for Boingo.

I've got Little Boy sold. We'll probably be delivering him to his new owner this weekend.
In addition to that it looks like I've probably sold our other 2 wethers.
That means I can get more does, right? I'm considering going on the hunt for some smaller statured Boer does and maybe a LaMancha.

I will be having mini boers April 26th, is Arkansas to far for a road trip?

 

[elevan]

I will be having mini boers April 26th, is Arkansas to far for a road trip?

Just a bit...

 

[elevan]

I despise that dang horse! (Morgan mare)



She's 23-24 years old...someone please tell me what her probable life expectancy is! If I had my way she would be sold or given away. Dang horse is nothing but a feed hog, a fence tear downer and general pain in the rear!

What causes my rant today? She's tore down the buck's fencing to waist height on me! She's never messed with interior fencing before...usually I'm fighting her with the perimeter fence. I took off chasing her with a 2x4 through the field...I'm sure that the neighbors thought I was a mad woman...well I was a mad woman but not the kind that they would have thought.

Horses are so overrated (sorry to those who adore them). I like looking at them. I like to ride them. But I HATE taking care of them...at least this one...if she weren't a terror then it might be different but this one horse has been the bane of my existence for years. She's the same horse who broke my hip when I was 16. Despise that horse!

 

[Squirrelgirl88]

That horse will live to be 40. That's how it works. :/

My rooster will live to be 15-20. He's 2 now.

I know very little about horses, so I have absolutly no advice to give. Just an ear if you need to rant.

Maybe there is a summer camp for evil farm animals. We'll send your horse, my rooster, OOOH idea! RTG could be the camp counselor! She seems to know how to adjust attitudes!

 

[elevan]

That horse will live to be 40. That's how it works. :/

Well...that's a mean thing to say

She probably will knowing my luck!

Maybe there is a summer camp for evil farm animals. We'll send your horse, my rooster, OOOH idea! RTG could be the camp counselor! She seems to know how to adjust attitudes!

I second that nomination!

RTG - when does Evil Farm Animal Camp start cause I'm sending you a horse!

 

[jodief100]

Maybe there is a summer camp for evil farm animals. We'll send your horse, my rooster, OOOH idea! RTG could be the camp counselor! She seems to know how to adjust attitudes!

I second that nomination!

RTG - when does Evil Farm Animal Camp start cause I'm sending you a horse!

Can I send my SIL's kids? RTG seems to have a handle on poorly disciplined kids too. My SIL's solution has been to drug them up. I feel bad for them.