ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

I really gotta get my llama pics scanned and posted in my thread...we used to have 7 at one time, but that was before I got my 1st digital camera.

Try full body clipping all of those w/ a set of hand shears (the big red ones), if you wanna talk blisters. OUCH.

I watched an ABC Saturday special about Basenjis when I was a kid, and have never forgotten it...it told all about how they don't bark but do vocalize, and how loyal they are. Why is it I can retain stuff about animals that I learned 25 years ago, but can't remember to put shampoo on the grocery list now???

Forgot to mention that while clipping him he kicked me in the calf and kneed me in the groin...if I was a dude I would have been on the ground and done


Basenjis actually have quite a few vocalizations meaning different things. Much easier to know what's going on with your dog than when they just bark
When they hunt with them in Africa they wear wooden bells to help the hunters keep track of them.


I remember the weirdest stuff too and forget the mundane everyday stuff

 

[Ms. Research]

Love your herd Emily. Makes me knowing all has settled down and they are all with you driving you crazy, kneeing you in the groin, scaring the bejesus out of you getting lost in the night, but turning up like nothing happened. As much as they make you drop your jaw or have smoke coming out of your ears, from the trouble they get into, they do make life interesting.

Mrs. Flutterbottom, your Chicken Dog, is very impressive. She's a silkie? Have no clue about chickens other they are good on the barbeque and their eggs in an omlette with fresh mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, and lots of cheese. I love the feathers on her feet. I've been lurking on BYC and there are TONS of different breed of chickens. I never knew. I love the picture with Jerry. All those different types of chickens and quail. Plus the ducks.

Jerry is sweet. Again no clue. But the story I read that you posted really shows what a loyal guardian they are. I love their big expressive eyes. But you can have the spit. Nasty stuff. But then again, I have a few people I would LOVE for Jerry to meet in one of his spitting moods.

Boingo is beautiful. My Son LOVED dogs as much as he LOVED tractors at 5 years old. He could just go on for hours about different breeds and their origins. The Basenji was one of the breeds he really liked. Unfortunately, like rabbits and hardwire, so are dogs. Can't blame him for doing what is in his nature.

Thanks for sharing the pictures here. Also love the pictures on your Website.

 

[elevan]

Thank you Mrs. Research

Miss Flufferbottom... (pause for RTG to giggle).... is a cochin. Nice, heavy girl.

I think that DH has a picture of Jerry giving me a "kiss" I'll have to see if I can find it and post it. I'd just brushed my teeth and was talking to him...he liked the minty smell I think and came in real close so that his nose was right on mine. Freaked me out cause he'd never done anything like that before.

And he's never spit...never even acted like he wanted to.



If Miss Flufferbottom didn't make RTG giggle I would just write Fluffy

 

[Ms. Research]

Thank you Mrs. Research

Miss Flufferbottom... (pause for RTG to giggle).... is a cochin. Nice, heavy girl.

I think that DH has a picture of Jerry giving me a "kiss" I'll have to see if I can find it and post it. I'd just brushed my teeth and was talking to him...he liked the minty smell I think and came in real close so that his nose was right on mine. Freaked me out cause he'd never done anything like that before.

And he's never spit...never even acted like he wanted to.



If Miss Flufferbottom didn't make RTG giggle I would just write Fluffy

Then he doesn't need to come here. Coming to New Jersey will DEFINITELY make him want to spit. Don't want that for your sweet boy who loves mints.

And I wouldn't know Flufferbottom by any other name. Looking at that picture, it fits her to a T. Nice heavy girls lay good eggs, don't they?

 

[elevan]

on the New Jersey reference.


I'm actually glad that Miss Flufferbottom went broody. Poor girl needed a break. She seems to have such problems with her eggs. I fear that one day we'll lose her to being egg bound. I do what I can for her but her eggs are very unusual to say the least.

 

[redtailgal]

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[Ms. Research]

on the New Jersey reference.


I'm actually glad that Miss Flufferbottom went broody. Poor girl needed a break. She seems to have such problems with her eggs. I fear that one day we'll lose her to being egg bound. I do what I can for her but her eggs are very unusual to say the least.

See I don't know anything about chickens. Sorry to hear about Miss Flufferbottom's egg problems. Hope this "broody" time helps. Or is she just that way?

 

[redtailgal]

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[elevan]

She eats tons of oyster shell. Her eggs are funny shaped, too large, too small, too thin....every day the egg was something different. She has more weird shaped eggs than anything. The last egg she laid before she went broody was completely flat on one side and the rest of it was wrinkled - reminded me of those chocolate covered eggs that you see around Easter that the chocolate kind of "ribbons" around the filling....if that makes sense.

And right before laying she just seems so pale and weak...almost as if it's taking all of her life force just to pass the egg -even if it ends up being a tiny one.

I'm hoping with her going broody and I'll allow her to raise any chicks that she hatches and with winter coming soon after that then she'll get the break she needs and things will *hopefully* be normal for her when she starts laying again.

 

[redtailgal]

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