ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Fluffer lost one of her chicks



It was doing fine earlier...eating and drinking and running around and cuddling. I'm not sure what happened but this evening it was dead.

 

[redtailgal]

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[elevan]

Those little ones are like that, you blink your eye and they fall over and die.

Oh, I know...it's just so sad to lose a critter at any age for any reason. And Fluffer was doing her best to try to make it move

She's a really good mama.

 

[redtailgal]

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[elevan]

And um, I had a silver seabright bantum that was a really good mother too, but the only problem was that he was a rooster...........He had all his boy parts, never laid eggs. But when he bred a hen, he also sat on the eggs and tended to the the bittys like a hen. Yeah, he was strange. lol

 

[elevan]

Went to TSC this morning to get some feed and some more heavy duty t-posts. Came home and shored up the buck's pen. Got caught in the rain and DH and I took refuge in the buck's barn.

Speedy took an instant liking to DH and decided that he wanted to be DH's "friend" I couldn't help laughing!

I finally figured out why Speedy "liked" DH so much...he had been petting Elsie just before we entered the buck's pen and Elsie is in heat right now

After the rain stopped we were able to caught Rocky and Ranger (the 2 buck pen escapees) and put them back where they belonged.

Then we moved on to doing some stall rearranging in the barn and adding some nest boxes into the barn since the chickens like to hide eggs in there

I heard a big commotion in the buck's pen and looked out to see Rocky running through the field with the tom turkey hot on his heels, I couldn't figure out what was going on until the turkey jumped onto Rocky and umm... There's a whole lot of hormones in that pen right now!

Been a long day....but VERY amusing

 

[jodief100]

My goodness! Your boys are all up in a rage right now. Sorry about Fluffer's baby. Chicks are so fragile.

Keep us updated on the babies.

 

[Ms. Research]

Sounds like Love is in the Air at Elevan's Farm. Hoping all that love produces PRETTY babies.

Sorry to hear about Fluffer's chick. Sometimes no matter how good mom is,


Can't wait to see baby pics !

 

[redtailgal]

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[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I am sorry to hear about Fluffer's chick.