ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Wow that is alot of eggs. I just found your journal. I read the whole 6 pages. I loved it. Wow you stay busy. Where do you find all your energy? I am so sorry about all of your losses. Sending hugs. Please keep up with this. I love reading it. Thanks.

Energy?? What energy!? I feel like I'm working on auto pilot most of the time

My job is my kids and my farm so I guess I go overboard at times

Thanks for the hugs.

 

[elevan]

I've been working on my writing today. The cook book is progressing and I'm already getting inquiries from friends and family who want to buy it when it's done...boy that makes me feel great! But of course they've all had the food and have begged for recipes before (which I held out on)
The early readers are done and have been declared a success by my boys and my nephews...they haven't been published yet...but since I'm self publishing it's just a matter of me getting it done.

Keep us posted on your progress. I would be interested in buying one of your recipe books when it's done.

Thank you! I'll definitely keep everyone posted.

 

[Snowhunter]

thas a lotta egggggs!!!

One of my girls lays em in am open feed bag w/old shavings in it


Can't wait for the cookbook to be done!!

 

[elevan]

MASSIVE CHICK OVERLOAD HAS ARRIVED!!!

Without email from the hatchery...without phone call from the post office

I left for my gall bladder scan around 11:30 this morning leaving my boys with the babysitter at home. We're half way to the clinic when the babysitter calls saying, "What am I supposed to do with these?"

"With what?" I asked

"CHICKENS!!!" said the babysitter.

"Just leave them in their carrier box until I get home. They will be fine, I promise!"

My babysitter was in a panic!

Well the scan took 2 hours and I was gone for about 5 hours total. Got home and checked in the chickies

You can view pictures of them here ...the single chick pics are them

We do have one little girl with a problem. Her leg is either broken or deformed We originally put her into the brooder with the rest and every time she moved she was swarmed by the other chicks who would try to peck her leg off (it sticks out to the side). My DH swooped in and picked her up and declared she was coming in the house (from the garage)!!! This is the man who originally told me that the chickens were all mine and that he wanted nothing to do with them! Haha! I turned him into a chicken lover.

Here is Clint's Precious:

He originally was calling her Hoppy...but it quickly changed to Precious

Her cage is in the bathroom...he went in there to take a shower a half hour ago and instead has been cuddling with Precious! He's a big ole softy!

I'm not sure if there's anything that I can do about Precious' leg...I'll call the vet tomorrow and see what they suggest. My mom has started calling me Doolittle! lol! If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Her one leg sticks out to the side and she sorta does a butt hop to get around. She's eating and drinking. And resting with a stuffed duck (she sleeps under it's wing).

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We finished turning our old coop into a turkey roost this evening. It's an old playskool playhouse Turkeys no longer have to live in a dog crate in the garage!

Tomorrow's plan is to work on the big coop.

 

[Snowhunter]

Does her leg just stick out? Like she's got a super wide stance?

And she is just precious

 

[elevan]

Does her leg just stick out? Like she's got a super wide stance?

And she is just precious

No, it's more like it goes off (bent) at a right angle. Outward away from her body.

 

[elevan]

Here's a pic that shows what her leg is doing:

 

[Snowhunter]

Poor girl... does it stay like that? Like its locked in place?

If its flimsy, you could try a qtip and medical tape and sorta splint it. If its locked in place, theres not much to do... I had a chick with both legs like that, a week later, still no improvement so I had to cull her

 

[elevan]

Poor girl... does it stay like that? Like its locked in place?

If its flimsy, you could try a qtip and medical tape and sorta splint it. If its locked in place, theres not much to do... I had a chick with both legs like that, a week later, still no improvement so I had to cull her

It seems to be locked in place

My DH and I discussed it and if she survives we'll build a small coop for her with a run and find her a suitable pen mate and allow her to live a spoiled life.

 

[Snowhunter]

It seems to be locked in place

My DH and I discussed it and if she survives we'll build a small coop for her with a run and find her a suitable pen mate and allow her to live a spoiled life.

Awwww well, with one good leg, I see a bright future for her bein spoiled with yall

Congrats on all the chickies!!!!