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ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal
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elevan
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Gonna be a long post...
Friday, June 29
Ok, I revoke my rain dance. Rain - good. The winds that we got bad. The power flickered a few times during the storm but held. Then about 30 minutes after the storm passed us the power went out.
Saturday, June 30
Woke up when the power came on early morning.
It was still raining when I went out to let the poultry out.
Frizz decided that today was THE DAY. The day that she would bring her 13 chicks out of the coop for the first time. In the rain. I chased them in a couple of times and then decided it was a lost cause.
Went inside to check out the news to find that the state is in a state of emergency. 600,000 people still without power. Very large power poles on one stretch of road were ALL snapped off. Tons of trees down. Just awful damaging winds.
My Grandma Emily is without power and has had to take refuge with one of my aunts who has power as she is on oxygen.
Our power is holding but weve been notified that there could be surges and potentially temporary losses as they bring things back online.
We are without phone or internet though. So, Im writing this in Word to transfer to my journal whenever we get back online.
Didnt make it to the Farmers Market this morning. Partly due to the power outage and it was pouring rain.
Counties just South of us are under a heat advisory. Thankfully were staying at a comfortable temp right now.
Its still hot enough to affect the rabbits though so I took out a frozen water bottle for them. Apparently we have a male and a female. The female is pulling fur. There is fur all over the place. When I reached in to remove their thawed bottle the male attacked my hand. I put my other hand in to push him back. When I pulled my hands out, they were both bloody. After cleaning up its not as bad as it seemed at first. But I have a substantial cut on my right hand that will likely scar. Both of my hands sting as though Ive got a million paper cuts on them. Was he protecting the female? Any ideas for why he attacked me?
They are saying that some folks will be without power for up to 14 days! I feel for those without power who are in heat advisory zones.
Sunday, July 1
A HOT and HUMID day today. Ground looks as if we never got any rain
We decided to release Wynette and her 2 chicks from the large broody pen today. She immediately took off out of the coop and left her chicks inside yelling for her. I thought that she was gonna be a horrible mother. But she did come back and settled in to taking care of her chicks, so right now Im halfway hopeful.
We then moved Cinni and her 9 remaining keets to the large broody pen after cleaning it up. Yes, I said 9I sold 8 so she should have 8. Apparently we miscounted originally as Im sure that the guy I sold those 8 to would have called if Id shorted him.
Cinni was originally in our small broody pen which is off of our small coop. We shut the door of the small coop and took Cinni out of the broody pen and put her on the floor of the coop so we could catch keets. DH grabbed 2 keets and I made a pocket with my shirt and stuck them in. Of course they started yelling and Cinni started to get upset. As DH was reaching for more keets, Cinni leaped from the floor of the coop to the top of my head and started attacking me! Im 5 6! Thats a large jump for a chicken! So I started yelling for DH to GET HER OFF OF ME!
We decided to take Cinni and the 2 keets that I had and put them in the large broody pen to settle in and then come back for the rest. That worked. I have a long scratch on the back of my neck as a reminder not to underestimate Cinni when she has babies.
We have another broody chicken Big Red. The big surprise is that she is a red sex link, they arent supposed to go broody at all. And she kicked Dove off of her nest, shes had it for the past several days. Dove has relocated to a different nest meaning that shell sit longer.
A second guinea hen has gone broody as well. Her nest is in the corner of the coop under the roosts. Last night the ducks practically walked on her and she never moved or made a sound. Today she got off to eat and I noticed that she had a single chicken egg in her clutch so I grabbed it off real quick.
Rabbit seems to have forgotten yesterdays episode and is gentle as can be today. I dont know what I did to set him off yesterday? :/ DH wanted to put in him the stew pot over it.
Another storm was brewing this evening so we went out and chased the poultry in for the night a couple of hours early. DH practically played tackle with one of the guineas to get it in.
Then when DH went to check on the kid pen (Maggie, Priya, Precious and Jerry too) Jerry took an interest in DH. Since Jerry is usually shy around DH, DH decided to hold his hand out to Jerry. As I watched, Jerry sniffed his hand and then CHOMPED DOWN on it!
Lets just say its been some weekend. Im glad to have power, phone and internet back.
Friday, June 29
Ok, I revoke my rain dance. Rain - good. The winds that we got bad. The power flickered a few times during the storm but held. Then about 30 minutes after the storm passed us the power went out.
Saturday, June 30
Woke up when the power came on early morning.
It was still raining when I went out to let the poultry out.
Frizz decided that today was THE DAY. The day that she would bring her 13 chicks out of the coop for the first time. In the rain. I chased them in a couple of times and then decided it was a lost cause.
Went inside to check out the news to find that the state is in a state of emergency. 600,000 people still without power. Very large power poles on one stretch of road were ALL snapped off. Tons of trees down. Just awful damaging winds.
My Grandma Emily is without power and has had to take refuge with one of my aunts who has power as she is on oxygen.
Our power is holding but weve been notified that there could be surges and potentially temporary losses as they bring things back online.
We are without phone or internet though. So, Im writing this in Word to transfer to my journal whenever we get back online.
Didnt make it to the Farmers Market this morning. Partly due to the power outage and it was pouring rain.
Counties just South of us are under a heat advisory. Thankfully were staying at a comfortable temp right now.
Its still hot enough to affect the rabbits though so I took out a frozen water bottle for them. Apparently we have a male and a female. The female is pulling fur. There is fur all over the place. When I reached in to remove their thawed bottle the male attacked my hand. I put my other hand in to push him back. When I pulled my hands out, they were both bloody. After cleaning up its not as bad as it seemed at first. But I have a substantial cut on my right hand that will likely scar. Both of my hands sting as though Ive got a million paper cuts on them. Was he protecting the female? Any ideas for why he attacked me?
They are saying that some folks will be without power for up to 14 days! I feel for those without power who are in heat advisory zones.
Sunday, July 1
A HOT and HUMID day today. Ground looks as if we never got any rain
We decided to release Wynette and her 2 chicks from the large broody pen today. She immediately took off out of the coop and left her chicks inside yelling for her. I thought that she was gonna be a horrible mother. But she did come back and settled in to taking care of her chicks, so right now Im halfway hopeful.
We then moved Cinni and her 9 remaining keets to the large broody pen after cleaning it up. Yes, I said 9I sold 8 so she should have 8. Apparently we miscounted originally as Im sure that the guy I sold those 8 to would have called if Id shorted him.
Cinni was originally in our small broody pen which is off of our small coop. We shut the door of the small coop and took Cinni out of the broody pen and put her on the floor of the coop so we could catch keets. DH grabbed 2 keets and I made a pocket with my shirt and stuck them in. Of course they started yelling and Cinni started to get upset. As DH was reaching for more keets, Cinni leaped from the floor of the coop to the top of my head and started attacking me! Im 5 6! Thats a large jump for a chicken! So I started yelling for DH to GET HER OFF OF ME!
We decided to take Cinni and the 2 keets that I had and put them in the large broody pen to settle in and then come back for the rest. That worked. I have a long scratch on the back of my neck as a reminder not to underestimate Cinni when she has babies.
We have another broody chicken Big Red. The big surprise is that she is a red sex link, they arent supposed to go broody at all. And she kicked Dove off of her nest, shes had it for the past several days. Dove has relocated to a different nest meaning that shell sit longer.
A second guinea hen has gone broody as well. Her nest is in the corner of the coop under the roosts. Last night the ducks practically walked on her and she never moved or made a sound. Today she got off to eat and I noticed that she had a single chicken egg in her clutch so I grabbed it off real quick.
Rabbit seems to have forgotten yesterdays episode and is gentle as can be today. I dont know what I did to set him off yesterday? :/ DH wanted to put in him the stew pot over it.
Another storm was brewing this evening so we went out and chased the poultry in for the night a couple of hours early. DH practically played tackle with one of the guineas to get it in.
Then when DH went to check on the kid pen (Maggie, Priya, Precious and Jerry too) Jerry took an interest in DH. Since Jerry is usually shy around DH, DH decided to hold his hand out to Jerry. As I watched, Jerry sniffed his hand and then CHOMPED DOWN on it!
Lets just say its been some weekend. Im glad to have power, phone and internet back.
autumnprairie
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you need to tell your animals that you are not supposed to attack the person that feeds you, sorry you got hurt and that your DH got bit
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elevan
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Well tonight the 3 Jumbo Pekin ducks decided that they were going into the small coop with the 6 new ducks. So DH and I are discussing making some modifications and just making that a duck coop.
We're supposed to have super hot temps this week. By the end of the week we'll be at 99 without a heat index. That's really bad because a lot of people who are still without power will still be out through the next weekend. I pray that we don't hear about heat related deaths on the news
We're supposed to have super hot temps this week. By the end of the week we'll be at 99 without a heat index. That's really bad because a lot of people who are still without power will still be out through the next weekend. I pray that we don't hear about heat related deaths on the news
autumnprairie
Owned by the Rotten Heifers
new coops are always neededelevan said:Well tonight the 3 Jumbo Pekin ducks decided that they were going into the small coop with the 6 new ducks. So DH and I are discussing making some modifications and just making that a duck coop.
We're supposed to have super hot temps this week. By the end of the week we'll be at 99 without a heat index. That's really bad because a lot of people who are still without power will still be out through the next weekend. I pray that we don't hear about heat related deaths on the news
on everyone in your area is safe
bjjohns
Loving the herd life
No doubt, DW and I just decided tonight that the meat chicken tractor will be converted to a Duck coop (making 3 coops) and we will build 2 smaller meat tractors later.autumnprairie said:new coops are always neededelevan said:Well tonight the 3 Jumbo Pekin ducks decided that they were going into the small coop with the 6 new ducks. So DH and I are discussing making some modifications and just making that a duck coop.
We're supposed to have super hot temps this week. By the end of the week we'll be at 99 without a heat index. That's really bad because a lot of people who are still without power will still be out through the next weekend. I pray that we don't hear about heat related deaths on the news
We are planning a two-tier greenhouse/chicken coop for the winter, so I might recoup (pun intended) some of the materials.
Sorry Elevan but you'll be getting our weather, which will be at least another week or more of high 90's. Today it was 100 without heat index. Thats is just crazy. I would believe it if it were late July or August but no now.
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elevan
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Wynette decided that today was the day that she would bring her 2 chicks out of the coop. So far they are doing well.
We had a pop up thunderstorm hit a short bit ago. It had really harsh winds and I thought "here we go again". But it lasted all of 10 minutes and then was gone.
eta: After the storm I went out to check on critters. I found Precious in the kid barn laying on a nest of eggs! If I would have had my phone I would have taken a pic, so cute!
We had a pop up thunderstorm hit a short bit ago. It had really harsh winds and I thought "here we go again". But it lasted all of 10 minutes and then was gone.
eta: After the storm I went out to check on critters. I found Precious in the kid barn laying on a nest of eggs! If I would have had my phone I would have taken a pic, so cute!
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Aw! That would have made a good POW! That must have been adorable!elevan said:Wynette decided that today was the day that she would bring her 2 chicks out of the coop. So far they are doing well.
We had a pop up thunderstorm hit a short bit ago. It had really harsh winds and I thought "here we go again". But it lasted all of 10 minutes and then was gone.
eta: After the storm I went out to check on critters. I found Precious in the kid barn laying on a nest of eggs! If I would have had my phone I would have taken a pic, so cute!
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elevan
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I have another broody 
It's a red sex link. She about took my hand off when I reached into the nest tonight. I left the eggs with her. If she abandons the nest I'll just give the eggs to the pig but she acts pretty darn serious. Usually I don't give them eggs until they've sat a nest for at least 2 nights...so we'll see.
So right now I have 4 chickens sitting on eggs and 2 guineas.
And 2 chickens with guineas keets and 3 chickens with chicks.
It's a red sex link. She about took my hand off when I reached into the nest tonight. I left the eggs with her. If she abandons the nest I'll just give the eggs to the pig but she acts pretty darn serious. Usually I don't give them eggs until they've sat a nest for at least 2 nights...so we'll see.
So right now I have 4 chickens sitting on eggs and 2 guineas.
And 2 chickens with guineas keets and 3 chickens with chicks.
