Good Morning!--Chat thread

[wynedot55]

the temp here is 96 with a heatindex of 101.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Not sure of the heat index. I looked at the town near us and it's running 10-15 degrees more but, their temp isn't listed as high either.

 

[Thewife]

It's like 70 degrees out there, with a good breeze!
Waaay to hot to be working! Might have to kick up the A/C and take another nap!

Got Smokey's pen sprayed! I will have to go back in a few days to see what I missed. Also found some poison oak growing down there. That's the second new one I found this year?
I got reminded of another one while I was crawling under it, pulling tansy. Didn't get any on me, but was not happy with myself for forgetting it was there!

 

[Thewife]

I asked the boy to check my stetting guinea today!
He called and told me I must have a mama with chicks some where, all he found was a nest of egg shells!
I found her right outside the yard!
Don't ask for pictures just yet, she wasn't happy with me stealing her babies and she is a real good (mean) mama!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Why did you take her babies? Why not let her raise them?

 

[Thewife]

Why did you take her babies? Why not let her raise them?

She gets to raise them!
I have found that guineas are not really the brightess creatures on the planet! I put them in a big open top box for awhile, keeps mama from loosing them to the tall grass or crows! We also have rains coming, they don't seem to be able to handle that either!
When they are big enough to start jumping out of the box, they are usually ready for the big world!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

she wasn't happy with me stealing her babies

But, you said you stole them. In other words, she's not happy with you because you confined them to keep them safe. Yeah, animal mommas really don't care for us people doing things like that. She'll get over it--about the time they can jump out of the box.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

We lost one of the little chicks from my second hatch last night. I'm assuming it's due to the heat. I did have a huge bottle of ice in the coop for them but, they won't go near it.

 

[amysflock]

Good morning! thewife, congrats on your guinea babies! And Farmer Kitty, I'm sorry about your chick. Raising baby birds is an art and some luck more than anything, it seems...I think I must have a whole lot of luck to have kept mine happy and healthy this long.

Today is rodeo day at the farm...the vet comes in T minus 3.67 hours. Gulp. DH got the rest of the V-chute done last night, and our lead cow totally knows something is up and spent way too much time looking at us and shaking her horns. That after the night before, when she went and beat up the compost pile, throwing dirt behind her with her front hoof and horning the crap out of it. It's all so unlike her. I've been praying since yesterday today will go smoothly and relatively quickly.

It's another sunny, clear day here so far. I spent four hours picking bracken fern yesterday, and have at least another two hours to go. I know from being out there how much progress I made, but looking from the house across our nearly flat ground toward the remaining ferns in the back, it doesn't actually look like I did much of anything. Wah.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

It's another sunny, clear day here so far. I spent four hours picking bracken fern yesterday, and have at least another two hours to go. I know from being out there how much progress I made, but looking from the house across our nearly flat ground toward the remaining ferns in the back, it doesn't actually look like I did much of anything. Wah.

I know that feeling! You'll get it done and then be able to look out there and smile.

Thank you. In the past, I haven't lost a chick. This year seems to be different. One to injury, one to eating shavings, and now this one. I hope she is the last one too!

It's sunny, humid, and 88F already out there today.