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Mamaboid
Loving the herd life
Good Morning Everybody.
First let me say I hope everyone is ok from the storms. OMG they are awful. We have friends and family in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Maryland, and Indiana...They are all ok, but some of them were pretty close to the damaged areas.
I would like to ask you all to pray for the safe homecoming of our nephew. He is on a forward base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He has 2 or 3 weeks to go before he comes home for good. They are in lock down due to the killing of two more of our soldiers who were stationed on their base. He left 10 days after his little daughter was born, and is hoping to be home for her first birthday on March 23. His 3 year old son is counting the days, as are we all. All prayers are greatly appreciated.
OK, now to the animals. We had a chicken who sat on a bunch of eggs, and only one survived. She is a pretty little hen half RIR and half black cochin. Her head and cape are red and her body is black with feathers on her feet. She is a very spoiled little girl. Her name is Zip Chick, and we call her Zippy and she actually comes to her name. Our female dog has decided that Zip is hers. She follows her around, chases the other chickens away from her, herds her away from those awful guineas, and in general guards her constantly. It is so funny to watch. Don't know what caused this bond unless it is just that the dog sees us paying more attention to Zip. We were concerned at first, thinking the dog was stalking her to hurt her, but nope, she just loves her and is taking care of her. The dog had a litter of pups at Christmas time, and maybe she is just transferring her mothering to the littlest chick.
Today is the kids last dose of Di-Methox. We will all be glad when this is over, they hate it.
The need their CDT shots done this weekend, and then we are good for a while. Elizabeth is still improving in her actions, but still not 100% as the other two. I just wish I knew what was going on with her. Just weird.
This morning, Elijah and Stephanie the Nubian doe who is in with Elsie and the kids were playing. He headbutted Steph, and she pushed him. He fell off of the little ramp he was standing on and it must have frightened him......He fainted. Fell over and lay there for about 5 seconds, cried once, stood up, shook himself off and went right on butting her like nothing had happened. The first time we have seen any of the kids faint. We did see Elizabeth stiffen one time. So far Erin has not shown any fainting signs that we have seen.
We advertised Erin and Elijah for sale, but put prices on them so that if anybody was interested they had to be REALLY interested. We did it on purpose and even tho we know we should sell Erin especially, we don't really want to. And with Elizabeth not acting quite right, we have pretty much decided to hedge our bets and keep Erin too. We had talked about keeping Elijah already because he is an absolutely PERFECT little buck. We decided to get off the fence, make the decision, and we are keeping him. We will not be field breeding, we will be breeding specific does to specific bucks, so it won't hurt our breeding plans at all to have him here, and Eli is getting so stiffened up with his myotonia that I like the "backup" of the second buck from his bloodline. YES, I know.....this is called justifying keeping my babies...Guilty as charged.
Hi, my name is Bonnie and I have G.A.S.. and I am practicing my own form of chicken math by applying it to goats. You know, kids don't count as goats because they are kids, etc...
Have a great day all.
ETA: We have discovered that Elijah has one black horn and one white horn. He is gonna be funky looking.
BJ
First let me say I hope everyone is ok from the storms. OMG they are awful. We have friends and family in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Maryland, and Indiana...They are all ok, but some of them were pretty close to the damaged areas.
I would like to ask you all to pray for the safe homecoming of our nephew. He is on a forward base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He has 2 or 3 weeks to go before he comes home for good. They are in lock down due to the killing of two more of our soldiers who were stationed on their base. He left 10 days after his little daughter was born, and is hoping to be home for her first birthday on March 23. His 3 year old son is counting the days, as are we all. All prayers are greatly appreciated.
OK, now to the animals. We had a chicken who sat on a bunch of eggs, and only one survived. She is a pretty little hen half RIR and half black cochin. Her head and cape are red and her body is black with feathers on her feet. She is a very spoiled little girl. Her name is Zip Chick, and we call her Zippy and she actually comes to her name. Our female dog has decided that Zip is hers. She follows her around, chases the other chickens away from her, herds her away from those awful guineas, and in general guards her constantly. It is so funny to watch. Don't know what caused this bond unless it is just that the dog sees us paying more attention to Zip. We were concerned at first, thinking the dog was stalking her to hurt her, but nope, she just loves her and is taking care of her. The dog had a litter of pups at Christmas time, and maybe she is just transferring her mothering to the littlest chick.
Today is the kids last dose of Di-Methox. We will all be glad when this is over, they hate it.
The need their CDT shots done this weekend, and then we are good for a while. Elizabeth is still improving in her actions, but still not 100% as the other two. I just wish I knew what was going on with her. Just weird.
This morning, Elijah and Stephanie the Nubian doe who is in with Elsie and the kids were playing. He headbutted Steph, and she pushed him. He fell off of the little ramp he was standing on and it must have frightened him......He fainted. Fell over and lay there for about 5 seconds, cried once, stood up, shook himself off and went right on butting her like nothing had happened. The first time we have seen any of the kids faint. We did see Elizabeth stiffen one time. So far Erin has not shown any fainting signs that we have seen.
We advertised Erin and Elijah for sale, but put prices on them so that if anybody was interested they had to be REALLY interested. We did it on purpose and even tho we know we should sell Erin especially, we don't really want to. And with Elizabeth not acting quite right, we have pretty much decided to hedge our bets and keep Erin too. We had talked about keeping Elijah already because he is an absolutely PERFECT little buck. We decided to get off the fence, make the decision, and we are keeping him. We will not be field breeding, we will be breeding specific does to specific bucks, so it won't hurt our breeding plans at all to have him here, and Eli is getting so stiffened up with his myotonia that I like the "backup" of the second buck from his bloodline. YES, I know.....this is called justifying keeping my babies...Guilty as charged.
Hi, my name is Bonnie and I have G.A.S.. and I am practicing my own form of chicken math by applying it to goats. You know, kids don't count as goats because they are kids, etc...Have a great day all.
ETA: We have discovered that Elijah has one black horn and one white horn. He is gonna be funky looking.
BJ
