Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

Fall Asleep....Who me? Never!

I fall asleep through any and nearly every movie or DVD or even TV show in this house....Even WWE as loud a it is!

But in my defense...I do work graveyard and 10 hour shifts at that, so if I hardly have any sleep, and my DH wants to watch something at 10 at night....I don't have a whole lot of stamina left.....

 

[greenbean]

Your dogs and chickens are beautiful!

I love J.J. and Weird Altitude!

 

[CocoNUT]

lol we should have a race to see who falls asleep quickest - be warned I can fall asleep on a clothes line ......you know - one of those things that you hang wet washing on OUTSIDE

how the heck do you manage that?! that must be some STRONG clothes line....

Love the chickens...such pretty colors. I like the bearded cochins myself.

 

[Southern by choice]

I love cochins! I'm "growing" up Standard Barred Cochins right now! They are so adorable!

Your poultry is purdy!

 

[jodief100]

I just LOVE your birds! They are so beautiful!

PS: I love big fuzzy cats too. Mine are Maine Coons- Sir Vladimir of Furcats didn't like shows either. My dear Artful Dodger, now waiting for me over the bridge LOVED to go to shows.

 

[CocoNUT]

Maine Coons- Sir Vladimir of Furcats and Artful Dodger.

Can I just say that I LOVE those putty tat names?!?!?!?
I call my super-fluffy putty: Sowen AKA Pantalones...with the spanish accent and everything...cause I love the way it sounds! And he really does look like he has bloomers!
The Prickely Princess/Barbara/Nub-nubs
Snow White AKA Smudge
Prince Charming AKA (unable to say due to the presence of children on this forum)
Lawrence AKA Larry AKA Rary AKA Big Boy AKA HI-Larious

 

[Southern by choice]

I just LOVE your birds! They are so beautiful!

PS: I love big fuzzy cats too. Mine are Maine Coons- Sir Vladimir of Furcats didn't like shows either. My dear Artful Dodger, now waiting for me over the bridge LOVED to go to shows.

Pretty much the only cats I like- Maine Coons!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I do love the "bloomers" on my cats....I just realized that the chickens I like the most also have big "bloomers" !

Thanks for the compliments on my animals...I happen to think they are all pretty good lookin', but I have to..

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I finally separated the geese....It makes me sad, but I am hoping the eggs from the sebs will be fertile so I can sell them. I put Abby and Lucy in one pen with the big "doghouse"....It was big enough when it was put together, that all 6 of us (humans) crawled inside it to check it out! Abby ran right inside. That was where all the geese layed their eggs last year in 3 separate nests so I guess she was happy to see the place.

I also spent an hour or so the last few days raking up the millions of little sticks that seem to multiply like rabbits....all over the yard... almost like poop from the trees....

Of course as soon as I rake up a nice pile, the chickens, ducks, and geese like to pick through it and spread it all back around......

And every time I got near Buck Naked, he got in the way, swinging his head, going after the rake and being a general nuisance,...... until I stopped and used the rake to scratch his head.... He was almost closing his eyes in bliss....The kids and I were giggling about that....goofy goat!

I let Jax (ND) and Andy, my big boer buckling out to run around while we were cleaning up the other night for a few hours and Andy was so excited!!!! He ran around talking at the top of his lungs telling us all how excited he was....running over to say hi to the girls, head butt with Buck Naked and race around scaring the chickens....He did follow me out back a little and talked the whole way. I fed him a couple mushy persimmons off the trees...Yum! I can't stand them! Then he would race back to his buddy JAX at full speed...I love to see that dude run!!!! Jax just tries to interest the girls in how manly he thinks he is....He is mostly yellow from all the pee

Today I was saying hi to the girls and I think Janie's hooha is looking longer.....It should only be another week or so for her and Reese!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

This morning I went out to say hi to all the critters, fill a few waterers, check on everyone.....and Andy had to tattle on JAX.....The roof or their shelter is busted in! Poor JAX most likely fell through it while hanging out on top. Andy was standing on his back hooves and "walking" along the side looking at the damage and crying.... "moooom.....look what JAX did, he broke my house! I didn't do it! It was all JAXs fault....looooooook! " Jax, usually hangs out on top, chillin' in the corner, and Andy always sleeps inside. Poor guys! Tomorrow we are going to see about getting some plywood to try and fix it.

Girls all look the same....tubby.....and preggo. Can't wait for babies....should just be 9 more days!

I did find that we had 3 baby silkies hatch last night. 2 look like they are white, but with buff color on their wings.....interesting! I have about 5 or 6 other silkie eggs ready to hatch.

I finally put the goose eggs in the incubator......and I found one of my lav girls sitting on a nest that was empty before she got there so I know that egg is from her......I believe the lav is recessive so the babies should be white but should carry the lav color gene.

I weighed several of my goose eggs. Abbys are 8.6 to 8.9 ozs, the others averaged from 5.5 to 6.2 . Abbys are for eating so I boiled one up. DS3 loves to eat soft boiled goose eggs so I washed them up for him. I had one for lunch....I don't think I can do that again! I'll just leave them for him. Little old chicken eggs are enough for me.