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14 years ago
Warning, this post may contain boring information, swear words, and dumb opinions. It will be taking me a while to get those free pictures done, but trust me, I will get them done sooner or later.
A few days ago we got an order of 36 baby chicks, so they have been keeping fairly occupied. Aswell as socializing Eddy, my insomnia and waking up at noon.
First of all, the chicks are freaking adorable. I haven't gotten chicks in a while, so I'm excited. We ordered them from McMurray Hatchery. We got 25 pullets from the "ornamental layer collection" and 5 Dark Brahmas. (I love brahmas, so I could not go without.) Plus they gave us a free exotic chick, which ended up being a Dark Brahma. Then they had 5 "Red Star" males for warmth.
One of our babies ended up dying. But she was bittiest and was getting weak. (I regret not putting sugar in their water, now.) But the rest of them are alive and well. We got a bunch of Polish chickens, which have tiny puffball afros. Those kind tend to be more aggresive/curious than most, so if you skritch around in the wood shavings they will run towards you in a mob and peck at your nails. Then followed by the rest of them. The baby Brahmas look like penguins, and there is one that is almost all black, and sort of scares me when it stares at me with the ominous, judging eyes.
Today I fenced off a big patch of long grass for the horses, with help from my dad. I had all of the posts relatively straight untill he plodded out and insisted to get it done really quickly. Dx But for a temporary fence it turned out really nice. The poor beasties picked their other pastures down to the nitty gritty. Now I am going to be obligated to put them out at noon, then get them back in and 8'o'clock. As long as they don't decide to run away all should be going smoothly.
Then their is Eddy, the new puppy. He has been getting along well, listening like a dream on walks. Luckily pretty much all of my neighbors are relatives, aunts and uncles, that have dogs that Eddy can interact with. I have to feed him when I wake up and when I put him to sleep. We have a little pen that we have for him. It has a bed, food, water and toys. It is not that little of an area (about to large dog crates long and one and a half wide.) But he does not mind it at all, and usually will be more comfortable falling asleep in there. He has to be separated otherwise the other dogs will eat his food, and he is eating puppy food. Plus it is the ease of mind for me knowing he won't be running around in the dog yard in the middle of the night. I don't wake up early enough to have him in my room, seeing as he usually will be let out by someone else by the time I wake up.
So that is what is going on making me unable to do the pictures right away. I have about five sketched, and just need to regain muse, energy, and time.
Adios. Collie, out.
A few days ago we got an order of 36 baby chicks, so they have been keeping fairly occupied. Aswell as socializing Eddy, my insomnia and waking up at noon.
First of all, the chicks are freaking adorable. I haven't gotten chicks in a while, so I'm excited. We ordered them from McMurray Hatchery. We got 25 pullets from the "ornamental layer collection" and 5 Dark Brahmas. (I love brahmas, so I could not go without.) Plus they gave us a free exotic chick, which ended up being a Dark Brahma. Then they had 5 "Red Star" males for warmth.
One of our babies ended up dying. But she was bittiest and was getting weak. (I regret not putting sugar in their water, now.) But the rest of them are alive and well. We got a bunch of Polish chickens, which have tiny puffball afros. Those kind tend to be more aggresive/curious than most, so if you skritch around in the wood shavings they will run towards you in a mob and peck at your nails. Then followed by the rest of them. The baby Brahmas look like penguins, and there is one that is almost all black, and sort of scares me when it stares at me with the ominous, judging eyes.
Today I fenced off a big patch of long grass for the horses, with help from my dad. I had all of the posts relatively straight untill he plodded out and insisted to get it done really quickly. Dx But for a temporary fence it turned out really nice. The poor beasties picked their other pastures down to the nitty gritty. Now I am going to be obligated to put them out at noon, then get them back in and 8'o'clock. As long as they don't decide to run away all should be going smoothly.
Then their is Eddy, the new puppy. He has been getting along well, listening like a dream on walks. Luckily pretty much all of my neighbors are relatives, aunts and uncles, that have dogs that Eddy can interact with. I have to feed him when I wake up and when I put him to sleep. We have a little pen that we have for him. It has a bed, food, water and toys. It is not that little of an area (about to large dog crates long and one and a half wide.) But he does not mind it at all, and usually will be more comfortable falling asleep in there. He has to be separated otherwise the other dogs will eat his food, and he is eating puppy food. Plus it is the ease of mind for me knowing he won't be running around in the dog yard in the middle of the night. I don't wake up early enough to have him in my room, seeing as he usually will be let out by someone else by the time I wake up.
So that is what is going on making me unable to do the pictures right away. I have about five sketched, and just need to regain muse, energy, and time.
Adios. Collie, out.
