i live on a farm. or will until saturday. things are a little different on a farm than in the city. for instance.
this morning, i woke a little (ok, ok, a lot) earlier than usual. lets say around 7:00 am. (cut me some slack, it IS summer!) dad and i decided to check on my cat who just had kittens two days ago, and the chicken who hatched 18 chicks last week. can i just insert that it is rather funny when you are trying to move, your animals seem to know that to they have all these babies and you have no idea what in the world to do with them all? anyone want 18 chicks? half of them when they are old enough will lay either green or blue eggs......
back to my story. we have a barn. and one of the main threats to a barn is a groundhog. what a groundhog does is goes under the foundation of the structure and undermines it by tunneling. we knew we had groundhogs cause there were big holes on the ground level of the barn.
dad and i went to check the "have a heart" trap we had set the night before. the bait was rotten corn....not very inticing, but hey, to each his own.
BINGO!! we caught a female! we were worried that she could have pups, but thankfully she didn't. so we tried to think of how to get rid of this thing. we walked down to the creek and saw that it wasn't deep enough to drown it, so dad got the bright idea to drown it in a trash can. but he didn't reckon on the desire this groundhog, we will call her bertha, had to live. she wouldn't drown. she just wouldn't. we tried for about 1/2 an hour but she always found a way to climb to the top and get air.
so we decided to take her somewhere and drown her (hang on tree huggers and animal's rights people, it gets better. ) our neighbor had a nice creek that we could use, but upon arrival, it wasn't deep enough either. i think bertha had been blessed or something, or this was her lucky day or her horiscope said, "you have the desire to live, and that will save your life today." and so she didn't die. (i just want to insert again, that groundhogs are VERY smelly animals. and when you are driving ten miles away in a car all closed up.....i will leave that to your imagination.) we drove ten minutes away and dropped her off at a bridge(she didn't seem to want to fall 15 feet for some reason. we had to shake her out of the cage) . we dropped her off the bridge because mom has seen dogs badly hurt by groundhogs and bertha was very mad. dad and i didn't want her to turn on us and, well, you know. and away she ran into the sunrise.
so if you want, buy our farm and you can have experiences like this too!
Posted by hill at August 27, 2003 07:49 PMi'm intrigued.
how do you know half your chickens will lay green or blue eggs? and why?
ok joy. let me start at the beginning. we have two hens right now. one is an aracana hen and the other is a red comet hen. both hens laid eggs in a nest in the barn but the red comet hen sat on them for 21 days and hatched them. half were red comet chicks and half were aracana. the aracana are not your steriotypical yellow fluffy chicks. they are brown and fluffy. they are the ones that lay the green and blue eggs. only the shells are green and blue, but you could have a whole bunch of fun with kids on that one!
our chicken lays green eggs. but the breed of chicken lays all different colors of pastel. they were made famous by martha stuart. (blechy woman that she is, she does know SOME things) they would lay all sorts of eggs and she would use them for easter. a cheap fun way to have easter eggs!
do you want some chicks? =) i would love to come to chicago and bring them to you!
Posted by: hill at August 28, 2003 10:39 AMby all means, come to chicago. chicks...let me get back with you. need to check with my new landlord. �
Posted by: joy at August 28, 2003 02:27 PMok joy! i will bring the chicks! they are getting bigger. do you want six four day old kittens plus the mother? they are awfully cute! =)
Posted by: hill at August 29, 2003 08:35 AMHey hill. :-)
We have the same problem with skunks and possums, and after we catch them in our "have a heart" trap, we stick the whole thing in a large trash can , drape a towel over the opening, stick one end of a tube into the can, and the other into the exhaust of a car (preferably one with high methane levels, but it really doesn't matter) and let it run for half an hour. Works every time. Very painless too. Well, as far as I can tell.
Oh and I was going to say hi and all that stuff, but I'll probably see you here very soon, so I'll just leave it to that :-)
the color of the eggs depends on the sex of the
chicken: Roosters lay the blue eggs and the
pullets lay the pink-green eggs.
memory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
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Posted by: Farmer Brown at September 6, 2003 10:53 AMmemory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
`
Posted by: Farmer Brown at September 6, 2003 10:53 AMmemory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
`
Posted by: Farmer Brown at September 6, 2003 10:53 AMmemory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
`
Posted by: Farmer Brown at September 6, 2003 10:53 AMmemory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
`
Posted by: Farmer Brown at September 6, 2003 10:53 AMmemory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
`
Posted by: Farmer Brown at September 6, 2003 10:53 AMmemory is second thing to go ~ i forgot to mention ~ chickens have low mentality and poor memories.
to keep the egg coloring constant, it is better
to keep the roosters on the blue sidewalks and
the pullets on the pink sidewalks. lol. -: )
`
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