July 07, 2006

moke is yucky here. It was so hot last night we had to keep the windows open and this morning it is unbearable to breathe outside almost and we had to shut the windows again. It just smells like a really intense campfire, but this is about a million times that size or better.

We are starting to prepare to leave. We are not going to leave until we have to.. when we get a notice. It is still 35 km from here, but since we have to grab the stock trailers from 40 minutes away, one way, we are bringing it here so we have it.

We also took an hour this morning to clip right wings on the chickens as they are almost being able to clear a 7 foot fence and if they have to get moved, the other fence is only 5 feet high. They do not have enough weight yet and they can fly pretty good now. I will do the turkeys when and if we have to move them. There are only 5 VS the 51 chickens. I culled out a few more birds on the chickens so it was a good thing to handle them. I pulled their legs bands. Thus far I have culled for a Rhode Island Red hen with a weird congenetive eye problem in both eyes and then Plymouth Barred Rock roosters with crooked or broken toes. The rest of the roosters I am going to cull the light ones and keep the 2 largest which meet their breed standards, as well as how docile they are. I am keeping all the hens at this point, except the one with the freaky eyes.

The Dark Brahmas are taking FOREVER to get their back feathers.. they still are bald or have fluff on their backs.

We are going to go fish the horses out of the back 40 and them bring them into the front pasture as soon as "Kid" finishes his breakfast. He is having organic corn flakes. he had the choice between Special K and the organic flakes and he told me he prefers the organic ones to the Special K. I was very surprised and very pleased. We have the Special K ones here in pre-made cups as "Teenager" went to a base ball tourney a couple weekends ago and his grandma picked him up some simple stuff from Costco when she went up there.