from lynn.....Gabby is arriving Saturday morning. My prediction is 8 pups
here we go again..... this is a good spacing 7 weeks old for one bunch "bugs" and the next arrives..... those will be opening their eyes for dogfest and the bugs will be good fun....gabbies will be eating out of dishes when audrey arrives... not too bad...
Pockets is the concern for the day i am glad to hear she was up eating hay.. and scrolling back i see that she was lying down-- but the significant part is that she rolled before she got up-- a donkey that is too sick does not bother to roll or swat flys. th st does not mean she is out of the woods-- bryan said he was lookingg for improvement after 48 hours on the meds( injections) + she is on the "aspirin " kind of paste stuff which would make her feel better... he thinks she might have a "gut" issue and she is getting some "paste" for that.. fyi all this paste stuff comes in a fat syringe and the plunger has "bumps" she is getting 4 bumps of the aspirin stuff and 2 bumps of the gut whatever...
i do have aa question.... looking from afar... mo is 1800 pounds +pockets @ 400 + 5 mini's at 250 each=3450 pounds of equines if my math is correct... we have also 30 chickens at about 7 pounds each = 210 pounds of chickens so why is my food bill at the co-op $50 for equine food and $150 for chicken feed...???-- something just does not compute there.... when yo add both pockets and mo look a little thin.... it coud be a simple thing like there is no place to feed either without the mini's getting involved.. so people "volunteers - not knowing where to feed them, just don't.i had started trying to feed mo and pockets in small dishes out in the yard- which works well... except.... when pockets didn't finish her breakfast in the raised bucket of the tractor ( which mo does not know about) i just left it there figuring she could go back and finish it... might need help putting her foot on the box-- but that i was aware of and did that... she didn't finish which is when i noticed she was lethargic and began to call for help from bryan... what i also noticed ist when we were trying to free feed ms harl and GG they left food in the dish and did not touch it... yet would eat out of our hands....ODD...
that, i am afraid of .... is the birds....-- in both cases an unattended dish of sweet feed is an invitation to dine with these 100000's of birds.
boy do we got those !!! and it is not simple to get rid of them either..... plus... not sure if it is related but... we have had darn few mosquitos and ticks this year.... after the tv telling us ther would be a bumper crop of ticks, i think i have "tic picked" only 2 ticks the entire season... when a few years ago 6 to 8 ticks per dog per day was not unusual.... in spite of whatever goop we used...
my point being.....just as why 2 ships ran ibnto each other, jumping at a few obvious causes/ solutions , might not consider the interrelationship of a bunch of tiny details.
in CZA case-- several years ago i said i hought a few bird houses would be nice to have--- AND I GOT 'EM - 49 OF THEM-- beautiful bird houses.----.. so we put them up... and birds moved in.. procreating happily in the new found living accomodations... which were accidently created by my fascination with intricate bird houses.. then... lust...( as someone told me it says in the bible...) will be the ruination of the world.... all this procreating has meant the bird hice (plural of house) we had provicded was not enough and many moved into the barn/kennel -- now there are not enough mnosquitos to keep their hunger under control and they have to move to sneakiing into the equine grain... as tehy do... they "DO" leaving a white material which drips and slides into the food making it distasteful to pockets. when she does not finish her food, people don't give her any more.. COULD BE.... she is thin because i said i liked bird hice?????
stAYING ON THE BIRD/BUG TOPIC FOR ONE SMALL DETAIL.... A FEW YaERS AGO -- SOMEONE PRODUCED A dust TO PUT IN HORSE FOOD TO PREVENT FLYS FROM LIVING OFF THE MANURE... AND I TRIED IT... WE HAD VERY FEW FLYS THEN I NOTICED WE HAD ALOT OF BIRDS WALKING AROUND THE YARD WHO WERE HAVING TROUBLE FLYING... I STOPPED USING IT AND THE BIRDS BECAME AIRBORN AGAIN.. ( AND I THINK THE STUFF IS OFF THE MARKET NOW)
POCKETS WILL EAT CARROTS TOO--- SO WE ARE WORKING ON HAND FEED ING HER THOSE- anyone walikng by her is welcome to breakj up a carrot and give it oto her i think the carrot supply is in the 55 gal drum of horse food to hide it from mo.
I AM LOOKING FOR GREAT IMPROVEMENT TODAY...
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UPSHOT OF ALL THIS IS IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS I HOPE WE PULL DOWN ALL TEH OLD NESTS IN THE BARN AND GET AT THE WALLS WITH GREEN SOAP AND THE HOTSY POWER SPRAYER ,,
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GOOD MORNING ALL! FINN IS SUCH A GOOD TRAVELER. HE DOESN'T USUALLY RIDE IN THE SEAT NEXT TO EVE BUT IT WAS A NICE COMFORT FOR HER TO HAVE HIM WITH HER FOR A BIT OF THE TRIP. HE IS SUCH A GOOD TRAVELER. IN APRIL WAS HIS FIRST TRIP HERE AND I COULD TELL HE WAS NERVOUS. HE WAS HESITANT ABOUT EATING AND POTTYING ETC BUT THIS TRIP HE'S AN OLD PRO. HE IS QUITE COMFORTABLE HERE ALREADY AND NO HESITATIONS! IT'S AMAZING TO ME WHAT A GREAT MEMORY DOGS HAVE! JUST LIKE CARLENE AND THE TRAINERS TOLD US. EXPOSURE EXPOSURE TAKE HIM PLACES.
I MEANT TO POST SOMETHING AT THEIR 6 MOS. ANNIVERSARY ABOUT HOW COOL IT IS THAT FINN JUST FITS RIGHT IN NOW. THERE WERE TIMES IN THE BEGINNING IT SEEMED LIKE SO MUCH WORK AND WILL THIS ULTIMATELY MAKE HER LIFE EASIER BUT SOME WHERE ALONG THE LINE ALL THOSE THOUGHTS JUST DISAPPEAR AND YOU REALIZE IT'S ALL JUST ROUTINE NOW FOR ALL OF US AND IT'S NO LONGER WORK. WE GET JUST ENJOY ALL THE AMAZING THINGS FINN DOES FOR EVE!! THANKS OF COURSE TO EVERYONE AT SERVICE DOG PROJECT AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM!!
