HAVING LYNN HERE IS GREAT AND GIVES ME MORE TIME TO DO OTHER THINGS.. TRAINING BEING ONE OF THEM.... 100 YEARS AGO... I USED TO DO A VERY STRANGE THING... ALONG WITH SPOON FEEDING.... WHICH WAS /IS ALSO WIERD... I USED TO HARNESS 2 ADULT DOGS TOGETHER AND GET THE YOUNGER ONE TO LEArn to stride with the adult... it was kind of a fun pastime and it had it's advaNTAGES...
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The problem was it took a bit of footwork to get them started and I'm not so good with the footwork now however Lynn helped yesterday and we did get sizzle and Gemini working together .. basically I take a horse halter turn it upside down and backwards with the headpiece becoming the girth on the dog it makes a fair decent harness and before I got these harness is from China this was what we used as a balance harness for dogs and it was fine … so you put the two harnesses on the dogs then for openers I run a rope through the rings of the girth and hold both ends because with any tension they pull themselves together very much like the pigs did in the commercial for hood milk plus the fact if one turns around and decides to go backwards you could let go and they're not tide together this is kind of critical to begin with 'cause they do that … so Lynn got them started so I could swing in next to her in the golf cart and take them around for awhile and it worked .. So with great bravery I took a double end of snap and hook the two together at the girth and also at their neck because the color that they are now wearing is the nosepiece of the horse halter so with the double ended snaps we bravely took off and they did very well... I did not get into the pond area which I would like to do today but we maDE you turns up by the gate and down by the barn with only one miserable twist up where Gemini decide to go the other way Luckily I could get them unsnapped .. you don't wanna snap two together they might decide to fight 'cause I could get very very complicated .. HISTORICALLY..... I did have a dog get his lower jaw through one of these training collars the chain collar I remember it well it was right by where my desk now is and the dog twisted thus tightening the chain on his lower jaw and tightening around the neck of the other dog that was a horrendous mess as they both were upset with each other trying to bite WHILE they had their jaws all tangled up in This chain .. this is basically why we don't leave collars on dogs at all around here.... that was a mess however .. undoing Germany and sizzle was not too complicated I just Hooked him up again straighten it out and off we went .. within a few days I would expect them to get in stride with each other .. I don't know whether this helps with trying to get in stride with the recipient .. but I don't think it hurts .. it is a lot easier for me in a golf cart .. besides it's kind of fun
For the rest of the animal report
I think the Turkey has been listening to the news about Thanksgiving because one of our turkeys has turned damn MEAN--- now biting people in the rear end .. Lynn got it a significant pinch .. and I was standing there when he bit one of the volunteers with a significant pinch .. I've never seen that before I do know that turkeys are inclined to pEck it something shiny like hubcaps .. and because of that you have to be very careful with small children because their eyes are somewhat shiny and the turkeys might be fascinated that would be a bad thing very bad …. but pinching people in the rear end is only somewhat amusing especially with Thanksgiving on the calendar .we certainly do not intend to serve either Turkey for Thanksgiving dinner it's just interesting thAT he started to bite .
and then there's Moe THE MULE AND BEA THE DRAFT HORSE.... ..
I talked to Janine last night and the reason she bought Moe back here is she thought she might have more people watching her then at the other farm with this possible choke deal … .. I'm just trying to get everybody ready … Moe is no spring chicken and has to be pushing 25 or 30 years old .. she's not gonna live forever , nobody does .however we give her every shot we can .
when we first got Moe I noticed she had a very strange way of extending her head in a peculiar way and I at that point had not known about choke BUT I knew it was strange so I called Brian --DVM--who came and said FOOD WAS STUCK IN HER THROAt.... it was a good call and he straightened it out with hose and water as you have seen on doctor Paul if you happen to watch National Geographic . apparently moe had the same thing happened at the other farm and Brian's straightened it out again .. each time with more and more difficulty .. and there is often a significant bloody nose as he passes the tube down it down her throat. We could only feed her the suggested way which is on the ground and hope for the best------suggestion was not too much grain at any one time which means a Cup of grain in a frying pan held or put on the ground is the way to go we're trying to feed her plus all the hay she needs . That gets complicated with the fact that beA is the more dominant member of that pastURE community … and if we try to feed moe on the ground will have enough trouble with the goats and can't really deal with B at the same time .. because of that I suggested the JANINE find another home for be because her wound is very nicely healed over now and she could easily go to somebody else .. so that's the overall plan with that one
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now for mother and baby we both thought we should try and get those two in with our others by the weekend when beA leaves .. the mother does belong to somebody else who doesn't necessarily want the baby so I said that we keep it .. so that may happen..
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I tell you all this ahead of time because for once I have a few extra minutes to do that and I really don't want people complaining about animals that come and go and they can't keep track of things and etc etc
this is the farm .. AND A FARM WHICH CAN SOMETIMES REPAIR PROBLEMS -- HEALTH OR OTHERWISE.... there are reasons but sometimes animals get moved around and we can't have everybody getting upset when things come and go .. AND WE CAN NOT KEEP THEM ALL....
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I suppose I should report on the fact that I had to reopen the old chicken coop because in spite of the fact that we think the new chicken coop is so lovely I came to 30 some odd eggs which they were carefully piling up in the old Guinea hen coop .. I tried closing that off . which caused a great deal of confusion with about 12 HENS all looking fofor a place to lay eggs .. so I removed the 30 odd eggs to the trash because I didn't know how long they've been there and we will now collect eggs in both places .. I don't know whether you could redirect a chicken I don't know anything about chickens anyway ,,but I did find out but if you prevent them from getting into their nest or what they think is their nest they'll then lay eggs all over the place where you least expect them .. so it's a case if you can't lick him join 'em .
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there that should bring everybody up to date .. I try and have a chore of the day .. and today it is extension cord day .. crazy acres owns an incredible number of extension cords none of which are being used properly or are where they belong or even stored where we can find them .. the one to charge my golf cart goes across the mail call desk and out the window.... having cleaned out The really old chicken coop which is attached to the G10 … I decided to make that the place to store hoses … which is another thing we have an awful lot of …. my shop is very often
sorted by shapes of things so it would be logical to me to put extension cords in the same area as hoses they're both LONG THINS .. That would also imply that wires and ropes should also be stored in the same vicinity .. my collection of wheels of which I have many is in the lower left area of the shop .. I rarely throw away any hardware so the lower right area of the shop in the collection of hardware separated into iron or galvanized .. it's all very logical
I better get to work
If anyone were to doubt Riz's reliability, they wouldn't after watching her last night. I was visiting my son at his new house last night and because it was dark, Riz was off leash relieving herself about 20 feet from me. We didn't know the neighbors' dog was outside off leash also until it came rushing toward us in fight mode. Riz started to run toward the dog, but I said "Ahh Ahh Ahh" and she immediately turned around, ran back to me and calmly stood by my side while we watched the neighbor wrestle his dog to the ground. I was so proud of Riz!
