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Mamaboid
Loving the herd life
Camera is back up, Sherry and Steph on cam. I am going to bed to actually sleep for the first time in 4 nights . No goat watch, no hospital. 
Mamaboid-Bad day turned out a whole lot better than it could have.
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Mamaboid
Loving the herd life
Hey all 
It has been a few days since I was on here, it has been a bit crazy. I have been staying with my sister to help with her therapy and recovery. She is doing great, but I sure hope I never have to have a knee replaced. Quite a bit of pain, and a lot of work. I finally got a few pics of the new kids, Dandy D and Sherry D. Both are Dude's kids so they get the D after their names. Dandy is blue eyed, silver gray like his mom with beautiful markings and solid, long white floppy ears. Sherry is just flat out the most beautiful color I have ever seen. Such a deep brown, solid, long ears and spots. Moms and kids are doing great. The kids play together and it is so much fun to watch.
We have had a rash of chick deaths from the meat chicks and the black giants. They are the same age that I lost the bunch out of my first batch of chicks I bought. I think from now on, I will raise all my own, since they seem to be a whole lot hardier. We have 10 out of the 10 that hatched 2 weeks ago. I have 3 sitting hens, on a total of about 20 eggs. I found two little yellow fuzzy butts this morning and a whole lot of peeping going on under those wings. Can't wait to see what we get.
We lost the duck that had the funky beak, but the other 5 are doing great, and we have a beautiful big duck that has been visiting us for the last 3 years on a regular basis. Every morning, when we go out to let the ducks out of their pen, he is sitting beside the door waiting for them to come out and play. It is really neat.
The camera link has been giving me fits, and I have to rework it, so it will be back up sometime later today or tomorrow.
Here are a few pics just from cell phone, but you can get the idea.
Dandy
Sherry
Ducks
Visiting Duck that waits for the kids to come out and play every day.
Elsie and her girls, Elizabeth and Erin. Look how big we are.
Dude and Eli. Eli is almost as big as Dude.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Later,
BJ
It has been a few days since I was on here, it has been a bit crazy. I have been staying with my sister to help with her therapy and recovery. She is doing great, but I sure hope I never have to have a knee replaced. Quite a bit of pain, and a lot of work. I finally got a few pics of the new kids, Dandy D and Sherry D. Both are Dude's kids so they get the D after their names. Dandy is blue eyed, silver gray like his mom with beautiful markings and solid, long white floppy ears. Sherry is just flat out the most beautiful color I have ever seen. Such a deep brown, solid, long ears and spots. Moms and kids are doing great. The kids play together and it is so much fun to watch.
We have had a rash of chick deaths from the meat chicks and the black giants. They are the same age that I lost the bunch out of my first batch of chicks I bought. I think from now on, I will raise all my own, since they seem to be a whole lot hardier. We have 10 out of the 10 that hatched 2 weeks ago. I have 3 sitting hens, on a total of about 20 eggs. I found two little yellow fuzzy butts this morning and a whole lot of peeping going on under those wings. Can't wait to see what we get.
We lost the duck that had the funky beak, but the other 5 are doing great, and we have a beautiful big duck that has been visiting us for the last 3 years on a regular basis. Every morning, when we go out to let the ducks out of their pen, he is sitting beside the door waiting for them to come out and play. It is really neat.
The camera link has been giving me fits, and I have to rework it, so it will be back up sometime later today or tomorrow.
Here are a few pics just from cell phone, but you can get the idea.
Dandy
Sherry
Ducks
Visiting Duck that waits for the kids to come out and play every day.
Elsie and her girls, Elizabeth and Erin. Look how big we are.
Dude and Eli. Eli is almost as big as Dude.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Later,
BJ
jodief100
True BYH Addict
Everyone is looking great!
I hope your sister recovers well. Knee replacements are a serious thing. I did some design work for some replacement knees a few years ago. I decided I never want to have anything replaced!
I hope your sister recovers well. Knee replacements are a serious thing. I did some design work for some replacement knees a few years ago. I decided I never want to have anything replaced!
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Mamaboid
Loving the herd life
Morning everybody.
Here are some more pics we took yesterday.
Dusty and Dandy
Stephanie and Sherry
New Fuzzy Butts hatched over weekend. We ended up with 11.
Camera link is back up and on the enclosures again. Steph, Dusty and kids in first one, Elsie and girls in second, and Brandy and Bucks in far one.
We started on a new goat hutch yesterday. It is gonna be funky looking, we used an old satelite dish for the roof. We don't throw NUTTIN away here.
Hope everybody is having a great day.
Later
BJ
Here are some more pics we took yesterday.
Dusty and Dandy
Stephanie and Sherry
New Fuzzy Butts hatched over weekend. We ended up with 11.
Camera link is back up and on the enclosures again. Steph, Dusty and kids in first one, Elsie and girls in second, and Brandy and Bucks in far one.
We started on a new goat hutch yesterday. It is gonna be funky looking, we used an old satelite dish for the roof. We don't throw NUTTIN away here.
Hope everybody is having a great day.
Later
BJ
elevan
Critter Addict ♥
Ah...look at all the cute babies! 
20kidsonhill
True BYH Addict
Very nice pictures, love them.
daisychick
Overrun with beasties
Love Sherry's coloring 
Dandy and Dusty have the prettiest shade of gray, it is amazing how similar they look.
Dandy and Dusty have the prettiest shade of gray, it is amazing how similar they look.- Thread starter
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Mamaboid
Loving the herd life
Hey all.
Well, I got a new goat today. She is a Mini Nubian and very sweet. Pretty coloring. Red with black hairs through out her coat. She has horns and a sweet looking face that ya just wanna hug on. I bought her from a fellow BYHer and here is the link to a pic of her.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19379&p=1
I also got 3 Narragansett turkey poults, and 7 Narragansett hatching eggs which I set in the bator this afternoon at 5pm. Wish me luck with them. This is my first foray into turkeys.
Steph and Dusty and the kids are doing great and are on camera during the day. I shut it off at night as they are still going into the kidding pens at night and it would mean moving the camera back and forth.
My hen hatched chicks are a week old and all are doing great.
My bator hatched chicks are 3 weeks old and all are doing great.
My white meat birds and black giants have finally stopped dying and all of the survivors are doing good now. Still not sure what it was that killed them. They had no symptoms until they were almost gone. I have 11 out of the 25 white ones left, and 6 out of 10 of the black ones. I don't think I will be buying anymore chicks for a while. I have much better luck with my own.
My sister is doing good with her new Knee. She had a lot of pain at first, but is doing well with her therapy, walking with walker, and making good progress. She says to thank all of you that wished her well.
Ducks doing good, being brats and not coming in off the pond at night to go in pen. They stay right in the middle and quack at me. Wanna give em a
Guess that is all for now, hope everybody had a great weekend and has a wonderful week.
Later
BJ
Well, I got a new goat today. She is a Mini Nubian and very sweet. Pretty coloring. Red with black hairs through out her coat. She has horns and a sweet looking face that ya just wanna hug on. I bought her from a fellow BYHer and here is the link to a pic of her.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19379&p=1
I also got 3 Narragansett turkey poults, and 7 Narragansett hatching eggs which I set in the bator this afternoon at 5pm. Wish me luck with them. This is my first foray into turkeys.
Steph and Dusty and the kids are doing great and are on camera during the day. I shut it off at night as they are still going into the kidding pens at night and it would mean moving the camera back and forth.
My hen hatched chicks are a week old and all are doing great.
My bator hatched chicks are 3 weeks old and all are doing great.
My white meat birds and black giants have finally stopped dying and all of the survivors are doing good now. Still not sure what it was that killed them. They had no symptoms until they were almost gone. I have 11 out of the 25 white ones left, and 6 out of 10 of the black ones. I don't think I will be buying anymore chicks for a while. I have much better luck with my own.
My sister is doing good with her new Knee. She had a lot of pain at first, but is doing well with her therapy, walking with walker, and making good progress. She says to thank all of you that wished her well.
Ducks doing good, being brats and not coming in off the pond at night to go in pen. They stay right in the middle and quack at me. Wanna give em a
Guess that is all for now, hope everybody had a great weekend and has a wonderful week.
Later
BJ
bonbean01
Herd Master
Love all the photos!!!! Can't help but comment on PapaBoid's facial expression with that sweet little goat in his arms...just like my hubby with a baby lamb...these tough guy types just melt and it makes me go all awwwwwwwwwwwwwww inside
noriko
Chillin' with the herd
It was very nice meeting you today. I hope they figured out who is the boss by now. Good luck with Narragansett Turkey poults. Narragansett Turkeys are very friendly birds and follow you everywhere you go. You will love them. Please let me know how everything goes with Turkey hatching eggs. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions or problems.
Thanks, Noriko
Thanks, Noriko
Mamaboid said:Hey all.
Well, I got a new goat today. She is a Mini Nubian and very sweet. Pretty coloring. Red with black hairs through out her coat. She has horns and a sweet looking face that ya just wanna hug on. I bought her from a fellow BYHer and here is the link to a pic of her.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19379&p=1
I also got 3 Narragansett turkey poults, and 7 Narragansett hatching eggs which I set in the bator this afternoon at 5pm. Wish me luck with them. This is my first foray into turkeys.
Steph and Dusty and the kids are doing great and are on camera during the day. I shut it off at night as they are still going into the kidding pens at night and it would mean moving the camera back and forth.
My hen hatched chicks are a week old and all are doing great.
My bator hatched chicks are 3 weeks old and all are doing great.
My white meat birds and black giants have finally stopped dying and all of the survivors are doing good now. Still not sure what it was that killed them. They had no symptoms until they were almost gone. I have 11 out of the 25 white ones left, and 6 out of 10 of the black ones. I don't think I will be buying anymore chicks for a while. I have much better luck with my own.
My sister is doing good with her new Knee. She had a lot of pain at first, but is doing well with her therapy, walking with walker, and making good progress. She says to thank all of you that wished her well.
Ducks doing good, being brats and not coming in off the pond at night to go in pen. They stay right in the middle and quack at me. Wanna give em a
Guess that is all for now, hope everybody had a great weekend and has a wonderful week.
Later
BJ
