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Lee
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 Posted - 10/28/2009 : 5:02:37 PM
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Just had to share my latest coke spewing incident. I went out to feed my girls this afternoon, got my old girl separated from the other two so she could eat without being challenged. Coke in hand I turn around to watch my old girl and make sure she is eating slowly when I hear my newly preggo girl growl like Chewbacca and then spit and then growl again, as I am turning I also hear Thelma my golden Comet chicken squawking like she is heading for the soup pot. Standing there beak to nose over Emmie's feed bowl is my favorite chicken and my maiden preggo girl spitting and squawking at each other like their life is in danger, neither of them wanting to give up. My golden comet left first heavily coated in Emmie's spit. It was the funniest damn thing I have seen in a while. I have got to give up drinking Coke, but first gotta go clean up the chicken.
Lee Ann Hammer
Magnolia Hill Alpacas
West Point, VA.
757 870 0037
larryhamm@gmail.com
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Judith
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 5:57:01 PM
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Oh, it is funny when the alps and the chickens get into a p*ssing match over who owns the bowl (or in our case, the hay bin). I often have to remove eggs before I can refill the baskets where I place the hay, and the chickens are always hanging around during "grain" time hoping somebody will get so excited that they spill a pan. Of course, I don't drink Coke while I'm feeding, but if I did I'm sure I'd regret it!
Judith Korff
AlpacaNation Forum Co-Moderator
LadySong Suris
Randolph, NY 14772
Cell: (716) 499-0383
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tortkid43
329 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 12:05:37 AM
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How true Judith....My Black Copper Marans wait for me to walk out in the mornings to feed the boys their grain and they get what falls on the ground or is spit as one male tried to muscle in on anothers feeder!!...So funny to watch the hens walk between the legs of the paca's as they are eating all the while trying not to get stepped on and the big Roo just watching his girls crowing like he owns the place~!
Mike
Mike and Maggie Carabajal
Rancho De La Luz Alpacas
Elgin, Tx
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llamapelli
1186 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2009 : 12:19:27 AM
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My husband and I were out looking at properties in Missouri. I suddenly had an important realization that I had to tell Michael. I told him that when he goes home Friday and puts out hay,he needs to remember to move our Maran hen (a real ***** right now) who is sitting on a nest. He has to wear leather gloves and move the whole thing en masse (preferably at night). While he's at it, he needs to check for eggs on the ground near the hay bales (round, so are moved by tractor). Michael was trying to commit it all to memory, and the real estate agent was just cracking up. He especially liked the idea of moving a hen while wearing gauntlets.
Melanie McMurry MD
Anasazi Alpacas & Kokopelli Llamas
Gladesville, WV
304-864-5210
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MH9022
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Posted - 11/06/2009 : 09:47:23 AM
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My husband and I get quite the tickle watching our new guineas. I think....they think, they are alpacas. This summer when we would let the pacas out in the pasture every morning, of course you know how they run and jump like..."Yahoo, we're free!"....well, the guineas do the same thing! They run, flap their wings and jump about, like "Yahoo, we're free too!" Eventhough they can walk right through the fencing we have between the pastures...goofy, dumb birds. But funny.
Marcia Fish
Alpacas at Orchard Hill Farm
Hoyt, KS
fish@holtonks.net
Marcia Fish
Alpacas at Orchard Hill Farm
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Christiane
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Posted - 11/06/2009 : 8:27:41 PM
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I never had any poultry until I got a couple of guinea chicks last year from a friend, also an alpaca farmer. Due to several unfortunate incidents(Anatolian dispatched two, German Shepherd got the third one when it was stupid anough to go into the dog yard), I only had one left this past winter. This summer I felt sorry for the lone hen(she did give me quite a few tasty eggs) so went hunting for breeders and finally found one in Indiana, a three hour drive for me. Got four and my ASD puppy promptly dispatched one when I finally let them out of the poultry house. The three remaining ones have wised up and stay out of there. The old girl from last year is a hoot. She sometimes decides that she needs to show the alpacas(she lives pretty much with the females) that she is the boss and chases them across the pasture. It is too funny to watch. Last night she came to the poultry house to check out the youngsters and since she was in there, I locked her up with them. You should have heard her protest. She also bossed them around so much that they huddled in one corner of the building, as far away from her as they could get. I get a real kick out of these birds.
Christiane Rudolf
Tanglewood Farm
19741 Victory Lane
Fayetteville, Ohio 45118
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Lee
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Gotta quit drinking coke
