A little break...

With not a whole lot happening in the meantime--we had a bunch of extra dogs out here, but they played very nice with our dogs, and LOVED the chickens.

I think we have a decent system going. We put 1 gallon of feed in each feeder every other day. Let's see, so it goes like this Day 1, clean out and fill waters. Day 2, put one gallon jug of food in feeders. Day 3 place clean bricks in water (to raise the water level). Day 4, put one gallon jug of food in feeders. Repeat 1-4 until can't take it anymore, then fried chicken for everyone.

We had our semi-annual-spin-off-one-time-only party this weekend. We still have 3 roosters inside. Seems I am their sun. We stayed up quite late, and the next morning, I slept until 9:30. As I walk into the kitchen, Houdini starts crowing. The people that slept in the room between the kitchen and the chickens groaned, rolled over, and asked if we were having chicken for breakfast, and could they please pick it out. I have noticed that it doesn't matter when we get up, that's when they crow. Eric has said the same thing--if he gets up at 4 to go to the bathroom, and then 4:30 for the day, they crow at 4:30. Up at 6? Crows at 6, and for whatever reason, Houdini is the only one of the three in here that crow. The other 2 are the Partridge Cochin. They are much bigger than Houdini but are much, much dumber. (and they are Bootes and Babs (they have feathers down their legs--so Bootes is my humor, and Babs is actually short for Baboon, because he was plucked bald, practically day 3 (:)) so he has a pink little bottom.)

Goats are great--they should be getting bred, but we haven't looked too far into that just yet. I do not want a buck here, I know nothing about goat AIing*, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt it would be cheaper. That. plus the fact that they do not come near us very often. Although, in bringing groups through to see them, the goats stood by me without freaking out or bolting, so that was a warm fuzzy for Lori. Fine, I did have some leaves, but the other people did, too!

Squeak is out of the kennel, but mostly because I felt so bad for him. We've switched him to a prescription food. I know. I swore I would never be one of those people that fed their animals better than they eat, but this cat has been here since.... well, he just turned 9, so I've had him a long time. He's put up with a lot, so he can eat the stupid fancy food. It's going to make it so he doesn't pee everywhere, so that in itself makes it okey-dokey-fine with me.

so, as I am very tired, tonight, the quote is from Ok Go "So please, use your powers for good."

if you want to see an awesome video, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdbVhBGETQ&mode=related&search= as we do not have 'television' we were not aware of the 'treadmill song' but this is the same group. Also, I am aware that this 'phenomenon' happened quite some time ago, but I just learned about it, so this is the first I could share it!!! (Plus now I'll always have it easily accessible) (*taps forehead* Not just a hat rack, my friend) the powers quote is from Invincible. Hat rack is from Friends.)

*artificial insemination. I'd explain, but I am really trying to keep this blog PG. Look it up if you're still confused.