Cheery's country living adventure

greenbee

Hay prices are going to go up this year, so you may be able to offer what you don't need to someone else who will be happy to cut it.

I have two small water butts to set up for the greenhouse, but need to do some digging to get them at the right height and level! They've been there a while...

rtandon27

Cheery - your hay rake comment sent me down an alice style rabbit hole to find an outdoor broom and a window squeegee - not sure how my brain works to make that connection but I'm now weighing out between 2 brooms and 3 squeegees 😂😂😂

I'm back out of the hole now & trying to finish off a little project for work which is already overdue as others did not complete their part until the deadline for the whole thing had come & gone! 

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 RT, I suppose rakes and brooms and squeegees are all handles with so.ething useful on the end!

Good suggestion greenbee - I confess I get a bit overwhelmed about trying to sort things out through the word of mouth network... I'm not proud of it, but that's one of the things that's put me off having someone else cut our hay in previous years. We tend to leave it quite late (trying to encourage more wildlife) so most of the cutting has happened round here already - mostly goes for silage rather than hay here. But I should stop being a wimp about it! (Or perhaps that's a good incentive for me to get on and finish it all myself!) For the past two years what we haven't harvested ourselves we've just let the cows in to eat so at least it doesn't get 'wasted' as such.

Anyway, rabbiting... sat outside the vets again waiting for her to have a look at poor old Bessie. We rang last week as she'd swelled up again - increasing the diuretic seems to have sorted that, but she's still not right. Vet is going to have a look at her foot too. Definitely not a money saving day...

PurpleFairy26

Hope Bessie is ok. 

Cheery_Daff

Thanks PF - it seems Bessie is fine! Nothing wrong with her foot that the vet can see, she was leading the vet a merry dance when it was time to go back into the crate... And no need for draining again thank goodness - seems the increased dose of diuretics have done their job.

She has generally been looking rather unwell, but the vet reckons that's her system getting used to the hormonal implant, which is causing her to moult. she needs more protein.The solution? Scrambled eggs. 

Drove a chicken 3 hours to be told to give her scrambled eggs 😂😂 bloody chicken putting it on 😂😂

themadvix

😂😂 the things we do for our pets! Glad she’s OK though.

Cheery_Daff

Bless her. Very pleased we took her to this vet and didn't just settle for the one who said she was about to die several weeks ago. She definitely would have died if that fluid had continued to build up and restrict her heart and lungs. 

Anyway, a success tonight - we shut them chickens in the run at 7, and when I went back at 9pm they had ALL gone into the house and nodded off! That's the first time they've done it by themselves - the new ones have so far all waited for us before going in (partly because the old ones sometimes chase them back out...). Very pleased they're getting the hang of it!

PurpleFairy26

I have never kept chickens but would have thought them eating scrambled eggs would be the last thing suggested. It’s a bit like eating your own cast offs 😂

missymoo81

Hi Cheery!
I used to read your diary on the DF board years ago and I didn’t realise you had a diary here! I’m about to start reading through but thought I would post to say hello! I hope you’re well! I’ll post every so often and drop in for a cuppa. I remember you used to drink lots of tea and make pancakes often! 

themadvix

PurpleFairy26 said:

I have never kept chickens but would have thought them eating scrambled eggs would be the last thing suggested. It’s a bit like eating your own cast offs 😂

I don’t think the human equivalent bears thinking about! 🤢