I'm so tired of this stinkin' rain!!!!

Pens are wet, stinky and slippery. Chickens, turkeys and pheasants are sneezing. Put the pheasants in a new pen with their shelter being in one end of the big chicken house. Fine. Then yours truly forgot to latch the gate between their side and the laying hen's side. So today in the rain I'm netting 13 fast and wet pheasants in a slippery sloping pen with chickens getting in the way. Not a happy camper.

Wish I was a duck. My wandering Canada never showed up, another Canada just fell over dead in the yard. Don't know what happened. He was fine one minute and dead the next. My only blue silkie hen died and I've got 3 cases of fowl pox in the Welsummer pen. Lost all 3 of them.

Have vaccinated the rest. Suzy the older Great Pyr stepped on a huge treble hook which went all the way through her foot. Had to get a bolt cutters to get it out. $200+ vet bill on that one. The Great Pyr pup got half of a hickory nut imbedded in her upper gum. Another trip to the vet and a $127 bill including meds.If this crap doesn't end pretty soon, I'll be ready for the loony bin.


