Not to feed the fire nor send this off on a tangent, but this is precisely why I am terrible at chatting online or texting on the cell. Nothing gets my goat more than the shortcuts and misgivings to our language just because we want to do it faster. With the proliferation of technology in our...
Funny, I just last night posted a similar pic in the First Egg thread.
I know what you mean... you can hear the blood curdling screech all the way from the barn. Bet your poor girl was like mine, walking bow-legged for a week. Oh, and it was just a single yolk! Practically made an omelet all on...
Not our first egg and this probably belongs in a different post, but just couldn't resist showing this pic from a collection day of our mixed batch of chickens. I knew which Araucana laid this cause she was walking bow-legged for a week. LOL... well not really, but I knew what that blood...
Well, we only named our first wave of chickens cause we thought it would be so much fun. Since then, it's too hard to keep up with them all unless they do something that really warrants a name. Here are what we still have:
Araucanas:
Pepper - cause she has the prettiest peppery looking...
13,739 +8 Rhode Island Reds, 11 Araucanas, 2 Wyandotts, 3 Black Australorps, 1 Plymouth Rock, 1 Barred Rock = 13,765
Plus 4 Quarter horses, 4 Scottish Highlanders, 1 new Jersey calf, 1 bunny (and that's just the way I like it!) 3 cats, 1 Aussie Shepard...