I found this pic amusing. It looks like DS is having a conversation with a Spitzhauben. 🤣 (This was taken during the heat wave while at county fair)
Speaking of the fair, DS won reserve champion and state fair delegate for photography:
He also entered this in photo editing:
The dressed up...
Our Dom pullet (Fizzy) won class champ (American Pullet & Best Standard Pullet). Our black Orp hen beat her and got Reserve Champion. (Our Orp was almost grand champ but a pretty, younger Welsummer hen won the final round.) Our bantams got several class champs and our bantam Wyandotte won...
I agree that your mystery hen was most likely due to employee error. "Chick days" are just that. A few days of the year when they farm stores sell chicks. Some employees may be knowledgeable about chickens; other not so much. Their goal is to keep chicks alive until sold. However in your...
The 2 meaties I kept are huge. One has pretty slow feather growth with bald spots. It feels weird picking them up because of their plump, firm bodies and hot featherless skin areas.
I was at U of I in Champaign. I somehow agreed to chaperone 220 high school kids on a college campus for 5...
Still exhausting. Wish I could say things are better, but they're worse.
Sis was in hospital for a whole week. They found numerous health issues but discharged Friday pm with a home-health service & rehab. She really needs a rehab facility, but she declined.
Her BP is 180/90, her sugar has...
Long, hard day.
My dad has Alzheimers and my sister (who has numerous health issues) lives with him. Because of her physical and more recently mental limitations, I have been managing my dad's house as well as my own.
This morning she had a mild stroke. It's a very difficult time. She was...
Look what hatched today:
(Thurs Night- Fri Morning is official hatch date, but we have some early birds.)
White leghorns:
Olive Eggers
Tan egg: I was told there were a lot of meatbird eggs, but looks like a buff orp to me
These were extra fertile eggs from the education office. They were...
Here's Fizzy
(My last Dom was named Bubbles. This one is similar - but not quite the same. So she's Fizz)
Fizzy is very interested in the camera. It's hard to get good full body shots.
But Very Easy to get beak close-ups!