I know this sounds ridiculous and foolish and like I don't pay attention to my animals, but I just found out that my mother and sister who smoke throw their cigarette butts on the ground. I don't know if my ducks, geese or chickens have been eating them but it's only been recently that they've...
Oh man, have I got some names for you!
Marilyn, Harriet, Lou the Voyageur, Lavinia, Scabby Abby, Caterpillar, Puck, Scone, Fig, Sour Cream, Bijou, Bruce, John, Jemima, Elvis, Joplin, Buffy Saint-Marie, Sausage... The list goes on but as you can see I have many many chickens and such
I've been having a big issue with something eating my eggs lately, cracking a little hole in the egg and eating some of it then leaving the rest. I don't know if a mouse could do something like that or if it's the multiple grackles that have shown up this year. Either way I've wanted roll out...
So I went to an auction this Saturday and came back with a few more feathered friends than I expected WHOOPS! All I had wanted were a few cuckoo maran chicks that had been shipped up from Texas, but nooo, dad came back with
8 count em EIGHT cuckoo maran chicks
5 cuckoo maran x ameraucana...
I'm talking snow storms. Ones you can't see through and it drops below -20 C. I may keep them in the garage when they're small but once they get bigger I have no idea where I'd put them.
That's what I don't want! My imprinted peacock is in the house with a healing frost bitten foot so I have absolutely no where to put the little ones if they do hatch some.
I live in Alberta, where it's freezing all the way until the end of March, and generally my geese don't start laying until around then, when it starts to warm up. But last week, just as we had gotten a cold snap, I found an egg, and so far, even in -30 temps, I've found 5 eggs. They're two years...