Just set 7 eggs under my broody dark cornish hen.. never had a broody before, so this is the very first for me. :)
Setting 7 others in the incubator tonight as soon as it's stable. The breeder unexpectedly gave me over double what I asked for, and I didn't think my broody could sit on 14...
Just finished setting 7 eggs under my Dark Cornish.
This is my first broody hen. She was the reason I ended up with chickens, because she was the cutest and sweetest out of my classroom hatch, and my husband gave in and let me bring her and her "sister" home with me. :)
She has been...
Potatoes take awhile to show above ground... :) When did you plant them? Where did you get them? Did you plant them whole or cut them? Did you plant them with the eyes facing up?
My dad has always said the perfect day to plant potatoes is March 15. :) I just now planted my corn and okra, but...
I can hear baby bird cheeping above my head right now...
I do believe my annual "ceiling babies" have arrived... :)
Silly little birds return to the same hole around the dryer output and have babies above the dining room... I do enjoy the baby bird cheeping once a year. One of these days I...
If it is still doing it, you can do the half-band-aid orthopedics thing.. Someone here gave me the link...
I had two from my classroom hatch that had it. I caught it the first day and put the band aids on. PERFECT now...
My Dark Cornish, Eleanor, is trying to go broody... she sits in the nest box all puffy, bites me when I try to pet her (she NEVER does that... )... and keeps standing up looking underneath her then getting all irritated when nothing is there... LOL...
She's never done this before, and she's...
Yep... I got attached to one from my classroom hatch last year. My husband told me from the beginning that I could NOT keep ANY... this one was so sweet and loving and adorable that even he gave in, which is how I now have my two backyard hens that I ADORE...
Little Cleo (Short for Cleopatra...
I had just informed my husband that I would be keeping her and taking care of her because she needed me and what kind of example would it set for our girls if we just got rid of her because she was "different"..... Turns out he would have been unhappy, but he would have understood..... Poor Cleo...
For those keeping track, I'm pretty sure my sweet Cleo is on the way out. :( Nobody can say I haven't done everything I could for her.... I'm devastated... Been crying for the last hour...,
Lake wichita .... We have another lake that's at 20%.... We are headed to stage five water restrictions soon.... By next ear, out of water if something doesn't change.
you could always plant something on the chicken side.. the goats could eat whatever reached them, but the chickens could still have shade. :)
You could always plant sunflowers on one side for shade too...
:) I finished planting my garden yesterday. :)
Squash, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, broccoli, green beans, watermelon, swiss chard, and various herbs. :)
Oh... and 50 Whopper Strawberry plants from Gurney's in a kiddie pool. :)