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Ooh! I want one! I like silkies but I'm not a fan of feathered legs. This would be the perfect answer!

I've been bad and pruned fruit trees at whatever time of year it was convenient. Sometimes it wasn't the "best" time, but it was better that it was done than not. And even if that year's harvest took a hit, the next year the trees were much happier!

Just lots of cold drizzly rain. I did manage to get out and work some compost into my beds and weed around my winter veg yesterday, although I came in rather soggy. I'm looking forward to being able to start planting!

Right now my garden looks half dead. I've got four 4x8' raised beds and a ~3x20' berm that I plant on and only two and a half beds have anything in them. I've got radishes starting, leeks, onions, lettuce, beets, celery, and kale growing out there right now. Soon I'll need to start more leeks...

I've found that trimming/thinning out the leaves of my zucchinis (and squash and cukes) so the flowers are visible to passing pollinators helps in my garden (at least I think it does). Plus I hope that better air flow will keep down that annoying powdery mildew that always infects the leaves.

I just got to create my first D&D character a few months ago! A couple of friends have been playing for years and invited my hubby and I to join them. I'm not much of a storyteller type either, but it's been fun trying to come up with stuff! I found that the background stuff was kind of hard...

Humor always goes over better! Those are pretty cute!

I took that comment to mean that kids will do things not realizing they are mean or harmful, like chasing and trying to catch a chicken, or letting the chickens out of the coop when they should stay in.

I'd put locks on and maybe hang a sign letting people know the rules for your chickens (like: ask before feeding them anything, don't try to pick them up, don't try to scare them, enjoy their cuteness)

I was curious if there are silkies with clean legs, or a breed that has that adorable puffball look without the feathered pants. I think silkies are super cute, but I'm not really a fan of the look of feathered legs. (Plus I can picture them getting filthy and muddy during rainy weather, which...

Hoglet! :love

All I can recommend is getting in there with some heavy gloves to rip out the grass, mulch a ton, give them a feed and a heavy prune, and hope for the best. Roses are one of those weird plants that seem both delicate and hardy. In my area they are plagued with black spot and aphids, but also...

Oh no! My kid has done stuff like that....and you can't really get mad at them because they were trying to be helpful. :hmm

Wrap his leg in vet wrap first and put cotton balls or memory foam in the tip to pad under his stump, and them wrap the whole thing (splint and up the leg) in vet wrap to secure it and give him some grip? I liked that the splint itself had some padding already in it.

I wonder if something like a fold over finger splint would work as a chicken peg leg (or at least stump protection)? Like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fold-Over-Finger-Splint-Finger-Cot-Finger-Brace-1/30235511 Wishing you all the luck caring for your sweet little house rooster!

Alcohol inks are the way to go. They are vivid and translucent as well as quick drying. I've seen some really cool stuff done with alcohol ink on glass.

At the zoo I worked at we'd put straw and treats into a paper bag and they'd have a blast pulling everything out and tearing it up to get to the goodies.

Not so sure about poodles (of any size)...they were originally hunting dogs and some can have a high prey drive. My parents had a toy poodle that would probably have loved to chase chickens. When they would go visit family in the country he would catch rabbits as big as he was and drag them...

I'll second pugs. They're sweet and friendly. Definitely research breeds you're interested in. You'll want one with a low prey drive (of course this varies between individual dogs). Some rescues will also let you "test drive" a pooch to see if they fit in with your household (or try to eat your...

Little wings (that flap)