A Day With My Flock

[Hannahs Hollow]

I love your chicken stories Here's me and Lindsay. She had a butt bath the other day and sat with me by the fire to dry off telling me stories.

"You don't say, Linsday?!"


I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

 

[Quack House]

Thanks!

 

[Quack House]

I have a duck-selfie from today as well, but it's not quite as good as that one with Lindsay. She's quite the talker!

 

[Hannahs Hollow]

Today, my name is Ruby. I am a slim RIR. I am supposed to be the real thing….. Mom says I am to slim and a little light in coloring. I am going through a mild molt for the first time in my short life. I am actually a month older them my flock mates as I was a “replacement” to Mom’s original 6. (I hope to come in a more rich mahogany when my feathers grow back!) Mom says she won’t bring in another adult hen again as I brought leg mites I with me. She managed to see it quick and treat me before it got to the others. Otherwise, I am the perfect bird IMHO. I lay mom brown spotted eggs EVERYDAY! Pretty sure they are not supposed to be spotted but what is a girl to do? Mom still loves me!




As I said, I am molting. It makes me terribly itchy and *itchy. I figure if I have to go bald so should everyone else! So I pull their feathers if they get close to me. I have always been at the bottom of the flock but now, THEY RUN! Hehehe

Otherwise I am pretty easy going. I have no interest in brooding which made Mom VERY happy! Matilda got off the nest yesterday after laying her egg and started tossing hay over her back in the yard. Mom almost fainted!

She really can’t handle Harmony and Bo going broody every 3 months, AND another going broody TOO!

So 3 days ago Mom went into the coop to find Harmony’s eggs in the middle of the coop, she quickly got them back under Harmony and yesterday 1 hatched!!!! Not that I, Ruby could care less but Mom is eggcited!

She tells us the chick is the tiniest living thing she has ever seen. It’s supposedly an Ameracuana ((sp) as I am an RIR I know nothing of spelling….). Mom is not so sure it hasn’t been crossed with a Silkie. Now mom has worries of a future ‘nother broody. Secretly she told me she hopes its a little bitty roo! Bo will be happy!

She has been bugging Mom for a rooster lately. Mom has a constant headache from it….
2 days ago The Man came to cut another chickie door in the coop wall cuz mom built a broody pen and a broody box for Josie and Sophie. Giselle and especially Bo want to kill Josie! Mom was hoping to keep them in there for another month or so, so Sophie could grow bigger. But now Harmony is going to need it PDQ! However The Man forgot to close the gate and Matilda, Giselle and Bo ventured forth. The DOGS were in the yard! Whatever mom did to the little one worked or because the man spoke she took one look at 3 hens and bolted for the house! The woolly mammoth dog

stopped and didn’t know what to do. The Life Saving Man used his big feet to usher them back in and all was good. We all want the new grass coming in…

Mom is thinking she should have just built a condo! Straight upwards! Maybe with an elevator! I have heard chickens can be trained to push buttons…. I’d do anything for food…

Giselle now has aspirations of being a Canada Goose! She is a sneaky hen. We see them all the time now landing out in the hay fields. I think it could be fun to fly but I am a homechicken. Good thing mom got that netting up so I don’t have to face peer pressure.
It’s bed time. It’s dark and that little Sophie won’t be quiet until the light goes out. I have to go before mom comes and finds me using the PC!
My life is good because mom brings us trays of cut lettuce and herbs,

I have shade, company and my feathers are coming back! Gotta go. Mom’s coming. NITE!

 

[Hannahs Hollow]

Hi all! My name is Becky and I own these conniving, sneaky, telepathic, broody, adventurist, OCD about food hens! I love them all!



Selfies are never good... Me and Matilda last year!

Please stay with me, um, them as there are still 4 (at least) to introduce before they continue to give you updates on their, um, my life. I'm starting to get confused with this living through them thing....

Thank you for checking my thread out. I work outside the farm 8-12 hr days and then come home to my beloved feathered and furred friends. Then there are the horses boarding that I just have to keep an eye out for. The well treatment, the septic, the freshet, the mowing, the flooding, gardens and green house, the nightly doggy play dates and The Man aka DH!

Life is full. Life is good if not great! I have a healthy family, expecting a granddaughter in Aug. My grandson is the light of my life and my hens... as much work as they can be staying caught up in their lives, are my relaxation!

Thank you for your interests and I'd love to hear your " Chicken's story's" too!
B.

 

[Hannahs Hollow]

I have a duck-selfie from today as well, but it's not quite as good as that one with Lindsay. She's quite the talker!

Share!!!

 

[Quack House]

This is Philip. He's a Rouen. Today he's especially concerned for his girls (three ducks) because, he was telling me, it's been a hard winter and there are *other birds* visiting the coup and stealing food !! I think he's worried the food supply might not hold!



haha me and Philip selfie ...

 

[Hannahs Hollow]

This is Philip. He's a Rouen. Today he's especially concerned for his girls (three ducks) because, he was telling me, it's been a hard winter and there are *other birds* visiting the coup and stealing food !! I think he's worried the food supply might not hold! haha me and Philip selfie ...

Philip is so handsome! I'm understand what he's saying about those strange creatures that come into the coop and eat the food. I wonder why they attack other flockmates but they leave the little birds alone.... tell even scare off a little chicks but not little chickadees.... Hmmmm

 

[Chic_girl]

These selfies are fantastic! Aww, man, when I get back next week, I'm going to take pictures with each one of my hens- whether they like it or not- and they probably won't like it!
Your flock is so unique and adorable, and their scribe is excellent at showing their personalities...

 

[Quack House]

Thanks! I love animal stories, too. I try to make my animal selfies tell something about their personality ... a story in a picture kinda thing lol. It's refreshing to know other's *get* their little personalities. I think it's so amusing to give them a voice, and I'm sure we're not far off from the truth.
"Sophie won't be quiet til the light's out" haha!

I just do not know what is up with the 'being bossed around by wild birds thing'. I think they are just flabber-ghasted, cuz they move so fast and have no manners. Wild birds have no understanding of etiquette, boundaries, the whole social formalities around eating. It's kinda like when you tuck into dinner, flip your napkin and pass the potatoes when the teenager brings his football team for supper with no announcement ... you kinda hope you jaw isn't hanging as you watch in horror.

Or Bilbo when the dwarves show up.