Thank you! This is great! Happy Valentines to you too!
Yay congrats on the full house! Aren't chickens great entertainment?!
What a pretty egg! Congrats!!!.she laid # 2 already today! She spent quite a long time sitting and moving peices of straw until she did it.
with 6 of the girl's eggs!
That looks so yummy!
My husbands blackberry cake I made him
What a lucky man!!
My husbands blackberry cake I made him
I'm a lucky gal! Thanks all, he said it taste great!
My Colombian Wyandotte pullet Daisy is a nutty one. She is a bit of a loner, always acting a bit airheadish, and is always the last one to go in the coop every night. Duke comes out several times and tries to herd her back up the plank to the coop, and she always lags behind. Today, i had to completely empty the entire coop, all the bedding, all the hay, and completely clean out the nest boxes. Too much snow had gotten in, and with the day and a half that they were stuck inside during the blizzard produced so much droppings, it had just gotten wet and disgusting. The nest boxes were a mess too, todays eggs were all covered, and gross. So I completely emptied it, and realized I was out of new shavings, so I had to run to the feed store and get some. When I got back, I noticed Maisey up on the roost, making a racket. I remembered she laid her egg around 3pm yesterday, here it was 5:30, and I realized she probably needed to lay. When she saw me coming into the coop, she squawked and flew out, and Duke got all nutty, and they both ran off. I quickly bedded down, got the nest boxes all filled with fresh hay, and went to see where she was. I found her on top of the manure pile, where I had thrown all the soiled bedding, sitting on the very top, in laying position. I slowly approached her, scooped her up, with her screaming away, and Duke following behind me screaming and squawking,( I think he even got the back of my pants leg), and I put her inside the coop. She ran to the nest box, sat down, and proceeded to lay an egg. It was 6:25pm! Poor thing must have been holding that egg in forever waiting for the coop to be returned to laying condition!
Silly Daisy!
MB
My Colombian Wyandotte pullet Daisy is a nutty one. She is a bit of a loner, always acting a bit airheadish, and is always the last one to go in the coop every night. Duke comes out several times and tries to herd her back up the plank to the coop, and she always lags behind. Today, i had to completely empty the entire coop, all the bedding, all the hay, and completely clean out the nest boxes. Too much snow had gotten in, and with the day and a half that they were stuck inside during the blizzard produced so much droppings, it had just gotten wet and disgusting. The nest boxes were a mess too, todays eggs were all covered, and gross. So I completely emptied it, and realized I was out of new shavings, so I had to run to the feed store and get some. When I got back, I noticed Maisey up on the roost, making a racket. I remembered she laid her egg around 3pm yesterday, here it was 5:30, and I realized she probably needed to lay. When she saw me coming into the coop, she squawked and flew out, and Duke got all nutty, and they both ran off. I quickly bedded down, got the nest boxes all filled with fresh hay, and went to see where she was. I found her on top of the manure pile, where I had thrown all the soiled bedding, sitting on the very top, in laying position. I slowly approached her, scooped her up, with her screaming away, and Duke following behind me screaming and squawking,( I think he even got the back of my pants leg), and I put her inside the coop. She ran to the nest box, sat down, and proceeded to lay an egg. It was 6:25pm! Poor thing must have been holding that egg in forever waiting for the coop to be returned to laying condition!
Silly Daisy!
Hi Mellabella,
I have a question for you, I thought my hen Dixie was a light Brahma but she looks like your Daisy. Can you tell me what she is?
Thanks,
Marie in north San Diego, Ca
