BYC Café

[DobieLover]

I'm sorry she didn't recover.
Have you considered the "broomstick" method of euthanizing a hen? No mess, no gunshots or fear/potential of a miss. I had to do it to my favorite hen when she had a clearly irrecoverable prolapse. Like Lucy she was really lethargic, no improvement. Yeah it hurt me but instant death for her when her spinal cord was severed.



Well that is just WRONG!!!


We have bobolinks in Vermont but I've never seen one and after hearing that call, I've never heard one either. Still I don't mow my fields until after bird breeding season just in case some move in.

The barn swallows are building a new nest in the barn alley, same as every year we've owned the place (2012 was first summer).

I've seen tree swallows in the new box I put up at the NW corner of the pond. There have been tree swallows in this box at the SW corner in years past but I THINK what we saw going in this year was a bluebird. Of course in the right light and angle tree swallows look pretty blue. This box isn't really big enough for tree swallows, we figure the ones that went to the new box maybe were ones that used this box in years past and were singing "We're movin' on up to the East Side". Same neighborhood and amenities but a larger house.
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This is the box I originally made for the NW corner patterned after an old rotting box in the garden that hasn't been used the last 2 years. THEN I looked up tree swallow houses and found the inside bottom should be 5" x 5". This one is only 3 3/4" x 4 1/2". But you see that little tiny house up top? A tree swallow kept checking it out hoping it was bigger on the inside so I put out the "old" new box for them and they are building a nest in it. I've never seen a bird use the little house.

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We also have robins making a nest (or multiple? I see several "starts") in the carrying beam under the deck on the back of the house.

I guess spring has sprung!

I've got the same robin on her nest on the beam under the woodshed roof. There are three starts next to where she finally built the final product. And I think there's another robin on the beam under the front porch.
Unfortunately, a pair of phoebes have it in their noggins to build a nest in the run. They keep flitting in and out checking out the areas between the rafters that are enclosed with HC.

 

[ronott1]

I've got the same robin on her nest on the beam under the woodshed roof. There are three starts next to where she finally built the final product. And I think there's another robin on the beam under the front porch.
Unfortunately, a pair of phoebes have it in their noggins to build a nest in the run. They keep flitting in and out checking out the areas between the rafters that are enclosed with HC.

I saw a broken egg on the ground here from one of the wild birds. It might have been from the persian collard doves that moved in here several years ago. They are an invasive species and bigger than native doves

 

[Mtn Margie]

Getting there...
A no snow rectangle made from the pentagon
Now we have a floored rectangle ready for a dance!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Very nice build there for wrestlers right

 

[Shadrach]

Getting there...
A no snow rectangle made from the pentagonView attachment 2152384
Now we have a floored rectangle ready for a dance!
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Going to have outside tournaments then Cap?

 

[Shadrach]

It's been hot here today. Lie down and see what it's like later kind of hot.
Two small holdings on the next mountain went bust this week. Both these smallholdings were entitled to government support but the money never came. They've been waiting since March. They've had to kill all their animals. lock up and move in with relatives.
The young man who took the three young chickens told me today that nobody he knows in his age group has received any of the money the government promised; that's about 30 people who worked in the circus.
I am so sick of seeing smug politicians on the net talking about doing this and doing that and very little of it actually happens.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Gosh but this is in italy no less awful I could see the brainiac here doing it

 

[ronott1]

It's been hot here today. Lie down and see what it's like later kind of hot.
Two small holdings on the next mountain went bust this week. Both these smallholdings were entitled to government support but the money never came. They've been waiting since March. They've had to kill all their animals. lock up and move in with relatives.
The young man who took the three young chickens told me today that nobody he knows in his age group has received any of the money the government promised; that's about 30 people who worked in the circus.
I am so sick of seeing smug politicians on the net talking about doing this and doing that and very little of it actually happens.

That is sad news!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I've got the same robin on her nest on the beam under the woodshed roof. There are three starts next to where she finally built the final product. And I think there's another robin on the beam under the front porch.
Unfortunately, a pair of phoebes have it in their noggins to build a nest in the run. They keep flitting in and out checking out the areas between the rafters that are enclosed with HC.

We have phobes nesting on our log cabin, under the eaves. Hubby knocked one nest off that was low enough to reach. They built the nest in the same spot two more times. Didn't want the mess all over the house and deck.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Going to have outside tournaments then Cap?

Along with the hootenanny!