BYC Café

[aart]

I tried to move a little further into the woods to spread the feed.

Stop feeding them, period.


2 days of rain, am on 'flood' watch.

 

[DobieLover]

Stop feeding them, period.

Oh, I know. There is less than one feeding left in the bag and they are done. It's time anyway.

 

[Sally PB]

The cranes have returned. We hear them making their creaking noise when we walk Freya.

 

[aart]

Got a broody, not one of the usual 2 culprits.
Put her on the roost a couple nights ago, then rousted her out the nest and covered them yesterday afternoon. Of course she was in a nest this morning so decided to band and crate her pronto. Easier to see for banding in the day light, but she was rambunctious! She has 2 spurs but it was her toenail that scratched me, didn't break the skin but stings. She was not happy to be in the crate.
Good reasons to do that crap at night.<shrugs>

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning and thanks for the coffee! We only got an inch of snow. Someone got slammed, maybe out east.
Today is get lodging day for the family at the Nationals.
Complicated but at least we all get along!
Stay warm and dry out there, Cafe!

 

[Sally PB]

My "serial broody" has not started laying yet. She'll be 4 in June. Her comb's getting pink, slowly. She's a Jubilee Orpington, and the only one of my hens to ever have gone broody. Keep it to yourself, girl!

The egg count will be sufficient for our needs this year, I think. I really need some new girls, but I'm maxed out for density in my space. Well, I'm at my comfort level, and not really any way to enlarge the coop or the run.

10 hens. About 60 sf in the coop, and 160 sf in the run. Some would say I can add more, but ... they don't free range, and I hate to shoehorn more in.

I have 3 Black Australorps who are way past prime, will be 5 this month. 2 have laid a few eggs, and stopped, I think, and the 3rd hasn't laid. I'm pretty sure I'd have seen her in a nest, as she is "the lounger" who take 3 hours to lay an egg. Their combs are plenty red. Will they lay any more, or are they done for the year?

 

[Mtn Margie]

Just go have "The TALK" with them.... Breakfast or Dinner table, Ladies?

 

[pennyJo1960]

DH had the stones blown up yesterday finally !
Spent from 10am to 8 pm there yesterday.

 

[Sally PB]

How's he doing, @pennyJo1960?