California - Northern

[OR4-hmom]

That's how I do things up here also. Like carrying a phillips screw driver and finding 1 standard screw! The people we bought our house from said the first owner was an OK rabbit farmer-working on some of the the things they did around here can make you scream or bust out laughing-I try to laugh.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

........And Pleasant Valley ACE Hardware closes early on Sundays....

I feel your pain.

lol found that out a few weeks ago. had to go to Home depot for a Wire cutter

 

[debs_flock]

Here are a few shots of some of my birds at the show this weekend.

Blue Ameraucana cockerel (hatched from a swap egg from MrHeinz)

BC Marans pullet

bantam Columbian cochin

Lakenvelder pullet

New Hampshire pullet

Porcelain silkie

Rhode Island Red (young guy, he's going to be a moose)

Silver penciled PR (will be a handsome guy if he ever grows a tail!)

SPPR pullet

Deb

 

[liz9910]

What happens when you skip a day collecting eggs because you are gone to a show? And you have an OCD number of chickens?

And I just heard someone out there singing the egg song! I only collected around midday...................and it doesn't count the four eggs I let Earlene keep because she seemed intent to sit.....................and she's a showgirl, what more can I say?

Deb

Is that a 5 gallon bucket?

 

[debs_flock]

Is that a 5 gallon bucket?

No, thank goodness. It's a two gallon bucket (I think), lamb milk replacement. I just weighed the bucket full of eggs..............just shy of 12 pounds. Yikes, I can see lot's of baked eggs to go back to my girls.

 

[egg-lady]

Hubby covered the chicken run this weekend. Hawks are flying around. Getting my girls. Now they realize they are locked up they will not be happy with me.

 

[OR4-hmom]

This afternoon my resident crows were chasing off a red tailed hawk. We also have a pair of sharp shinned, they nest somewhere on the 20 acres behind us. The sharp shinned have sat and watched the girls but never gone after them, I do have a big roo with the flock and he takes his job seriously.

 

[waititout]

Here are a few shots of some of my birds at the show this weekend. Blue Ameraucana cockerel (hatched from a swap egg from MrHeinz) BC Marans pullet bantam Columbian cochin Lakenvelder pullet New Hampshire pullet Porcelain silkie Rhode Island Red (young guy, he's going to be a moose) Silver penciled PR (will be a handsome guy if he ever grows a tail!) SPPR pullet Deb

...your birds...are..STUNNING! I have no words.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I left 4 eggs in a nest box this afternoon, one of the brahmas was in it. I would love to see one of them brood babies. When I went out to close up the coop there was a partridge rock snuggled in on the eggs. I'll see if she's still there in the morning. I've got plenty to put under her.

 

[gryeyes]

This afternoon my resident crows were chasing off a red tailed hawk.  We also have a pair of sharp shinned, they nest somewhere on the 20 acres behind us.  The sharp shinned have sat and watched the girls but never gone after them,  I do have a big roo with the flock and he takes his job seriously.

There's an qwl which must nest somewhere close; I hear it every night and have seen it perched on my front fence BEFORE my two geese grew up. Hawks are frequent visitors. Today the second-in-command rooster was very actively calling out alerts throughout the day, closer to the house, whilst the dominant roo was shepherding a group of hens in my little meadow area.

No losses of late, but there aren't any juvenile birds in my flock right now. And I do think the geese help.