Cloudy Days in the Coop - My Adventures with Chickens.

[TwoCrows]

Well - awesome news! Boba hasn't been broody for about three days now, and she's back with the flock! I think the cold weather I’ve been having did the trick! Me and my flock have been experiencing beautiful, frosty days, and it has become the season of frozen waterers. A few pictures:
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Yay Boba!! She looks adorable in the photo she is looking at the Barred Rock. Maybe the BR is asking her where she's been all this time!

Beautiful frosty photos Starburst, looks like you have a gorgeous fall developing!! Such a lovely flock!!

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Starburst, I see that you also go around wishing people "Happy Birthday."
You beat me to it today!

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Well - awesome news! Boba hasn't been broody for about three days now, and she's back with the flock! I think the cold weather I’ve been having did the trick! Me and my flock have been experiencing beautiful, frosty days, and it has become the season of frozen waterers. A few pictures:
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That is incredible!
I can't wait until it gets cold enough that we have frost every morning. We had some a week or so ago, but it's still in the forties and fifties here.
Gorgeous photos, Starburst!

 

[PioneerChicks]

I especially love the leaf on the pumpkin picture, it makes a great profile pic

 

[Starburst]

Yay Boba!! She looks adorable in the photo she is looking at the Barred Rock. Maybe the BR is asking her where she's been all this time!

Beautiful frosty photos Starburst, looks like you have a gorgeous fall developing!! Such a lovely flock!!

Kiki is a Cuckoo Marans, but Barred Rocks and Marans look pretty similar. You know, you’re right, Kiki does look like she’s asking Boba where she’s been!
The fall is developing, and now it’s disappearing. But it’s beautiful while it lasts. Funny thing is, I might have gotten some snow last night. I’m not sure, but I looked out my window early in the morning and it had rained, but there were also small white flakes on the ground. It wasn’t hail, but if it did snow, that would be shockingly early for my area. But it has been pretty cold these past few days - unusually cold for this season. I’ll have to see, I guess! Hope you’re having a wonderful day with your snow!

 

[Starburst]

I especially love the leaf on the pumpkin picture, it makes a great profile pic

Thanks! I decided it was time to have a fall profile picture, though I still love fluffy, baby Mochi.

 

[Starburst]

That is incredible!
I can't wait until it gets cold enough that we have frost every morning. We had some a week or so ago, but it's still in the forties and fifties here.
Gorgeous photos, Starburst!

Thank you so much!
I hope you’ll get all that frost soon! Frost is pretty early for me, and it killed a lot of farmer’s crops, in my area, sadly. Let me know when that frost starts coming in for you!

 

[ChickenGirl300]

Jasmine:
Jasmine is my Australop and is one of my original flock and is 2 years old. She was always very friendly as a chick, and is still happy to be held from time to time. Last Autumn, she was attacked by a large dog. While I managed to get to the scene before the attack could become fatal, I found that she couldn’t walk. She refused to eat for days, and only drank when I coaxed her to. While one leg seemed to work, the other wouldn’t work at all. Thinking it was dislocated, after several days I took her to a vet that would take a look at chickens. After four hours, they determined that she was most likely paralyzed. They explained that when the dog was shaking her around like a rag doll, her spine may have been severely injured. They gave me medicine after I refused to put her to sleep, telling me that it may help her. Jasmine was a fighter! After two weeks of giving her medicine, a check-up pronounced her to have nerve damage. She was always weak, but one day when I took her outside to be in the sun, she flew out of her bin to get around. That gave me hope. After several months living in the house and giving her medicine, she was hopping on one leg. By winter, I had a chicken tractor made. The ‘Chicken Infirmary.’ She spent those snowy days in there, nice and snug, and I would put her in the coop to stay warm. By spring, I began to introduce her to the flock again. One the head hen, she was now at the bottom of the flock, and still is. Amazingly, she began to use her weak leg to walk as well. Though she’s still slow in moving around, and her limp evident, she has gone a long way! Her favorite treat is mealworms and popcorn. And she loves to free range, despite her having a harder time getting around. She especially loves to dust bathe in my garden.
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She's absolutely beautiful!!

 

[TwoCrows]

Kiki is a Cuckoo Marans, but Barred Rocks and Marans look pretty similar. You know, you’re right, Kiki does look like she’s asking Boba where she’s been!
The fall is developing, and now it’s disappearing. But it’s beautiful while it lasts. Funny thing is, I might have gotten some snow last night. I’m not sure, but I looked out my window early in the morning and it had rained, but there were also small white flakes on the ground. It wasn’t hail, but if it did snow, that would be shockingly early for my area. But it has been pretty cold these past few days - unusually cold for this season. I’ll have to see, I guess! Hope you’re having a wonderful day with your snow!

I can never tell the difference between Cuckoo Marans and Barred Rocks. Yes shes the one that got injured after the hawk got in, isn't she? She looks great now!

Sounds like you may have gotten snow last night. It's been lightly snowing all day but it's not adding up to more than a half inch. I think the ground is still too warm for much accumulation but its supposed to keep snowing through to Wednesday so either way its wet and great for the land! I will keep you posted on accumulation totals.

 

[Starburst]

She's absolutely beautiful!!

Thank you so much! She’s always been my little model.