Awww, so glad! They are super friendly and sweet little things. My kids have done a great job making them very friendly and in need of attention.It was so nice to see everyone yesterday! Hawkeye, the silkies are settling in nicely. I have them in a small run I can move around and keep right outside my backdoor, for now. That way I can go out and talk to them often.

Oh that is wonderful that you caught them all!! So crazy though-- sounds like it really gave you girls a run for your money! LOL!I am glad to report that JosieChick, her friend, and myself managed to get the ducks off the lake in the park. It went really smoothly at first until one duck escaped. There were some wild mallards with the domestic ducks. The stupid Mallard drake was the problem. He kept freaking out and going back to the water and the last domestic duck would take off with them. Finally we were able to get them convinced to come back up and eat and we got him cornered in a day pen thing. Now the ducks will safely be at a domestic home and be safe. It was nearly 6:00 before I left, but it felt really good to be able to participate knowing that their lives had been saved.
I LOVE mowing too!!! I always do the mowing, and not just because I'm home and makes it easy on us, but because I just want to and find it really relaxing! And when the kids are driving me nuts, I can jump on there and can't "hear" them anymore! LOL I do the gesture to my ear-- like can't hear you when they come out there to find me to whine about something. hehe Girl, I am SO THANKFUL that it wasn't you that hit that deer! Wow. That was a praise the Lord type of deal, but wow, sooooo terribly awful for the deer. I'm so sorry that it happened.Cherwill- I LOVE mowing! It is so relaxing.
So I had a terrible experience on my drive home last night. This is moderately GRAPHIC so if you are faint of heart don't read on!

YAY for your roofing coming in! I re-worked my roost last weekend! "Tis the season for fixing up the coops, I guess! I have a ladder style roost and I have mine on hooks so that I can take them off and move them and they will either lift up, or just move off very easily. I love the set-up!I got a call that woke me up this morning telling me that our roofing is in at Lowe's, so in a couple days we'll have to make a trip up there to pick it up. I opted not to go today so my DH could just work on the coop instead, we aren't ready for the roof yet anyway. He's working now on cutting out the people doors on the back out of the OSB. There won't be that much OSB on there after all the doors are cut out because that side is mostly doors. I can use that OSB for something else. I can't wait to get this thing going & get it done, I so want it finished before we go on vacation.
I'm so sorry, but if it's not burned or bleeding, it should be okay. I would get some saline drops to drop on it a bit, though. If you had the neosporin, I'd put a bit of that on there, too. Chickens heal very quickly! So I imagine he will be just fine.YIKES!!!! The only chick to hatch has been to adventurous and injured itself!!!! In the incubator i have damp wash rags, and the chick climbed up on it and touched its eye to the heating element!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt desperate because he woulnt open that eye and its blueish in the middle now!!!!!!! i'm such an idiot!!!!!!!!!!! I got so scared i quick (extremly fast) opened it just enough to fit my hand in and then closed it to take him out because he kept trying to do it AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! right now he is RIGHT under the heating lamp in the brooder, because i didn't want to leave him in the bator and do it again!!!!!! WHAT DO I DO!!!!!!!!!???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!! I gotta go real fast to check on him again!!!!!!!!!!!!![]()
I loved it too!! I had so much fun yesterday! Thank you for having us over! I'm sooooo glad the testing is done-- and THANK YOU Danz for doing that for me!!! I'm registering them and sending it out in the mail by Thursday so that I can get them sorted and figured out who is going on the Junior and who is going to the Open. It was like a swap meet! So fun!I sure enjoyed having everyone over who came yesterday. It was fun to meet WichitaKidd and Sunflower, along with Sunflower's friend, R. She was just delightful and I'm so glad you brought her, Sunflower. It was great to see the "usual suspects" again also. Hawkeye, your DD is such a treasure. I could tell she had been taught how to handle chicks properly and loved seeing how much she loved the chicks. Danz tested some of Hawkeye's birds and I'd never seen that done before so that was interesting. We picked up some new tips for keeping the humidity up during lockdown. There were also birds being picked up and dropped off, kind of like a mini swap-meet! The food was really yummy (thanks everyone)! Anyway, thanks to everyone for coming. I truly enjoyed it.
I have my roost 3 feet high with the ladder going up to it. My ladder has hooks on it that attach to the main roost-- super easy to take it off or just flip it up.Karen, what I decided on mine is that the top roost (naturally the most popular) was too high and the jump down may be contributing to bumblefoot. So I wanted to lower the roosts and I decided rather than have a ladder style, where only the top row will ever really be desirable, I would have all of the roost bars on the same level. I went from 3 roosts to 4, but they take up less space than the 3-roost ladder I had before. Basically, I came out from the coop wall with support bars, added a "leg" on the front, and then put in 4 roosts about 12" apart. The neat thing is that the way I attached it to the wall, it will swing up out of the way when I need to clean.
Chicken Danz--- THANK YOU so, so very much for testing my birds!!! I'm so excited to get them all ready for Nationals!! Yippee!!!!