FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

[Floridachicken1958]

Juan I see you got some of my chickens

 

[LisaAnnW]

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Nothing cuter than a broody hen watching over her chickie(s)!

 

[LisaAnnW]

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That egg is going to taste incredible! No more store bought.

If I thought a vulture might eat me I'd stay on the hammock too! We had them flying low over the pens today - eyeing up our huge Buff Orpingtons. I said: keep dreaming, if the buffys don't send you back to where you belong, I will!

 

[LisaAnnW]

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[ChobeeChickenMommy]

CONGRATS K9ThorsMom on the chickie & Juan on the egg!!

OMG I am so excited!! My oldest EE pullet is about to lay her first egg I think!!!! I have caught her in the corner of the coop where my silkies used to lay squatting a couple of times today & I just want out & caught her in their nest box!!! YAY!!! Fingers crossed!!

Here she is in their nesting box:

&& Her is a new full body of her

Her are my other 2 EE girls that I hope will start laying soon too!

(This pic doesn't do her pretty coloring justice...)

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Are you positive those EE's are hens?

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

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Well, fingers crossed they are. They don't crow & my roo was mounting them before I moved him out of their coop/run... Although the one in the 3rd pic out in front is still questionable to me...

 

[K9ThorsMom]

Baby #2 was hatched just prior to me getting ready for woek tonight! Small, black olive egger, YAY! I only had time to remove the discarded egg shell, check that the baby had 1 head, 2 wings, 2 legs, and no obvious deformities/issues before i had to go...tucked him/her back under Mom after i snapped a couple of fuzzy cell phone pics...will post better pics when i get home in the morning!

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

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Aww yay!

another beautiful baby! I am finishing day 3 of my first attempt at incubating. Fingers crossed things go well...

 

[LisaAnnW]

Busy weekend! To start with, Friday we got a call about a couple pullets that needed to be re-homed quickly. Ultimately I said yes, and my kids were thrilled to welcome a friendly little bantam Cochin and EE to our brood (they're in quarantine, though, just in case). The very next morning the Cochin we'd named Rosemary crowed! I guess that's the real reason they needed a new home. Like a friend of mine always says: no good deed goes unpunished! Trust me, I didn't really "need" another rooster.

We'll find a way to make it work, though. I heard Juan and Floridachicken were looking for a good rooster....

Saturday and Sunday we cleaned everything top to bottom and brought in a pick-up load of coarse sand to fill the pens. The flooding this summer really took a toll on my property, so this was very much needed. We brought the 10x10 and 8x6 runs up by at least six inches, so the next time it rains I hope they'll stay high and dry. Of course the chickens love it - lots of scratching and dust bathing going on. We took turns standing guard as our feathered friends free-ranged while we worked; it's fun to see them run around like kids at recess.

Floridachicken: you had asked about my six year old Turken hen who still lays? We have a geriatric pen with four roosters and four hens that are all at least six years old. The girls lay eggs off and on, and they're even fertile occasionally. One of our Orpingtons is so old she sometimes gets knocked over and can't get up until we help her (we joke that she needs Life Alert), but she still goes in the nesting box and leaves us a lumpy looking egg with a rough shell...tastes fine, though, and we appreciate her effort!

The weather was so fabulous we even decided to trim the Arica palms, as I figured that'd give the mosquitoes less places to hide...maybe I'll just sleep in tomorrow.