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A Welsummer egg? Very pretty!
Black Copper Marans egg. I originally started out with 2 hens. Holly who is still with me. She is a French BCM and has feathered feet and has always laid solid super dark eggs. Her daughters and granddaughters are the same. Feathered legs and solid dark eggs. Daisy who has since passed on was the other original hen. She had clean legs, a bit larger and heavier then her sister and her eggs were heavily spotted and bigger. Her daughter was Clover(RIP), Baby and granddaughter Corona. Like Daisy they are bigger then their feathered feet counterparts, have clean legs and lay larger heavily speckled eggs. My boys have always had feathered legs. It was not until Daisy's great-granddaughter Lilly came along a year and a half ago that the Daisy line got feathered feet finally. I love a speckled egg and Lilly's take the cake. Her speckles are more like blotches, she just has been sporadic laying this year or I would have set a Lilly egg under Raven as well.
 
@featherhead007 Order parts thru the mfr. We had to replace a broken trolley wheel that goes under a microwave plate. $25 at the time was cheaper than a new microwave!

More old photos ~ Mom/me in the farm truck & our big canning cottage.

c. 1945
No 057 - Sylvia 2 years old with mother Vera - Vista property.png
No 055 - Sylvia 2 years old - looks like Vista farm storage bldg.png

No 058 - Sylvia 2 years old - Vista farm driveway before any landscaping - storage bldg backgr...png
 
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Thanks for the happy birthdays all! I appreciate it.



She has! Even by that groomer! Little stinker.

I was gone all day yesterday. Went back to the big town, sans doggo, and we got a few stops made and lunch...again...and then home. Dog got to stay home alone nearly 7 hours, which is the longest we've ever left her, and she was a very good girl! So now we know that's something we can do and leave her home when we need to, so there's that.

Today we did a bit more work on the run. We moved their ladder, put on the shade cloth, and tossed in some quite composted wood chips that the love to scratch in. View attachment 3939199

Now we have a dilemma. The automatic chicken door (we bought a cheaper one) seems to be starting to malfunction. We were planning on putting their old feeders in the run, and their water. But if we're out of town and the door doesn't open, they'll be stuck inside with no food and water. It closes fine...hangs up opening. The neighbor who watched the hens is the one who moved. So not sure what to do.

They've really slowed down on the laying. Is it really late enough in the year for that? Seems early. But then again Sheba laid all winter last year, so I guess I don't know what's "normal." I ordered a role of nest liner coco coir stuff. They need something better than ive got. Hoping they'll like them.

I guess that's it for my pony Sunday. Have a good one all!
Maybe an electrician might be worth the cost to fix your auto coop door?
 
I swear this year sucks chicken wise. I just went out to take a picture of what should have been Raven's fully dried chick. It has passed sometime in the last 5 hours. It was fully dry and fluffed and I tried to revive it but it is gone. All hope is now on the Holly egg.
Oh no! How sad! Gosh that does suck 😢 they are so fragile those first few weeks. I am praying for Holly’s egg to hatch and do well.

:hugs
 

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