French frogs

[scflock]

Hahaha! I'll send you a pic of the AM baby.

Maybe I'll get lucky and it's one of Johnny's

 

[scflock]

Just got done redoing my seats with King Ranch leather conditioner. Now my truck smells like a tack shop again

 

[BatesBandA]

Just got done redoing my seats with King Ranch leather conditioner. Now my truck smells like a tack shop again

I use pledge. I like the smell of lemon.

 

[scflock]

I use pledge. I like the smell of lemon.

 

[frmboyinthecity]

Congrats on the eggs! I saw a few dozen posts back that your hubby is doing better? That's great to hear!

4 day weekends are awesome!


Good news, I got Eulas chicken saddle finished on Thursday night.




The bad news, she went missing yesterday. Nowhere to be found. I setup a temporary pen for her and she was in it for two days. Yesterday, Sunday I saw her out in her little run scratching about at 4 o'clock at 6 o'clock I ran an errand, got back at 8 and she was gone. Not one feather on the ground. Nothing. I have a six foot fence all around my property. Every time I have let the chickens out they always mill about the yard or try to get back in their pens. Why would she wonder off if she got out of her pen? Her original pen was in sight and when she was out two days before she paced the fence trying to get back in. Not this time, gone. I search the neighbors yards on all sides and not a sign of her or her feathers. I should have put her in my garage, but I wanted her to have some air and sunshine.

I hope she shows up! I wish I could say the reason she disappeared is because I came and stole her, but unfortunately, that isn't the case. By the way, the saddle looks awesome.

 

[sideWing]

That's awful. With no feathers, that gives a little hope that she's around

Wouldn't a predator leave at least a few feathers from an attack?

I hope she shows up! I wish I could say the reason she disappeared is because I came and stole her, but unfortunately, that isn't the case. By the way, the saddle looks awesome.

I wish you did too! I'm a little paranoid (not about you of course), but because I sold my hatchery grade SLW last week and I was gone. My wife let the buyer into the backyard and they were just dying over my Foley SLW kept saying how they are the nicest SLW they have ever seen and wanted to work together on a project etc. But she wen't missing from around 4pm to 8pm Sunday. That would be a strange time to grab a chicken so it's probably not that. She could have flown out of her pen, but I don't know why she would leave the yard in that little of time especially with her home pen in view. When I didn't find her in her pen I wasn't even worried, I just thought she would be around our backyard somewhere. I just can't make sense of it.

 

[frmboyinthecity]

Wouldn't a predator leave at least a few feathers from an attack?

I wish you did too! I'm a little paranoid (not about you of course), but because I sold my hatchery grade SLW last week and I was gone. My wife let the buyer into the backyard and they were just dying over my Foley SLW kept saying how they are the nicest SLW they have ever seen and wanted to work together on a project etc. But she wen't missing from around 4pm to 8pm Sunday. That would be a strange time to grab a chicken so it's probably not that. She could have flown out of her pen, but I don't know why she would leave the yard in that little of time especially with her home pen in view. When I didn't find her in her pen I wasn't even worried, I just thought she would be around our backyard somewhere. I just can't make sense of it.

I can understand being worried about it. But that is a weird time to come take one if you were going to. And you wouldn't think she would wander that far, at least my birds get really anxious and pace the fence line if they feel like they are separated from the other birds. You have a few of her offspring growing out right now, don't you? Not that it fixes her seeming to disappear, but you have some of her genetics, correct?

 

[sideWing]

I can understand being worried about it. But that is a weird time to come take one if you were going to. And you wouldn't think she would wander that far, at least my birds get really anxious and pace the fence line if they feel like they are separated from the other birds. You have a few of her offspring growing out right now, don't you? Not that it fixes her seeming to disappear, but you have some of her genetics, correct?

That's what I think, probably too strange a time to grab a chicken. The other possibility is that she got out, wandered the yard, and an owl or hawk grabbed her without laving a feather behind?

I hope she's just winning at hide and seek.

Yes, I think I now have 5 or 6 pullets and 3 or 4 cockerels. I also have 3 eggs in the incubator lineup but I'm not counting those until they hatch. I'm so glad I worked to get some of their offspring on the ground. I hope they grow up to be as beautiful as their mother.

 

[Tumbling K]

dang that just stinks.......

has it been bad windy the last few days?

just wondering if some four legged predator could have got her, and the wind blew the feathers.......

 

[scflock]

That's what I think, probably too strange a time to grab a chicken. The other possibility is that she got out, wandered the yard, and an owl or hawk grabbed her without laving a feather behind? 

I hope she's just winning at hide and seek. 

Yes, I think I now have 5 or 6 pullets and 3 or 4 cockerels. I also have 3 eggs in the incubator lineup but I'm not counting those until they hatch. I'm so glad I worked to get some of their offspring on the ground. I hope they grow up to be as beautiful as their mother.

Sid, is that one of the original Foley hens? I always have a fear in the back of my mind that someone could come back and take a bird, but I would think they would take more than one...