Granny's gone and done it again

[Wishing4Wings]

We lost an older hen yesterday. One of the cream legbars. She was going on 5. Pretty sure she had internal laying going on. No eggs from her since the middle of her second season. Just stopped suddenly even though she would sit on a nest for a time during the day. I took her up to the farm... circle of life and all that.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

sorry for your loss.
Wish I could get a truck load of shavings.

 

[h2oratt]

No. Coming back on Tues. They didn't have a saw long enough to cut across the stump at ground level. They also still need to cut the trunk into 16" rounds... so they will fit in our smallish stove after splitting.
There was a long wait for the chipper team to get there, so that slowed things down. The guys doing the cutting work much faster than the chipper guys can work. The truck fills up fast and they have to go dump it. They have been working this neighborhood all week. There are piles of cuttings waiting to be chipped all over the place and tons along the roads up to the farm and into town.
Methinks they should invest in a few more chippers and trucks.

Those wood chips are good for choking out weeds

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[CapricornFarm]

We lost an older hen yesterday. One of the cream legbars. She was going on 5. Pretty sure she had internal laying going on. No eggs from her since the middle of her second season. Just stopped suddenly even though she would sit on a nest for a time during the day. I took her up to the farm... circle of life and all that.

Sorry Wishing, i lost a cream mille fleur that way, but she never did lay eggs. Her belly felt squishy, and after a while she died. Too young to be doing that.

 

[CapricornFarm]

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I get the mini ones for the rabbits.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We're getting snow now.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

sorry for your loss.
Wish I could get a truck load of shavings.

They would bring you mountains of it!

Those wood chips are good for choking out weeds

Yes. It's going on the garden paths, along the fence line, and in the spots that get really muddy when it rains... like outside the coop door. I'm goingvto start today!

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Brilliant! I never thought of that. We don't freeze very often.

Sorry Wishing, i lost a cream mille fleur that way, but she never did lay eggs. Her belly felt squishy, and after a while she died. Too young to be doing that.

It's sad how many have reproduction problems. Survival strategy for our lovely gallenaceous birds is quantity over quality. I've been watching the Cooper's hawk pick off the quail and other birds since late summer. Some are meant to be food and some are meant to reproduce. It's just tough to lose so many. I'm finding more than half of them don't live past 4, no matter where they came from.

We're getting snow now.

News says you guys are in for a doozy!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Good morning everyone. Dark out. I'm going back to sleep!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We got snow yesterday, maybe an inch or so. Clear today, thank God, as GirlChild and are are driving her mom (my DD) to St Louis today, spending night at motel. DD gets on plane at 6:20 tomorrow am, means we have to have her at airport at 4:20. Whuuuuuh.