grannys gone and done it

[Granny Hatchet]

thats not hard to do with all the fluffy butts running every where. A lot of people have been having problems with the ads on here.

 

[Dannachic]

Think I'll go to bed. Past my bedtime. If I can figure. All this out I'll try to send pics of them tomorrow. Nite granny

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Lisa, sounds like you had a mess today. I hope the little ones hatch for you.

Think i pushed my humor up with my hemorrhoids on that mower today.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Night Danna, warm fuzzies

 

[Suzierd]

Yes indeed Ol Mare, very,very quiet. Missing my granny girls sense of humor.
My experiment with a first time broody didn't go well. She has been on again off again these past 2 weeks. She finally stayed sitting so I put 4 eggs out of the bator that were due to hatch today under her. On the end of day 18 I tacked hardware cloth over the nest box to ward off any troubles. If it worked and she hatched them, my plan was to move her & the chicks at one time. I had tried moving her to a different location, but she always freaked out and went back to the same nest box. This morning I woke to see a egg laying in the chicken yard. That never happened before, rushed out expecting to see a preditor had gotten in the coop and freaked the ladies out, but thankfully it wasn't that. The broody hen was freaking out in the nest box and that was scaring the ladies. She was trampling all over the 4 eggs trying to get out. I let her out and I could hear peeping in a couple of eggs, but no external pip yet. I rushed them to the house and into the incubator. Hopefully they make it. Dummy me won't try that again lol.

Hope they make it!

 

[Suzierd]

Dont feel bad, every thing i got keep crashing.  Grandson just came in the house with teeth glowing. They just discovered lightening bugs.   I said "Did you eat a bug?" He said, No, I ate 3 of them.

I really miss lightening bugs, they are so awesome.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Lightning bugs are one of the few things that make living here in the summer worth it -- all of our families have made visits out here (from the NW) during the summer specifically to see them (yeah, we don't get out much, lol). It took DH's dad three tries - the first time he was too early by two weeks for that year, the next time he missed them by a week or so by coming at the end of summer and he FINALLY got to see them on his third visit. It's the highlight of each summer for me when I see the first lightning bugs - they look like little fairy lights out where we live because it's so dark and they just fill the fields and tree lines all around us.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Ol Mare, you out doing the bird dance ? LOL Facts of life, try to be nice and get pooped on.

I mowed today. broke a record. instead of 6 hrs. it took me 8. I am burned .

Yikes - that's a whole lot of mowing! There are some advantages to having fenced off half our property and turning horses out on it.....cut the mowing time dramatically, especially since the part that is still "yard" is where the stupid giant pond is at, so that's even less grass......if I had my way we'd just fill that **** thing in, DH got lazy about upkeep and it's nothing more than a cat-tail farm now. This is the year he either gets it completely cleaned up and restored or we commit to not having it anymore (just haven't told him yet, lol)
This is what it used to look like

Now, imagine this with *maybe* a 10x10 area of water in the very middle surrounded by layer upon layer of cattails - it's a disgrace and an eye sore now.

 

[Suzierd]

Lightning bugs are one of the few things that make living here in the summer worth it -- all of our families have made visits out here (from the NW) during the summer specifically to see them (yeah, we don't get out much, lol).  It took DH's dad three tries - the first time he was too early by two weeks for that year, the next time he missed them by a week or so by coming at the end of summer and he FINALLY got to see them on his third visit.  It's the highlight of each summer for me when I see the first lightning bugs - they look like little fairy lights out where we live because it's so dark and they just fill the fields and tree lines all around us. 

I am so jealous! I use to live in Ohio when I was a kid and loved the lightening bugs I would but some in a big jar with holes in the top by my bed at night and let them go in the morning. I was hoping to see some in Florida but no such luck wrong time I guess, I did get to see a beautiful red male Cardinal.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

So, Miss Brahma "I Think I'm Broody" from earlier is back at it - and she is fully committed to it this time around.....all around bad timing and *I* was ready to steal the small dog's crate over the weekend and break her - then DH goes and says, "Why are you doing that? I thought you wanted more birds.......can't you let her hatch some or get her some babies?". REALLY? This man is no help, lol. Ultimately, I don't think I can get what I want right now without paying an arm and a leg for small order shipping (the birds came to $11 - the shipping was $37!) and no one immediately around me has any eggs - plus those come with the risk of getting a bunch of boys - so I'm really trying to just stay strong and stick to the plan of not adding anything until next spring.....but that man just had to go and plant the seed........

Who was it here in the thread that had mentioned possibly having some SS eggs before????Was it you, @campingshaws