Hatching with 2 broodies

[Teila]

Woo hooo TGG, very exciting news!

Ditto ... stay warm!
I will check back at lunch time to see if we have some new Team Broody bubbies!

Can't remember the last time I bought a loaf of bread .. I love my breadmaker; toss in ingredients, push the button, come home to a fresh, warm loaf of bread! Yum!

 

[lizgarf]

Alrighty, while we're waiting for new fuzzy butt photos, I will entertain with a funny story:
I went to the home depot to buy materials for the new run. Some guy bumps me with his cart, apologizes, and I accept and I'm on my way to the fencing isle. He sees me there and asks me if everything is ok. Now, he does not work there (obviously, because urban home depot guys don't actually ask you if you need help, you have to hunt them down), and he's NOT my type, but he decides he's going to throw some manly construction wisdom my way. I say a non-committal yes and keep looking at the fencing materials and he says, "are you building something for your chickens?" I say, "why yes, I am building them a run." And he says, "I'm into that." I ignore him and he eventually moves on.

I don't know if I was more shocked that some guy was trying to pick me up at the home depot or that he targeted me as a chicken lady! Maybe I should have been a bit more open to the come-on, given the common ground, but he went about it all wrong! And again, he wasn't my type.

 

[Teila]

Alrighty, while we're waiting for new fuzzy butt photos, I will entertain with a funny story:
I went to the home depot to buy materials for the new run. Some guy bumps me with his cart, apologizes, and I accept and I'm on my way to the fencing isle. He sees me there and asks me if everything is ok. Now, he does not work there (obviously, because urban home depot guys don't actually ask you if you need help, you have to hunt them down), and he's NOT my type, but he decides he's going to throw some manly construction wisdom my way. I say a non-committal yes and keep looking at the fencing materials and he says, "are you building something for your chickens?" I say, "why yes, I am building them a run." And he says, "I'm into that." I ignore him and he eventually moves on.

I don't know if I was more shocked that some guy was trying to pick me up at the home depot or that he targeted me as a chicken lady! Maybe I should have been a bit more open to the come-on, given the common ground, but he went about it all wrong! And again, he wasn't my type.

Lols Liz ... did you check for chicken feathers in your hair? Did you have some poop on you somewhere? ... just asking cos they are usually pretty good giveaways that you have chickens ! lol

That is funny and kinda cute that he was coming on like that .. I wonder how many times chickens get used as a pick-up? Now I am sure you are more than capable of building your own chicken run without assistance but you could have played along and got some help! Only kidding!! That would not be a nice thing to do and who knows, maybe not safe! Queue spooky music "I know where you live" etc lols.

Que Sara Sara; even if he had gone about it the right way, if there is no chemistry, trying to mix some up in the lab can be dangerous! lol

 

[lizgarf]

Lols Liz ... did you check for chicken feathers in your hair? Did you have some poop on you somewhere? ... just asking cos they are usually pretty good giveaways that you have chickens ! lol

That is funny and kinda cute that he was coming on like that .. I wonder how many times chickens get used as a pick-up? Now I am sure you are more than capable of building your own chicken run without assistance but you could have played along and got some help! Only kidding!! That would not be a nice thing to do and who knows, maybe not safe! Queue spooky music "I know where you live" etc lols.

Que Sara Sara; even if he had gone about it the right way, if there is no chemistry, trying to mix some up in the lab can be dangerous! lol

It is funny! I don't think I had any chicken signs on me, but I likely had dog/cat hair somewhere. Not to turn this forum into my own private psychoanalysis session, but the man for me would definitely want to help me be build a chicken run! But, he wouldn't assume that I needed help! And, he would be cuter than this guy was (which is not setting a high bar in this case).

Now, how to meet nice, attractive, non-threatening men who like to help build chicken runs? That is the question. Luckily, I have other friends to help me in the mean time.

 

[Teila]

It is funny! I don't think I had any chicken signs on me, but I likely had dog/cat hair somewhere. Not to turn this forum into my own private psychoanalysis session, but the man for me would definitely want to help me be build a chicken run! But, he wouldn't assume that I needed help! And, he would be cuter than this guy was (which is not setting a high bar in this case).

Now, how to meet nice, attractive, non-threatening men who like to help build chicken runs? That is the question. Luckily, I have other friends to help me in the mean time.

OMG Liz ... 'scuse me while I am wiping spluttered coffee off my monitor .. "he would be cuter than this guy was (which is not setting a high bar in this case)." lols; too funny!

Hey, let's psychoanalize, things are quiet at work today (obviously) and we are here waiting on bubby news; I'm free! lolz "the man for me would definitely want to help me be build a chicken run! But, he wouldn't assume that I needed help!" .. well said!!

"Now, how to meet nice, attractive, non-threatening men who like to help build chicken runs" Internet! I met my hubby on a dating site. Some people judge harshly and categorize you as desperate but as I have mentioned in the past, unless my soul mate worked with me, served at my local produce store, scanned my groceries at Woolworths or just happened to deliver one of my online purchases, I had no hope of meeting him because these are the only places I go or people I see and I luv it that way.

 

[lizgarf]

OMG Liz ... 'scuse me while I am wiping spluttered coffee off my monitor .. "he would be cuter than this guy was (which is not setting a high bar in this case)." lols; too funny!

Hey, let's psychoanalize, things are quiet at work today (obviously) and we are here waiting on bubby news; I'm free! lolz "the man for me would definitely want to help me be build a chicken run! But, he wouldn't assume that I needed help!" .. well said!!

"Now, how to meet nice, attractive, non-threatening men who like to help build chicken runs" Internet! I met my hubby on a dating site. Some people judge harshly and categorize you as desperate but as I have mentioned in the past, unless my soul mate worked with me, served at my local produce store, scanned my groceries at Woolworths or just happened to deliver one of my online purchases, I had no hope of meeting him because these are the only places I go or people I see and I luv it that way.

Oh, this is so tempting, but I must remind myself that this is a public forum! I'll post pictures of my critters and talk about my yard, but I'm not ready to have the worldwide web tackle the age-old question of why is Liz still single. Suffice it to say that I have no problems with internet dating in theory, but I find the practice to be traumatic. Maybe I'll overcome that at some point, because now that I've stopped playing ultimate and reached an age where men have actually suddenly ended conversations mid-flirt upon hearing it, I'm finding meeting them out in the real world to be substantially more challenging than it used to be!

 

[Teila]

Oh, this is so tempting, but I must remind myself that this is a public forum! I'll post pictures of my critters and talk about my yard, but I'm not ready to have the worldwide web tackle the age-old question of why is Liz still single. Suffice it to say that I have no problems with internet dating in theory, but I find the practice to be traumatic. Maybe I'll overcome that at some point, because now that I've stopped playing ultimate and reached an age where men have actually suddenly ended conversations mid-flirt upon hearing it, I'm finding meeting them out in the real world to be substantially more challenging than it used to be!

And I am certainly not going to make you uncomfortable and respect your privacy finishing with a possible answer to the "age-old question of why is Liz still single" ... because, right now she wants to be!
Tee hee Liz .. haven't you heard "age is just a number"! That always makes me laugh ... obviously penned by someone whose 'number' was not up in the same higher altitudes as mine! loz

 

[Pooman]

Oh Liz, ill guarantee you this, any man having a bit of a pickup in the coop building area has to be some sort of decent bloke, i highly doubt any psycho would be targeting a crazy chicken lady (not that your crazy).... Nuff of that we have been told

So some photos.

The current residents of house broody. Goliath the moulty docile rooster, the 2 nuggets and Dotty hunkered down

The nuggets can jump now, they hoped up on top of their day bed 18 inches or so with no issue, perfect timing just walked in with the camera

Jess and Lucky showing how it's done, spoilt things.... Thats my couch lol

 

[lizgarf]

Oh Liz, ill guarantee you this, any man having a bit of a pickup in the coop building area has to be some sort of decent bloke, i highly doubt any psycho would be targeting a crazy chicken lady (not that your crazy).... Nuff of that we have been told

I wasn't worried he was psycho (though Teila perhaps rightly suggested that I should be). I just don't like the idea of some guy using his perceived constructional-superiority to try to pick up ladies at the home depot. Of course, I fully admit that I may be unjustly reading all of that into what was a harmless attempt at being friendly in an all too-cold world.

This is the best one:


Think they could both be roos?! More slow-feathering types? So different from mine at that age, but so cute!

 

[Pooman]

Yeh, guess we will find out, feather colour is different but means nothing, the redness on the nose seems that same on each bird now after a day of not seeing them. They both have very long necks like their mother. I do understand that the Orpington are slower growers, moult longer, lay less but they can live for a long time... And continue to lay.

So without their mums the last few days they have really been taking the queue from Goliath, they will often eat next to him out of the bowl, they don't seem to do that much otherwise (so much scratching going on), thats kinda why I decided to leave him in there, also because i don't want them bothering Dotty in case she become a bit narky at them...

Its sad its a cold world, but its true.