As some of you may know, our family usually does a couple chicken-themed Christmas portraits each year. Well part of what makes it fun is some of the craziness. Here are some pics that will not make it into the Holiday cards.
Christmas Photo Out-takes:
While big Marshmallow was sitting pretty, Trouble decided to play in his hair.
Here DS is scolding Trouble & reminding her not to poop.
Then Marshmallow didn't want to get upstaged by a bantam. She stood up, and as you can see, she's more than a lap-full.
Of course DS still had problems when we moved on to fake birds. (I think it's a boy thing.)
DD shows him how it's done....
Christmas Photo Out-takes:
While big Marshmallow was sitting pretty, Trouble decided to play in his hair.
Here DS is scolding Trouble & reminding her not to poop.
Then Marshmallow didn't want to get upstaged by a bantam. She stood up, and as you can see, she's more than a lap-full.
Of course DS still had problems when we moved on to fake birds. (I think it's a boy thing.)
DD shows him how it's done....
guess we're going to be exchanging that. We also can't find last year's tree skirt and I don't have time to quilt one. Tomorrow weather permitting we are headed out to Grandma's and Mom's to help them decorate. Should be fun. Found to have home made chicken noodle soup with one of our birds. Btw being so busy we of course didn't have time to process any cockerals this weekend. Some of them are massive! Can't wait to see how they dress out plus it's just way too much testosterone on the back side of the coop. We have about 25 boys in there right now so that's a lot of feed. Thankfully they're all quite peaceful except a couple and they aren't bothering the babies or the quail. Still I know they're bored. The got some pumpkin and an apple today and other safe kitchen scraps to play in and scratch for. The flock is doing well in spite of the boredom. No frostbite yet fingers crossed for the next few days. We have home made suet blocks and a few flock blocks and squash etc just in case the pumpkin doesn't last. Hopefully it will. Stay safe and warm everyone please drive safely if you must go. We've gotten a lot of snow today. The wind is whipping through the windows so spare time tomorrow will probably be spent sealing windows. In other news our cats got two mice last night thankfully. They've been in the basement and eating the mortar out of the foundation so the more gone the better still we haven't seen any mice in weeks. Field mice always try to come in for winter if they can. Now if only something would get that rat that we saw that we are certain killed that chick a while back. Way past my bedtime better get to bed. Goodnight all.
