Good morning folks - just checking in. Here's some coffee for anyone who needs it:
Pretty finches, @Cynthia12
Congrats on the pip, @heatherfeather7
Good for you, Phil - my mother worked for the American Cancer Society (now retired). A good charity.
@daxigait I hope the processing goes ok. It's never fun - I have to do the wry tail NN boy tomorrow morning.
@Akrnaf2 I agree with Sally - nice legs!
(I have a closet full of Crocs...)
@Sally Sunshine and Benny, shame on you for posting more cute goat pictures - I.... CANNOT... RESIST....
@DwayneNLiz I agree on the 666 photo for Chaos
Nathan, good luck picking names!
Yesterday I came home to find Puppy (my chronically wandering/escaping NN pullet) in the Cream Legbar coop. Their paddock is well fenced, so she had to WANT to get in there (she flies well). She was in there with the rooster, Dumbledore, and had a great big deep gash on the back of her neck and a gash on her earlobe. I opened the door and she came out and walked up to me (that's the reason she's called Puppy) - I took her in and tended her wounds (no other injuries) and she's resting in the brooder for now - I'm worried about fly strike, so she's staying in for now (poor bored little thing - didn't even want to watch a movie with me).
My original assumption was that the rooster tried to mount her against her will and he hurt her, although when I found her there, he was keeping his distance from her and just watching her. But when I went back out to check on them, Lissa (CL hen) was acting a little freaked out and not wanting to use the nest box (kept trying to find a way to lay in the sand box under the roosts - I keep an old oven rack on it to keep her from doing that). I got close enough to get a look at her, and she has a small swollen wound on the side of her face near the beak, blood on her comb, and what can only be described as a shiner.
If I have to guess, I now think that Puppy got in to the CL paddock/coop, started exploring, pecked Lissa off the nest, and Dumbledore defended Lissa (he's very serious about protecting his girls). I suppose I should add that because she's a NN and he's a CL, she is the same size/weight as he is (and a lot bigger than the CL hens).
Either way... CRAZY CHICKENS!!!!
Oh, and she passed a huge piece of latex glove this morning. I have NO idea where she would have found that, but I was looking at it this morning thinking "Why on earth would you eat that?"
And on that lovely note, I bid you all adieu for now - gotta try to get SOMETHING done today.
also missing the chick with the open navel. 
1 pullet, 2 cockerels? 1 "boy" has dark spots on his toes. Not like the pullet, though. 
