Kat’s Journey into Chicken Keeping

[LaFemmeKatia]

Here's mine. We do ours at night. There's is a shooting star in the upper right!
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Here's mine. We do ours at night. There's is a shooting star in the upper right!
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Your campfire is beautiful
The shooting star adds to the magic.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

She will challenge you. They are very clever and if you win their heart you will have an amazing partner in crime. I miss mine dearly.

Oh she challenges me all right! She was naturally the first one to escape the run on me one day as I was going in. She ran into the brush line so I couldn’t catch her. I was worried to death but I was forced to give up.
Little while later she was outside the run. I opened the door and she went in.

 

[BY Bob]

Your campfire is beautiful
The shooting star adds to the magic.

I got so lucky with that photo. I had been playing around trying to get the lighting just right and that was the one with the star.

 

[cavemanrich]

Here's mine. We do ours at night. There's is a shooting star in the upper right!
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Fantastic pix BTW My fires do continue into the night.
I have this one funny joke, that I need to make Politically Correct so it does not offend anyone by chance.
Group A makes a small fire, and sits close to it, and chats, and stays warm.

Group B makes a HUGE fire. They stay warm by running back and forth bringing in more fire wood.

Talking about frogs,,,, I just had to dig this one up from my files

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Fantastic pix BTW My fires do continue into the night.
I have this one funny joke, that I need to make Politically Correct so it does not offend anyone by chance.
Group A makes a small fire, and sits close to it, and chats, and stays warm.

Group B makes a HUGE fire. They stay warm by running back and forth bringing in more fire wood.

Talking about frogs,,,, I just had too dig this one up from my files
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I’m stealing the frog meme!

 

[Ribh]

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Unhappily I've lost all my fire photos but like Bob, we do ours @ night too.

 

[Ribh]

Oh she challenges me all right! She was naturally the first one to escape the run on me one day as I was going in. She ran into the brush line so I couldn’t catch her. I was worried to death but I was forced to give up.
Little while later she was outside the run. I opened the door and she went in.

May I introduce you to Campines... First to escape but 1st to return if they suspect treats are on offer. I love smart birds. They are so much fun.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Big Guy - (05/2020 to 09/17/2020)

My big Muscovy drake passed away this morning after a brief illness.
We found him sitting by the pond yesterday evening, and We knew something was wrong when he didn’t come running for dinner. The Ducks always do that.
I brought him inside and gave him a thorough going over, and all we found was a small wound under his wing at the joint and a smaller one on his side under the same wing. No bones were broken. He was able to walk, he just didn’t want to. I cleaned the wounds and put antibiotic ointment on them. They weren’t bleeding and they looked okay.
I put him in a dog cage with food and water. He wouldn’t eat or drink, which is odd for him but I thought he’d eat once he settled down. He seemed like he was stunned or something. But his breathing was normal. His crop was mostly empty.
I put him in the spare bedroom and closed the air conditioning to the room so he would be warm. I slept in there with him.
I offered water again but he refused, so I decided to call an Avian vet who was referred to me In the morning. She is an hour away from me, but I didn’t like how he looked. He looked stoned.
At around 5 am I was startled awake by thrashing in the cage. He was having some kind of a seizure.
And then he was gone.
Mike and I are both pretty upset.
RIP Big Guy.

 

[cavemanrich]

May I introduce you to Campines... First to escape but 1st to return if they suspect treats are on offer. I love smart birds. They are so much fun.

Just wanted to let you know that they are available from a leading hatchery here stateside.

But your hens look prettier than theirs

 

[Ribh]

Just wanted to let you know that they are available from a leading hatchery here stateside.
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But your hens look prettier than theirs

I always reckon this one looks like it died & got stuffed. That is not typical Campine behaviour! They're ADD chickens!

Thank you. I think my girls are very pretty. They're certainly mad.