So sorry to hear about your pullet. How is she doing today? Sounds like you were VERY busy. And I thought I had a lot to do.Morning all! Had a half decapitated pullet when I got home from work Friday. You really could have just grabbed her skin and peeled her face right off. It was terrible.I have no clue how, but she was ripped to the bone from ear lobe across the back of her neck to the other ear lobe. I'm assuming that giant, emu looking wyandotte cockerel got rough with her--he chases her a lot lately--and then the others went after the blood. Poor bird. She's my 8 year old's pullet, too. She's been given the luxury of a shower, blow dry, private living quarters in DH's shop with lots of treats, and access to walk around in the house. My sweet son even held her in his lap on the swing yesterday!
Beautiful! And that darling girl still laid an egg for us after all that drama. I think the swinging must have shook it out of her.
Spent yesterday finishing the run for the ducks and those crazy birds were still out in their yard at 11 last night when I came in despite multiple attempts to get them to go INTO their house.
I thought chickens were a little on the slow side...THEN i got ducks. Got another coop moved to its new home and started on the other two coops that need to be finished and painted by tomorrow evening because I have birds coming this week and birdies in my yard will need to be moved around. Hope we get it all done--poor hubby worked more yesterday than he did all week at work, I think. Bless him! My first incubator that began with 38 eggs had a terrible hatch. Only 23 even made it to lockdown and then only 10 of those hatched. There is one marans egg that is still showing movement, but it has made no effort to pip and this is day 23. The rest got tossed because they had passed somewhere between lockdown and last night. Second incubator is in lockdown and I'm hoping to see some pips by tonight. So, more coop and run work this morning and then cleaning up to take my sweet little man to a birthday party this afternoon. Hope everyone enjoyed any swaps they attended yesterday and you all enjoy a great day today!
Glad to have you here!!!
to the pics. I'm still scared. How are the sheep Gracie?
I can't get the chicken yard dry enough to get a dump truck in the chicken yard to deliver sand. 
It took me 3 nights to catch all but 3 of them. They can't see well at night but they do know how to fly UP and ACROSS over the fence. It was not a pretty sight but it had to be done. Now, I am collecting a lot more eggs. I was out in the yard until 11:00 PM Friday night catching guineas and had to wake up at 4:00 AM to deliver my foster cat to her other foster mother, so that she could be adopted out. Then I had to hit the road to Baton Rouge for a workshop. I didn't leave there until 3:00 PM and headed home. I was so tired, I was falling asleep on the road. :/ But I made it home safe. When I made it to Opelousas, I had a gazillion errands to run (hay for the sheep and goat, get DE, etc. etc. etc.). So, I finally made it home, I picked eggs, checked on all of the animals and I was in bed by 6:00 PM. I didn't wake up until the next morning.
They SCARED ME !!!!!!!!!!! So, they will have to go into the brooder that the older poults were removed from. I forgot to plug the incubator up on Saturday so that I could set more eggs, so now I am a day off of the scheduled day to incubate.
