Congrats on your eggs!Great news guys! My first chick-to-chicken raised flock laid their first eggs today! I'm a very proud chicken momma.Im amazed that they pretty much started laying at the same time. These babies are going in the incubator on Sunday. I should have about twenty to put in if everyone lays every day. Now, to figure out who lays the beautiful dark egg~ (And funny thing is, I have three hens in the pen. I must have missed yesterday's egg?)
I need to try pine shavings in the nesting box. I wasn't sure if the smell would be too strong for them. Mine HATE hay! They will pull out every single piece of hay from all 6 boxes! The funny thing is, everyone lays in the same box!
I am SO SORRY!!Obviously bad weather doesn't stop hungry raccoons from looking for a meal. I just lost 2 of my roosters - The "Picture of the Week" serama rooster Sal and my Japanese bantam boy Boss. From what I can gather the d*** thing opened two of the pens and the roosters sacrificed themselves so the girls could escape. They didn't stand a chance.
The girls are okay. They were scared but unharmed. I'm so freaking upset right now. Here Sal was, enjoying his spot in the limelight and some nasty vermin has to go and kill my boy. Guess I'm buying padlocks tomorrow. That coon is dead but I don't want its cousins taking anyone else from me.
The bars I received were cut beautifully. I love the "sample" idea. My soap was beautiful, but I'm SO about the smell! When I pulled my Honeyed Ale soap out yesterday to make sure I got the name correct when I posted it, I left it sitting by the computer and I SO enjoyed the smell all day. I think I'm going to let it sit here a while. It was so relaxing.Its funny that this scratch & sniff/sample topic has come up.......because this morning when I was cutting a loaf of soap that I call "Lavender Abyss" I was telling the hubby (that was hovering, watching my fun) that I was thinking of cutting slivers off of the end pieces as samples to go into orders. We are working on a few things to make even more improvements.....mostly for my cutting ability (or lack there of). We are going to make a REALLY precise cutter for the big loaves. I love it when they are lined up and they are all super straight and all the same size.It makes my OCD happy!!!
I would love to have a cutter made by Bud Haffner(he has a shop on etsy).......but those are pricey! I am sure between my hubby and I though we can do this!!! Hubby used to work for a really good carpenter in his younger years.
I'm so sorry!Obviously bad weather doesn't stop hungry raccoons from looking for a meal. I just lost 2 of my roosters - The "Picture of the Week" serama rooster Sal and my Japanese bantam boy Boss. From what I can gather the d*** thing opened two of the pens and the roosters sacrificed themselves so the girls could escape. They didn't stand a chance.The girls are okay. They were scared but unharmed. I'm so freaking upset right now. Here Sal was, enjoying his spot in the limelight and some nasty vermin has to go and kill my boy. Guess I'm buying padlocks tomorrow. That coon is dead but I don't want its cousins taking anyone else from me.
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