Maine

[superchemicalgirl]

Yes it is best to do it in the morning versus at night due to it shutting off and them not roosting.


Got my two sewn christmas presents finally done.

Cardinal wall hangings - one for my mother and one for my sister. While I don't believe that cardinals are the spirits of the deceased coming to visit us, they'll eat it up (dad died in June). Otherwise, if no one believes, it's still cheery.

 

[lazy gardener]

Diana, my girls get their light at night. There's no way I'll subject myself or neighbors to rooster crowing at 2:30 AM. Not to mention that I have no intention of getting up that early to feed or let them out, and I don't want them milling around that early waiting for me to get up. They do fine putting themselves to bed at night. I leave the back light on for a while. But even without the back light, they are very good at figuring out when curfew is, and are on the perch before lights out.

 

[Cknldy]

Diana- a swift kick to the chest could be what happened to wheezy. Once when I was integrating RIR offspring into parent coop when all were the same size one of the momma hens did the ninja kick to the chest of the most submissive daughter. Happened so fast I was dumbstruck!

 

[buckabucka]

So sorry about your bird, Diana.

And sorry about your dad, SCG! I remember you writing about his great sense of humor and prankster ways. The quilts are gorgeous. If my sister sees them she will be defecting to your family, so she can receive a quilt too. In fact, aren't we related somehow......?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have been entertaining offers to swap certain members of my family for others...

I will also be making a blue jay and berries for myself, starting this week hopefully.

 

[diana507]

Snowing here today. The girls didn't know what to think of it. 2 of them refused to come out into the run to eat treats. A few were chasing snow flakes and the others were trying to peck it all up. Still have part of the top of the run covered in a tarp over the wire. Guess it's time to go clean it off starting to sag some.

 

[lazy gardener]

And so it begins! My flock didn't seem to mind the snow too much.

 

[bedechicks]

Hello everyone,

Just moved to York County, ME from NH. I brought with me a mixed and varied flock - my roo is a NH Red, I have 3 buff orpingtons (my faves), 3 lakenvelders, a couple of hamburgs, a spitzhauben who thinks she is a roo too (tries her hardest to crow), couple polish, partridge rock, white leghorn, 5 brown leghorns and a few others (28 total). The weather has the newest, a lakenvelder/NH Red cross (I think, that's what she looks like) or the partridge rock very confused as someone is laying steadily and suddenly...lol

The first week they refused to set foot outside their coop, as though NH and ME somehow looked different, but now they are enjoying the warm weather and raking all my leaves for me

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Welcome to Maine!

 

[MainerChick]

So I'm bummed out to share that we lost our first chick today. Hubby checked on the birds this afternoon and found a silkie had passed. It was in the nestbox area under the heatlamp, so I don't think it was the cold that did it. At about six weeks, I'm not sure what could suddenly take one out beyond some non visible defect. We are still nursing a split-beak easter egger and have 30 other healthy birds. So I shouldn't complain too much. Still, that first loss is always frustrating!