Michigan

[Chickmate]

Keyt - Look in the breed section of BYC under Plymouth Rock and you'll find Barred Rocks. Don't know what your hen is, but she looks like one of my EEs.

I just Googled Partridge Rock and found lots of pictures of hens that look just like yours.

 

[keyt1969]

Keyt - Look in the breed section of BYC under Plymouth Rock and you'll find Barred Rocks. Don't know what your hen is, but she looks like one of my EEs.

I just Googled Partridge Rock and found lots of pictures of hens that look just like yours.

I looked at the pics on google and the lines aren't straight like in this one. This one looks just like my barred rocks but it's red.

 

[Olive Hill]

Keyt - Looks like another "barnyard special".

 

[keyt1969]

Keyt - Looks like another "barnyard special".

Yeah that's what I figured but I wanted to ask anyway =)

I've already had a few people think I had something rare and they wanted one lol

 

[Katiesduckies]

Originally Posted by Mom 2em All

Was a powerful storm that blew through here. My entire street is littered with tree branches of significant size.

Broken branches in my tree, and the neighbors' as well.


I need to vent on behalf of my own sweet mother. She has lived in her house for 45 years. She is disabled, and so is my stepfather. She has known the neighbor next door since he was four years old- he is now 49. He never moved out, and his parent moved to a house on the lake about seven years ago.

My mom has put up with him snow-blowing and blows his snow in such a way it hits her front window. He piled the snow from his driveway onto her covered pool and made it collapse. He has never once offered to snowplow her sidewalk, rake, mow- nothing.
He blew leaves in the fall from his driveway all into her yard. When she told him that she doesnt even have a tree in her front yard, he said, "Well, you do in the back and I have to clean the leaves from your tree out of my backyard all the time".

His nasty wife poured gasoline or some type of chemical onto a big bush that grew next to the fence and killed it. He reaches way over and chops the heck out of her lilac bush and anything that goes over the fence in the tiniest bit, he chops WAY into her yard.

They called the city today and reported my mother for feeding the birds. She received a citation. My mother doesnt bother anyone. She suffers from depression- ever since my youngest brother seperated himself from our family, called us monsters- and took his kids out of her life- all she does is garden, feed the birds, and spends time with my teens when they have time. Thats it. I bought her binoculars and a bird book, and she enjoys identifying different birds who stop by during different times of the year. They are her happiness.

The city came- said she cant feed the birds or the squirrels. Told her that her birdfeeders werent "regulation". You know the tray-type so the doves and other ground feeders can eat? NOPE. He said suet feeders attached by a pole were okay. NO birdbaths allowed.

So, I did what any respectable daughter would do. I spent a hundred dollars at the store and bought every suet feeder they had, Went to the garden center and bought the kind of wrought iron plant hangers that you can attach to a fence- and put them all up, all along the wooden privacy fence that separates their yard.

Im sure they will notice them once the smoke clears from their stupid grill that they cook on every night. Thats right up against the privacy fence and is allowed. Mom is very intimidated by this jerk, and doesnt handle controversy well- she protested me hanging the "regulation suet feeders", but I am so furious.
Mom 2em all let me and my fiance come over sometime we will take care of them pesky neighbors!!

whenever my parents would have a problem with a pesky neighbor at the campsite she would put fruit loops on the roof of their camper boy do birds like fruit loops!! Try that lol I can't believe it my mom always feeds her birds and I really like birds!! I have some red cardinals hanging out at the house lately!! What city does she live in? or township? Have you looked up the "regulations" yourself?

 

[RaZ]

I just discovered that skunks are ga-ga for plain yogurt. It is like frozen peas for ducks or mealworms for chickens.

It sure has been a nice day to be outside. Who would have thunk that 85 degrees was comfortable to work in?

 

[babigyrl22]

I've had my work cut out for me. Busy busy. My neighbor built a cage around my raised garden bed this morning for my vines I've also been working hard to keep my angoras cool in this heat. Everyone has survived so far.

My garden veggies are doing awesome. Tons of potatoes and tons more to harvest. I harvested shallots this morning too YUMEEE!

 

[snowflake]

tried posting this AM computer or internet conked on me. Had repair men out 3 times still having trouble.....
Weather is beautiful today. such a relief from all that humidity. DH and I have been married 45yrs today. good health, beautiful family and a nice place to live. (even though something always needs repairing) Hope our children and grandchildren are able to have the same..

all chickens even meat birds made it through the heat, fortunately we have a big maple in the middle of the run and lots of under brush,lilacs, and wild berry bushes for the meat birds to hide in. I am impressed with the Freedom Rangers, I am sure the cornish X would not have fared so well.

Welcome Hippychickster

lots of good people here willing to help

congrats,on the double yoke, I love my EE's hey are good layers

 

[RaZ]

DH and I have been married 45yrs today. good health, beautiful family and a nice place to live. (even though something always needs repairing) Hope our children and grandchildren are able to have the same..

Congratulations seem to be in order.
But I don't think that word does justice to what you and DH have.
To be together all that time speaks volumes, but volumes of words can't be enough to describe your togetherness, (is togetherness even a word?)

Anyway, Happy Anniversary!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Happy anniversary snowflake!!

Welcome to the newbies!