Michigan

[NovaAman]

I just don't fell like it today.

 

[Opa]

Some times a day can seem a little brighter when some little thing happens. For me it was sitting here drinking coffee and watching a wild turkey hen bring her two or three day old poults out to feed in the clover I have planted behind the house.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

On the first day out with mama, one of the Faverolles chicks got too close while Mama was scratching for bugs. It zoomed by about 2 feet and landed with a thud on it's back. I was really worried for about a half a second until it popped right back up and ran back to mom. I swear baby chicks must be made of rubber.

They are tough!

Hillbilly Hen-

Mom 2!

Some times a day can seem a little brighter when some little thing happens. For me it was sitting here drinking coffee and watching a wild turkey hen bring her two or three day old poults out to feed in the clover I have planted behind the house.

My middle son is working in Kentucky for a few weeks for a tree company. The other day he walked up on a baby fawn.

 

[Juise]

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I think I liked being ignorant, I don't mind spiders, often put them outside instead of killing, but Black Widow's, They would have to go

Lol, now, now, it is important to know!

Especially if you are going to move a brush pile, or get wood from the back of the barn, or get things out you had stored in an old, crumbling shed! Oh, wait, that's not where they were, I meant... Especially if you are going to go to the front of your house.

BYFM - Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that was the page you linked, teehee...

Mom2 - People. Makes you want to burn the lot of 'em. My brother has a rescue pitt mutt, the condition she was in when she was rescued is sickening. He has had her 6 or 7 years now, and he now has a 5 year old little boy, too, and she gets lots of loves, and she is the sweetest thing. She still doesn't bark, she was beaten for that, but that aside you would never guess her unhappy beginnings. She has come so far since he picked her up. Also, it is kind of funny to watch her not bark at squirrels. She quivers from ears to tail, you can see the bark trying to escape!

So, about a month ago when I moved the little chickens into the coop with the big ones, egg production plummeted. Which I expected, of course. I thought that by now it would have come back up, though? I've looked all over the place for hiding eggs and not found any, and I even left them shut in their coop and run one day until around 5 pm to see if I could figure out if they were laying elsewhere, or eating them, or just still not laying. Well, I have 5 that are / were laying at the moment, and until the addition they were generally laying 4 or 5 eggs a day. I am still getting usually 1 maybe 2 a day now, and a couple times 3. The day I left them shut in I got 3. So I am still not sure. The point I am getting to, (yes, there is one!) is that I am kind of happy to leave them shut in over the weekend so I can see how many eggs we have when we get back.

 

[swampducks]

Does anyone else feel as though this is waiting for the rest of the story and the punch line?

My middle son is working in Kentucky for a few weeks for a tree company. The other day he walked up on a baby fawn.

Had a lot of rain over night, at least half an inch, got puddles in my cucumber/tomato garden.

DH is going to bring the canoe back from the pole barn at his hunting camp so we can take advantage of the free fishing weekend today. Mud Lake here in Barton City has been known to have some nice sized pike.

Otherwise, kind of steamy out there, birds are all doing fine, think I'll leave the ducks in their pen today, caught another on deck last night eating the last leaves off of one of my potted tomatoes. *sigh* Now I'll have to replace it. Bet that duck's gonna be tasty! Of course, they are ignoring the new "duck deck" DH installed for them across 2 old tree stumps yesterday.

 

[RaZ]

I was actually excited about the thought of real Ginger Ale. lol

I actually have Vernor's here.

 

[RaZ]

I don't remember who suggested it...

Those zip-lock bags half full of water are actually keeping the flies out of my coop.
I'm going to hang them everywhere.

 

[vjwilmoth]

5K is over...did pretty good. Soccer game completed out our spring season. Now we are on to a flash mob!

I'll be back later to chat.

 

[gladahmae]

Evicting the chicks from the basement today! WOOO HOOOO! The pop door is on, and the ramp is almost finished. Poor DH will have to herd them into the coop on his own tonight though since I have to work.

Are sqeaks/sqauks kind of like a turkey hen makes precursors to clucks or crows? One of my older chicks is making them, and I'm worried one may be a cockeral.

 

[Olive Hill]

I was going to preface this picture with, "Not to brag...", but it's not nice to lie.