MJ's little flock

[LozzyR]

More Donk and Knock. Myth is off the eggs now due to me stealing them and is a bit up the track with Notch. Myth is giving Notch a right ear bashing about how unfair life is etc etc. I would love to give her another chance at hatching but just can't face the horror if it all goes wrong. It was truely horrible last time.
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I’m reluctant to give Charlie fertile eggs the next time she is broody; I honestly don’t know if she’d be a good mum, she’s such a bully.

Donk and Knock are just so beautifully coloured!

 

[MaryJanet]

Two friends spending a little time on a slow Saturday morning the other two are in the nest.

Poor Mary hasn't grown her fresh feathers in yet. At least it was a light moult this time. She seemed to lose about 20% of her feathers. Usually it's around 60% in Mary's case.

 

[MaryJanet]

One of my friends sent me this.

I'm pretty sure that's Janet driving the car, Peggy wearing a helmet and Mary on the right with Ivy behind her in the distance.

 

[Shadrach]

I’m reluctant to give Charlie fertile eggs the next time she is broody; I honestly don’t know if she’d be a good mum, she’s such a bully.

Donk and Knock are just so beautifully coloured!

Some of the most bad tempered hens here have made very good mums. Myth day to day is very well behaved. She's also a good layer. She always lays in one of the coops and generally it's in her tribes coop. She a bit noisy but that doesn't make her a bad hen. It just all falls apart when the chicks arrive. She's not good with any chicks. The others mums go for her if she gets anywhere near their chicks so they know something about her. Other hens most of the mums just keep an eye on. Myth gets rather different treatment.

 

[MaryJanet]

Some of the most bad tempered hens here have made very good mums. Myth day to day is very well behaved. She's also a good layer. She always lays in one of the coops and generally it's in her tribes coop. She a bit noisy but that doesn't make her a bad hen. It just all falls apart when the chicks arrive. She's not good with any chicks. The others mums go for her if she gets anywhere near their chicks so they know something about her. Other hens most of the mums just keep an eye on. Myth gets rather different treatment.

I've trying to think why she does it. Severe antenatal depression is my guess.

It's not about survival because there's plenty to eat.

What are your thoughts Shad?

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

It may well have flowered before it came to live with me or before I was born. But this is the first time I've seen it flower.

Take pictures of it from different perspectives. You can print them and make a collage of it. You want to immortalize the flowering!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I'm trying to think of new information to add to the background I've already shared. Ummm well great grandfather was a captain of a ketch called Macintyre that he co-owned with Elders the insurance company. He spent his life taking goods from the port to the country towns and crops back again. He became sick in his late 60s and went into hospital in Wallaroo and someone else took over as captain. He wrecked her off Wardang Island and as she was full of wheat, she wasn't salvageable. Today she's a divesite. Anyway, the insurance payout was sufficient to build the house. His brother in law was the builder (he later built the Queen Elizabeth hospital). So this house, these bricks and mortar are what's left of his life's work. He died two years later, followed by great grandmother. The house was Nana's for a long time and I lived here as a toddler. Then it was Dad's. He commenced but never completed a renovation. He died in 2016 leaving the place in a big mess. His ex tried to take the house so we entered a dispute with her that was settled after two and a half years. It took all my savings but in the end she paid our costs which I recived in bricks and mortar, not cash. In the meantime she was horrid and left shit in the tiolets and rubbish in the corners. Could've been worse I suppose. Anyway, having paid everyone for their shares, it's now my home. I work fulltime in a job I love but it's taxing, eg, last Thursday I was asked to give a 30 minute talk to 50+ senior people on Tuesday in addition to my usual work. That's not easy to do. It's exhausting but wonderful. So the house proceeds slowly and with dignity. And I close my ears and eyes to others' opinions on what I should do with it and its garden. Having fought so hard and suffered such a lot of worry and fear, while greiving and while doing genuinely hard work, so much that my health suffered, I have ended up with a lot of my identity invested in the house. That may change but for now, advice feels invasive and its unwelcome.

I am glad that you have the house now. You shall proceed however you decide from here on in. You earned the right. You are lucky, I believe, to have this home which has so much of your “ancestors” history.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Her feathers are beautiful. I love pictures of her.

We really do get it all here.

 

[MaryJanet]

I am glad that you have the house now. You shall proceed however you decide from here on in. You earned the right. You are lucky, I believe, to have this home which has so much of your “ancestors” history.

It's a privilege and I treasure it.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Good evening MJ and everyone




So far the only plants I've kept alive are Basil and Lavender that I planted from seeds.

It’s a start!