my very own micro farm

[attimus]

Woot woot it's my BIRTHDAY! .......
And im at work. Lol.

 

[Jensownzoo]

 

[aart]

Happy Birthday!
I was lucky and was usually able to take my birthday off of work....back when I had a job.

 

[lindalouly]

Happy very late birthday. Get some sleep before the baby comes... Sometimes things have to wait. You won't do anyone any favors if you get sick. Good luck.

 

[attimus]

Wow! Life rrally can catch up and distract us from whats important, like posting about chickens obsessively. Ive certainly been spreading it thin these days, with so much going on at work and home its easy to get pulled away.

Now to dive back in.

Thanks for the bday wishes, that weekend was a mix of alot of things. Good, bad.....wierd. working the actual night of my bday was no biggie, plenty of wishes from coworkers made it move right along and i managed to keep a pleasant attitude through the course of the night( i find the talking about my chickens during service keeps me distracted from that services stresses). The only buzz kill was the amount of time i spent there at the end of the night and i wasnt offered a 'bday' meal. Sous chef is a big d, just sayin.
The next night was one of my most mellow saturday night events in the history my employment there.
I manned a food stand at a music festival for a 9 1/2 hour shift. Not a bad way to spend an evening. I made a handful of pulled pork sandwiches and some italian suasage, poured quite a few beers and chatted with some old friends and and made new ones and kept the conversation simple. Chickens. Lol. As a matter of fact one of my good friends brother in law was there and was looking for me specifically to chat about my kelsos. Turns out hes been collecting quite a few gamebirds of his own and is only a quick 5 min drive, might be checking his little farm out at some point.
I also ran into an old friend that ive been looking for since we picked up our kelso trio originally. He has a decent amount of birds as well and has been doing it alot longer than I, so its nice to have a seasoned brain to pick.
Sunday was my planned day to celebrate and that a did, after an akward brunch. Very slow start it, but the last hour or so was pretty rough. Out of the way i headed home to slow cook my two chicken and two of the duck that i butchered the preceding monday. Some coworkers showed up briefly only to return to work an hour or so later for their second shifts, friends made it up from the valley, some good old soul always around kinda friends. Really needed that.

Weekends over and i havent stopped moving. More work to do around the house, more food to cook, and chickens to deal with.

I missed a large altercation a week ago between several unknown chickens my game rooster hermes and the black and white bantam. Hermes is in confinement, he is having trouble standing something is wrong with at least one leg. Doesnt seem broken maybe a sprain, im still uncertain. All i know is if he cant stand soon im gonna half to put him down.
The bantam didnt make it throught the week. My best guess is some form of spinal or nuerological damage based on how her movement over the last few days was. She has since been shipped of to uc davis for testing because i just dont know and id rather be safe than sorry down the road. This the bantam from the group that was affected with cocci so that might be responsible in some way, the only one left is an ee and im not to sure about its condition either, seems sad or ready to throw the towel in, so just waiting on those results then.

The two younger hatches seem to be doing well and have intermingled since their abandonment by respective mothers. All are getting big and coloring out nice, well exceot for the bantams that is they seem to be staying the same size as theyve been for about 2 weeks now, hilarious.
The most recent hatch is still confined but should be out full time by the end of the is weekend, coloring in nicely as well. And what looks like 2 white patterned ee from them along with some other interesting mixes. Great news considering i thought they were all going to be buff except for that little black one.

And of course theres the fibros, that trio and the singled out ee that hatched with them are getting big. At this point it is veey definitely two boys and a girl. Happy to have a hona pair to start my own hatches with soon. The hmong x is also filling out nicely and is still sparatically attempting to crow, as this is being typed while i walk around the property i actually just witnessed the hmong challenging the hona, like an angry teenager. Lol.

Just let the youngest hatch out to run around

After a few pecks from the oldest, 5 seperate hatches of chickens already integrating.

And guess who just got their first pip. Hona egg. The stream is running again. Its the bottom left corner. Keeping my fingers crossed.

On hatching eggs, i have a kelso hiding in my shed on close to a dozen eggs from my best guess. Possibly mostly bantam with few of her eggs as well. This And the incubator hg atch will be my last until cools off.

A quick thanks to everyone following subscribing linking posting clicking tagging sharing or just plain reading along.
Appreciate it.

Onwards and upwards
Attimus

*Note* this message was written over the course of 3 days.

 

[attimus]

Got one hatched out Hmong with another a ways behind and a hona is about half zipped. So this is way better than the first fibro hatch already. Gonna spend an endless night waiting for the rest to come, greet Sunday morning bright and early with a smile on my face regardless of the amount of sleep I get.

Onwards and upwards
Attimus

 

[attimus]

Neighbor hood turkeys.

 

[lindalouly]

Neighbor hood turkeys.

Wow. Wild turkeys? Can you eat them or is that frown upon? I have never seen anything like that before.

 

[attimus]

Wow. Wild turkeys? Can you eat them or is that frown upon? I have never seen anything like that before.

Yup wild. About 30 or so of em. And yes you can eat them, but there's a season for it here. They all get really big, last year I saw a hen with two foot long legs, just imagine the Toms, some big boys. Lol.

 

[attimus]

Newest members of the flock, 2 Hmong and 1 hona. Waiting on more pips but two days past now.

Some new colored ee's

This little hen came from my black bantams o.0

The hona pair

Hmong cross with gold coming in on back and crown.
Things to do happy for pictures on phone again.

Attimus