Office Work.......

[maple]

Fire Hazard....

 

[maple]

Owl cover....

 

[maple]

After math....

 

[maple]

Yeowzah...look at that big brown egg I found in the nest box, it's next to the big white duck egg...that had to hurt.

 

[NellaBean]

I'm not going to tell you how long I stared at the picture that said After Math. I couldn't figure out what a dog laying by a door surrounded by pine needles had to do with MATH. Sigh.

Must start reading forward and not backward.

also, maple....ever heard of a Pumice Stone? If you had a "real" pedicure you might give those poor little asian ladies a heart attack. One time I went to have one done and the lady said "YOU NOT HAD PEDICURE IN LONG TIME". LOL, I think she was trying to tell me something.

 

[maple]

I have friends that go for pedicures all the time. I always decline cuz it's "my dirty little secret."

Where did I hear that line? Oh yeah...the show about adiction to strange things like eating soap... I think it's gonna have to be like a daily and nightly routine because I can never get it gone no matter what I do. The diuretics for my Meniere's and my heart don't help either...they dry me out.

is aftermath...one word? I wrote it that way to start but then I second guessed myself.

 

[wegotchickens]

So, the show. I am happy and sad.

Happy: 7 1st place out of 12 birds
Sad: I was the only one showing any of my varieties. There were a pair of black mottled there from Shady Oaks Bantams and that was it. Their hen took BB.

Happy: TNB got RV, one of my new millies got BV & RB, despite a note about poor middle toe feathering.
Sad: I should've removed TN's spurs sooner.

But the saddest part of all was watching the judge walk away with my white roo, Orion, and consult a judge and the SOP before DQ'ing him. He has a split feather on a secondary wing feather. It was the second layer, it looked to me, and I thought about arguing and then bit my tongue. The judge did talk to me about it after that, so I was glad I was well-mannered. He said Orion is perfect form, good toe feathers, and that he would keep breeding him. I just need to watch and see if it's genetic. It might be a trauma thing, where the feather was messed with while growing in, but the judge doesn't think so. I guess I'll just keep him home and keep an eye on it. And keep breeding him. But if I ever notice that feather is missing, I will show him again (post molt).

I won't pull it. DH thought I should, and enter him again. But I won't. The white hen and pullet both got good marks, despite the hen getting ticked on poorer middle toe feathers, so I will breed a bunch of white chicks and see if I ever encounter this particular defect again.

But I still wanted to because he is otherwise perfect and sooooooooooooo pretty!!

All morning long I watched my lavender girl pull shavings around her, and throw them onto her back, so I knew she'd lay an egg. I was watching for it! But I still missed the actual moment. I heard folks squeal and laugh, and turned as she was picking shavings off it. I know she'd have pulled it under her and set on it, so I snagged it right away and put it in a safe place. It is now in the bator.

BTW, the bator was peeping. The first white x lav chick has pipped

And the project girls are squatting for me
I'll clean the coop and add 'Keeper' to them this week, plus put the nest boxes back in there. The girls are about 6 months old, so it's certainly about time for them to earn their keep!

So, my happy/ sad day ended on a very upbeat note, with birds finally ready to breed, a new egg for the bator, and a peep coming from the bator.

 

[maple]

Lori said,"And the project girls are squatting for me."



hmm...There's just something about that sentence.....




Aw come on Lori...sounds like an awesome day! Congrats on the wins.

 

[wegotchickens]

Quote:
That's not a sentence I'll post on FB, due to the large number of non-BYC peeps who would freak out LOL.

it wasn't a terribly bad day. But I feel so sad abot my lovely Orion, the white roo. He is sooooo pretty! And my only ever DQ

 

[NellaBean]

Booooooo. I would pull the feather and show him without it just to see how he does. You know its there, so still tailor your breeding plans to work with that......if you were plucking it and pretending it didn't exist (IE, breeding even if the "kids" have it) that would be different. But pluck that sucker, see how he shows without it and then see what he makes with the ladies.

Did you find out if LH wanted chickens from you? my trip is next weekend so we need to decide!