Official Squatch Watchers

[rjohns39]

Well, Ham and Bacon now have 3X the space of their original run and don't seem to mind the chickens wandering in their space with them. The look on Ham's face while I was cutting out a section of fence to give them access was amazing. Oh, and Ham has me really confused as he's growing teats, but according to google he's a neutered male.

I agree. Best to ask first.
I get pretty ticked when passerby's pick my posies. I don't care if they are within reach from the sidewalk. Leave them alone!

Were you able to safe any of her plants?

I really like that there are no passers by around here but my neighbors. Unannounced visitors are questioned vigorously before being allowed to proceed.

 

[Molpet]

I agree. Best to ask first.
I get pretty ticked when passerby's pick my posies. I don't care if they are within reach from the sidewalk. Leave them alone!

Were you able to safe any of her plants?

some were missed, but all the white peonies were gone and those were the ones my great great grandfather gave his daughter.. they brought those with from Virgina on the wagon train. Of all the ones for all to be gone

 

[21hens-incharge]

some were missed, but all the white peonies were gone and those were the ones my great great grandfather gave his daughter.. they brought those with from Virgina on the wagon train. Of all the ones for all to be gone

that sucks. l

 

[Molpet]

Well, Ham and Bacon now have 3X the space of their original run and don't seem to mind the chickens wandering in their space with them. The look on Ham's face while I was cutting out a section of fence to give them access was amazing. Oh, and Ham has me really confused as he's growing teats, but according to google he's a neutered male.



I really like that there are no passers by around here but my neighbors. Unannounced visitors are questioned vigorously before being allowed to proceed.

yeah it was a gravel road to my grandmas and then a dirt road through the woods to the west. They paved and widen it when I was a kid and now it is a main route to the new hospital.. Way too many people around here now

 

[pitbullmomma]

make sure it's abandoned and it's best to ask first
I bought my grandma's place, next door, after the kids burned it. She was in a nursing home and my uncle was fixing it up to rent when it burned. First nice day after I bought it I caught a woman and kid digging up my great grandmas peones, iris and such. Boy did I have a fit. I told her to leave the plants and get out of there. She said it didn't matter because when the house was torn down they would get wrecked. I told her those plants had sentimental meaning and I was going to move them. She grabbed the plants and ran and I couldn't get her plate because I was on my property on the other side of the creek. I was upset for decades about it.

OMG, some people are such TATERHOLES. Like, who does that??!!! I would have been so pissed off....

 

[Suzi18]

I was able to dig up a lot of different plants from her farm besides the Aconite. She lived on an 80 acre farm and so I have quite an assortment from her woods Trillium Bluebells, Jack in the Pulpit , Dutchmans pipe, snow drops, Helleborous and several species of ferns. She also was quite a gardener and would always give me starts of her perrenials. Hostas Peonies, Bergania, Daisies and Iris just to name a few. She was a very unique lady and just passed away a few weeks ago. I'm so grateful to have had her in my life and also to have a little bit of her that lives on in my garden.

 

[Chickassan]

Shoot,I could hit 600lbs and still be wearing the velour!

Fat people don't like stretchy clothes Chick Ass An!!

 

[pitbullmomma]

Yeah, she has totally given up, it seems.

It's so crazy; she sat unremittingly for a good 6 weeks, now it's like she could give a tater! She's wandering around free ranging with the others in the backyard for over 3 hours, even wandering into the Cemani run, dust bathing, scratching....totally lost interest.

Here's what I did.

I slipped the 2 BC eggs under Luna, my Cemani, who is my super-broody (she's been for only about a week, but she is FIERCE, and she was broody for a good long time, maybe a month before).

I am leaving the 5 Serama eggs under Phoebe, who has only been for the last 2 days, but is sitting faithfully and doing all the proper broody things. She was a strong broody in the past to the point where I had to put here in jail.

If she gets off the eggs, I will put them under Luna as well, and/or if Luna doesn't do the job, then I guess I will stick em in the bator as a last resort, and brood any that hatch myself.

That's my plan!

Cindi (off to prepare the brooder, just in case)

So here's the latest...

Phoebe my Silkie got off the eggs, stayed off. Done. Then Big Bird hopped on 'em for a little bit. She was doing this really cute thing where she was going around the coop, picking up feathers and bits of straw, flipping them on her back, and going back into the nest and depositing them there. I was like, Yeah! Another surrogate! Mommy time!

Except it didn't last.

And then I remembered, I can't put those eggs back in the incubator, duh, b/c it is on lockdown. I don't want my babies to die! (cuz of course, I had to candle them one last time today, and most--if not all--were kickin'.)

So I scooped 'em up and stuck them under Luna, in the Cemani coop.

Then she got off for an hour or so, and I wanted to cry. I kept obsessively going out there to see if she would go back in, and when she didn't, I picked her up, locked her in the coop, and she went NUTS, squawking and bawking until I opened the door.

I just went out there, and guess what? She's sitting on the eggs.

Nobody has been in The Originals' coop. I stuck 2 fake eggs in the old nest, just in case somebody started feeling hormonal. Here's hoping that Luna will continue to sit on her new clutch, and want to hatch them out!

Nothing going on in the 'bator as of now. Got my humidity to 70.

DH is *REALLY FREAKING SICK OF HEARING ABOUT MY EGGS*, lol.

I made the pilgrimage to TSC yesterday (they rewarded me with a 10% of everything coupon, yeah!) and bought a truckload of stuff (happy sigh).

Crazy Chicken Lady, yes I am. How *that* happened I still don't know.

Love ya's!

 

[rjohns39]

I was able to dig up a lot of different plants from her farm besides the Aconite. She lived on an 80 acre farm and so I have quite an assortment from her woods Trillium Bluebells, Jack in the Pulpit , Dutchmans pipe, snow drops, Helleborous and several species of ferns. She also was quite a gardener and would always give me starts of her perrenials. Hostas Peonies, Bergania, Daisies and Iris just to name a few. She was a very unique lady and just passed away a few weeks ago. I'm so grateful to have had her in my life and also to have a little bit of her that lives on in my garden.

I didn't know you spoke in tongues... I love flowers, but I have no idea what most anything is and certainly can't speak their horticultural names. I'm very weak in the plants I eat... I have these beautiful flowers the humming birds love out front and can't figure out what they are so I can get more. I'll do some annuals in my garden for bug control and bee enticement, but I prefer perennials. I love glads and jonquils, tulips, etc, but the whole flower gardening thing is illusive to me.

In the meantime, I think tonight will be early to bed as I need to get up early tomorrow to figure out if I can go to work. Still in the 50's out there and enjoying the moist air, but they are forecasting that I'll have an inch of snow before I go to work in the morning. And body is in pain... Second post I drove today for the new fence went into a tree root. Not only did it about shatter my teeth when it quit going down, it took me an hour to get it out. Oh and splicing fencing is just no fun at all...

 

[pitbullmomma]

@rjohns39 said:

Still in the 50's out there and enjoying the moist air,

I saw that. Yes I did.

heeheehee.... (@Smuvers Farm )

I'm sorry. For an old beeyatch, I am so taterin' immature, lol!