Phoebe House Farm Thread

[ThePhoebeFive]

Send her over to me

Huh-uh! She's my favorite of the Australorps! I actually had the opportunity to give her away to someone who wanted a broody, but she's so sweet that I couldn't.

 

[ThePhoebeFive]

Finally remaking the chickens' pen that Providence and Zach destroyed.

And Providence and Juniper felt the need to inspect everything while I wasn't there to yell at them.

 

[ThePhoebeFive]

One of my Australorps keeps going broody. I've broken her once already this year and had been trying to break her again this week. Well... She won. I gave her ONE egg. If it doesn't hatch I don't know what I'm going to do. Hopefully it's a girl. The reason I'm only doing one because the past two batches I've hatched have all or mostly been boys. With that bad of a rate, I don't want to be saddled with a bucket-load of boys again. View attachment 3549738
And my two EE pullets were cuddling. I couldn't resist posting a pic of them. View attachment 3549742

An update on the Aussie: She's a total failure. She can't remember to stay on the same nest. Thankfully one of my EEs went broody again, so she just took the eggs. (Yes, it didn't stay at one egg. There's three. ) This is Darlene last time she went broody.

 

[fluffycrow]

An update on the Aussie: She's a total failure. She can't remember to stay on the same nest. Thankfully one of my EEs went broody again, so she just took the eggs. (Yes, it didn't stay at one egg. There's three. ) This is Darlene last time she went broody.View attachment 3568099

Nice nest! Are those pine needles?

 

[ThePhoebeFive]

Nice nest! Are those pine needles?

They are. I don't like using them, though. The hens push it into a rim around them and expose the bare wood. When they lay the egg, it hits the wood and cracks, so I put pine shavings inside the ring of needles. At that point I might as well just use shavings.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Finally remaking the chickens' pen that Providence and Zach destroyed. View attachment 3568049View attachment 3568050View attachment 3568051
And Providence and Juniper felt the need to inspect everything while I wasn't there to yell at them.
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Did they destroy the new enclosure again?

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

An update on the Aussie: She's a total failure. She can't remember to stay on the same nest. Thankfully one of my EEs went broody again, so she just took the eggs. (Yes, it didn't stay at one egg. There's three. ) This is Darlene last time she went broody.View attachment 3568099

Aww she is cute!

 

[ThePhoebeFive]

Did they destroy the new enclosure again?

Thankfully, no, but I'm only half finished, so they have plenty of time to.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Thankfully, no, but I'm only half finished, so they have plenty of time to.

Oh ok

 

[ThePhoebeFive]

Finished the fencing!! The gate is such that I can leave it open for full access of the pen or I can close it with the door to the coop on the inside of the pen or the outside depending on where I want them to be. It feels so good to be done!