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[Hillbilly Hen]

It's supposed to get to 85 today

 

[seminolewind]

I lost one of my older EE girls today. She was one of my first chicks. A hawk got her.

Gabby went broody when she was a year old. I named her Gabby because when she was a brooder baby she always had something to talk about. This was the first time in the three years that I lost one to a hawk.

I'm so sorry! I understand how sad it is, I lost one to a hawk for the first time this year. I sat in the coop and cried my eyes out. She used to run around on my bed, then nap beside me when she was a chick.
That's such a cute picture!

 

[seminolewind]

Cyn, sorry about your ankle hurting. I don't know what I did to my arm, maybe it's tennis elbow. But I can't hold anything up with it. Probably from all the pen building I've been doing. So a few days ago, my DH decided to help finish the pen. The first thing he does is trip, fall down and dislocate his elbow! His son pulled on it to get it back in. So it's slow going on this pen. One day it will be done!

 

[kathyinmo]

Thank you to Rancher Hicks for this mornings news.................

What $4.00 a Gallon Brings To Your Driveway.....
The Smart Car
What we will be forced to drive quite soon.

But look at all of the 'great new choices'
We will have evolving from 'The SMART Car'....
The Smorvette!

The Smaudi A3 AWD!

The Smamborghini!

The Smorsche!

The Smerrari!

And last,but not least,

The Smustang

LAUGHTER HELPS EASE THE PAINS OF LIFE'S TOUGH TIMES.

 

[speckledhen]

Do those sound like SMURFMOBILE to anyone else but me??? LOL



ETA: Two hens who haven't laid in AGES and AGES are laying again! Snow, the splash Ameraucana, and MEG! Meg is over 5 years old, hasn't laid since a few days after we started collecting eggs that LH's handsome Hector hatched from. Snow hasn't laid an egg in about a year and she's laid three in a row! Now, only Nora, Caroline and Miranda are not laying in the main coop, nor is Dusty in Suede's pen. Everyone else is laying, some at just a couple a week, but laying they are!


ETA, again! OMIGOSH, I got FOUR eggs from Suede's pen today! That means Dusty is also laying again! WOOT!

 

[Cetawin]

Cyn here are some pics...

Mottled girl






Nutmeg





Waterer (Notice Addie's one white feather)



Athena's Foot

 

[speckledhen]

Yup, bumblefoot. Poor thing. Must feel like she's walking on a pebble.

Does the mottled girl have a name? You've never said, I don't think.

Oh, I did a test block on the windmill, but the paddles are thinner than I wanted and than I remember doing on a quilt years ago-wish I could find the pattern pieces to go by. Still, will this work? I found other blues, this being one, that were in the medium-dark range for the rest. And I do love this yellow-gold fabric, too. If you prefer the paddles wider, I'll redo the pattern. They look great without sashing, too, just butted up to each other.

 

[Cetawin]

It is beautiful. However you think is best. Mottled girl is named Leaza.

 

[peepacheep]

Thank-you everyone for the Delaware input! A few of my first hens had feather eating issues when they started to lay. BYC was a great source of protein options for the problem. There are still a couple that can not resist new pin feathers. I have been concerned about a Del's energy level and possible foraging skills on others if they were not able to get enough free range time. They sound like such great characters! It would be really nice to bring in a few young pullets now that most of the flock is 3 years old.

LH, Roseburg is the nearest 'big' town to me. That's a little ways north of were you used to live? I agree with you about the cougars and chickens. I have not heard of any problems between the two. Our neighbor however lost their milk goat to a young male cougar last year. The goat was unfortunately an easy but deadly meal for the cougar. Game cameras on the creek catch pictures time to time of another one passing through.

85 degrees in Mich?! We are slogging through another week of heavy rain. Flood warnings are in effect with this latest storm system. The chickens will be growing webbing between their toes anytime now.

 

[speckledhen]

Example without sashing:






argh! The paddles being thinner mess with the way the setting triangles meet, so that they will be staggered, not like the one above. Could be interesting, or could use a thin sashing around each one, like maybe a purple. What do you think? Here is the second block set next to the first so you can see what I mean about the triangles making a zigzag/lightning pattern rather than a square when they come together on the edges. OR, I'd have to rework the entire pattern to make the paddles fatter, but dang it, why can't I find this pattern anywhere? I had to draft this one.