Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[Carolyn252]

I'm away for the whole weekend. Grand kids birthday party in Brooklyn on Saturday and another in Westchester on Sunday. DH drove me 'n him to Westchester Friday afternoon and we slept there, at DD's Friday night. She then drove us and her kids to the Saturday Brooklyn party, then drove us all back to her house in Westchester so we could all wake up Sunday morning and get the house ready for Sunday 's party.

You should see the "Guidelines for caretaking of Carolyn's Chickens" that I typed up for my 16 year old neighbor chicken-sitter.

Four pages of instructions. Maybe I'll post them when I get home again late Sunday night.

Ugghhh. Twenty minutes is about my comfort limit in riding around in cars. On parkways. Yuk!!
My iPad keeps my head down and distracted. It was an hour up to Westchester, then an hour to bklyn, then an hour back up to Westchester, and later tonight an hour back home in Nassau . Not my idea of a fun weekend. But, of course the grand kids makes it SO worth the effort. And the iPad is a G-dsend.

Roberta, sorry to hear of the loss of one of your chickens. Thanks for watching over my two chickies.

It's four in the morning and the whole house is fast asleep. I just woke up and tip toed into the living room. One big bulldog snoring on the couch. I'll settle in with a cup of tea and watch a couple of tivo'd shows on tv before heading off to bed again. Lots of helium balloons to blow up later this morning. 'Night all
-Carolyn

 

[Imprfctme]

Chipmunks comb is awfully big.....

Nooooo.... maybe its just the angle of the photo? Sigh, well if it is a Chip the rooster, any takers?

 

[Cheeky Chick]

Roberta, I'm sorry about your loss of Bonnie.

Spent all day yesterday watching my boys bring the HUGE shed to the coop area. It's HUGE. Took all day. I'll get pictures later on.

Happy Mothers day, Every one.

 

[smkchick]

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommies, chicken mommies and sons of mommies out there!

 

[highpointfarm]

Nooooo....

maybe its just the angle of the photo? Sigh, well if it is a Chip the rooster, any takers?

I may.... I will have to see... Is chip the banty?

 

[highpointfarm]

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

 

[queenchick16]

Happy Mothers Day; The little yellow Silkie won't drink or eat and will not stop peeping. I feel bad. I'm going to make up some wet food this morning hope that helps. Boy do you feel helpless.I never had a sick chick with my last hatch so this is all new. Does anyone have a guess as to what the brown one might be it was taken out of the box with the Polish but I don't think so.They are all so alert except for the yellowish one.

 

[ChickenAl]

Love it!
Bonnie died this afternoon.  The good news, is when I went to check on her, she had some kind of brown goo running out of her mouth.
Her crop did feel funny, maybe (hopefully) just a crop infection. Not contageous.

I have a pip on one orp egg!

And Carolyn, don't worry, your girls are in the house. I didn't want anything to happen to them, after how hard it was to get them!

Roberta, sorry to hear about Bonnie. Hoping it was just an infection.

 

[stoopid]

Check his butt, may have pasty butt.

 

[queenchick16]

Check his butt, may have pasty butt.

I wiped them all late yesterday afternoon. I'll check this morning. Thanks For your help. Carol I'm freaking out here.