Yeah, like the mountain lion that was hit by a car in Greenwich, CT last year. It was as far south as Eastchester, NY before it turned around and headed north. Everyone saw it, but we kept being told that it wasn't true, can't be - then it got creamed by a Range Rover. Had a tracking collar on it that placed it as originally coming from South Dakota.
Another one to add to your file of ways that everyone that likes chickens is secretly already connected -
I know =/ I really dont know what to do.. if I see him again, then I will really push my parents for a twelve gauge, But if not I prefer to stay on their good sides lol...
Ok so this morning she laid a nice, solid shell egg, if a bit oddly shaped - only problem is, she started snacking on Ruthie's egg! Argh! Granted I didn't get out to the coop until 10:30am this morning, *ahem*, but you can bet I'll be down there at first thing tomorrow. She is the worst "snacker" of the bunch and tends to leave her feed for anything else. I also put more oyster shells in the bucket I keep in the coop. She doesn't have an impacted crop, I checked. Yesterday there was an egg with a hole in it, but it was on the floor of the exercise pen, which is something one of them does occasionally, and I chalked it up to someone accidentally stepping on it. I wonder if giving them cooked scrambled eggs with the shells crushed was enough to give her the idea? I avoided giving them the shells back for a long time because I was afraid of creating egg eaters.
Suzanne, the coop is beautiful! Love it! What are you planting in their window boxes? Kale?We did some of the finishing touches to the coop today, plus I cleaned up the yard and finished planting the vegetable garden. Here's what the coop looks like at this point:
I still have to paint the door (dark green, which is what my house has) and add the sign I'm making. The plants in the window boxes are greens for the girls.
We've already decided to add another 80 sq. ft. to the run on the left. We're going to go around the corner and over 10 ft. or so. There's a birdbath/fountain in the corner now (not hooked up) and I think we're going to keep it in the run.
While we were at Home Depot getting 2x4s to start the run expansion, I left Lavinia in the brooder with the big chicks. The were actually dust-bathing in the shavings and letting her participate. When I got home they were all up on their "training roost", including Little Miss Lavinia. Too cute for words!
Lavinia is doing really well. She looks and acts just like a normal chicken. As in, she wants nothing to do with the chick necklace anymore. I put her and the big chicks together and she was scared poopless. They kept stepping on her and she kept trying to crawl up under their wings. So I put the fence back in. I changed the bulb to red because the light was hurting my eyes (I can imagine how she felt).
Here's the baby. Couldn't decide which picture was cuter, so I thought I'd post them both:
