Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[highpointfarm]

do you have someone at home that could watch them for you? if sooo.... YOU SHOULD COME!

 

[Imprfctme]

Last born.

- Karen

I still say this one looks like a stoner dude!

 

[Imprfctme]

So the bantam has a reddish comb whereas the older Welsummer's hasn't turned red at all... plus s/he seems to have bottom wattles growing already. I don't remember my other hens growing their bottoms until much later. Maybe I'm getting paranoid but something tells me this is a he!

 

[stoopid]

My Wellies all seemed a bit redder, but still girls.
The feathers are a different color on the males, more red/orange.
Get some pics!

 

[smkchick]

Ugh, so jealous! My two chicks are getting awfully stinky. I think it's another week or two and then they can go outside.

Me too. The one thing we didn't get to today was building an isolation corner in the coop for the chicks. The run is great - two separate areas that can be gated off from each other so they can look but not touch. I just need a place for them to be together, but not, in the coop.

Bobby's working tomorrow so it will have to be Thursday. I'll draw up a picture and he'll make it happen.

 

[smkchick]

I want to go to show but I have Ameraucana due.
I think only 4 of the 6 eggs are viable but I left them
all in. Lockdown Thursday..
My 12 welsummer eggs have shipped. Ugh

The babies are gorgeous! I candled my white orpington and light sussex eggs just now. Only one obviously not viable. The rest seem to be growing. OMG! What will I do if 5 WOs and 9 LSs hatch!!

 

[smkchick]

So the bantam has a reddish comb whereas the older Welsummer's hasn't turned red at all... plus s/he seems to have bottom wattles growing already. I don't remember my other hens growing their bottoms until much later. Maybe I'm getting paranoid but something tells me this is a he!

Could it be she's just older than the other one? What's her hatch date? (Use of the feminine pronoun is invoking the power of positive thinking...)

 

[smkchick]

do you have someone at home that could watch them for you? if sooo.... YOU SHOULD COME!

I second that emotion! I have to meet my fellow chickie addict. When are they do to hatch? Show's over at 3 anyway. You'll be gone 12 tops.

DO IT! DO IT!

 

[smkchick]

I took the day off to work in the yard. Got the vines planted around the new run, plus the rest of the vegetable plants and rose bush. Haven't decided where to put the gerbera daisy, salvia and hydrangea yet, so that's not done. Was too lazy to fight with the white gravel around the lavender plants, so the new ones haven't gone in yet. But I raked the yard in preparation for the blanket of grass seed I plan to put down. Fixed up some border fencing, added cds and other distractions to the run, including some big branches for perching. Took the kitten to the vet (he's sick) and had a PT session. I even managed to drag Bobby to our favorite thrift store to stock up on crappy work jeans (for him). Scored some great activity books that I can use with the new tutoring business. Oh yeah, and I tutored for an hour and then voted on my local school budget.

God, I love days like this!

I'm going to investigate natural flea treatments - the little guy has a mild case and he's so little, we can't use anything on him. I bathed him twice in the sink today, but he's catching on. His little claws came out the second time. So we're gonna stick to the flea comb. Shouldn't be a problem - he did get some form of treatment at his foster home. Also, he has an upper respiratory infection - some sneezing and eye gunk. Got meds for that - so far he's been good with getting the oral syringe full of antibiotics and the eye ointment twice a day. I'm doing all the dosing so he won't hate Laura. It's a mom thing. Oh yea, and the vet thinks he may have worms although there's no evidence and he was dewormed.

He's still the biggest mush cat I've ever seen, despite all that...

 

[Imprfctme]

I took the day off to work in the yard. Got the vines planted around the new run, plus the rest of the vegetable plants and rose bush. Haven't decided where to put the gerbera daisy, salvia and hydrangea yet, so that's not done. Was too lazy to fight with the white gravel around the lavender plants, so the new ones haven't gone in yet. But I raked the yard in preparation for the blanket of grass seed I plan to put down. Fixed up some border fencing, added cds and other distractions to the run, including some big branches for perching. Took the kitten to the vet (he's sick) and had a PT session. I even managed to drag Bobby to our favorite thrift store to stock up on crappy work jeans (for him). Scored some great activity books that I can use with the new tutoring business. Oh yeah, and I tutored for an hour and then voted on my local school budget.

God, I love days like this!

I'm going to investigate natural flea treatments - the little guy has a mild case and he's so little, we can't use anything on him. I bathed him twice in the sink today, but he's catching on. His little claws came out the second time. So we're gonna stick to the flea comb. Shouldn't be a problem - he did get some form of treatment at his foster home. Also, he has an upper respiratory infection - some sneezing and eye gunk. Got meds for that - so far he's been good with getting the oral syringe full of antibiotics and the eye ointment twice a day. I'm doing all the dosing so he won't hate Laura. It's a mom thing. Oh yea, and the vet thinks he may have worms although there's no evidence and he was dewormed.

He's still the biggest mush cat I've ever seen, despite all that...

Sounds like a great day - except wasn't it raining where you are too? I have to start with the weeding but then I'm noticing bugs munching on the leaves and I want to spray horticultural oil which doesn't work when its raining and then.... you get the idea.

Natural flea repellant: try pennyroyal or nepatia, aka catmint. Guess who has a TON of catmint and can give it to you free if I see you on Saturday? Would you prefer dried or roots for transplanting? Note that catmint is not as strong as catnip but it will still probably make lil' kitty go Whee Whee Whee all the way home if you catch my drift. What about a gentle dusting with D.E.? Or is that not cool because cats lick themselves? Not a cat person here.

I will try to take better pictures of the chicks but I'm a little preoccupied with the puppy at the moment. She is already showing off her herding instincts and makes the big chickens bunch up in a group and then moves them from one part of the yard to the other. That is, she did it once before I cut her off. I'm not up on how to train a herder and I don't need to lose all three of my laying hens right now.