Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

I think Diva has stopped taking her meds.
:/

Well...........she is on a chicken website, yet has no chickens.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

This is the description from the Sandhill catalog of Black Pendescencas - sounds like they are particular about egg color. I have found them to be very clear in their catalog about both the good and not so good points of their offerings.

Black Penedescenca (MB): Black Minorca-like chicken with a unique single comb that has almost a crown at the back side. They lay a dark, dark brown egg. Their behavior is very flighty and is similar to a Leghorn. They have an unusual comb - - - single in the front with multiple lobes at the rear. Our strain tends to not have the pure white ear lobes. We strive to select for darkest egg first, comb type second. Our males tend to have bright white ear lobes and the proper combs. Hens tend to have less white in ear lobes and not always the best combs. This breed is not yet listed in the APA Standard.

yes . My roosters wher not good that they sent. My hens have the correct ear lobes and combs. jus appear to be laying not so dark brown legs lol. well hardly brownIf they did not look like penedesenca hens I would say they where not based on the eggs.

 

[debs_flock]

I finally dug out a few kitchen photos.

Before

The detested country blue dotted wallpaper. I knew I was taking it down. You know how people sleepwalk on Ambien? I usually sleep clean. One night I got up and started removing the wallpaper in my sleep! When they originally laid out the kitchen, they didn't leave space for a dishwasher. The only automatic one was an apartment sized one. DH was mine. My theory, if you want to hand wash dishes, you do it!

Ceiling light box!

Geriatric Jenn-Air appliances (but I had already bought my new black fridge).

Man I hated that floor. Unsealed pavers. You dropped an ice cube on them and it would leave a stain that you could NOT get out.

After

Gotta have my coffee corner

The garden window behind the sink.

Three ovens, no waiting!

A full length view with the dining room light.

Wet bar, still haven't finished painting the green walls into the living room. I have high ceilings and I'm dreading painting it.

The reason I could get away with dark, half the walls in the house are floor to ceiling glass, yay for no close neighbors.

My invention. Looks like a tall slide out cabinet which matches all the other doors.

It hides a pocket door built into the back of the cabinet and under the bar.

Doggy door!

Riley on the inside looking out.

DH is annoyed by my four dogs, he uses it to be alone in the kitchen. Me, I use it in the winter time to remind them to wait to have their muddy feet wiped before heading into the rest of the house. If there is a towel on the floor, they usually stop and wait. But if they are in a hurry, sometimes they forget. The custom build was worth the foot wipe reminder!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Beautiful Deb!

 

[The Sheriff]

Nice job Deb! I guess cooking on the back of the toilet for six months was worth it.

 

[speckledhen]

Yup, huge improvement. So, are you happy with your choices, Deb? My DH said just yesterday, "I love walking into this kitchen." For a project that was sort of rushed and forced, we got everything we had ever wanted, except maybe better countertops, though these days, laminate does look classier than it used to. If we had gone with any other surface, it would have meant money out of our pocket, since the ins co would only replace what was there with like kind, or updated like kind, as in new fridge of similar size (though this one is 21 cf whereas the old one was only 18 cf).


This picture that I posted on our Blue Roo Creations blog when I got a teensy mystery egg from the main flock sort of shows a sliver of a close up of the formica countertop we installed. It has beigey golds and black and green in it.

 

[debs_flock]

Nice job Deb! I guess cooking on the back of the toilet for six months was worth it.

No, the bathroom was for coffee and doing dishes (I remodeled the laundry room too, so the utility sink was pulled out as well).

On top of the kindling box by the woodstove was the cooking annex.


The refrigerator sat in the middle of the room. Nothing like remodeling to test a marriage, LOL

 

[lawatt]

i posted this in the NorCal thread, but thought there might be interest here too: video of my lone isbar hatchling, from earlier this afternoon:

guest-starring Daisy Jr, a cross-bred chick from my own flock (australorp x SFH) who hatched late last night, and my cat pearly -- and notice the other 11 isbar eggs sitting there sullenly, refusing to pip or hatch... will give them a few more days in the incubator, just in case.

 

[1muttsfan]

I have never seen the inside of an Rcom - really like the way the bottom holds the eggs. Wonder if you can get something like that to use in other incubators?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have never seen the inside of an Rcom - really like the way the bottom holds the eggs. Wonder if you can get something like that to use in other incubators?

in the R-Com the bottom moves and the egg tray is still. slightly above the bottom. the egg tray has holes where the eggs sit and the eggs roll as the bottom moves