Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

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The young'uns come out in the spring as they are weaned from their mothers. Or at least spring is when we tend to see more of them - hungry and all from hibernation. I dunno - just speculating.

The last time we had a bear was before we got our dog - so almost 5 years now.

No campfires here. We are in the forest and CA is dry, dry, dry. Forest fires are really bad here. We generally don't get rain from late May-ish to October. The grasses are already turning brown. Too much good fuel for fires.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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The young'uns come out in the spring as they are weaned from their mothers. Or at least spring is when we tend to see more of them - hungry and all from hibernation. I dunno - just speculating.

The last time we had a bear was before we got our dog - so almost 5 years now.

No campfires here. We are in the forest and CA is dry, dry, dry. Forest fires are really bad here. We generally don't get rain from late May-ish to October. The grasses are already turning brown. Too much good fuel for fires.
oh wow! what a blessing we have here then! I love sitting with the kids making hot dogs and smores.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Picking up my new bees tonight.

The beekeeper is going to give me some pointers to hopefully not kill them this coming winter. I'm getting 3 lbs of bees and a marked queen. I'd never in a million years be able to spot her if she wasn't marked.

 

[mlm Mike]

Picking up my new bees tonight.

The beekeeper is going to give me some pointers to hopefully not kill them this coming winter. I'm getting 3 lbs of bees and a marked queen. I'd never in a million years be able to spot her if she wasn't marked.

Does the queen come in her own little container, plugged by a marshmallow or is that just when you are introducing a new queen to an existing hive? I never knew you bought bees by the pound. Now waiting for bee pictures.

 

[Mahonri]

NotAFarm, Mary. Nauvoo, July 9-15th. My nephew is one of the performers there... his second year there.

Not feeling well today. Had to cancel out my morning. I pray I'm better by tomorrow, I'm booked SOLID from 7:30AM through 5PM. I think I'll candle the remaining six eggs under the broody a day early... it's only day 17 but what the heck?

 

[The Sheriff]

My broody's hatch is complete at three chicks. I took the other five eggs to the basement to candle them. I could smell them as soon as we got inside. They were all liquified. Yikes. I got them bagged up and in the trash before they exploded on me! That would have been gross.

Michael is going to help me clean that coop out in a bit so I can move her and the babies to the floor in a separate nest box. The coop floor needs cleaning and new bedding before I want babies on it. When I took the other eggs out, two of the babies were standing on the lip of the raised nest box looking down at the floor. I could just hear one yell "Geronimo' to the other!

 

[mlm Mike]

 

[The Sheriff]

OMG in the time I got back outside to clean the coop one of the black babies is missing! It is no where to be found. I don't know if it fell out then wandered out the pop door and got lost or one of the hens got in the nest box and killed it. There is simply no trace. Michael and I both looked. I have her down on the floor in a nest box with the babies so I hope it wasn't attacked or it will probably happen to the other two.

 

[debs_flock]

OMG in the time I got back outside to clean the coop one of the black babies is missing! It is no where to be found. I don't know if it fell out then wandered out the pop door and got lost or one of the hens got in the nest box and killed it. There is simply no trace. Michael and I both looked. I have her down on the floor in a nest box with the babies so I hope it wasn't attacked or it will probably happen to the other two.

I had a chick disappear like that once. About fifteen minutes later I noticed the cockerels in the next pen over playing keep away with it's poor body. Either it walked through the adjoining wire or they yanked it through,

I didn't have a spot to put the broody, so I ended up taking her two other chicks and raising them myself.

 

[Mahonri]

Just got through candling the remaining six eggs under the broody. I think one or perhaps two have a chance of hatching, but I left all six... just in case.