Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

Deb - I'm not a nurse, but I have had blood dawn and they hit a nerve. Trust me, you would know it instantly if they hit a nerve. That shooting pain was awful. It does sound odd that your muscle would be so tight. I hope you find relief soon!

 

[kathyinmo]

I'm a psych nurse - I know nothing.

I do not get flu shots anymore.
I have read too many conspiracy theories to feel comfortable with them.

Hope you get some relief really soon, Deb!

Oh, Deb - Any more birds or little eggs? Did she hatch any more?

 

[debs_flock]

I'm a psych nurse - I know nothing.

I do not get flu shots anymore.
I have read too many conspiracy theories to feel comfortable with them.

Hope you get some relief really soon, Deb!

Oh, Deb - Any more birds or little eggs? Did she hatch any more?

As a psych nurse, it's probably best to know nothing!

The finch kept laying eggs and flipping them out onto the cage bottom, so I broke down and got them an enclosed nest. It's what they used last year, but I was frustrated because it was really hard for me to see inside what was happening. Singers actually prefer a cup nest anyway, but apparently it was too shallow.

Then they wouldn't trust the enclosed nest and go in the door. So I finally took the nest out and cut off the top, so it ended up being a really deep cup nest, probably three times the depth of the first one.

They immediately started nest building again. A few days ago, she laid her first egg again, but last night I see that it got broken in the nest.

So now I'm just waiting for them to get another clutch going. They usually lay about every other day.

The male has been singing up a storm though!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I hope you feel better debsflock! Sorry I don't know of how to help.

 

[BlueWater29]

Is it 2014 YET????
2013 has been going on for sooooo long!

Kathy, This has been a Very Bad year! My Father passed away, Mom was very sick, and more surgery this week! Great year!!!

Come on 2014 Two more months ...

 

[speckledhen]

I feel like I lost all of this year with the fire and forced renovation. Not a great year in some ways, but out of the ashes came most everything we wanted done with the inside of the house and the porch roof, so there was a silver lining. I'm grateful. And outside my window, the morning sun is making the autumn leaves glow with golds, reds and fiery oranges. This too shall pass, Kathy.

Ladyhawk and I are hoping for our little business to take off and folks to buy some gifts for their families and friends for the holidays. I want to tear down the first storage building-turned coop and build a 12 x 24 coop to consolidate everyone in two coops and use the original coop for a good storage building. It's slightly downhill, a hazard in winter for me and Tom, so having to go there to fill waterers and feeders can be tricky in snow.The new building will be in the old garden spot, which never does well, not enough sun. It's pretty level and directly across from the bantam coop. Will make everything easier for us. So, have to sell lots of stuff for that. And Ladyhawk needs to hire someone to build pens for her, if she can find anyone who wants to work. So think good thoughts for us for the rest of this year and 2014.

Kelly, did you get your scarf? Hope you liked it!

 

[kathyinmo]

I have been thinking. Ya know, I loved - LOVED - having my chickens and I loved the challenge of setting up breeding pens and so on......

But, since Michael died, I simply can not regain that interest. Why is that? I wonder if I am (subconsciously) trying to "erase" anything that was present at the time of his death? I dunno, just wondering. I have also been "downsizing," other areas of my life, too - so may be it is just that.

My closets and dresser drawers are much more manageable now!

For whatever reason - I now prefer less. Less is more to me now. It is not hard for me to part with "things," now. I feel no attachment to things. I think that may have to do with his loss, but not sure. It certainly is a change in me though.

 

[speckledhen]

I have been thinking. Ya know, I loved - LOVED - having my chickens and I loved the challenge of setting up breeding pens and so on......

But, since Michael died, I simply can not regain that interest. Why is that? I wonder if I am (subconsciously) trying to "erase" anything that was present at the time of his death? I dunno, just wondering. I have also been "downsizing," other areas of my life, too - so may be it is just that.

My closets and dresser drawers are much more manageable now!

For whatever reason - I now prefer less. Less is more to me now. It is not hard for me to part with "things," now. I feel no attachment to things. I think that may have to do with his loss, but not sure. It certainly is a change in me though.

Personally, I like a simplified life. Nothing wrong with that, Kathy. You must do what is right for you at this time in your life. I am with you on no attachment to things, other than a few treasured items given to me out of love from my friends and husband, like my beaded portrait of Suede-that, to me, is priceless. You could take my entire closet and leave me with a few blue jeans and flannel shirts (no nakedness allowed, shiver!) and it wouldn't bother me a bit. It's why I'm driving a 1996 car I bought in 2000 for $6900 and my DH's truck is even older. Who cares about a hunk of metal and electronics? It has to get me from point A to point B reliably.

I see that in our families all the time, the acquisition of things. Doesn't float my boat. I love my chickens, but they give me pleasure just holding them and watching them, not being hung up on breeding for anything. So, you must do what makes you content in your life and divest yourself of the rest.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

They can't be cream legbar eggs. My cream leg bars are just babies a few weeks old. They have to be from the OE's. Nothing else in that coop / run except white egg laying Ncelandics and one BCM. Not possible.

Mary - green eggs are blue eggs with brown spray paint. So if their ink jets aren't calibrated yet, you will get blue eggs. I'm sure in time they'll get it going.

yes this correct.
They probably have lost there brown paint. Just like many of the dark brown layers that lay a light egg at the end of there cycle right before a molt. They may be getting ready to start a mini molt.
My black penedesenca started laying a cream egg when they started and I was pi###d off about it but now they are back to dark brown. It usually works the other way but they started a mini molt

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yes, I got it Cyn. Thank you, it's beautiful.