Stella's Social Club

[vehve]

Chocolate and potato chips go nicely together. Wouldn't want that in my ice cream though.

 

[mlm Mike]

Pouring buckets of rain on us at the moment!

Looks great. And things are starting to green up there.

 

[The Sheriff]

yeah I love when the green comes back. It's all weeds but hey, it's green!

 

[1muttsfan]

Blessed rain for you!

Did Billy come back home, or has he been adopted by the neighbor lady(s)?

If anyone is looking for some pecans, I bought from these folks last year and they were some of the best pecans I have every had - placed my 10# order today

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...and-pieces-7-00-lb-plus-postage#post_14496097

 

[mlm Mike]

We are storing some hay in our garage. This morning I happened to go behind the haystack and found the Icelandic egg stash:



So I guess they are laying if you know where to look.

 

[The Sheriff]

We are storing some hay in our garage. This morning I happened to go behind the haystack and found the Icelandic egg stash: So I guess they are laying if you know where to look.

I can't wait to get some. I put the last 14 eggs collected in the incubator and not one is fertile. So I guess it is official. Isi is not getting it done anymore. The pic makes me miss Marhta Stewart. She used to lay in the hay loft.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wanna' meet me at Starbucks next week to gain some weight together?

If they would only leave the white chocolate out of the cranberry bliss bars I'd be happy!

Possibly. I need to be getting ready for cooking 2 Christmas dinners.

We are storing some hay in our garage. This morning I happened to go behind the haystack and found the Icelandic egg stash:



So I guess they are laying if you know where to look.

One of my Icelandics started back up this week too. And 2 of my Easter pullets started laying. Ah, the joys of getting eggs again!

 

[The Sheriff]

Possibly. I need to be getting ready for cooking 2 Christmas dinners.

I hear ya on that! I am making a little dinner on Christmas Day just for me and Michael. He will be having a celebration with his family the day after Christmas and I will be having one with mine the day after as well Weird that it worked out this way but whatever! I am doing the cooking for my family get-together and I am making tamales for Michael to take to his. I am making the tamales today though. I made the filling yesterday and will be assembling them today.

Maybe we can work something out when I pick up the two cockerels. Before you eat them.

 

[The Sheriff]

In yet another installment of Mary's Guide to Bipolar Chicken Keeping, I am selling the Brabanters and Pavlovskayas and going back to an all Icelandic flock.

I am finding out that the Pavs are notoriously poor layers and even getting eggs to hatch is nearly impossible. I wonder if that is why Greenfire stopped working with them so quickly after importing them? They say they still have them but are working on them still. The gal I bought mine from can now sell only four eggs at a time because they don't lay well enough. And she has a lot of them! So I am out.

I love the Brabanters but I am wondering if I have a pure flock of creams or are they cream/gold mixes? Since I got that pure gold cockerel and found out that the seller has both gold and cream, I have to wonder. The first ones that hatched are more gold and the latter more cream. The seller says the gold might molt out, but I am not willing to sell hatching eggs if I don't know they are pure.

So I am going back to my first love, Icelandics. I won't have to worry about crossbreeding, colors, combs, etc! I am getting back the two cockerels that Kelly raised in hopes that they were girls.

Sorry Kelly but when you pick the prettiest ones they are usually boys. Except in humans.

I am going to mate those two plus my silver guy with my pullets in separate coops so I know which match-ups produce the best chicks.

Isi and Lukka will enjoy retirement with Judge Judy and Skye in their own coop. I don't think Lukka is laying anymore but she may well go broody when I need her. They deserve the easy life now. I don't want Isi to be in a situation where he gets knocked out of the top spot. He has been the most wonderful rooster and flock protector for many years and deserves to go out in the top spot he took from Ori all those years ago. I get teary just thinking about losing him or Lukka. They have been magical for me. I want to preserve their legacy.

Edited to add: I put 14 eggs in the incubator four days ago and none are fertile! So iso isn't mating and neither is my young cockerel.

 

[1muttsfan]

How young is the cockerel? He may be intimidated by Isi, and do abetter job given some girls on his own.